The Art of Digital Image Processing
© Kenny Hunt
Pixel Jelly is a free program that will allow you to gain hands-on experience with image processing techniques. Pixel Jelly is designed to be used with "The Art of Image Processing" textbook but is easy to use even without having the textbook as a reference. Writing custom filters that can be loaded into Pixel Jelly is also simple for beginning Java programmers and is described in the accompanying textbook.
Download the Pixel Jelly code library. The library is packaged in a jar file named pixeljelly.jar. If you wish to compile against this file you can do so from the command-line by:
javac -cp pixeljelly.jar;./ MyPixelJellyProgram.java java -cp pixeljelly.jar;./ MyPixelJellyProgramDetails on how to use the library with Netbeans are included under the install tab.