"Every once in a while a breakthrough product comes alongand revolutionizes your entire life; the wheel, electricity,and now DeBabelizer."
****1/2, Publish magazine, David S. Jacobs & Amy Shelton
(reprinted by permission of Publish)
"DeBabelizer has the best cross platform graphicstranslation for serious graphics production. We couldn'tproduce our graphics without it."
Jack Eastman, VP Engineering, Berkeley Systems (After Dark screen savers)
"The ultimate file translator packs a lot of features in onepackage."
**** MacWeek
"Anyone doing cross platform multimedia development using a Mac should get a
copy of DeBabelizer."
***** New Media magazine
"DeBabelizer¿, Photoshop¬ & Director¬ - the definitive desktop media production powerhouse."
David Biedny, co-author, The Official Photoshop Handbook
DeBabelizer is the winner of the Publish magazine Impact Award for 1993,
the French magazine SVM Mac Award for BestUtility of 1993, and the
MacUser Eddy Award for Best Business/Publishing Graphics Utility of 1992.
More Information...
Over the past two years DeBabelizer has been site-licensed to and found a
strong following with artists, designers, art directors, graphics houses, desktop
publishers, service bureaus, and multimedia, software and computer games developers throughout the world.
DeBabelizer is a uniquely powerful and versatile program that has processed
millions of professional images worldwide over the last 2 years. The new
version includes a wide array of user-requested enhancements, including a new interface design for simplified batch processing; the ability to batch-
process 3rd-party Photoshop Acquires, Filters, and Exports plug-ins; image placement (for compositing); transparency selection for images being pasted or placed; and many others. In addition, DeBabelizer lets you organize System 7
picture icons into a separate folder all their own, creating a directory of images.
DeBabelizer cuts through the confusion of having to deal with multiple graphics
file formats, providing the ability to maintain color integrity while reading, manipulating, processing, and saving graphics across formats, bit depths,
and platforms. It automatically recognizes over 60 different bit-mapped
graphics and animation formats from Macintosh, DOS/Windows, Amiga, Atari,
Silicon Graphics, XWindows, Sun, and many more. In addition, DeBabelizer's
powerful batch processing and internal scripting features make it possible to
easily automate the most difficult graphics translation tasks. DeBabelizer
strongly complements all drawing or image-processing programs in current use.
Thousands of multimedia developers, service bureaus, desktop publishers,
graphic designers, and video professionals have already found DeBabelizer an invaluable tool, thanks to its ability to batch process animation files across platforms;its unrivaled 24-bit color to 8-bit color reduction (with no significant loss of color integrity or image quality); and Super Palette, a tool which automatically creates the ideal palette for a specified series of images. Video professionals also benefit from DeBabelizer's support for Abekas digital video output, making it possible to transfer graphics and animations, frame by frame,
into the Abekas for further manipulation.
DeBabelizer version 1.6 also comes with a comprehensive manual and Real World DeBabelizing, a collection of user anecdotes, tips, and information written by
David Biedny, co-author of The Official Adobe Photoshop Handbook.
Special Features
Ñ Power Macintosh native: Fat binary (runs on PowerMac or 680X0)
Ñ Script creation: easy scripting of menu functions and dialogs
Ñ Batch processing: automatically open, process to specifications and
save a series of images
Ñ Catalog: automatically place a series of images onto a single page
Ñ PhotoShop¬ Plug-Ins: use 3rd party plug-ins
Ñ Flip-book animation: animate a matrix of cells
Ñ Slice images: slice an image into a matrix of cells, saving each cell separately
Ñ Slideshow: open and process a series of images, displaying each for a set time
Ñ Compare: report and display differences between images
Ñ Place: overlay an image onto another image
Ñ Filter Interpolation: applies a valid filter from one range to another over a series
of images or animations
Translate & Display
Ñ Import: automatically recognizes over 45 different formats
Ñ Export: over 40 formats, allowing user to specify number of colors saved
Ñ High quality picture preview: for all formats, including vital information
about each image
Ñ High quality image display: low end color and black and white machines included
Image Manipulation & Editing
Ñ Document size: change the size of the page without scaling the image; pad
the borders with any color
Ñ Flip/rotate: left to right, top to bottom; specify degree
of rotation
Ñ Field interpolate: essential for motion blurred digitized video images;
replace every other line with a new line
Ñ High quality scaling, both up and down: to specific size or by percentage
Ñ Trim: remove solid color edges or crop to selection
Ñ Text Overlay: overlay file information or any text desired(using any font, size
