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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.
-
-