Congratulations! You now own Version 1.2a of Photogenics.

Files missing from this release that are mentioned in the manual:

GIOs:

	ACBM
	AmigaScreen
	ASCII-Art
	Backdrop
	CDXL
	EGS
	Harlequin
	Img
	Impulse
	OpalVision
	Picasso 2
	ProGrab24RT
	QRT
	QuadAnim
	Retina
	Sculpt
	TIFF
	VLab
	Targa


Archives:

	Developer documentation archive

These files are supplied on an extra disk when you purchase the 
Photogenics 1.2 manual from Almathera (see the special offer page 
in this month's Amiga Computing). NOTE: These extra files will only
work with the coverdisk verison of Photogenics 1.2a when installed
to a hard disk.

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Important changes in program functionality that aren't in the printed
manual:

ILBM rendering enhanced - Can now render to the palette already
attached to an image. This allows you to load in a 32 colour image,
alter it and save it out rendered to the same palette. Also the general
quality of the rendering has been much improved with little or no
extra speed penalty.

Maximum & Minium paintmodes - Removed!
The functionality of these paintmodes has been merged into the similar
'Median' paintmode. This removes more unnecessary code repetition and
allows you more free memory to play with.

Highlights & Lowlights paintmodes - Merged
For exactly the same reason Highlights and Lowlights have been merged
into one paintmode - Hi&Lowlights. Use the options to switch between them.

GIF.gio - Added patch for Archos/Zappo CD-ROMS
Some devices (eg Archos CD-ROMs) do not fully support all Amiga
filesystem features. If you cannot load any GIF files from CD-ROM, select
the loader preferences and switch to "Async Disabled", and try again. 
This will mean slightly slower performance but maintains compatability
with devices like the Archos CD-ROM. Note: most CD-ROMS (eg Squirrel
and Power CD) work fine without the Async disabled switch.  We've
noticed that CrossDOS sometimes exhibits the same limitations with
ASync access.

AddSpace - option added to the menu to add space around the image.

Tablet Mode - We've had lots of people asking us what this does (we
forgot to mention it in the manual).  If you have a tablet that
emulates a mouse you may need to select 'tablet mode' for the mouse
emulation to work correctly.

Compose - Two new buttons added to allow the box in Compose to be
centered or to be stretched to full size, these were both popular requests.

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.

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

Crop option added -
You can now crop an image to remove unwanted borders, etc.

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Almathera:


Almathera - Southerton House, Boundary Business Court, 92-94
Church Rd, Mitcham, Surrey, CR4 3TD, ENGLAND.

Tel:   (UK)  0181 687 0040
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URL:   http://www.almathera.co.uk
email: almathera@cix.compulink.co.uk

Please note, technical support on the coverdisk version of Photogenics 
1.2a is not available from Almathera. Why not upgrade to the full version
of Photogenics 2 (available on CD-ROM and floppy disk)?