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- Congratulations! You now own Version 3.25 of Photogenics.
-
- Important changes
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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.
-
- IFF save improved -
- When saving IFF ILBM files you can now render images to any number of
- bitplanes (2 to 16.8 Mio 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/32-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 3D)
-
- 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.
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- 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
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- Crop option added -
- You can now crop an image to remove unwanted borders, etc.
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- and many other improvements - new options for paintmodes, better
- support for file formats, etc.
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