MetaCreations ships Painter 5 for Windows; new features in Painter 5 deliver enhanced creativity and increased productivity for digital designers and graphic artists.CARPINTERIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 23, 1997--MetaCreations Corp. (Nasdaq:MCRE MCRE Master Create (banking) MCRE Miscellaneous Capital Related Expense (business) MCRE McRoberts Commercial Real Estate (Des Moines, Iowa) ) Monday announced it is now shipping Painter 5 for Windows. Painter 5, a leading creative tool for Windows, now empowers digital artists and graphic designers with more than 100 new brushes and creative effects through an extensible plug-in architecture. Other headline features in Painter 5 for Windows are its easier to use interface, and industry-standard masking. Internet publishing capabilities, tear-off tools, customizable palettes and a full Color Management System Software that translates the colors of an original image into the truest representation obtainable on the output device. Color management works from a profile of the output device, typically a digital printer or offset press, and works backward to the source of the material such as a by Kodak make this version of Painter a "must have" for the digital artist's toolbox. Performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. with support for Intel's Pentium processor with MMX technology MMX technology - Matrix Math eXtensions completes the package. The Macintosh version of Painter 5 began shipping in May 1997. "Painter 5 continues our drive to provide leading graphics software for professionals who require tools that let them create the breakthrough images their clients demand," commented John Wilczak, MetaCreations' CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and president. "This is the best, most user-driven version of Painter we have ever produced," said Mark Zimmer, father of Painter, and MetaCreations' chief technical officer. "It contains the expected MetaCreations magic and one-of-a-kind features that people expect from us, like the Liquid Metal floater Floater A bond or other type of debt whose coupon rate changes with market conditions (short-term interest rates). Also known as "floating-rate debt". Notes: For example, a floater bond may have the coupon rate set at "T-bill rate plus 0.5%". that lets you draw with reflective blobs of paint that can be moved and arranged like liquid mercury." The heart of Painter has always been its unique Natural-Media brush technology that simulates the look of traditional art tools and techniques. Continuing the tradition, new expandable plug-in brushes in Painter 5 make painting with texture, noise, fire and glow a creative adventure. Clone and distort images or use the Turbulence and Confusion brushes to apply wavy, gaseous looks, never before available. Dynamic Plug-in Floaters floaters /float·ers/ (flo´ters) “spots before the eyes”; deposits in the vitreous of the eye, usually moving about and probably representing fine aggregates of vitreous protein occurring as a benign degenerative change. perform image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished effects like burning and tearing to the selected item in real-time, without changing underlying layers. Achieve a realitecture has been optimized to take advantage ainter or working with compositing methods like Gel, Multiply or Darken dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. , Intel's MMX technology makes Paintew customizable palettes and tear-off tools. The improved Paint Bucket tool, Crop tool, Magic wand a wand used by a magician in performing feats of magic. See also: Magic and custom function keys complete Painter 5's interface enhancements. Always an indispensable tool for Web designers, Painter 5 now supports animated GIF export. By using Paintecolor palettes, including the Netscape 216-color palette and the 256-color default palettes for Macintosh and Windows. Painter also allows any graphic to be turned into an image map. A full Color Management System by Kodak and support for Hi-Fi Hexachrome output means Painter 5 Windows customers for $99 from either MetaCrea800/846-0111 for more information. MetaCreations Corp., the visual computing software company, designital art and Internet/on-line content for Windowring and display of 3-D images including dynamin more than 50 countries and in as many as eight languages. MetaCreations' corporate headquarters is located in Santa Barbara County at 6303 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria, Calif. 93013. Telephone: 805/566-6200; Fax: 805/566-6385. MetaCreations in Scotts Valley is locatuse, Fenian St., Dublin 2, Ireland; Telephone: 353 (1) 662-9333; Fax: 353 (1) 662-9334; World Wide Web server: http://www.metacreations.com . -0- NOTE: MetaCreations Painter and Natural-Media are trademarks of Fractal Design Corp. which may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are properties of their respective holders. CONTACT: MetaCreations Corp. Teri Campbell, 408/430-4228 teri_campbell@metacreations.com Kevin Clark, 408/430-4218 kevin_clark@metacreations.com |
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