This software is licensed to you by Adobe Systems Inc. under the terms and conditions of the Adobe End User License Agreement for the
Adobe Photoshop™ software with which you will use this software.
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Adobe Photoshop 2.5 was engineered to ensure maximum productivity with future acceleration technology. To this end, the user-interface code was isolated from the image-processing "engine" code that performs pixel manipulations. The PowerPC Accelerator plug-in replaces the entire Photoshop image-processing engine with a native engine. Using this plug-in, Photoshop users with Power Macintosh computers should realize speed gains of 1.5 - 4 times over a Quadra computer (for in-memory images).
This plug-in speeds all built-in Photoshop functions on the Power Macintosh, such as effects, resizing, rotating, compositing, feathering, color conversion, and all built-in filters including the Blur, Blur More, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Add Noise, Despeckle, Median, Sharpen, Sharpen More, Sharpen Edges, Unsharp Mask, Emboss, Facet, Find Edges, Fragment, Mosaic, Trace Contour, Custom, High Pass, Maximum and Minimum filters. The accelerator does not, however, accelerate plug-in filters, such as the Color Halftone, Crystallize, Wind, Wave, Sphereize, Extrude, Twirl, Tiles, and Pointillize filters. Similarly, the PowerPC Accelerator does not affect third-party plug-ins, such as Aldus Gallery Effects and Kai's Power Tools. Note that the Lens Flare filter currently does not work on the Power Macintosh. Adobe Systems will post an update to this filter when it is available.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Power Macintosh computer
Adobe Photoshop 2.5.1 with a minimum allocation of 5 MB of RAM
(For optimum performance a RAM allocation of 3X image size is recommended)
IMPORTANT: Adobe Photoshop LE (Limited Edition) cannot use this plug-in. If you own Adobe Photoshop Limited Edition and want to use this plug-in, you can purchase a low-cost upgrade to the full-featured version using the special-offer card in the LE package.
INSTALLATION AND OPERATION
1) Copy the PowerPC Accelerator plug-in into the Adobe Photoshop 2.5.1 Plug-ins folder on your Power Macintosh computer.
Note: The PowerPC Accelerator Plug-in will not function properly with versions of Adobe Photoshop earlier than 2.5.1. If you do not have the 2.5.1 update use the Adobe Photoshop Updater to upgrade your version 2.5 to 2.5.1. The Adobe Photoshop 2.5.1 patch does not provide all features available with the complete Adobe Photoshop 2.5.1 upgrade software. This software is free from Adobe to all registered Adobe Photoshop users and includes additional plug-in filters, export modules, and optional extensions. To receive your free Photoshop 2.5.1 update, please call Adobe Technical Support at 1-408-986-6510 (USA and Canada only). Be prepared to clearly record a message with your name, address and Adobe Photoshop serial number.
2) Launch Adobe Photoshop. The plug-in automatically detects the PowerPC processor to speed up your application.
ABOUT ADOBE CHARGED
To permit both high-quality results and acceleration, Adobe has licensed Photoshop™ code to several leading hardware manufacturers so they could develop "Adobe charged™" software to accelerate Photoshop operations that work with their DSP (Digital Signal Processor) and RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) add-in cards. Acceleration products for Adobe Photoshop are available in a variety of configurations, feature sets and prices for every Macintosh® with NuBus® or PDS capability. These products save valuable production time by letting the co-processor share time-consuming image processing tasks. The Adobe charged logo identifies products that use Adobe technology to deliver high-quality results identical to unaccelerated Photoshop operations.
The companies listed below offer Adobe charged products for Photoshop. Please direct all inquiries regarding availability, pricing, features, performance, and support to your dealer, distributor or the company. Adobe is not equipped to answer questions about or provide support for these products.
Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop, Adobe charged, the Adobe logo, and the Adobe charged logo are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks, and Quadra is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. NuBus is a registered trademark of Texas Instruments Incorporated. SuperMac is a trademark of SuperMac Technology, Inc. All other brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
