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- ImageFX 4 Announced - Now with Animation!
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- Nova Design, Inc., creators of the award winning ImageFX package and the
- highly received Aladdin 4D v5 package, are excited to announce a brand new
- upgrade - ImageFX 4! ImageFX has been the required graphics application for
- all Amiga owners and has been a part of Video Toaster/Flyer owner's toolkits
- for years. Combining painting, image file format conversion, image
- processing, and special effects, ImageFX remains the undisputed leader in
- graphics manipulation on the Amiga.
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- Now in it's fourth major upgrade, ImageFX goes animated! If you work on video
- using your Amiga or want to work on animations for the Internet, the new
- animation controls in ImageFX are exactly what you've been wishing for on
- your Amiga. The animation system is as easy to use as the animation controls
- in Amiga paint packages but far more powerful and support full color
- animation, palette mapped animation and greyscale animations as well.
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- ImageFX 4 - the Animated Details
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- Nova Design, Inc. has built on the new windowed interface introduced in
- ImageFX 3.x and has added controls to directly manipulate animations within
- ImageFX. Onscreen VCR-style controls have been added to the layering system
- to allow you to move within the frames of an animation or even playback the
- animation in your preview window. Brushes can be animated across a series of
- frames and effects can be automatically processed across frames as well!
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- These controls make it easy to edit animations for use on the Internet on your
- own web pages. You can create hand drawn animations, brush animations and you
- can easily rotoscope video sequences, add effects, and batch process. If you
- want to modify web animations, it's as easy as loading now that you can load
- animations. Full support for loading and saving entire or partial FlyerClips
- is included for Amiga Toaster/Flyer owners.
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- Many image processing functions and effects have been updated to work directly
- on frames and layers now. And what would a new upgrade of ImageFX be without
- new special effects? We don't know, since we've never released without
- including new effects before and we're not going to do so now. We've got some
- cool new effects in this release, so read on!
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- The new Fireworks effect can create amazing digital fireworks displays on your
- images. The parameters for the effect are easily animated. Fireworks uses a
- special-purpose particle system and can even use custom brushes for the
- firework 'particles' so you can create everything from a realistic firework
- burst to a shower of coins!
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- Distorter is the answer to a designer's dream. Similar to the 3D Perspective
- Rotate function, Distorter can seemingly rotate your image in three
- dimensions but with no constraints on how you move and adjust the image. You
- can make it stretch out at any corner or even twist it around itself.
- Amazing!
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- Blob is a fun, if digitally slimy, effect. With Blob you can set your
- parameters to make a translucent colored ooze slide down your image. Looking
- to simulate the effect of slime? No problem with Blob!
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- The Text Generator has had so many improvements that it is like a whole new
- module. You can now use Postscript(tm) fonts with it in addition to Amiga
- bitmap, color, and outline fonts. You have more control over the fonts. The
- fonts now can anti-alias for the best possible display. Best of all you now
- see your fonts and text, exactly as they'll appear, on the display of the
- image in it's own window!
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- CD the Light!
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- ImageFX now comes on CDROM for it's standard distribution. If you don't have a
- CDROM drive (and you should, they're pretty inexpensive now) ImageFX will
- ship with a coupon to order a copy on floppies. As a bonus the CDROM has
- sequences of images, animations, and nearly the entire contents of our
- Internet site as well!
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- Ordering the Upgrade
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- As of this release a new price structure is being implemented for upgrades. If
- you own a version of ImageFX prior to version 2.0 your upgrade price is now
- $149.95. ImageFX 2.x owners can upgrade for only $99.95. ImageFX 3.x owners
- can upgrade to ImageFX 4 for only $79.95. All upgrades include the
- necessary hardcopy documentation or upgrade documentation and CDROM.
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- You can order via 1-800-IMAGE-69 in the US and Canada or call (804) 282-1157
- elsewhere. Orders can also be faxed to (804) 282-3768 or mailed to our
- address. Anyone purchasing ImageFX 3.x new after May 20th, 1999 can upgrade
- for free when you mail us your dated proof of purchase with your upgrade
- request.
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- You'll be shipped ImageFX and receive it in approximately four weeks depending
- on the volume of preorders. Previous order volumes have been high causing
- delays, so order early!
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- ImageFX is also available, new, through your favorite Amiga dealer at a
- suggested retail price of $349.95.