PhotoFinish 3.0 Readme File Welcome to PhotoFinish version 3.0! PhotoFinish 3.0 has added even more automation to make editing your pictures even easier. PhotoFinish has added more than a dozen new commands and has more than doubled the number of tools and tool types. PhotoFinish now has nearly 90 tools and tool types -- including innovative natural art tools you can use to create your own artistic masterpiece. This file contains a summary of what is new in PhotoFinish 3.0. It also contains specific release information and other items that became available after the PhotoFinish manuals went to print. ======================================== What's New in PhotoFinish 3.0 ======================================== --The AutoBar has been added to the top of the PhotoFinish desktop. Just a click of the mouse button lets you start, open, or save a picture; cut, copy, or paste a cutout; undo your last changes; automatically enhance the picture with several options; automatically adjust brightness and contrast, crop the border from a picture, remove moiré patterns, adjust the intensity of colors in the picture, sharpen the picture, or straighten the picture; or automatically scan a picture. ======================================== --Six new Auto commands have been added to the Image menu. Choose Auto Brightness/Contrast to have PhotoFinish automatically adjust brightness and contrast in the entire picture. --Choose Auto Crop to automatically crop the border from a picture. --Choose Auto Remove Moiré to automatically remove moiré patterns from the entire picture. --Choose Auto Saturation to automatically adjust the intensity of colors in the entire picture. --Choose Auto Sharpen to automatically sharpen the entire picture --Choose Auto Straighten to automatically straighten or deskew the entire picture. ======================================== --The ribbon bar has been added to the PhotoFinish desktop. The ribbon bar changes depending on the selected tool. You can quickly change most of the tool's settings with a click of the mouse button on the ribbon bar. Some ribbon bars also have command buttons you can click to quickly perform a task. For example, if the selected tool is the Zoom tool and you have zoomed in on a picture, click the Fit To Zoom button on the button bar to resize the picture window so you can see more of the zoomed-in picture. ======================================== --The Samples command has been added to the Filter, Special Effect, and Tune cascading menus on the Image menu. These commands make it easy to decide which Filter, Special Effect, or Tune command to apply to the picture or cutout. --Individual Filter, Special Effect, and Tune commands also display samples of how the command will change the picture or cutout. Click the Shrink or Expand button to display more samples of the command using different settings. Click Advanced to manually adjust the settings. ======================================== --Two new Special Effect commands have been added. Choose Apply Paper to add a paper texture to the entire picture or a cutout. The paper effect is apparent immediately, unlike the Paper command on the Options menu, which is used with some tools. This command is available for 24 bit color and gray scale pictures. --Choose Crumple to create a crumpled look to the entire picture or a cutout. This command is available for 24 bit color, gray scale, and 256 color pictures. ======================================== --New tools and tool types have been added. PhotoFinish now has nearly 90 tools and tool types, giving you even more picture editing possibilities. The new tools are the Chalk, Color Pencil, Marker, and Crayon tools. --Select a tool type to change the effect of most tools. Tool types vary depending on the selected tool. Most tool types are available for all color modes. However, the effect of most tool types is more apparent with 24 bit color or gray scale pictures. ======================================== --You can paint with a paper effect with many of the painting tools. Choose Paper to load a paper. The texture of the paper appears when you begin painting with a tool and tool type that use paper. ======================================== --PhotoFinish supports pressure sensitive tablets. You can affect how many of the painting tools apply color by varying the downward force on the tablet surface. If you have a pointing device that has only one button, you can simulate a right mouse button click by holding the Ctrl key and clicking the button. ======================================== --The Box tool has more options. Use the ribbon bar or the Tool Options command to select the Basic Box tool type to paint boxes filled with the secondary color. Select the Tile tool type to paint a box filled with a tile pattern. Select the Gradient tool type to paint a box filled with a gradient that begins with the secondary color and ends with the background color. --The Text tool has more options. You can now choose to apply a shadow or outline to make your text more distinctive. Shadows and outlines appear in the primary color. You can also choose to left justify, right justify, or center text within the Text Frame. --The Paint Roller tools have been combined. Use the ribbon bar or choose the Tool Options command to select the Basic Roller tool type to fill an area with the primary or secondary color. Select the Tile tool type to fill an area with a tile pattern. Select the Gradient tool type to fill an area with a gradient that begins with the secondary color and ends with the background color. --The Line and Tile Pattern Line tools have been combined. Use the ribbon bar or choose the Tool Options command to select whether you want to paint a line in the primary color or a line of tile patterns. --The Hollow and Filled shape tools have been combined. Choose a shape tool and use the ribbon bar or the Tool Options command to select whether you want to paint a hollow shape, a filled shape with a border, or a filled shape without a border. --You can choose the width and shape for tools on the ribbon bar or in the Tool Options dialog box for the selected tool. Width and shape are tool specific. That means that when you switch tools, width and shape change to the last selected options for the tool. The Width & Shape workbox no longer appears. ======================================== --Color Tolerance has been improved. You can now specify a separate, tool specific color tolerance setting for the Magic Wand, Color Replacer, and Paint Roller tools. ======================================== --The Apply Texture command has been renamed Texturize. The Font More Fonts command has been renamed Font. ======================================== --Beginning with version 2.02, PhotoFinish has supported the Photo CD (.PCD) file format. This format is used to load images from a Kodak Photo CD into PhotoFinish. To open a Photo CD image, select the drive where your CD device is located. Kodak Photo CD is a registered trademark of Eastman Kodak Company. Kodak Photo CD technology is a copyright of Eastman Kodak Company, 1991, 1992, and 1993. Photo CD images are available in 24 bit color only. Use one of PhotoFinish's Image Convert To commands if you want the image in another color format, You can save .PCD files in any format, except PCD, onto your hard disk for later use.