Fractal Design Painter 4.0
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Fractal Design Corp's $549 Fractal Design Painter 4.0 paint software is packed with features that make it as much a painting program as an image editor. It is undoubtedly the best paint program and is one of the best animators and image editors on the market. Version 4.0's Mosaic tools offerfeatures that are more robust than most and comparable in most respects to a stand-alone program. Painters can use the fascinating Net Painter feature to perform collaborative work with other Paint 4.0 users over the Internet. The Shapes feature is the program's most valuable and practical feature. It is a layer for vector-based objects that sits on top of the canvas. Painter performs quick and easy basic transformations. The Correct Color dialog box gives the user better control over color change curve manipulations than Photoshop. Users who want special effects beyond the paint features in version 3.0 will enjoy version 4.0 the most.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1996
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CorelDraw 6 Suite
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Corel's $595 CorelDraw 6 For Power Macintosh draw software is a powerful bundle of utilities and applications including CorelTexture for natural-media texture generation, CorelArtisan 6 for image editing and painting, and CorelDream 3D 6 for rendering and modeling, as well as recently acquired CorelWord Perfect 3.5. The toolbar is simple but customizable, hiding its true power. It has a likable object properties menu. Its tools work efficiently, requiring minimal motion and providing precise numerical control. One of the program's most notable features is its Lens filters, including Frozen lens and Transparency, which are unique. The text feature's ability to edit text created in Artistic mode after applied special effects placed it above the rest. This well-developed bundle exhibits efficiency and maturity ideal for all levels of illustrators.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1996
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Corelxara 2.0
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An evaluation is presented of Corel's $149, Corelxara 2.0. The GIF animation features are convenient and easy to use, allowing convenient frame-by-frame editing; however, they are not as flexible as Ulead's PhotoImpact GIF Animator. Another easy to use feature in Corelxara is creating image maps. The new version provides browser previews of animation and images which will supply useful information including color depth, image and file size, dither type and download times at various bandwidths. The software also supports Adobe Photoshop plug-ins for bitmaps. The smooth illustration tools are similar to those found in CorelDraw, however the software does not provide any killer Web tools.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1998
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