What was new in WinImages R5?

These changes are relative to the R4 release

New Features & Enhancements

• Powerful, flexible layered image editing and creation with many layer modes
• Automatic creation of editable shadows
• Automatic creation of editable glows
• Support for Windows Clipboard
• 3d Noise, Cellular, Fractal heightfields, clouds & general texture generator
• 24-bit Color keying growth added (growth used to force 18 bit space)
• Comprehensive 3D Landscape Generation
• All drawn area selections may now be antialiased, area quality is much improved
• Annular has additive capability
• Area selection by height range
• Area selection by steepness range
• Asterize has additive capability
• Convenient size presets for New Image tool
• New Image tool can now create transparent images
• Color Image Printing
• Alpha backdrops may now be checkered
• Optional grid display at high magnifications (5x, plus)
• Fire has additive capability
• Image Information now provides color space usage data (count & percent)
• Lightning has additive capability
• Merge now has reflective tiling mode
• Crater op
• Exfoliation op
• Flat Map op
• Multiply op
• Remap now has offset
• Color Fills now have Opaque (alpha priority) option
• Enlarge now remembers "replace" option from session to session
• Reduce now remembers "replace" option from session to session
• Enlarge tab order changed, and tabbing from percentage sets size
• Reduce tab order changed, and tabbing from percentage sets size
• Entrainment op
• Twain Selection and Acquire for scanners, digital cameras, etc. (See the Twain site)
• 1:1 image view behavior enhanced for larger images
• Image views now have 1:1, 2:1, 3:1 and 1:2 (.5) "quick" sizing on local menus
• Image views now have 10% and 20% zoom in and zoom out on local menus
• Image views now have zoom removal on local menus
• 1 key zooms in 10% in a view
• 2 key zooms in 20% in a view
• 3 key de-zooms one level in a view
• 4 key removes zoom (other than that imparted by view size)
• 5 key sets to 1:2 zoom
• 6 key sets to 1:1 zoom
• 7 key sets to 2:1 zoom
• 8 key sets to 3:1 zoom
• 9 key opens fullscreen view
• D and I keys set draw mode, which is now indicated in status bar

New File Format Support

• Loads ASCII PPM files (.PPM)
• Loads Alias files (.PIX)
• Loads SGI RGB + B&W
• Loads Softimage PICT files (.PIC)
• Loads USGS DEM elevation records (as monochrome heightmaps)
• Loads Wavefront files (.RLA)
• Loads and saves PNG images (See the PNG site)
• Loads and saves Extended Layer File images
• Loads flat Photoshop® files (.PSD) (See the Photoshop ® site)

F/x Documentation Changes

• Fully paginated - Next & Previous allow access to the entire body of the documentation sequentially
• Well over 500 images, hundreds of them new, including example images for all operations
• Greatly expanded tutorial section
• Considerable detail added in many critical areas
• All documentation RFC (request for correction) issues resolved from R3 & R4
• Now in public domain HTML instead of Microsoft's proprietary "help" format, highly maintainable
• Brand new documentation for many previously undiscussed issues
• New Comprehensive Index with Quick Nav bar access
• New Glossary with Quick Nav bar access
• New "User Notes" section with Quick Nav bar access

Bugs Fixed from previous versions of FX as of R5

WinImages F/x Manual Version 7, Revision 0