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- - Creative. Intuitive. New. -
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- - A R T E F F E C T -
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- - The Ultimate Graphics Program. -
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- ArtEffect unites painting and image processing under a particularly
- productive user interface. We emphasise on productive functions
- which are quick and simple to use in your daily work. However not
- only beginners will like it but also the professionals who are
- looking for high quality and who want to get the job done quickly
- and efficiently.
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- ArtEffect is not "just another" graphics program for the Amiga.
- ArtEffect is not oriented towards the current "standard" programs
- on the Amiga, but rather to the classic programs for professional
- image processing such as Photoshop (TM) and for creative painting
- like Fractal Painter (TM).
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- Proven concepts and ideas of these classic products were merged with
- the uncontested advantages of the Amiga. You see the result before
- you. Naturally these are only advertising statements if they are not
- supported by facts. Now you can find the demo version of ArtEffect,
- which giving you an opportunity to convince yourself of the advantages.
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- Professional Image Processing with ArtEffect
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- Processing scanned images and graphics of all kind has been the
- Amiga's domain ever since the machine appeared. Nevertheless the
- products available for the Amiga have not been widely recognised by
- the graphics world during recent years.
- ArtEffect is the first program to provide productive image processing
- functions under a uniform and effective user interface in the typical
- Amiga style.
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- Selection Functions
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- Particularly important are the functions to select certain areas of
- an image for processing. Of course some filters are often applied to
- the entire image, but when dealing with image errors it is necessary
- to select a particular area. So one can retouch a scanned photo in a
- narrow area without influencing the quality of the rest of the
- picture.
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- ArtEffect offers a wide range of selection functions (they are also
- known as mask functions) such as: rectangle, circle, freehand and
- specialities like colour selection, running masks and "Magic Wand"
- (selection of connected areas with similar colour). With this all
- cases of selections of certain areas can be done quickly and easily.
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- More than 30 Effects
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- ArtEffect offers more than 30 different effects with countless
- options. All effects are used the same way and they all have the same
- user interface. Each effect has e.g. a Preview in which the effect is
- applied to an image section. The range can be zoomed in and out. A
- progress bar shows the progress of the operation. The options are
- very extensive so every effect can be adapted to your personal wishes.
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- List of all effects:
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- Colour Filters
- - Antique
- - Dynamic Range
- - Colour Correction
- - Colour Space Process
- - Histogram Equalisation
- - Negative
- - Posterise
- - Solarise
- - Threshold
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- Blur
- - Gaussian
- - Strong Gaussian
- - Blur
- - Strong Blur
- - Smooth
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- Sharpen
- - Sharpen Fine
- - Sharpen Coarse
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- Stylise
- - Displace Pixels
- - Edge Find
- - Laplace
- - Oil Paint
- - Relief
- - Wax Paint
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- Distortion
- - Caricature
- - Twirl
- - Curl
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- Pixelate
- - Median
- - Mosaic
- - Polar Mosaic
- - Segmentate Picture
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- Specials
- - BumpMap
- - Convolution
- - Mirror Picture
- - Shift Picture
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- Natural Painting with ArtEffect
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- While most of the paint programs will only be able to paint in full
- colour with full intensity and density, "natural painting" means to
- simulate natural drawing tools like paintbrush, crayon, airbrush,
- chalk, coal, oil colour.
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- Coal, chalk, paintbrush, crayon, oil colour
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- To do a good job on simulating all these drawing tools ArtEffect
- offers many controls for mode, opacity, intensity, density, roughness,
- form etc. All values are freely adjustable. With it the transparent
- colour of a water colour brush looks very realistic and also harsh
- chalk can be simulated excellently.
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- Painting on different materials
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- ArtEffect still goes one step further and even offers simulation of
- different materials. You can paint on canvas, wood, stone, marble etc.
