Image Assistant 1.0: this image editor's Assist mode provides idiot proof scanning and color correction for the nondesigner
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The $495 Image Assistant software package from Caere Corp is a useful tool for scanning and color correction, though there are problems with its interface. The automated scanning component is an implementation of Light Source's Ofoto program, including straightening, cropping, moire pattern removal and brightness and contrast adjustment capabilities. Image Assistant's Assist color correction component is an implementation of Electronics For Imaging's Cachet program. Assist enables the user to call up several preview windows of the captured image, with each window showing the results of a particular effect applied to the image. Advantages include 20 Undo options, a flexible selection of image management tools, good color separation and ten Save formats. Drawbacks in the program include the inability to cancel any operation, ongoing and uninterruptible screen redraws, overly large and non-movable dialog boxes, lack of support for several common image formats, poor handling of CMYK-mode images and no channels.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1993
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Art on automatic: Smart Art I, II, and III
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Emerald City Software's Smart Art I, II and III are easy-to-use desktop accessories that provide display type and graphic effects with smooth on-screen rendering. Smart Art I and III are for creating drop shadows and angled or circular headline text effects. Smart Art II, the graphics part of the trio, allows you to manipulate graphics, fill objects with shades of gray, add PostScript effects and render three-dimensional objects. Smart Art I is unable to kern individual character pairs, but Smart Art III can kern those same character pairs to one thousandth of an em space. Images from Smart Art packages were found to run well with major page layout and word processing programs. Viewing images on the screen requires the use of an Adobe PostScript printer. Each package sells for $149.95.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1989
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