12. ImageFX v4 angekündigt

�ImageFX 4 Announced - Now with Animation!

Nova Design, Inc., creators of the award winning ImageFX package and the
highly received Aladdin 4D v5 package, are excited to announce a brand new
upgrade - ImageFX 4! ImageFX has been the required graphics application for
all Amiga owners and has been a part of Video Toaster/Flyer owner's
toolkits for years. Combining painting, image file format conversion, image
processing, and special effects, ImageFX remains the undisputed leader in
graphics manipulation on the Amiga.

Now in its fourth major upgrade, ImageFX goes animated! If you work on
video using your Amiga or want to work on animations for the Internet, the
new animation controls in ImageFX are exactly what you've been wishing for
on your Amiga. The animation system is as easy to use as the animation
controls in Amiga paint packages but far more powerful and support full
color animation, palette mapped animation and greyscale animations as well.

ImageFX 4 - the Animated Details

Nova Design, Inc. has built on the new windowed interface introduced in
ImageFX 3.x and has added controls to directly manipulate animations within
ImageFX. Onscreen VCR-style controls have been added to the layering system
to allow you to move within the frames of an animation or even playback the
animation in your preview window. Brushes can be animated across a series
of frames and effects can be automatically processed across frames as well!

These controls make it easy to edit animations for use on the Internet on
your own web pages. You can create hand drawn animations, brush animations
and you can easily rotoscope video sequences, add effects, and batch
process. If you want to modify web animations, it's as easy as loading now
that you can load animations. Full support for loading and saving entire or
partial FlyerClips is included for Amiga Toaster/Flyer owners.

Many image processing functions and effects have been updated to work
directly on frames and layers now. And what would a new upgrade of ImageFX
be without new special effects? We don't know, since we've never released
without including new effects before and we're not going to do so now.
We've got some cool new effects in this release, so read on!

The new Fireworks effect can create amazing digital fireworks displays on
your images. The parameters for the effect are easily animated. Fireworks
uses a special-purpose particle system and can even use custom brushes for
the firework 'particles' so you can create everything from a realistic
firework burst to a shower of coins!

Distorter is the answer to a designer's dream. Similar to the 3D
Perspective Rotate function, Distorter can seemingly rotate your image in
three dimensions but with no constraints on how you move and adjust the
image. You can make it stretch out at any corner or even twist it around
itself. Amazing!

Blob is a fun, if digitally slimy, effect. With Blob you can set your
parameters to make a translucent colored ooze slide down your image.
Looking to simulate the effect of slime? No problem with Blob!

The Text Generator has had so many improvements that it is like a whole new
module. You can now use Postscript(tm) fonts with it in addition to Amiga
bitmap, color, and outline fonts. You have more control over the fonts. The
fonts now can anti-alias for the best possible display. Best of all you now
see your fonts and text, exactly as they'll appear, on the display of the
image in its own window!

CD the Light!

ImageFX now comes on CDROM for its standard distribution. If you don't have
a CDROM drive (and you should, they're pretty inexpensive now) ImageFX will
ship with a coupon to order a copy on floppies. As a bonus the CDROM has
sequences of images, animations, and nearly the entire contents of our
Internet site as well!

Ordering the Upgrade

As of this release a new price structure is being implemented for upgrades.
If you own a version of ImageFX prior to version 2.0 your upgrade price is
now $149.95. ImageFX 2.x owners can upgrade for only $99.95. ImageFX 3.x
owners can upgrade to ImageFX 4 for only $79.95. All upgrades include the
necessary hardcopy documentation or upgrade documentation and CDROM.

You can order via 1-800-IMAGE-69 in the US and Canada or call (804)
282-1157 elsewhere. Orders can also be faxed to (804) 282-3768 or mailed to
our address. Anyone purchasing ImageFX 3.x new after May 20th, 1999 can
upgrade for free when you mail us your dated proof of purchase with your
upgrade request.

You'll be shipped ImageFX and receive it in approximately four weeks
depending on the volume of preorders. Previous order volumes have been high
causing delays, so order early!

ImageFX is also available, new, through your favorite Amiga dealer at a
suggested retail price of $349.95.�

(Quelle: Nova Design)