This is a functional version of DeBabelizer Lite LE.
It will read and write BMP, GIF, PICT and TIFF (Mac & IBM) files.
Copy the program to your hard disk, and run it from there.
End Users are free to copy and distribute this demo version as desired.
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Please read on and discover why "DeBabelizer Toolbox for the Mac is the single most powerful graphics utility known to human kind"- Interactivity magazine - Richard Lainhart, Fischer Multimedia Arts & Nick Kierstead, M/B Interactive
DeBabelizer Lite The EZ to use graphics translator
For bit-mapped, scanned, or paint files, DeBabelizer Lite offers nearly the same translation capabilities as DeBabelizer Toolbox without the internal scripting, image processing, or palette manipulation. Slideshow creates on-screen thumbnails of a folder-full of images which can all be translated automatically. DeBabelizer Lite intelligently maintains maximum color integrity and quality to and from each format and platform. Scan or digitize images with Photoshop (and 3rd party) acquire plug-ins.
• Translates between over 60 different cross platform bit-mapped formats
• Supports Photoshop & third party Acquires, Filters and Exports
• Translates Individual Images or Folders of Images with Ease
• Maintains maximum image quality from 24-bit to 8-bit color reduction
"DeBabelizer Lite tears down barriers between graphic formats, platforms"
**** MacWeek
"Many graphics professionals will find that DeBabelizer Lite's selection of graphics file formats offers all that their images require and more."
**** MacWorld
To purchase the full DeBabelizer Lite or DeBabelizer Toolbox products, please call Equilibrium directly: 1-800-524-8651 or contact your favorite Mac catalog:
MacConnection..................1-800-800-1111
Publisher's Toolbox.........1-800-390-0461
Mac Zone............................1-800-248-2088
"Every once in a while a breakthrough product comes along and 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 graphics translation for serious graphics production. We couldn't produce our graphics without it."
Jack Eastman, VP Engineering, Berkeley Systems (After Dark screen savers)
"The ultimate file translator packs a lot of features in one package."
**** 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 these prestigious awards: 1996 Macworld World Class Award for Best Graphics Utility, New Media magazine's 1996 Hyper Award for Best Utility, Publish magazine Impact Award for 1993, the French magazine SVM Mac Award for Best Utility of 1993, and the MacUser Eddy Award for Best Business/Publishing Graphics Utility of 1992.
More Information...
Over the past five years, DeBabelizer has been site-licensed to and found a strong following with artists, designers, art directors, graphics houses, desktop publishers, service bureaus, multimedia and Web designers, 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 5 years. The new version includes a wide array of user-requested enhancements, including simplified batch processing; the ability to batch-process 3rd-party Photoshop Acquire, Filter, and Exports plug-ins; image placement (for compositing); transparency selection for images being pasted or placed; Import and Export text files as Batch Lists, 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 Toolbox - Essential new formats and processes to optimize graphics for the Web - “We have 250,000 suscribers, and we use DeBabelizer for literally every image that we put up on the Web.” - Jeff Veen, Hot Wired
DeBabelizer can automatically process and translate any currently supported RGB bit-mapped graphic formats to GIF, JPEG, and PNG - the most commonly used formats for the Web. The GIF format can be saved as interlaced, non-interlaced, interlaced with transparency or non-interlaced with transparency.
Interlaced GIF / Progressive JPEG - for a fade-in effect
Interlaced GIF w/transparency - for images w/transparent backgrounds
JPEG compressed - for speedier display and downloading
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) - important new Web format
Now saves to flattened QuickTime™ - to view in Windows 3x and Windows ‘95 Web browsers
DeBabelizer will automatically remap any number of images and/or animation files to one optimal color palette via it’s SuperPalette™ technology, allowing faster display without any palette shifting regardless of whether you are displaying them through a Mac or Windows-based platform.
