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- Contact: Greg Minter, Vice President of Marketing
- Blue Solutions, Inc.
- 2965 Hillcrest Dr., Suite 303
- Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
- (805) 371-4521 Phone
- (805) 371-4526 Fax
- AppleLink: D5005
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- PHOTOPRESS: NEW IMAGE ENHANCEMENT SOFTWARE-- NOW SHIPPING Thousand Oaks, CA
- December 1, 1989 — PhotoPress, professional image enhancement for Macintosh DTP
- began shipping today to domestic and international distributors.
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- "PhotoPress breaks current boundaries with new tools and techniques for
- handling line art, contrast, auto-selections, and duotints" said Kelly
- Austreng, company President. "By combining production and creative tools within
- a single package, PhotoPress lets desktop publishers reproduce many of the
- cutting-edge effects seen in today's hottest publications simply and
- intuitively."
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- The heart of the package is in grayscale photo manipulation, yet unique
- colorization and tinting effects let the graphic artist breathe life into
- ordinary grayscale images by converting them into sepiatones or other duotints
- (such as a dusty rose or steel blue). The ability to fill areas with selected
- colors also allows illustrators and cartoonists to colorize line art by
- choosing a color, pointing, and clicking.
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- Desktop publishers will appreciate the ability to enhance or retouch scanned
- TIFF or PICT images with a wide variety of editing and palette control tools,
- before importing them into page layout software such as Aldus' Pagemaker or
- Quark's Xpress. Unlike Digital Darkroom or Image Studio, PhotoPress' ability to
- open and display multiple images for seamless cutting and pasting between
- pictures also increases productivity by eliminating clumsy intermediate steps
- such as the clipboard or scrapbook. Display and retouch grayscale images using
- full 256 gray presentation, or color images selecting from a palette of over
- 65,000 colors.
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- PhotoPress lets the desktop photographer push his own creative limits — an
- limitless number of effects, textures, and enhancements can be created for any
- scanned photograph. And for the newspaper publisher interested converting
- grayscale images to line art, PhotoPress' dynamic masking capabilities offers
- the ability to preview a nearly endless number of options.
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- Complete control over digital halftoning allows the graphic artist to produce a
- wide range of screening effects with just a few clicks when outputting to
- Postscript™ and compatible printers, such as the Laserwriter, Linotronic
- series, Varityper, and more. Output color images to color printers such as the
- Tektronix or QMS, or to a wide variety of slide writers when only film output
- will do.
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- PhotoPress will hit distributors and dealers this week with a suggested retail
- price of $295.00. PhotoPress will work on any of the Apple Macintosh II series
- of computers (minimum 2 MB RAM recommended), and requires system software 6.02
- or higher.
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- This information is provided to the Developer Group at Apple Computer by the
- product's developer. Apple cannot warrant any third party's product.
- Please consult the Apple Products Library, MENU/Software Library, Mac Buyers'
- Guide Library or IIGS Buyers' Guide Library on AppleLink, or contact the
- individual company for further information.
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