Auto F/X Photo/Graphic Edges

Photo/Graphic Edges 4.0

An Edge that Counts!

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Type of Product

Auto F/X's Photo/Graphic Edges, a plug-in and a stand-alone application, came into existence in 1994 when Cliff Weems, then an Art Director for an ad agency, literally went out on the edge to develop a concept that went beyond square: edge effects that could be applied to digital images and photographs. With Version 4.0 of Photo/Graphic Edges, Auto F/X has combined its creative edge techniques with special effects such as bevels, carves, sepia tones, grains, burned edges, shadows, lighting, distortions, textured and colored mattes, and mezzotints. The edges come in four volumes, with Volumes 1 thru 3, including over 300 unique edges each, that are arranged by effect type. Each volume is available separately or you can purchase them as a bundle containing all four volumes. The User Guide has thumbnails of each edge and full color thumbnails of textures, distortion tiles, and lighting tiles. There is also an onscreen catalog of all of these elements. Price: $149 per volume: any two volumes for $199; any three volumes for $299; all four volumes for $399.

Volume 1 contains traditional edge effects including deckled, ripped, semi-transparent, film strips, film frames, emulsion transfers and other traditional styled effects.
Volume 2 includes geometric shapes, abstracts, digital, and impressionistic edge effects.
Volume 3 is a collection of hand painted edge effects. These were created using numerous painted and mixed medium like watercolor fadeouts, brush strokes, splattered paint, and etchings.
Volume 4 covers darkroom mediums, brush strokes, tones, and traditional darkroom techniques.

User Level

Since it is easy enough to apply the basic effects in this program, a beginner PC user with some knowledge of design or photography should have no problem with it. Because it works not only as a plug-in but as a stand-alone application, it would be an excellent package for a beginner who just wanted to play with special effects and image enhancement without having to buy or learn another program such as Photoshop. Often, when I recommend a software program to someone, they will immediately state that, "Oh no, I couldn't use that product. It is too difficult; it is for professionals." And then they proceed to go out and buy an item that is limited in its application and they soon tire of it. If I can do only one thing of value in these reviews, it would be to debunk this attitude and demystify the idea of "professional packages." If a certain program is used by professionals, it is because it is good, not that it is too difficult for the average user. The three images above were easily created in a few minutes using basic edges. Intermediate and advanced PC users or designers, aware of how time consuming it is to create certain effects in Photoshop, will appreciate the ease of use and unlimited possibilities of design that Photo/Graphic Edges allows. Combining multiply effects is limited only by your imagination. For the image to the left, I combined a grain tile that simulated weaving and a matte color.

Features

Create an unlimited number of edge effects for enhancing images and photos.
40 special effects including carve, bevel, glow, burn, and distort.
Ships with 1,000 textures that can be used as backgrounds.
Create unique artistic effects like sepia, mezzotint, and grain.
Enhance photos with shadow and lighting effects.
Volumes I, II, III, and IV ship with 300 to 425 hand-crafted edges.
Effect Log allows users to record and turn effects on and off.
Supports unlimited undos, zoom and pan features.
Can load and save favorite effect settings.
Ability to rotate, scale, and move edges in any direction.
Backward compatible with previous versions of Photo/Graphic Edges.
Instant and interactive previews.
Supports user created edges and effects.
Supports multiple edge loading.
Onscreen edge and content catalogs.
Effects can be combined to achieve glowing bevels and shadowed burns for example.
Works as both a Plug-in for applications supporting the Adobe Plug-in SDK (such as Corel Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro, and Meta Creations Painter products) as well as its own stand-alone application.

Review

The program is easy to install and you have the choice of installing it as a plug-in, as a stand-alone application, or as both. It worked well in either mode. The interface is straight-forward and identical in each. There is a large preview window that allows you to see the effects on an image as you work.

Two bars at the bottom allow you to select effects by bringing up a tab dialog box that controls the options for the effect. By utilizing the sliders on these tabs, you can apply effects and change key elements of the effect without changing other effects. The various effect tabs are:

Select Edge Tab--You can select an inset and outset edge effect; adjust the scale, softness, and opacity of their edges as well as the border width and color. Edges may be flipped, rotated, and scaled in any direction.

Lighting Tab--There are 200 lighting tiles included in each volume of Photo/Graphic Edges. Lighting can be applied to just the image or the background or to both. These tiles can be used to blur, sharpen, lighten, darken, dampen, and smudge images. Adjustments can be made with scale, opacity, and softness controls.

