TITLE

EGSPhotoAlbum Professional

VERSION

5.0c

AUTHOR

Helmut Hoffmann
Rubensstrasse 4
41063 Moenchengladbach
Germany EMail: hhoff@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de

DESCRIPTION

A picture management (including PhotoCD) and presentation software for the EGS graphical environment. This software enables all EGS users (e.g. users of the typical EGS graphic boards as Piccolo, Piccolo-SD64, EGS-Spectrum, EGS-110, ...) to maintain and present large collections of pictures in full 24Bit quality on their graphic boards. EGSPhotoAlbum supports more than 20 picture file formats internally and additionally suports picture DataTypes and even animation DataTypes when used under OS3.0/3.1. Internally supported formats:

1) IFF-ILBM (1 to 24Bit incl. HAM6/HAM8)
2) JPeg (color and greyscale)
3) PPM/PGM/PBM (P1&P4 b&w, P5 grey, P6 color)
4) QRT (also known as dump format by PD raytracers as POV-Ray)
5) Targa
6) PCX
7) BMP (uncompressed)
8) TIF (packbit-compr./uncompr.)
9) EGS7.x window icons
10) DEEP
11) YUV
12) VLAB raw
13) RGB
14) HHsYUVSq sequence format
15) IFF-PBM (DPII)
16) ACBM
17) FBM
18) Sun raster (uncompressed)
19) MacPaint (b&w compressed 1Bit format; datafork only)
20) HHsXRL formats
21) PhotoCD (Base format 768x512 or 512x768 (portrait)) The additional DataType support extends this list by many formats; DataTypes can e.g. be found on Aminet in util/DType. Small (thumbnail) representations of all pictures in a directory or directory tree are shown very fast. You can then select pictures for viewing in multiple full size windows including fast scrolling and zooming functions. You can also present selected pictures in a Slideshow presentation mode including transition effects. Pictures can also be directly transfered to ImageFX, ImageFX-EGS, PicoPainter, ArtEffect, XiPaint or to the Clipboard. Saving is possible in several 24Bit formats including JPeg, IFF24 and more. For faster access you can also save downscaled representations of the images. You can view and change the file comment of pictures directly and also delete pictures in a comfortable way.

NEW FEATURES

New since V5.0: PhotoCD support
New since V4.1: Slide show presentation including transition effects

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

OS2.04 required, OS3.0/3.1 reccomended (needed for DataType support) 6MBytes memory EGS system 6.0 or higher (usual in conjunction with one of the graphic boards, but it can also be used with the EGS for all Amigas without any graphic board) The EGS system (6.0 and 7.1) can be found for ftp access on orion.etsu.edu in the pub/amiga/egs section.

AVAILABILITY

Any Aminet site
ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/pub/aminet/gfx/board/egsphotoalb50c.lha Also available on:
ftp://orion.etsu.edu/pub/egs/incoming/egsphotoalbum50c.lha
which should later be /egs/graphics/...

PRICE

Shareware fee: 30DM (in europe) or 25US$ (worldwide)
Special offer upto 7st June 1995 (Date of postage): 25DM (in europe) or
22US$ (worldwide)

DISTRIBUTABILITY

Copyright by Helmut Hoffmann 1994-1995 Limited demo version is freely distributable; registered users will receive a keyfile which enables all features.

OTHER

The freely distributable version has some restrictions which disappear after you pay the shareware fee and receive a special personal keyfile (together with the latest version). Once registered, you can use new freely distributable versions as update with your keyfile.