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- Congratulations! You now own Version 1.2a of Photogenics.
-
- Important changes from 1.2 to 1.2a
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- Several bugs have been fixed in 1.2a. We believe we have solved the
- stability problem with crop and compose on some machines, and there
- are less problems in a low-memory situation with v1.2a.
-
- Other important changes:
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- PrefsPrinter.gio - Fixed so it works with all colour printers, it
- previously had problems printing colour to some printers.
-
- CyberGraphX.gio - Renamed (was CyBERgraphics), to fit with the
- new name style suggested by the developers of CyberGraphX.
-
- ILBM rendering enhanced - Can now render to the palette already
- attached to an image. This allows you to load in a 32 colour image,
- alter it and save it out rendered to the same palette. Also the general
- quality of the rendering has been much improved with little or no
- extra speed penalty.
-
- Preferences - The preferences file is now stored in the ENV: / ENVARC:
- directories rather than in the Photogenics:data directory. This was
- essential for network use of Photogenics.
-
- Maximum & Minium paintmodes - Removed!
- The functionality of these paintmodes has been merged into the similar
- 'Median' paintmode. This removes more unnecessary code repetition and
- allows you more free memory to play with.
-
- Highlights & Lowlights paintmodes - Merged
- For exactly the same reason Highlights and Lowlights have been merged
- into one paintmode - Hi&Lowlights. Use the options to switch between them.
-
- GIF.gio - Added patch for Archos/Zappo CD-ROMS
- Some devices (eg Archos CD-ROMs) do not fully support all Amiga
- filesystem features. If you cannot load any GIF files from CD-ROM, select
- the loader preferences and switch to "Async Disabled", and try again.
- This will mean slightly slower performance but maintains compatability
- with devices like the Archos CD-ROM. Note: most CD-ROMS (eg Squirrel
- and Power CD) work fine without the Async disabled switch.
-
- PCD.gio - Fixed bug that prevented small files of other types (eg PCX)
- not loading correctly.
-
- AddSpace - option added to the menu to add space around the image.
-
- Tablet Mode - We've had lots of people asking us what this does (we
- forgot to mention it in the manual). If you have a tablet that emulates
- a mouse you may need to select 'tablet mode' for the mouse emulation to
- work correctly. If you don't have a tablet you don't need to select
- it! Photogenics currently does not support pressure-sensitive tablets, but
- we hope to add that soon.
-
- Compose - Two new buttons added to allow the box in Compose to be
- centered or to be stretched to full size, these were both popular requests.
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- 256-colour dither display - Removed odd blue pixels that appeared in
- solid black areas of the image.
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- Many other minor bugs and inconsistencies have been fixed for V1.2a. If
- you find any bugs or problems with this software then please contact
- Almathera so they can be fixed!
-
-
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- Important changes from 1.1 to 1.2
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- Warper Tool added -
- The easy-to-use warper tool allows you to distort, stretch, bend
- and twirl parts of your image with ease.
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- 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.
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- Printing added -
- Photogenics can now print to any preferences supported printer.
- Photogenics now also supports the Studio II colour management
- system (not included) for true 24-bit colour quality printouts.
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- 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.
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- 16 Colour Preview Added -
- You can now run Photogenics in a 16 colour preview - ideal for non-AGA
- machines.
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- File Load/Save speeded up -
- Most file formats have been considerably speeded up, both for loading
- and saving.
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- Compose improved -
- You can now use other paintmodes inside compose (eg. RubMix) to
- combine the two images in many different ways.
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- Ham6.gio/ShowHam6.gio added -
- Photogenics can now save and display standard HAM (or HAM-6) images,
- ideal for non-AGA Amigas.
-
- 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.
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- New .GIOs (file formats, hardware devics) added -
- TIFF, PCX, Ham6, ShowHam6, Retina, StudioII-Print, PrefsPrinter,
- ProGrab24, Harlequin, Targa and many more...
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- 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.
-
- *NOTE* Some Paintmodes/loaders from V1.1a are now obsolete and are
- no longer included.
-
- For example:
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- NegBright paintmode is now an option for the Negative Paintmode
- - The Invert Luma (HLS Space) mode.
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- AddDust paintmode is now an option for the AddNoise Paintmode
- - The Max Luma Limited mode.
-
- The ColourNoise and WhiteNoise loaders are now combined into one
- (Noise) with an option (Colour or White Noise).
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- This allows Photogenics to provide more features with less memory overhead.
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