Shadow Tab--After adding a shadow, users can control the direction of the shadow, distort it, reverse it, offset the shadow distance, and adjust the scale, softness, and opacity of the shadow.

Distort Tab--The appearance of edges can be warped to create a rag effect. Photo/Graphic Edges has a variety of tiles to use, each with a distinct look. You can distort the edges as well as the image with the vertical, horizontal and warp distort controls.

Bevel Tab--Inner and outer bevels can be created. You can alter the width, depth, and smoothness of the bevel as well as the scale, opacity, and softness. Bevel effects work well with textures, colors, grain, sepia, and lighting effects for one-of-a-kind results.

Carve Tab--The carve feature allows you to sink an edged image into a background color or texture. You can control the illusion of depth by altering the surface qualities, lighting, and shadow of the edge and image independently. Changes can be made to the direction of the carve; you can reverse the effect and taper the edges.

Glow Tab--Glows are easy to add with this feature. You can control the smoothness and color, as well as use a tile to distort the glow. A grainy appearance can be applied and the double punch feature can be used to intensify the look.

Burn Tab--A singed effect can be created with this feature. Burned edges can then be distorted, colored, scaled, and softened. The distance the burn is merged into the image can be controlled and there is a double punch button where the burn is twice as intense.

Grain Tab--Tiles, grain, and color may be applied to the image or to the matte. There are range controls to apply the grain to select tonal ranges of the image.

Sepia Tab--Textured tiles can be fused into the image for a wide variety of effects. You can adjust the hue and color of the sepia, dampen it, inverse the pattern, and adjust the scale, softness, opacity, and range.

Matte Tab--You can fuse textures around an edged image to form a textured photo matte. Combining this feature with the carve and bevel effects can give depth to an image. You have a diverse assortment of textured images to choose from, such as paper, metal, fabric, stone, and artistic surfaces.

Matte Color--You can select from a wide variety of colors, including simulated Pantone spot colors, to use around your image. The colors can be adjusted with noise effects, saturation and hue.

Effect Log--This log allows you to record the steps you have taken. It indicates which effects are active and inactive and allows you to turn effects on and off.

Below is a discussion of the various effects and what you can accomplish by combining them. I had recently taken a trip to Chiapas, Mexico and had promised the other fellow travelers that I would put together some sort of book to memorialize the event. The photographs I had to work with were limited, underexposed, overexposed, underdeveloped, and boring. My background is not in artistic design and my photography ability, on a scale of 1 to 10, would be about -1. But I thought this would be a unique way to accomplish two goals: a Web-based history of the trip and a review of a product. After examining the innovations on Auto F/X's Web site, and again glancing at my photos, though, I thought, maybe this was not such a good idea. It is easier to create impressive images when you start with really great photos. It is harder when you start with poorer quality images, but then you get a better idea of what you can really do with a program. And so the fun began.

I had not used the program before and was really unfamiliar with what you could do with it. After scanning a photo of an oven, just to play with, into Photoshop, I open Photo/Graphic Edges, and went from one effect to another. It was intimidating at first to have so many options: from selecting an edge, to applying the nine different effects, to using the sliders under each effect to create even more changes. Within a few minutes I think I had applied every effect to that poor oven that was humanly possible. I kept on. After playing with the effects and sliders again, I glanced at the oven and was amazed. The original photo was just of a plain oven that was built for a woman's baking cooperative in Chiapas. There was no brick wall in front of it and it was a very ordinary picture. With the matte texture and carved and burned edges it took on a unique look. Photo/Graphic Edges has a variety of brick textures that can be combined with the carved and burned edge effects to allow you to be really creative. I was hooked. The program was addictive.

I then proceeded to apply Photo/Graphic Edges to the other photos. I had nine individuals that I wanted to include. Again, the photos were not great. Most were group shots, with maybe one individual facing the camera, and the rest of the picture filled with uneventful back views. I didn't use Photoshop to enhance them in any way. I tried to use Photo/Graphic Edges to frame the individuals and elements that I wanted to include. And I also wanted edges and effects that would somehow represent the quality and character of each individual. I will attempt to describe what effects were applied; but to be truthful, I was having too much fun and sometimes forgot what I had done!