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- Attributes of Painting Tools
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- The properties of the three basic tools stencil, brush, airbrush
- can be redefined completely. Form, intensity, density, roughness,
- transparency, opacity, pressure sensitivity (only on graphic trays)
- and Fade Out can be adjusted freely. With all these properties,
- natural drawing tools can be simulated very well and without any
- fringes.
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- The properties of the tools are stored in the brush manager. Image
- sections (brushes) which are needed more often may be stored here
- as well.
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- Strong Effects of ArtEffect
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- Perfect Retouch of Images
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- Scanned pictures often have scratches, specks of dust or similar
- distorsions. With Median filter one can remove these automatically,
- but the image will however loose its sharpness. It is better to
- retouch only the respective area. The tools "Smear" and "Smooth",
- but also "Lighten" and "Darken" are used often and with pleasure.
- These tools only work in the area coverd by their tip and so they
- can be used with great precision.
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- Other effects like "hue", "saturation" and "luminance" may also be
- used this way.
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- Endless Possibilities with Masks
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- Masks are one of the most productive functions of ArtEffect.
- Therefore we have provided several possibilities of defining them.
- Thus masks are also selections and masking is the same as selecting.
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- 1. Rectangle Masking: The fastest masking function is the masking of
- rectangles.
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- 2. "Magic Wand": This is certainly the most powerful function for
- masking. One click with the Magic Wand will select/mask all
- connected pixels of the same colour.
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- 3. Colour Selection: With it all pixels of the same colour anywhere
- in the whole picture are selected.
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- 4. Stencil Masking: The stencil option also has a mask mode, allowing
- you to work with very fine details.
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- A very special thing are running masks. These are masks that get
- increasingly permeable (oblique). It can be used for sophisticated
- effects.
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- The many Extras of ArtEffect
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- - ArtEffect is a pure 24-bit art package. All operations and
- manipulations will always be carried out in the highest possible
- quality.
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- - All functions of ArtEffect are very fast. Some time-critical
- filters are even optimised for higher processors.
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- - ArtEffect can display multiple Views of the same picture.
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- - A special light table allows pictures to be overlayed.
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- - A special perspective tool supports the creation of perspective
- drawings.
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- - The pantograph lets you copy one part of a picture to another
- place of the same one or to another picture. Many effects can
- be used by this operation.
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- - Further important features are: Zoom, Pipette (for colour
- selection), lasso (for freeform selections), colour interpolator,
- undo function.
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- - ArtEffect offers many loaders/savers (IFF, JPEG, TIFF, GIF,
- PNG, BMP) but also the Amiga datatypes and the new 24-Bit datatype.
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- - ArtEffect offers an efficient 24-bit printer driver that uses the
- standard Workbench drivers. There is additional support for the
- printer enhancers TurboPrint and Studio.
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- - ArtEffect supports the graphic tray Wacom ArtPad II (a special
- driver is needed!). With the graphic tray all drawing modes become
- pressure sensitive. This is very important for natural drawing.
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- - ArtEffect can be extended externally by a flexible Plug-In
- interface. With it 3rd party companies can offer new functions.
- There is also a special GUI for these Plug-Ins, so programming
- them is very easy.
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- ArtEffect's GUI
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- Operation of ArtEffect is very intuitive. This was a primary design
- goal for this product. The GUI is a very important part, because if
- it is not good, you will not be able to use the full power of the
- program.
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- ArtEffect uses a unique GUI for all its parts. Different managers
- help you to control the different options. They can stay open so
- they show you the tool's current status.
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- Because of the well thought-out user interface most of the functions
- of ArtEffect can be used without having to look into the manual. The
- positions of all windows and managers are stored and show up next
- time you start the program.
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- System Requirements
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- - AmigaOS 3.0
- - ECS or AGA system or CyberGraphX software
- - Hard disk
- - a minimum of 2 MB RAM (with limitations),
- 4-8 MB RAM are recommended.
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- The current demo version can be found on our homepage
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/haage_partner
- or on AmiNet(R).
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- These features are subject to change without notice!
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- (c) 1996 HAAGE & PARTNER Computer GmbH
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