New Adobe Photoshop Plug-In Provides LightWorks Rendering.SHEFFIELD, U.K.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 1997-- -- QuickSpace(TM) Plug-In Software from Plastic Thought Includes LightWorks Photo-Realistic Renderer for QuickDraw 3D -- Plastic Thought has introduced the QuickSpace(TM) plug-in for Adobe Photoshop See Photoshop. that delivers high-performance photo-realistic rendering and output using the LightWorks(R) rendering engine from LightWork Design. With the QuickSpace plug-in software, Adobe users can feature 3D models inside their Photoshop 2D compositions. LightWork Design is the leading supplier of rendering engines for 3D design applications. Plastic Thought produces the popular ActiveArt(TM) 3D clip art A set of canned images used to illustrate word processing and desktop publishing documents. , which is well known for its non-realistic, sketch-like style. "We're pleased that LightWork Design was chosen to play such an important role in Plastic Thought's mission to make 3D clip art available to everyone," says Gordon Oliver, Managing Director of LightWork Design. "Plastic Thought is an energetic, innovative company, and we're excited to be bringing photo-realistic rendering to its customers." "We feel LightWork Design is providing the best rendering technology for 3D design today. The inclusion of the LightWorks renderer provides important new benefits to our end users in the form of photo-realistic rendering and anti-aliasing," says John Davis, Vice President of Sales & Strategy for Plastic Thought. "We expect this combination of complementary technologies will inspire and empower the traditional designer to work in the third dimension, and we look forward to our relationship with LightWork Design." The LightWorks SuperLite renderer for QuickDraw 3D is included in the QuickSpace plug-in software. With the LightWorks technology, QuickSpace users can add soft shadows, transparent surfaces and texture maps to an image. They also can apply anti-aliasing to smooth out the `jaggies' in an image. QuickSpace users can import and manipulate QuickDraw 3D (3DMF (Distribution Media Format) A floppy disk format from Microsoft that was used to distribute its software. DMF floppies compressed more data (1.7MB) onto the 3.5" diskette, and the files could not be copied with normal DOS and Windows commands. A DMF utility had to be used. ) models directly in Adobe Photoshop or Adobe PhotoDeluxe PhotoDeluxe was a consumer oriented image editing software line published by Adobe Systems until July 8, 2002. At that time it was replaced by Adobe's newly launched consumer oriented image editing software, Photoshop Elements. . Users can move, rotate and scale models, flatten the images in a Photoshop document, and then produce high-resolution print images. QuickSpace is the first Adobe Photoshop plug-in that allows direct import of Plastic Thought's ActiveArt 3D clip art models in Apple's QuickDraw 3D file format. The QuickSpace plug-in includes more than 200 ActiveArt models in QuickDraw3D, VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. , JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. and animated GIF A moving picture in GIF format, which is made up of a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping. Although popular on the Web, animated GIFs are larger than single-frame GIFs and take longer to download. formats. About LightWork Design LightWork Design is the developer of the world's leading core rendering system. The LightWorks Application Development System (ADS) is used in more than 50 software applications worldwide, including the new RadioRay radiosity and ray-trace rendering plug-in for 3D Studio MAX from Kinetix, as well as products from EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. Unigraphics, SolidWorks, auto-des-sys and Parametric Technology Corporation |Parametric Technology Corporation]] Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC)(NASDAQ: PMTC) provides Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) engineering CAD/CAM software and content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. (Pro/REFLEX). LightWork Design also develops and markets MachineWorks(TM), a modeling and NC verification toolkit for manufacturing simulation. Its Web site is www.lightwork.com. Note: The sample image that accompanies this press release can be downloaded from www.lightwork.com/pressreleases/ About Plastic Thought Plastic Thought is dedicated to bringing 3D clip art to the widest range of home and office computer users by taking advantage of new 3D and Web technologies. In addition to its ActiveArt 3D clip art, Plastic Thought also offers the 3d-Active(TM) "real world" clip art collection for desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, , animation, multimedia, Web site development, CAD and other environments that currently use 2D graphics. Its Web site is www.plasticthought.com. LightWorks and the LightWorks logo are registered trademarks and MachineWorks is a trademark of LightWork Design Limited. QuickSpace, ActiveArt and 3d-Active are trademarks of Plastic Thought. Adobe and Photoshop are registered trademarks and PhotoDeluxe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: LightWork Design Ltd. Gay Walker Intl. Marketing Communications Mgr. Telephone +44 114 266 8404 Fax +44 114 266 1383 E-mail: gay@lightwork.co.uk |
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