We had visited a sewing cooperative, where they made aprons and were trying on various styles. With this photo, I had very little space beyond the three individuals and needed an edge that would hide very little of the background. This is where Photo/Graphic Edge's bundle pack with all the volumes is convenient. I could find just the right edge. I then applied a shadow effect with a distortion tile, and changed the color and distance.

For this image, I applied a slight edge with a glow effect, changed the color of the edge, increased the distance of the glow, and then used the grain slider to add grain or pixelation to the glow.

I used the same photo here as in the User Level section, applied the same edge, but added the glow effect with grain, the shadow effect, and the sepia effect. I worked with this photo in the beginning when I was applying anything and everything to the images, but I liked it anyway. I found the sepia effect very useful, even with color photos such as this one.

The next photo was very underexposed, plus the individual had a white jacket on. I think it also won the award for having the most uninteresting back poses. I used an artistic frame that looked somewhat like a palette that eliminated the boring backs, and I used a grain effect with a tile to add texture.

I was not sure what type of edge to use for this photo. At first I tried the distort effect, but was not really satisfied. I then applied the sepia effect, with a texture instead of a tile. I played with the opacity, color, and scale and produced an original look. This was one of the images where I could not remember what effects I had used. This is not a program where you have to wonder if someone else's work will look like yours, i.e. the canned image. When I went back and tried to reproduce this look, I had to work at it. What is fascinating about the program is that you can start with an edge, effect, and texture and combine them in such a way that it is difficult to connect them with the original elements. After this experience I started to save my work as presets which contained all of the information needed to recreate the effects I had applied.

I used a whimsical yet classy frame and applied a texture to the matte. I thought I was finished and had gone into Photoshop. I then went back into Photo/Graphic Edges just to check out if I had saved the frame. I had, and so I reloaded it, made some changes, and then went back to Photoshop. The effects had been applied twice. I hadn't intended to apply two edges to the image, but I liked the effect. You can also apply more than one edge with the select edge tab.

For the last image, I decided to bevel. Now, even in Photoshop, I am not the greatest beveler. I started with another washed out photo with an individual in white. I used a bevel and textured matte effect. With beveling, you can change the highlight and shadow colors. I would often totally reverse what would seem reasonable: using a dark color for the highlight and a light color for the shadow. With this image, I used a light color for both, and I adjusted the opacity of the effects. A lighting tile helped to add color to the image. I was resizing the frame and happened to reduce it more than I intended. I looked at the image and realized that by applying the background texture, playing with the opacity of the matte and image, changing the color of the highlight and shadow and reducing the frame, I had created a image where it appeared that the person was coming out of a window or frame. This was another example of starting out with little or no idea of what I was doing or wanted, just that I wanted to bevel, and the image seemed to take on a life of itself; something like in writing when characters seem to take over and create the story.

Personal Comments

This is probably the longest review I will ever do. And hopefully I have not run out of space on my Web site because of all the graphics I used; but I enjoyed every moment of it. It should be evident from this endeavor that there are unlimited possibilities in Photo/Graphic Edges for a professional designer who really has talent and can utilize all the bells and whistles the program provides. And maybe some of you novice photographers and designers who want to let it all hang out with an edge will be tempted to give it a try.

Auto F/X has truly created a dynamic and non-linear design environment. This original concept of "edges" has not only produced Photo/Graphic Edges but has grown into a whole category of software that provides both the novice and the professional designer free reign with their imagination. With other Auto F/X products you can apply edges to pages and type for brochures, newsletters, and other layouts. They also have a Web utility product, WebVise Totality, a Web graphic compression, animation, and digital watermarking program. Their Web site is http://www.autofx.com They have tips on using this software, designer resources, beta versions of new software, special promotions and links to other related sites.

Wish List

An Eyedropper tool that allows you to extract a Background or Border color from an image.
Blend Modes similar to Photoshop.
Examples, in the User Guide, of how to create interesting effects. (I am always looking for ways to make programs more user friendly for the novice.)

System Requirements

Operating System: Windows 95/NT
Memory: 32MB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 6MB
CD ROM

At this time I would like to give recognition to Global Exchange for providing this Reality Tour to Chiapas. And many thanks go to the wonderful individuals who welcomed us into their homes and villages with such graciousness. Thanks to the women weavers. And to Auto F/X for giving me the opportunity to review this program and complete this visual picture of a great experience with a unique bunch of travelers. Kudos to all; and you're on the Web folks.

