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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Retail News / Sales => Topic started by: kwoodall on December 12, 2003, 02:22:18 AM
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Bob Fisher, Nova Design, Inc.
Nova Design, Inc., leaders in graphics software for the Amiga for over ten years, announced the new release of ImageFX 4.5 Studio for the Amiga and Pegasos platforms.
ImageFX 4.5 Studio is an all-in-one release of ImageFX 4.0, 4.5, PowerStation and numerous other upgrades to make a the Amiga's most comprehensive image editing and special effects package even more complete than ever.
What's new in 4.5 Studio?
In ImageFX 4.5 we introduced a completely new animation system that added a whole new suite of pre-rendered effects faster than anything else around has today. This new system is called the the Keyframe Manager. It can load GIF animations, ANIMS, AnimBrushes, and sequences of frames in many formats and animate them onto your video and animation sequences directly. But that's not all, you can also:
. Keyframe the animation to follow any path over your entire animation
. Keyframe one point, two points or up to four points
. Manipulate keyframes directly on the preview screen or input exact coordinates
. Apply one of four types of motion blurring
. Use any drawing mode, style or edge controls
. Preview the animation in wireframe in real-time
. Load and save projects
. Use Keyframes with your own ARexx EOT scripts (samples supplied)
. Call any ARexx effect or learned script on every frame
PowerStation has also now been included and upgraded over previous releases. PowerStation is a package of ImageFX modules designed to work directly with the PowerPC natively. This speeds up the specific modules ten times or more the speed of the same module running on a native 68060 processor. In many cases the effects become nearly real-time!
. Liquid - distorts your image as if it were on water
. Fire - adds animatable fire on your image
. Clouds - multilayer clouds and fog
. Bubble - champagne bubbles and more
. JPEG Loader/Saver - load and save JPEG images FAST!
. Gaussian Blur - our famous blur - now really really fast
. Lightning - Realistic lightning or Hollywood effect
. FXForge - uses Photoshop Filter Factory formulas for hundreds of effects
MorphOS Compatibility
We've made ImageFX fully compatible with MorphOS. All the PowerStation modules work natively - at speeds far faster than previously possible under Cyberstorm or Blizzard PPC cards. We also have MorphOS 32bit icons courtesy of Andre Siegel!
You'll also find our entire web site and ftp site on the CD as well to save you download time and give you direct access to our newsletters on the disc.
Upgrade Pricing
Here's the best part - the upgrade is only a low $39.95 for owners of ImageFX 4.x. If you own ImageFX 3.x the upgrade to the latest release is only $59.95. ImageFX 2.x owners can upgrade right through and get the latest for only $79.95. Amazing!
Iif you wish to order directly you can call 1-800-IMAGE-69 or (804) 282-1157, or fax your order to (804) 282-3768 or just mail it to Nova Design, Inc., 1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 204, Richmond, VA 23230 USA www.novadesign.com (http://www.novadesign.com)
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WOW!!!! ...WHEN CAN I BUY???? YUMMY!!!!!!
PPC IFX...just WHAT I NEED!!!.......YES!!!
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Now!
Go to www.novadesign.com and select our online store.
Kermit
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can you post screenshots or put up a link showing where we can see IFX4.5? I am curious to see how IFX has changed.
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Time to redefine the xmas wishlist
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@amiga2000
can you post screenshots or put up a link showing where we can see IFX4.5? I am curious to see how IFX has changed.
You won't actually see a great change as the 4.0 -. 4.5 update is 'under the hood'. The big difference is the ability to work on animations without having to load individual frames into AutoFX. This alone (IMHO), is (or in my case, was) worth the upgrade price alone.
Basically, the 'Layer Manager' doubles up as, if you like, a 'Frame Manager'. To load an anim, simply use the normal 'Load' procedure. This will give you a requester showing the first and last frame numbers, allowing you to change the number of frames loaded. To load a sequence of frames, use the dropdown button on the Frame Manager.
Either way, once the frames are loaded, you can playback the anim right away, or by using the Frame Manager dropdown (which changes to give various options for processing etc), start working on the anim.
As for value; well I paid a lot more for my 4.0 ->4.5 upgrade and considered it good value. At this price it's a steal!
-john
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My congratulations! Good to see continuous ImageFX development!
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@ jd997uk
. . . ..To load an anim, simply use the normal 'Load' procedure. This will give you a requester showing the first and last frame numbers, allowing you to change the number of frames loaded.
With IFX 4.1 also.
I hope NovaDesign, has fixed the crap PNG loader/saver too.
Great app anyway :-)
Ciao
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ScreenShots ScreenShots ScreenShots ????
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Congrats Nova
Great work guys! This is one of the best gfx packages on ANY platform. It gets used daily in the studio here. Those prices are a steal! Guess I'll have to order one. :)
magnetic
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I already own ArtEffect and PPaint - what would I get out of IFX that I don't already have? I'm heavily into digital photography and also do a fair amount of web design. How could IFX help me out?
(P.S. I'm after some comments, but I'm likely to buy anyway at this price! ;)
Jason
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@Pertinax
Well, I can't say for anyone else, but for me it's the batch processing of images. Using the included "AutoFX" and ARexx command recoreder, you can change "I have to spend several hours doctoring up a dozen photos" to "Give me five minutes to set up ImageFX."
While I don't use the animation, I've heard that the biggest thing in IFX 4.5 is the keyframed animation brushes and all those nifty special effects.
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A Fixed PNG loader/saver ...hey! That's doable!
Kermit