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NOVA DESIGN, INC.'S IMAGEFX 2.0 NOW SHIPPING! RICHMOND, VA., December 19th, 1994. After more than two weeks of shipping pre-orders and upgrades Nova Design, Inc. announced that ImageFX 2.0 began shipping in quantity this week to distributors and dealers worldwide. This upgrade represents over a year and a half of focused work and attention on ImageFX by Nova's expanded programming staff. Over a dozen new loaders and savers have been added, more than two dozen new special effects, more retargetability and a new thumbnail preview system are just the highlights of this package. Early users and beta testers of ImageFX 2.0 are already using it's vast array of tools in soon-to-be-seen films, video productions and print media. They have reported the special effects tools rival those found elsewhere only as inhouse tools at dedicated special effects companies. "ImageFX brings much needed tools to the Amiga platform to let us create effects we couldn't have done otherwise. The possiblities are endless!", says Tom Williamson, Effects Supervisor for Computer Cafe. Last minute additions to ImageFX 2.0 include support for the new Epson 1200c scanner and additional controls for many of it's new special effects such as Lightning and PaintFX. "User upgrades and dealer orders have been great.", said Nova Design, Inc. Sales Manager Bob Fisher. "This response has shown that the Amiga software market is much healthier than some have claimed." ImageFX's suggested list price is $349.95 US. Upgrades from any previous version of ImageFX are only $124.95 US to registered owners. For upgrade orders you may call (804) 282-1157 or 1-800-IMAGE-69 in the US and in Canada. Nova Design, Inc., 1910 Byrd Avenue, Suite 214, Richmond, VA 23230 Customer Support/Information (804) 282-6528, Fax (804) 282-3768 ImageFX, PaintFX, AutoFX and CineMORPH are trademarks of Nova Design, Inc. All other products named are trademarked by their respective companies. Updated ImageFX 2.0 Feature List New System Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Image Thumbnails Load and save images via interactive visual interface. Preview effects on thumbnails before applying them. Multiple Buffers Work on an unlimited number of image buffers and brushes. Workbench Preview Windowing preview modes that can open on any Workbench screen and in full color on the Retina 16/24bit displays. New Region Controls Add, subtract, or invert regions. Create painting stencils and masks. Paint within regions. Text Generator Create multiple lines of text with justifications and anti- aliasing. Preview fonts before using them. Image Compositing New compositing methods including Fast Matte, HSV Matte, Multiply, Divide, Minimum and Maximum and others. AutoFX New "cookbook" style batch processor with prewritten scripts to perform hundreds of batch operations and animated effects! ImageFX Browser Visual image cataloging system for maintaining libraries of pictures and animations. Documentation Completely rewritten manual with over 400 pages of tutorials and reference. Expanded online help system. Hardware Support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Graphics Boards Supports all Amiga modes, Retina Z2/Z3, Picasso II, Piccolo, Firecracker 24, IV-24, DCTV, HAM-E, Opalvision, Harlequin, and any EGS compatible hardware such as the Spectrum, Talon, and Rainbow III. Scanners Expanded Epson 300/600/800 scanner controls and new support for the Epson 1200c scanner and VLAB YC framegrabber. Printers Direct support for the Primera color printer in full color. New Painting Features ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improved soft edge modes and anti-aliasing. Realtime painting tools that emulate traditional media such as Airbrushes, Charcoals, Chalk, Oil and Fingerpaints, Felt Tip Markers, Watercolors, and Crayons! New Draw Modes like Smudge, Roughen, Disperse, Sharpen, and others. Drawing Styles to allow rub through to other images, alpha channels, mandala creation, realistic brush stroke fading, and much more. New Image Conversion Formats ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Amiga Toaster Framestore DPS PAR loader Macintosh PICT, including vector and JPEG variations! Improved TIFF loader MSDOS PIC format for all resolutions and color depths GRASP/GL animation frame loading DL animation frame loading Silicon Graphics Alias SGI RGB Wavefront Softimage Others MPEG animation creation and frame extraction X-Windows Abekas A60 series Sun Raster C64 Koala FITS and PDS/Vicar (NASA) image frames New Special Effects and Image Processing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Realistic lightning bolt generator Map images onto spheres Pond ripples and waves Swirl images, even into other images Advanced lens flares generator Apply paper or canvas textures Water/Glass distortion Image warps and lens effects 3D perspective rotation Expanded 2D rotation PaintFX automatic painting generator Star and supernova generator Crystallization effects Circular blurring effects Standard or circular mosaic effects Straw-like distortions Random tiling effects Median/Minimum/Maximum filters Sobel edge-detection Ramping edge-detection Controllable NTSC/PAL Video filters Histogram Equalization tool ImageFX 2.0 works with any model Amiga with at least two megabytes of Chip or Fast RAM and a minimum of five megabytes of available hard drive space and AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. Kermit Woodall Nova Design, Inc.