Graphics: DeMorgan WebSpice 1,000,000 Page Design Edition
Web Page Editor: Symantec Visual Page

Photo/Graphic Edges 4.0 An Edge that Counts!
Click on a thumbnail to enlarge it. Use your browser's "BACK" button to return to this review when done.

Type of Product

Auto F/X's Photo/Graphic Edges, a plug-in and a stand-alone application, came into existence in 1994 when Cliff Weems, then an Art Director for an ad agency, literally went out on the edge to develop a concept that went beyond square: edge effects that could be applied to digital images and photographs. With Version 4.0 of Photo/Graphic Edges, Auto F/X has combined its creative edge techniques with special effects such as bevels, carves, sepia tones, grains, burned edges, shadows, lighting, distortions, textured and colored mattes, and mezzotints. The edges come in four volumes, with Volumes 1 thru 3, including over 300 unique edges each, that are arranged by effect type. Each volume is available separately or you can purchase them as a bundle containing all four volumes. The User Guide has thumbnails of each edge and full color thumbnails of textures, distortion tiles, and lighting tiles. There is also an onscreen catalog of all of these elements. Price: $149 per volume: any two volumes for $199; any three volumes for $299; all four volumes for $399. Volume 1 contains traditional edge effects including deckled, ripped, semi-transparent, film strips, film frames, emulsion transfers and other traditional styled effects. Volume 2 includes geometric shapes, abstracts, digital, and impressionistic edge effects. Volume 3 is a collection of hand painted edge effects. These were created using numerous painted and mixed medium like watercolor fadeouts, brush strokes, splattered paint, and etchings. Volume 4 covers darkroom mediums, brush strokes, tones, and traditional darkroom techniques.

User Level

Since it is easy enough to apply the basic effects in this program, a beginner PC user with some knowledge of design or photography should have no problem with it. Because it works not only as a plug-in but as a stand-alone application, it would be an excellent package for a beginner who just wanted to play with special effects and image enhancement without having to buy or learn another program such as Photoshop. Often, when I recommend a software program to someone, they will immediately state that, "Oh no, I couldn't use that product. It is too difficult; it is for professionals." And then they proceed to go out and buy an item that is limited in its application and they soon tire of it. If I can do only one thing of value in these reviews, it would be to debunk this attitude and demystify the idea of "professional packages." If a certain program is used by professionals, it is because it is good, not that it is too difficult for the average user. The three images above were easily created in a few minutes using basic edges. Intermediate and advanced PC users or designers, aware of how time consuming it is to create certain effects in Photoshop, will appreciate the ease of use and unlimited possibilities of design that Photo/Graphic Edges allows. Combining multiply effects is limited only by your imagination. For the image to the left, I combined a grain tile that simulated weaving and a matte color.

Features

Create an unlimited number of edge effects for enhancing images and photos. 40 special effects including carve, bevel, glow, burn, and distort. Ships with 1,000 textures that can be used as backgrounds. Create unique artistic effects like sepia, mezzotint, and grain. Enhance photos with shadow and lighting effects. Volumes I, II, III, and IV ship with 300 to 425 hand-crafted edges. Effect Log allows users to record and turn effects on and off. Supports unlimited undos, zoom and pan features. Can load and save favorite effect settings. Ability to rotate, scale, and move edges in any direction. Backward compatible with previous versions of Photo/Graphic Edges. Instant and interactive previews. Supports user created edges and effects. Supports multiple edge loading. Onscreen edge and content catalogs. Effects can be combined to achieve glowing bevels and shadowed burns for example. Works as both a Plug-in for applications supporting the Adobe Plug-in SDK (such as Corel Photo-Paint, Paint Shop Pro, and Meta Creations Painter products) as well as its own stand-alone application.

