NOVA DESIGN, INC. ANNOUNCES IMAGEFX 2.0 RICHMOND, VA., November 4th, 1994. Nova Design, Inc. officially announced the release of ImageFX 2.0 which will begin shipping towards the end of this month. ImageFX is the complete Amiga image manipulation system that combines image processing with amazing special effects technology and professional painting tools that can simulate artistic styles. MicroTimes magazine even named ImageFX as one of the Best Products of the year! "ImageFX 2.0 is absolutely the best image processing and manipulation package I've ever seen on the Amiga.", Mark Thompson, award winning Amiga animator. "The most awesome image manipulation system for the Amiga, period!", Shamms Mortier, writer for Amazing and Amiga Format. "Absolutely the most impressive image processing package I've seen on any computer!", Denny Atkin, Associate Editor OMNI magazine. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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, 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 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 Applied Magic Jstream 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 SGI RGB Wavefront Softimage Others MPEG animation creation and frame extraction X-Windows Abekas A60 series Sun Raster C64 Koala FITS/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.