Impulse, Inc.
6870 Shingle Creek Parkway #112
Minneapolis, Minnesota  55430
(612) 566-0221

For Immediate Release:


                    NEW "DIAMOND" with DIAMOND SCAN

Diamond is a full featured paint/image processing tool for the entire 
Commodore Amiga Computer line.

FEATURES

Blending, Tinting and Smoothing
Palette Creation
Uses all Display modes including Hi-Res, Medium and Low Res
Use of all color modes from 2 to 4096+
Paints in overscan areas of the Amiga Display
Complete use of Extra Half Brite
Paints in user definable screen sizes from 320 X 200 to 1024 X 1024.
Suggested use of 1 meg of ram will operate in 512K
Global color change capability
Display of complete color palette
Standard and Oblique brush creation

Merge File option.  This feature allows the user to merge two different 
pictures into one file.  Full contol over the palette and saturation of the 
incoming file.  Standard drawing tools, Line, Freehand, Box filled and 
non-filled, Circle filled and non filled, ellipse filled and non filled.
Full IFF compatability, including IFF brushes.  Also reads and writes 
Silver format RGBN files.

DIAMOND SCAN
The Diamond Scan hardware allows you to use a low cost black and white video 
camera to import printed data to Diamond.  Diamond Scan works in Hires as well
as other standard Amiga Display modes.  The process involved is for the user 
to pass three filters over the lens of the video camera to capture a color 
image directly into Diamond.  Black and white digitizing requires no filters 
to be passed over the lens.  The filter set is included with Diamond Scan as 
well as a complete calibration process.  This process insures that the 
highest quality of images can be captured. Once captured the image can then 
be manipulated with Diamond the paint program on a real time basis.  A very 
valuable feature of Diamond, when used with Diamond Scan, is the ability to 
digitize only certain regions of a picture.  

This feature allows the user to combine images with out the hassel of 
cutting and pasting different images.

Retail Price of Diamond with Diamond Scan		$129.99

For further information please call 
the Impulse Hotline at 1-800-328-0184