PhotoImpact 4
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Ulead Systems' $149 PhotoImpact 4 utility imports, corrects and catalogs digital photographs, and it works well with Adobe Photoshop to prepare online images for print. PhotoImpact has flexible editing functions, diverse libraries of effects, and great Web-design tools, and it puts common editing functions on an EasyPalette to facilitate learning the program. The new version extends the EasyPalette to provide access to picture frames, predrawn objects, masks, textures, type effects, Web banners, buttons, call-outs, retouching styles and other features. The program's SmartSaver window previews GIF and JPEG settings for Web images, and images can be saved and previewed in the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. As many as 30 test versions of an image can be prepared automatically to show incremental variations in compression settings within a range. PhotoImpact lacks some features professional designers may need, such as snap-to guides and cursor-key nudges, but it has many more functions than most other image-editing packages.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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Halo Desktop Imager 2.0 and PhotoMagic 1.0: two inexpensive 24-bit image editors let you repair and rearrange photos on a shoestring budget
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Review and comparison of the $169 Halo Desktop Imager 2.0 and $149 PhotoMagic software packages from, respectively, Media Cybernetics Inc and Micrografx Inc concludes that PhotoMagic is the better 24-bit image editing tool for enhancing and retouching scanned photographs and other images. PhotoMagic features include a 'straightforward' interface, the usual range of graphics tools plus hundreds of brushstroke effects, numerous filters including distortion effects, 200 scanned images, support for JPEG compression mode and support for the TWAIN device standard. Drawbacks include problematic support for anti-aliasing and lack of feathering functions. Halo Desktop Imager features include numerous and powerful color correction functions and histogram support. Drawbacks include a lack of free-form selection tools, an airbrush tool that only sprays set patterns of dots, an insufficient number of filters and a manual and interface that do not facilitate learning the program.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1993
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CoreDraw 6.0
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Corel's $695 CorelDraw 6.0 draw software is a six-disk upgrade with an impressive list of features, but it is not a logical and usable graphics tool, requiring improvements in consistency across the products that make it up. The graphics package requires 200MB of disk space, is compatible only with Windows 95 and Window NT, and requires no less than 16MB of RAM and a 486-based system. Corel has made the biggest changes in the package's peripheral tools, including the addition of Dream 3D, CorelDepth and Motion 3D. CorelPresents consolidates the old presentation, animation and charting tools. PhotoPaint and Draw remain the most used portions of the package. However, CorelDraw 6.0 offers only occasional features with consistent, professional performance and many new items long overdue but oddly implemented. Furthermore, it is not lacking in bugs and odd occurrences.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1996
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