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5. ArtEffect 4.0 announced

Haage & Partner (http://www.haage-partner.com) informs:

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ArtEffect 4.0

Digital image processing and natural media paint

• Professionell digital image processing


• Natural media paint


• optimized web graphics

Version 4 of the popular graphics program for image processing and natural painting again offers many new features and improvements. This time most improvements deal with the layers and make them one of the most powerful and flexible features of ArtEffect.
ArtEffect 4 will be delievered on a CD-ROM full of fonts, clipart and workshops.

New Features:

• multiple alpha channels and alpha composing per picture (see layers window)
  
• conversion between color<->alpha channel and transparency->alpha channel (see stencil menu)
  
• new layers for text (see layers window popup-menu)
  
• new layers for on-the-fly image processing (contrast/brightness/gamma correction, negative, threshold, posterize).
  
• special effect layers for painting maps (landscape), fire and space pictures (see layers window popup-menu)
  
• new water color mode for airbrush (see tool settings)
  
• most plugins now also work correctly on layers (e.g. twirl and motion blur filters).
  
• OS3.5 icons may be automatically created on save (see program settings)
  
• CD-ROM full of fonts, clipart and workshops

System requirements:
Amiga with 68020 CPU, AmigaOS 3.x, min. 8 MB RAM, hard disk

Reviews:
Best Image Processor 1997 (voted by the readers of Amiga Plus), 9 of 10 points (Magazyn Amiga 1/98, Poland), 89 %, "Very Good" (Amiga Magazin 3/98), "The imitation of natural painting is first-class.", "...a recommendable program..." (Amiga Special 11/98)


ArtEffect 4.0 will be available in mid May 2000. Price for the update will be 89 DM. «