STOIK Software
STOIK Software Ltd.

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How To Contact With Us
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You can download our products from:
http://www.agama.com/~stoik

Please contact us via:

Phone: +7 095 127-6669

Fax: +7 095 390-7140

Mail: 113 186, Post box 38, Moscow, Russia

E-Mail: potap@stoik.zgrad.su


What Is STOIK Software
Who Are We

STOIK Software Ltd. is a private company dedicated to image processing software development.

Founded in 1990, the company has the staff consisted mainly of graduates of Moscow Physical Technical Institute well known around the world. Founders of the company started their work in a laboratory of  military industry enterprise and shown off as talented researches. Their main idea  was to use Russian intellectual potential and analytic skills to create very powerful end-user software with new possibilities. All of our programs provide the user with unique tools and  simultaneously  offer the simple way into the world of image and video processing.

STOIK Software address: 113 186, Russia, Moscow, Nagornaia, 26 - 1.

Tel/fax: 127-6669. Fax: 390-7140.


STOIK Software History
Our History

STOIK Software Ltd. was founded in 1990 as a private company.

End User products line of STOIK Software includes graphics packages GreyView (1991), 3DView(1991), MDBase (1992) and Picture Man (1992-1996). The company developed also the Image Processing modules and libraries (1994-1996).

These products gained the leading positions among this kind of software at the Russian market.  Picture Man received high estimation in a number of countries abroad.

At present there are one freeware version of Picture Man 1.5 (earlier distributed as shareware) and four  commercial versions -  1.6, 2.0,  3.0, 3.0 PRO.

SYBEX  licensed Picture Man 2.0 in 1994 and MorphMan morphing making program - in 1995,  in its French versions. Darim System distributes Picture Man 2.0 and 3.0 in Korea.  In 1995 Inset Systems licensed a subset of Picture Man 3.0 for HiJaak Graphics Suit.

STOIK Software Image Processing Technologies were included in products of Berkeley Systems, Insoft,  Cognitive Technologies etc.

Now STOIK Software family of Windows 95’s products provides anyone with very powerful and fast capabilities of image and video processing.


STOIK Software Products
Our Products

Current products line of STOIK Software includes graphics packages:

Picture Man v.3.0 PRO for Windows 95

Picture Man v.3.0 SE for Windows 95

Morph Man for Windows 95

Picture Man Collection vol.1: Art Gallery v.1.0

  Picture Man Comments

STOIK Software offers also Image Processing modules and Libraries.


Picture Man 3.0 Image Editor for Windows 95
 Picture Man v.3.0 PRO for Windows 95

In September 1995 STOIK Software released Picture Man 3.0 PRO, very fast integrated image and video processing system for Windows’95. There are more than 100 tools in it.

Picture Man 3.0 PRO offers you four products in one

The powerful true color image editor, artistic effects generator, video editing/processing program and morphing/dynamic effects maker

Main Features:

 Protocols Support

 Interface

 File Formats

 Image Editing/Processing

 Video Generation/Processing/Editing

 Printing

 Integration With Other Applications

 43 New Tools Were Developed In 1995


TWAIN, OLE 2.0, DDE

Windows’95 compatible video capture boards


Drag-and-drop, customized MDI user interface with floating toolbars

Multilanguage support

Context Help

Effects Wizard


TIFF 6.0, PCX, GIF, TARGA, JPEG, BMP, EPS, PCD image file formats

DIB, TARGA, AVI, FLC file formats of video sequences


More than 100 image processing filters and unique special effects, including fractals, textures, 2D & 3D deformations

Processing in 10 types of selected local areas with smooth or sharp edges or in the whole image

Processing via different channels, including RGB,R,G,B,H,V,S

Multilayers technology support

Outstanding retouch tools via painting with each available operation


Built-in editor of macro commands for automatic processing of image packages

and video sequences and creation of dynamic special effects

Morph making program MorphMan

Video editing/processing program Video Man  with  78 filters with changeable in time parameters


20 rasters for black&white printing, color printing

High quality CMYK color separation

Raster editor


Programming of Image Processing directly from DEE client applications ( e.g. Microsoft Word)

Image Processing directly from OLE container applications ( e.g. Microsoft Word)

Automatic Processing of all pictures in your document

You may easily insert video and images into any OLE container applications (e.g. Microsoft Office)


Styling under different painting manners,

36 effects for texts,

Attractive transformations: Explosions, Collapses, Wash-Out etc.,

New Painter with different brushes and various papers.

Impressive special effects filters, including popular Page Curl with changeable angle, colorize, unique 3D Mosaic.

12 unique filters for image Enhancement: Sigma filter, True Despekle, Sharpsmooth, Smartsharp Shadows up etc.


Picture Man 3.0SE Image Editor for Windows 95
 Picture Man v.3.0 SE for Windows 95

Picture Man v.3.0 SE (Special  Edition)   is low cost  restricted version for bundling with hardware only.


Morph Man Morphing Program for Windows 95
 Morph Man for Windows 95

Morph Man as a separate morphing making program was released in November 1995. This program allows to make dynamic morphing between two video sequences, manage with color movement and points movement curves, supports single  frames sequences in various graphic formats and AVI standard, and provides three algorithms of morphing.


Picture Man Art Gallery

Picture Man Art Gallery is the Image Editing and Artistic Effects Generating program with unique effects.

Image Enhancement and Editing - Picture Man Art Gallery allows you to crop, to resize your image or make it lighter, darker, negative, more or less contrast, smoother or sharper.

Picture Man Art Gallery ships with 20 filters for artistic effects creation including unique styling under different painting manners, 3D Mosaic, Hand Drawing, color Graphic Pen, Note Paper etc.

Picture Man Art Gallery also provides image viewing and printing functions to provide you complete control over how your images appear.  Support for TWAIN compliant scanners is also included. GIF Transparency is fully supported.

Picture Man Art Gallery provides support for the following image file formats:

BMP, DIB, GIF, JPG, PCD, PCX, RLE, TIFF, TGA

Attention:

1.About in August 1996 Picture Man Art Gallery artistic effects filters as Adobe Photoshop Plug-Ins will be available. They will be optional, free of charge Picture Man Art Gallery part.  Pease, contact STOIK Software Ltd.

2. If an user enjoys the artistic effects of Picture Man Art Gallery, but he would like to have also more image editing functions, painting, etc., he can download evaluation copy of Picture Man 3.0 PRO from http://www.agama.com/~stoik.


 Picture Man Comments

" Picture Man is a surprisingly complete 24-bit image editor written behind the fallen Iron Curtain, but with features that have global appeal...Even if you already have a raster-oriented graphics package, you might want this one, as well, to get some great new tools to play with..." - Windows User, June 1993, p.166.

" Picture Man has plenty of power, putting it ahead of products like PhotoMagic and PhotoFinish..." - David Field, Windows Graphics Funpack, SAMS Publishing, 1993, USA.

" Picture Man for Windows is quite a powerful image processing tool. It has the flexibility to meet most image processing challenges..." - Philip Shaddock, 3D Modelling Lab, Waite Group Press, 1994, USA

" La grande force de Picture Man reside dans ses effets speciaux, tres divers et totalement inedits pour certains..." - Windows News, N 13, 1994


Picture Man 1.5

Windows User Best Buy, July 1993