Photodesk and OHP Upgrades, Fixes and Demos

Photodesk Upgrades

A draft copy of the new Photodesk Manual is now available to download. This is a work-in-progress, but is around 80%-90% complete. We would hope that what is written so far is helpful to most Photodesk users and would welcome any feedback. Click here (5.3Mb) to download the Zip file, which comes with full instructions on how to convert the blank manual on your Photodesk CD to the new version.

Photodesk 3.09x update now available to download here ([an error occurred while processing this directive]b) NB. If you had previously commented out the line in !Run to load the TWAIN driver, you will need to do this again on the new version.
Changes from 3.09

• Image processing, added: Enhance more.
• Gamma, added: Brighten Top-tones.
• Changed Default selected scope of the Magic wand to whole image.
• Changed Gradfill dialogue: Linear moved to top and defined as Default.
• Added ability to swap start/end (plain) colours by clicking on the associated arrow buttons in Gradfill dialogue.
• Template 'paper' dimensions increased so images will now open in a larger window by default.
• Remove a restriction which would cause a wrong display of the size of an irregular image tip.
• Magnifier Dialogue: Replaced "Rational" with 1:1. Added "Swap value" button.
• Number Format changed for Saving of Named Colours as AWColourTable.
• Removed a bug that could cause an extra empty colour swatch at the end of named colours.
• Magnify dialogue: By clicking with Adjust on preset buttons the window is forced to the max possible extend (if scaling >1). A new image is also opened at max extend with scaling 1:1 if Create in New image dialogue is clicked with Adjust.
• Processing - Math: Greyed out strength slider for colour trade/mirror as those effects always work at 100%.
• Fixed Bump icons in sliders not increasing step width to 10 if Shift is pressed.
• Drawtools icon: Ellipse changed to x-axis aligned to prevent misinterpretation (always x/y-axis aligned).
• Apps icon sprite amended so they look in line with the new tool sprite set.
• Utility 'prn' renamed to 'prt', to allow backup to various filing systems.

Version 3.09 is now available.

New features

• Redesigned user interface - All the icons and tools have been redesigned to be clearer and easier to use
• Zooming - Permanently on-screen magnifier dialogue with useful pre-sets
• Brushes - New sets of paintbrushes and airbrushes
• Stamps - New stamps, including a series of regular polygons (in normal, stellated and rounded forms)
• New palettes
• Extra image processing option: 'Enhance negative'
• Easy access to stamps directory
• Unit locking in resize dialogue
• Easy cropping and extending of images by constant amounts
• Internationalisation - Both the installer and the main application now support the internationalisation features of RISC OS

• Better support for long filenames
• Redesigned scaling dialogue, with unit-locking
• Redesigned rotation dialogue and more consistent handling of negative rotations in various places
• Background grids for Gamma correction and printer calibration dialogues
• Many small bug fixes and improvements (A fuller list is provided with the software)

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Photodesk Demo

For more information about Photodesk there is vermilion sands the independent Photodesk site. There is also a Photodesk mailing list which you can signup to from the Freelists website.

OHP2 Upgrades

    This is an upgrade kit for OHP Version 2.5x; there will be a corresponding update for OHP_Show released later.

    This version provides some enhancements and two significant fixes over the baseline version of OHP2.

• OHP2 Upgrade 2.5x - 2.60 - 76Kb

OHP Demo

If you are curious about what can be achieved using OHP then it is possible to download !OHP_Show. This application is the stand alone player for OHP. There is also an OHPdemo file that contains an example slide show to give you an idea of what OHP can do.

• !OHP_Show - 1.3Mb
• OHP demo slide show - 1.2Mb