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- NOVA DESIGN, INC. ANNOUNCES IMAGEFX 2.0
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- RICHMOND, VA., November 4th, 1994. Nova Design, Inc. officially
- announced the release of ImageFX 2.0 which will begin shipping towards the
- end of this month. ImageFX is the complete Amiga image manipulation system
- that combines image processing with amazing special effects technology and
- professional painting tools that can simulate artistic styles. MicroTimes
- magazine even named ImageFX as one of the Best Products of the year!
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- "ImageFX 2.0 is absolutely the best image processing and manipulation
- package I've ever seen on the Amiga.", Mark Thompson, award winning Amiga
- animator.
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- "The most awesome image manipulation system for the Amiga, period!",
- Shamms Mortier, writer for Amazing and Amiga Format.
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- "Absolutely the most impressive image processing package I've seen
- on any computer!", Denny Atkin, Associate Editor OMNI magazine.
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- ImageFX's suggested list price is $349.95 US. Upgrades from any
- previous version of ImageFX are only $124.95 US to registered owners. For
- upgrade orders you may call (804) 282-1157.
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- Nova Design, Inc., 1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 214, Richmond, VA 23230
- Customer Support/Information (804) 282-6528, Fax (804) 282-3768
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- ImageFX, PaintFX, AutoFX and CineMORPH are trademarks of Nova Design,
- Inc. All other products named are trademarked by their respective companies.
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- ImageFX 2.0 Feature List
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- New System Features
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- Image Thumbnails
- Load and save images via interactive visual interface. Preview
- effects on thumbnails before applying them.
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- Multiple Buffers
- Work on an unlimited number of image buffers and brushes.
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- Workbench Preview
- Windowing preview modes that can open on any Workbench screen
- and in full color on the Retina 16/24bit displays.
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- New Region Controls
- Add, subtract, or invert regions. Create painting stencils
- and masks.
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- Text Generator
- Create multiple lines of text with justifications and anti-
- aliasing. Preview fonts before using them.
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- Image Compositing
- New compositing methods including Fast Matte, HSV Matte, Multiply,
- Divide, Minimum and Maximum.
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- AutoFX
- New "cookbook" style batch processor with prewritten scripts to
- perform hundreds of batch operations and animated effects!
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- ImageFX Browser
- Visual image cataloging system for maintaining libraries of
- pictures and animations.
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- Documentation
- Completely rewritten manual with over 400 pages of tutorials and
- reference. Expanded online help system.
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- Hardware Support
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- Graphics Boards
- Supports all Amiga modes, Retina Z2/Z3, Picasso II, Piccolo,
- Firecracker 24, IV-24, DCTV, HAM-E, Harlequin, and any EGS-
- compatible hardware such as the Spectrum, Talon, and Rainbow III.
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- Scanners
- Expanded Epson 300/600/800 scanner controls and new support for
- the VLAB YC framegrabber.
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- Printers
- Direct support for the Primera color printer in full color.
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- New Painting Features
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Improved soft edge modes and anti-aliasing.
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- Realtime painting tools that emulate traditional media such as
- Airbrushes, Charcoals, Chalk, Oil and Fingerpaints, Felt Tip Markers,
- Watercolors, and Crayons!
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- New Draw Modes like Smudge, Roughen, Disperse, Sharpen, and others.
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- Drawing Styles to allow rub through to other images, alpha channels,
- mandala creation, realistic brush stroke fading, and much more.
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- New Image Conversion Formats
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Amiga
- Toaster Framestore
- DPS PAR loader
- Applied Magic Jstream
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- Macintosh
- PICT, including vector and JPEG variations!
- Improved TIFF loader
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- MSDOS
- PIC format for all resolutions and color depths
- GRASP/GL animation frame loading
- DL animation frame loading
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- Silicon Graphics
- SGI RGB
- Wavefront
- Softimage
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- Others
- MPEG animation creation and frame extraction
- X-Windows
- Abekas A60 series
- Sun Raster
- C64 Koala
- FITS/PDS/Vicar (NASA) image frames
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- New Special Effects and Image Processing
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Realistic lightning bolt generator Map images onto spheres
- Pond ripples and waves Swirl images, even into other images
- Advanced lens flares generator Apply paper or canvas textures
- Water/Glass distortion Image warps and lens effects
- 3D perspective rotation Expanded 2D rotation
- PaintFX automatic painting generator Star and supernova generator
- Crystallization effects Circular blurring effects
- Standard or circular mosaic effects Straw-like distortions
- Random tiling effects Median/Minimum/Maximum filters
- Sobel edge-detection Ramping edge-detection
- Controllable NTSC/PAL Video filters Histogram Equalization tool
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- ImageFX 2.0 works with any model Amiga with at least two megabytes
- of Chip or Fast RAM and a minimum of five megabytes of available hard drive
- space and AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.
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