Review

The program is easy to install and you have the choice of installing it as a plug-in, as a stand-alone application, or as both. It worked well in either mode. The interface is straight-forward and identical in each. There is a large preview window that allows you to see the effects on an image as you work. Two bars at the bottom allow you to select effects by bringing up a tab dialog box that controls the options for the effect. By utilizing the sliders on these tabs, you can apply effects and change key elements of the effect without changing other effects. The various effect tabs are: Select Edge Tab--You can select an inset and outset edge effect; adjust the scale, softness, and opacity of their edges as well as the border width and color. Edges may be flipped, rotated, and scaled in any direction. Lighting Tab--There are 200 lighting tiles included in each volume of Photo/Graphic Edges. Lighting can be applied to just the image or the background or to both. These tiles can be used to blur, sharpen, lighten, darken, dampen, and smudge images. Adjustments can be made with scale, opacity, and softness controls. Shadow Tab--After adding a shadow, users can control the direction of the shadow, distort it, reverse it, offset the shadow distance, and adjust the scale, softness, and opacity of the shadow. Distort Tab--The appearance of edges can be warped to create a rag effect. Photo/Graphic Edges has a variety of tiles to use, each with a distinct look. You can distort the edges as well as the image with the vertical, horizontal and warp distort controls. Bevel Tab--Inner and outer bevels can be created. You can alter the width, depth, and smoothness of the bevel as well as the scale, opacity, and softness. Bevel effects work well with textures, colors, grain, sepia, and lighting effects for one-of-a-kind results. Carve Tab--The carve feature allows you to sink an edged image into a background color or texture. You can control the illusion of depth by altering the surface qualities, lighting, and shadow of the edge and image independently. Changes can be made to the direction of the carve; you can reverse the effect and taper the edges. Glow Tab--Glows are easy to add with this feature. You can control the smoothness and color, as well as use a tile to distort the glow. A grainy appearance can be applied and the double punch feature can be used to intensify the look. Burn Tab--A singed effect can be created with this feature. Burned edges can then be distorted, colored, scaled, and softened. The distance the burn is merged into the image can be controlled and there is a double punch button where the burn is twice as intense. Grain Tab--Tiles, grain, and color may be applied to the image or to the matte. There are range controls to apply the grain to select tonal ranges of the image. Sepia Tab--Textured tiles can be fused into the image for a wide variety of effects. You can adjust the hue and color of the sepia, dampen it, inverse the pattern, and adjust the scale, softness, opacity, and range. Matte Tab--You can fuse textures around an edged image to form a textured photo matte. Combining this feature with the carve and bevel effects can give depth to an image. You have a diverse assortment of textured images to choose from, such as paper, metal, fabric, stone, and artistic surfaces. Matte Color--You can select from a wide variety of colors, including simulated Pantone spot colors, to use around your image. The colors can be adjusted with noise effects, saturation and hue. Effect Log--This log allows you to record the steps you have taken. It indicates which effects are active and inactive and allows you to turn effects on and off. Below is a discussion of the various effects and what you can accomplish by combining them. I had recently taken a trip to Chiapas, Mexico and had promised the other fellow travelers that I would put together some sort of book to memorialize the event. The photographs I had to work with were limited, underexposed, overexposed, underdeveloped, and boring. My background is not in artistic design and my photography ability, on a scale of 1 to 10, would be about -1. But I thought this would be a unique way to accomplish two goals: a Web-based history of the trip and a review of a product. After examining the innovations on Auto F/X's Web site, and again glancing at my photos, though, I thought, maybe this was not such a good idea. It is easier to create impressive images when you start with really great photos. It is harder when you start with poorer quality images, but then you get a better idea of what you can really do with a program. And so the fun began. I had not used the program before and was really unfamiliar with what you could do with it. After scanning a photo of an oven, just to play with, into Photoshop, I open Photo/Graphic Edges, and went from one effect to another. It was intimidating at first to have so many options: from selecting an edge, to applying the nine different effects, to using the sliders under each effect to create even more changes. Within a few minutes I think I had applied every effect to that poor oven that was humanly possible. I kept on. After playing with the effects and sliders again, I glanced at the oven and was amazed. The original photo was just of a plain oven that was built for a woman's baking cooperative in Chiapas. There was no brick wall in front of it and it was a very ordinary picture. With the matte texture and carved and burned edges it took on a unique look. Photo/Graphic Edges has a variety of brick textures that can be combined with the carved and burned edge effects to allow you to be really creative. I was hooked. The program was addictive. I then proceeded to apply Photo/Graphic Edges to the other photos. I had nine individuals that I wanted to include. Again, the photos were not great. Most were group shots, with maybe one individual facing the camera, and the rest of the picture filled with uneventful back views. I didn't use Photoshop to enhance them in any way. I tried to use Photo/Graphic Edges to frame the individuals and elements that I wanted to include. And I also wanted edges and effects that would somehow represent the quality and character of each individual. I will attempt to describe what effects were applied; but to be truthful, I was having too much fun and sometimes forgot what I had done! We had visited a sewing cooperative, where they made aprons and were trying on various styles. With this photo, I had very little space beyond the three individuals and needed an edge that would hide very little of the background. This is where Photo/Graphic Edge's bundle pack with all the volumes is convenient. I could find just the right edge. I then applied a shadow effect with a distortion tile, and changed the color and distance. For this image, I applied a slight edge with a glow effect, changed the color of the edge, increased the distance of the glow, and then used the grain slider to add grain or pixelation to the glow. I used the same photo here as in the User Level section, applied the same edge, but added the glow effect with grain, the shadow effect, and the sepia effect. I worked with this photo in the beginning when I was applying anything and everything to the images, but I liked it anyway. I found the sepia effect very useful, even with color photos such as this one. The next photo was very underexposed, plus the individual had a white jacket on. I think it also won the award for having the most uninteresting back poses. I used an artistic frame that looked somewhat like a palette that eliminated the boring backs, and I used a grain effect with a tile to add texture. I was not sure what type of edge to use for this photo. At first I tried the distort effect, but was not really satisfied. I then applied the sepia effect, with a texture instead of a tile. I played with the opacity, color, and scale and produced an original look. This was one of the images where I could not remember what effects I had used. This is not a program where you have to wonder if someone else's work will look like yours, i.e. the canned image. When I went back and tried to reproduce this look, I had to work at it. What is fascinating about the program is that you can start with an edge, effect, and texture and combine them in such a way that it is difficult to connect them with the original elements. After this experience I started to save my work as presets which contained all of the information needed to recreate the effects I had applied. I used a whimsical yet classy frame and applied a texture to the matte. I thought I was finished and had gone into Photoshop. I then went back into Photo/Graphic Edges just to check out if I had saved the frame. I had, and so I reloaded it, made some changes, and then went back to Photoshop. The effects had been applied twice. I hadn't intended to apply two edges to the image, but I liked the effect. You can also apply more than one edge with the select edge tab. For the last image, I decided to bevel. Now, even in Photoshop, I am not the greatest beveler. I started with another washed out photo with an individual in white. I used a bevel and textured matte effect. With beveling, you can change the highlight and shadow colors. I would often totally reverse what would seem reasonable: using a dark color for the highlight and a light color for the shadow. With this image, I used a light color for both, and I adjusted the opacity of the effects. A lighting tile helped to add color to the image. I was resizing the frame and happened to reduce it more than I intended. I looked at the image and realized that by applying the background texture, playing with the opacity of the matte and image, changing the color of the highlight and shadow and reducing the frame, I had created a image where it appeared that the person was coming out of a window or frame. This was another example of starting out with little or no idea of what I was doing or wanted, just that I wanted to bevel, and the image seemed to take on a life of itself; something like in writing when characters seem to take over and create the story.

