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LEGAL DISCLAIMER:
ALMATHERA SYSTEMS make no warranty or representation express or
implied with respect to the software as to its quality performance or
fitness for specific purposes. In no event will ALMATHERA SYSTEMS be
liable for any damage whatever alleged to result from any defect in
this software.
Photogenics © 1994-5 Paul Nolan & Almathera Systems Ltd. All Rights
Reserved worldwide.
The contents of the directories C and Libs are Copyright © 1991, 1992
Commodore-Amiga Inc. All Rights Reserved. Almathera has a
distribution licence to include these within the archive, however
further redistribution of this archive including the C and Libs
directories will require a separate distribution licence from the
current owners of Commodore-Amiga Inc.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
At least 2 megabytes of RAM.
<2 megs of CHIP and some FAST ram recommended>
At least a 68020 processor
Kickstart version 3.0 or higher.
Recommended: Hard disk, AGA chipset, as much FAST RAM as possible,
68030/040 processor, CyberGraphics system installed. Without AGA or
Cybergraphics, the only colour realtime preview available will be a
dithered 16-colour display.
TO LAUNCH:
Insert this disk into df0: and reboot. Photogenics will
automatically load.
SCREENMODES:
If you are running on an A1200 or A4000, only run in PAL or NTSC
screenmodes (15kHz). If you can only run in promoted screenmodes,
16-colour preview will run at a sensible speed. Promoted 256-colour
screenmodes cannot run at a sensible speed because of design
limitations in the AGA chipset. Use the Settings>Screenmode and
Settings>PreviewMode menu options to set up the program for your
system.
THE BASICS:
To explain Photogenics features we will need a page to work on. Go
to the menu bar and select "Project>New>White Page". and select a
page of size 320 X 200. The white page will appear in its own window
and a small icon of it will appear in the image icon window at the
bottom of the screen.
Clicking on the white page with the left mouse button will paint on
it. This paint can be applied in a number of ways via the Icon
toolbar.
These Icons are (Left to right, top to bottom.)
Dotted freehand painting tool.
Continuous freehand painting tool.
Straight line painting tool.
Filled freehand painting tool.
Curved line painting tool.
Fill area painting tool.
Rectangle painting tool.
Polygon painting tool.
Cicle painting tool.
Ellipse painting tool.
Zoom in.
Zoom out.
Cut.
Pick colour.
Smear.
Warper.
Modes.
Modes options.
Brushes.
Brush settings.
Fill paint layer.
Clear paint layer.
FIX.
Paint can be applied with any painting tool in any style (ie,
Airbrush, Charcoal, Ball-point pen, etc), these brushes can be
selected via the brushes icon on the toolbar. Hold the left mouse
button down over the active drawing window to let the paint pressure
build up.
The brush you have selected may be too big or soft, these settings
can be adjusted via the 'Brush settings' icon on the toolbar.
The paint that you spray onto the white page can be painted back off
with the right mouse button. Once you are happy use the FIX icon on
the toolbar to "lock" the paint. Now paint over the other paint and
click on the colour bar at the top of the toolbar, the palette
requester will appear, and a new colour can be selected; when you're
happy with the colour, click on the use button. To get rid of the
palette window click on the small square on the top left hand corner.
The paint is now the new selected colour, if you now change the Mode
form Paint to False colour (this can be selected via the mode icon on
the toolbar), the area that has been painted will be False coloured,
more can be applied or removed until it is fixed then a new paint
layer can be used.
If you have fixed your selection but are then not happy with it, use
the Undo in the the options menu.
Move your artwork into the secondary window, this can be done either
by going to the menu "Options>Use as secondary", or by simply
clicking on the icon on the images bar and dragging it into the far
right square called second.
Go to the menu "Project>Open" and load in the image called Hengeface.
Paint on the image (Make sure the transparency is set to zero in the
brush settings window) and change the paint mode to rubthru, the
doodle is shown through the face image. Now try Rubtexture, Displace
map and Rubtint. Then put the mode back to Rubthru and try adjusting
the transparency to 50% and the offset (Via the modes setting icon on
the toolbar).
Put the transparency back to zero.
Go to the menu "Image>Compose". The picture is now composed onto the
hengeface image, this too can be affected by different modes,
transparency settings and can also be blended in with a brush or
resized by using the outline box handles around the image.
Also in the Image menu are some other useful items such as Scale,
Crop, Rotate and Shear.
ALPHA CHANNEL.
The Alpha channel is effectivly a Greyscale 8 bit mask. That means
that a smoothly masked off area can be created easily for protecting
some parts of the image. An Alpha channel will protect and mask out
areas that are black, and will allow painting to continue where there
is white.
The best way to understand Alpha channels is to play with them; on
your image paint off an area, and go to the menu "Alpha>Paint layer>
Move paint layer to Alpha". A new image will be created, if you put
both windows side by side and then paint on the original image you
will see where the mask is working and where it is not.
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IMPROVEMENTS over 1.1a
Photogenics has been improved significantly over the original V1.0
and V1.1a versions. Here is a list of the significant changes:
Warper Tool added -
The easy-to-use warper tool allows you to distort, stretch, bend
and twirl parts of your image with ease.
IFF save improved -
When saving IFF ILBM files you can now render images to any number of
bitplanes (2 to 256 colours) in colour or greyscale and with or without
high quality dithering.
Printing added -
Photogenics can now print to any preferences supported printer.
Photogenics now also supports the Studio II colour management system
(not included with this demo) for true 24-bit colour quality
printouts.
CyBERgraphics 24-bit painting -
Photogenics can now paint in hicolour (15/16-bit) and true colour
(24-bit) directly with any graphics card that supports the CyBERgraphics
standard (eg. CyberVision 64)
Previews improved -
256 colour screen preview has been significantly improved over V1.1a.
It now uses high quality dithering to get near 24-bit quality from a
256-colour display. The 16-greyscale preview has been similarly improved.
16 Colour Preview Added -
You can now run Photogenics in a 16 colour preview - ideal for non-AGA
machines.
File Load/Save speeded up -
Most file formats have been considerably speeded up, both for loading
and saving.
Compose improved -
You can now use other paintmodes inside compose (eg. RubMix) to
combine the two images in many different ways.
Ham6.gio/ShowHam6.gio added -
Photogenics can now save and display standard HAM (or HAM-6) images,
ideal for non-AGA Amigas. (not included in this demo)
NewIcon support added -
If you have the freeware 'NewIcons' system installed on your computer,
Photogenics can save out 256 colour icon representations of your
images automatically, or add small thumbnail icons to every file
in a directory.
Transparency Gradients added -
You can now apply various transparency gradients to rectangles, circles
and other shapes you draw. For example, use this to draw rectangles which
are solid at the bottom and transparent at the top.
New Paintmodes added -
Colourise, RubEmboss, Gamma, Mirage, Split, BasRelief, Jitter, and many
more.
New .GIOs (file formats, hardware devics) added -
TIFF, PCX, Ham6, ShowHam6, Retina, StudioII-Print, PrefsPrinter,
ProGrab24, Harlequin, Targa and many more... (not included in this demo)
Display current image with F10 -
Call a default saver (eg ShowHam8) automatically by pressing F10.
'reprogram' the F10 key by selecting another saver and pressing Shift-F10
Crop option added -
You can now crop an image to remove unwanted borders, etc.
and many other improvements - new options for paintmodes, better
support for file formats, etc.