Now available on our Website: http://www.equilibrium.com - Equilibrium makes it even easier to process images for the Web by providing several pre-made scripts that you can import into your DeBabelizer Toolbox program and customize to fit your needs. Input your original images, and these four essential Web graphic preparation scripts will provide you with the following options:
WebSaveToTNail - 120x120 thumbnails saved as non-interlaced GIFs with a common 8-bit palette, optimized for use on both Mac and Windows platforms
WebSaveToGif - Interlaced GIF images at their original size with a common 8-bit palette, optimized for use on both Mac and Windows platforms
WebSaveToJPEG - JPEG images at their original size
WebSaveToAll - Will accomplish all of the above
Special Features
• Power Macintosh native: Fat binary (runs on PowerMac or 680X0)
• Script creation: easy scripting of menu functions and dialogs
• Batch processing: automatically open, process to specifications and save a series of images
• Catalog: automatically place a series of images onto a single page
• PhotoShop™ Plug-Ins: use 3rd party plug-ins
• Flip-book animation: animate a matrix of cells
• Slice images: slice an image into a matrix of cells, saving each cell separately
• Slideshow: open and process a series of images, displaying each for a set time
• Compare: report and display differences between images
• Place: overlay an image onto another image
• Filter Interpolation: applies a valid filter from one range to another over a series of images or animations
Translate & Display
• Import: automatically recognizes over 45 different formats
• Export: over 40 formats, allowing user to specify number of colors saved
• High quality picture preview: for all formats, including vital information about each image
• High quality image display: low end color and black and white machines included
Image Manipulation & Editing
• Document size: change the size of the page without scaling the image; pad the borders with any color
• Flip/rotate: left to right, top to bottom; specify degree
of rotation
• Field interpolate: essential for motion blurred digitized video images;
replace every other line with a new line
• High quality scaling, both up and down: to specific size or by percentage
• Trim: remove solid color edges or crop to selection
• Text Overlay: overlay file information or any text desired(using any font, size and style)
• Resolution: specify DPI and whether to maintain image printing size or number of pixels
• Shave & Outline: clean-up of objects being removed from solid color backgrounds by eliminating or adding one pixel around the perimeter
Color & Palette Adjustment
• Super Palette: create the best palette for a series of images.
• Remap to palette: force an image to a specific palette and respect off
limit colors.
• Translate or Rearrange pixels: manually exchange color values in a palette or in an image.
• Add palette to menu: store palettes for later use
• Background removal: replace a specified range of colors with a single
background color
• Black & white: convert using diffusion dither, Albie dither, 8x8 ordered dither or threshold value
• Change pixel depth or reduce colors: to any number of bits or number of colors.
• Dither options: control percentage of dither, exclude certain colors from dithering
• Grayscale: convert to any grayscale level
• Graymap control: customize or use standard mappings
• HSV Control: control hue, saturation, and brightness levels
• Intensity: control color intensity, contrast and RGB levels
• Invert colors
• Macintize palette: ensure that first color is white, last color black
• Merge palettes: merge selected portions of two separate palettes into one
• Remove duplicates: remove duplicate and unused colors from palette
• Sort palette: by RGB, brightness, HSB, HBS and popularity
• Display palette information: show or print usage of each color
• Histogram: RGB display
• Channel: RGB channel extraction and swapping
• Reduce Colors with Base Palette: specify colors to be included in a reduced color palette
• NTSC Hot Pixel Fixer: correct hot pixels for use on NTSC or
PAL video devices
System Requirements
DeBabelizer requires a Macintosh with at least 2MB of free memory and
System 6.0.7 or greater. It is System 7 compatible and 32 bit clean. It will process color images without Color QuickDraw ™ and without System 7 on black and white Macs (Plus, SE, Classic, etc.). This permits them to be put to use as graphics processing stations.
Attention Software Engineers - DeBabelizer SDK (Software Developer's Kit) is now available! Create your own custom code modules (readers and writers) to integrate with DeBabelizer and take advantage of it's processing power!
Costs/Requirements
The SDK is FREE. You are required to own a copy of the most recent version of DeBabelizer Toolbox and register it in order to receive Technical Support. The Developer's Toolkit is available on Equilibrium's BBS and Website:
PICT2....................All bit depths, (r vector format)
PIX..........................Alias
PixelPaint™ v 1.0 (r )
QuickTime™ Movies (carries forward original's sound)
QuickTime™ Stills
RIFF...................... B&W, Grayscale and RGB (r)
Scrapbook
Startup screen.......Color and B&W
System 7 Picture Icons
System 7 Picture Previews
TGA......................TrueVision/Targa - 8,16,24,32 bits compressed and uncompressed
TIFF.....................Grayscale, color mapped and RGB; uncompressed, Packbit compressed and LZW compressed, Group 4 (fax), CCITT compressed (r), Thunderscan™ compression (r)
DOS/Windows
BMP(DIB).................compressed (RLE) and uncompressed
DPaint™ ANIM
Dr. Halo™ CUT....Color and B&W
EPSF......................Grayscale and color bitmaps with & without TIFF preview
FLI, FLC................Autodesk Animator™, 3D Studio
Apple II and IIGS...Paintworks,™ Preferred, limited and full color hires, packed hires, packed double hires, Super HiRes. Also squeezed single or double hi-res and Paintworks™
Atari ST
Degas
NEO
Spectrum................(r) Compressed and uncompressed
Commodore 64
C64........................(r) Koala, packed, crunched and uncompressed