Personal Comments

This is probably the longest review I will ever do. And hopefully I have not run out of space on my Web site because of all the graphics I used; but I enjoyed every moment of it. It should be evident from this endeavor that there are unlimited possibilities in Photo/Graphic Edges for a professional designer who really has talent and can utilize all the bells and whistles the program provides. And maybe some of you novice photographers and designers who want to let it all hang out with an edge will be tempted to give it a try. Auto F/X has truly created a dynamic and non-linear design environment. This original concept of "edges" has not only produced Photo/Graphic Edges but has grown into a whole category of software that provides both the novice and the professional designer free reign with their imagination. With other Auto F/X products you can apply edges to pages and type for brochures, newsletters, and other layouts. They also have a Web utility product, WebVise Totality, a Web graphic compression, animation, and digital watermarking program. Their Web site is http://www.autofx.com They have tips on using this software, designer resources, beta versions of new software, special promotions and links to other related sites.

Wish List

An Eyedropper tool that allows you to extract a Background or Border color from an image. Blend Modes similar to Photoshop. Examples, in the User Guide, of how to create interesting effects. (I am always looking for ways to make programs more user friendly for the novice.)

System Requirements

Operating System: Windows 95/NT Memory: 32MB RAM Hard Disk Space: 6MB CD ROM

At this time I would like to give recognition to Global Exchange for providing this Reality Tour to Chiapas. And many thanks go to the wonderful individuals who welcomed us into their homes and villages with such graciousness. Thanks to the women weavers. And to Auto F/X for giving me the opportunity to review this program and complete this visual picture of a great experience with a unique bunch of travelers. Kudos to all; and you're on the Web folks.

Graphics: DeMorgan WebSpice 1,000,000 Page Design Edition Web Page Editor: Symantec Visual Page