From: Conrad_Geiger@NeXT.com (Conrad Geiger - Manager, International NeXT User Groups)
Newsgroups: biz.next.newprod
Subject: Appsoft Ships Appsoft Image
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:43:48 GMT
Reply-To: user_groups@next.com (Conrad Geiger)

NEWS RELEASE
For information contact:

	Randy Adams, President, Appsoft, Inc.
	28 Laburnum Road
	Atherton, CA 94027
	Phone: (415) 802-2900
	Email: info@appsoft.com


APPSOFT SHIPS APPSOFT IMAGE
PHOTO EDITING AND IMAGE PROCESSING FOR NeXTSTEP

Brings fast, high-quality photo editing to the NeXT market.

REDWOOD CITY, CA. January 15, 1993 -- Appsoft Inc. announced today
that Appsoft Image, the image processing and photo editing package
for the NeXTSTEP operating system has begun shipping to customers
worldwide.

Appsoft Image brings fast and powerful photo editing to the NeXTSTEP
desktop.  Appsoft Image is designed to be used by newspapers,
magazines, graphic designers and users in small businesses that need
high-quality image processing for documents, ads, brochures,
presentations, newsletters and publications of all kinds.

Appsoft Image is the first image processing program to take full
advantage of the powerful Display PostScript imaging model offered in
the NeXTSTEP environment.  Appsoft Image offers a complete range of
painting and image manipulation tools including:

    IMAGE SELECTION AND MASKING TOOLS
            Rectangular 
            Elliptical
            Freehand
            Bezier 
            Magic Wand (edge detection)
            Add to, subtract from and refine your current selection
            Cut, copy or paste selections with the pasteboard
            Soften Edges

    PAINTING TOOLS
            Use any of the program's 24 paint tools
            Paint with textures, gradients, colors, cloned images or
              filters
            Paint with transparency to lighten, darken, paint on top
              of or behind an image
            Erase part of an image, a specific color, or revert to a
              previous version
            Blur, sharpen or smudge all or just a  portion of your
              image
            Control paint tools with independent line and fill
              properties
            Use other paint tools with Appsoft Image's plug-in
              support
            Create a library of custom brushes, textures and
              gradients

    CHANNEL EDITING CAPABILITIES
            Work in separate RGB, CMYK or HSB channels
            Add, subtract and combine multiple channels from
              different images
            Create, edit and store an unlimited number of masks

    IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS
            Scale, rotate, flip, slant, skew, distort or alter the
              perspective of any part of your image
            Resample or resize your image to any resolution
            Magnify from 32:1 to 1:32

    IMAGE PROCESSING EFFECTS
            Apply any of the program's 25 filters to a specific
              selection or all of the image
            Adjust Filters: Alter Color, Arbitrary Map,
            Brightness, Color Balance,Contrast, Convert to
            Grayscale, Equalize, Invert, Posterize
            Process Filters: Add Noise, Blur, Convolution Matrix, 
            Despeckle, Sharpen, Minimum, Maximum, Find Edges, Unsharp
            Mask
            Stylize Filters: Diffuse, Emboss, Motion Blur, Offset,
            Pointillize, Swirl, Waves
            Add filters through Appsoft Image's plug-in support

    TEXT
            Create anti-aliased text
            Apply textures, gradients, cloning, filters or
              transformations directly to text 

    PRINTING
            Print to any PostScript  color or black and white printer
            Output four color separations
            Calibrate your monitor to multiple output devices


For complete compatibility with other applications and platforms,
Appsoft Image comes with read and write support for TIFF, EPS,
Scitex, PICT, PhotoShop and over 10 other external formats.

Key features include the ability to work with 2 to 24-bit images in
RGB, CMYK, HSB color models; define, name, group an unlimited number
of masks; apply 25 build-in filters or plug in custom filters through
the API; view and manipulate individual color channels including
alpha transparency; clone and tile source images; construct complex
discontigous selections; create custom brushes, textures and gradient
blends of up to 100 component colors; create sophisticated 4 color
separations and calibrate monitor color.

Appsoft Image and all other Appsoft products are available through
NeXTConnection and all NeXT dealers and VAR's worldwide.  Privately
held, Appsoft, Inc. is a major publisher of productivity software for
NeXT computers and 486 computers running NeXTSTEP.  Appsoft, Inc. 28
Laburnum Road, Atherton, CA 94027.  Phone: (415) 802-2900.  Sales
Hotline: (800) 428-2777.  Fax: (415) 592-6043. Email:
info@appsoft.com.