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and Power Macintosh.

The image editor that gives you professional-level control for electrifying image

manipulation, editing, and retouching. An impressive collection of powerful yet easy-to-use

tools, filters and Web-ready features makes Enhance a powerful tool for serious graphic

designers.

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Key Features

Layers make possible endless repositioning of elements without

destroying the image underneath.

Full opacity control by layer makes compositing and experimental

blending of images simple.

Up to 16 levels of undo/redo makes experimenting or correcting

mistakes easy!

Work with several file formats including GIF, JPEG, PNG, PICT,

TIFF, PhotoCD, Photoshop(tm) and more.

Supports Photoshop(tm)-type plug-in filters like Alien

Skin’s Eye Candy and Xenofex.

Supports Import/Scanner plug-ins (including TWAIN) so you can

scan directly into Enhance.

Multiple-Acquire Auto-Save enables mass importing of images

from digital cameras or scanners.

CMYK four-color separations with UCR, GCR and transfer curve

compensation for process color printing.

Dramatically improve images with Levels, Curves, Unsharp Masking,

Auto Contrast and Auto Enhance filters.

Advanced 8-bit masking lets you choose the areas for paint,

paste or filter operations. Separate document masks don’t swell the main file size.

Integrate with HTML or WYSIWYG page editors with drag-and-drop

simplicity.

Interactively preview the effects of different color tables or bit depths.

Save images with minimized color tables and picture data only

for smaller file sizes and faster downloading.

Create and modify server- and client-side Web image maps with

specialized tools or create image map regions with any selection.

Pressure-sensitive tablet support adds more creativity and control.

Assign any tool to the Wacom stylus eraser.

Create your own tool sets with the tools you use most often,

or even multiple copies of tools such as brushes with different sizes, shapes and

opacities.

Paint with patterns and textures as easily as solid colors.

Create and edit your own patterns, too!

Kernel brush tool applies convolution filter effects with any

of 24 brushes.

Create vivid gradient blends containing up to 16 colors.

Easy, one-step Extrude and Drop Shadow filters add 3-dimensional

effects or realistic soft-edged shadows.

Generate HTML image tags including

width, height and file name information.

Preview images in the Web browser of your choice.

Anti-aliasing for soft edges and smooth blends.

System Requirements

Macintosh/Power Macintosh:

Enhance 4.0 requires any color-capable Macintosh (68020 processor or greater) running

System 7.0 or later with at least 6MB of RAM and 10MB of hard disk space available.

A color monitor is recommended.

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Download Demo

(BinHex, 4.2 MB)The demo is fully functional, except that save, print, export, publish and copy functions are disabled.

Color It! 4.0 Manual

(PDF file, 7.4 MB)

Color It! 4.0 Text-Only Manual

(BinHex, 233k)

Tutorial Graphics

(BinHex, 1.8 MB)

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International customers may call +01 (515) 225-9800.)

Color It! Awards and Ratings:

2000

4 Stars, MacToday

2000

4 monitors, Desktop Publishers Journal

1998

Readers Choice, MacFormat magazine

1997

Editors Choice, Macworld

1997

BMUG Fall Choice Products

1997

Spiffy, MacAddict

1996

Editors Choice, Computer Reseller News

1995

4 Stars, Macworld

1994

Editors Choice Award for Best Graphics Program, DT&G

1992

Editors Choice, Macworld

1992

Editors Choice Finalist, MacUser

1991

Editors Choice Honorable Mention, MacUser

Armed with Color It!, Artist and Naturalist Boyd Shaffer creates images like these starting from a blank screen. Click to see more.

Version 4.0

EVERYTHING YOU NEED…

ALL IN ONE PROGRAM!

“I can’t think of a better program for learning how to create graphics on

the Mac.”

–Deke McClelland,

Macworld columnist and author

No longer must users jump between many different programs, or purchase a fistful

of plug-ins to create powerful graphics optimized for print or web use–Color

It! 4.0 contains everything needed in one simple, easy-to-use program. Color

It! is an award-winning, fully-featured image editing program that opens a wide variety

of file formats, offers 16 levels of undo, and supports pressure-sensitive tablets

and Photoshop-compatible plug-ins for scanners and filters. A customizable tools

palette, animated GIF and image map creation, clipping paths, levels, curves, CMYK

four-color separations, and a bevy of built-in filters including ones to remove scratches,

dust and red eye are just some of the powerful features. Ideal for smaller RAM configurations,

Color It! runs in as little as 3 megabytes of RAM. Work with existing images and

photographs, scan in new ones, or create original works of art from scratch. Easily

manipulate and blend images in ways limited only by your imagination!

Create, view & edit animated GIF files, all

without leaving the program!

Work with a Wide Variety of File Formats including

GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PICT, PostScript, Photoshop, PhotoCD and more

Up to 16 Levels of Undo makes

experimenting or correcting mistakes easy!

Use Photoshop 3.0- compatible plug-ins, like Alien Skin’s Eye Candy and Xenofex.

Scanner Plug-in Support (including

TWAIN) so you can scan directly into Color It!

Create and Edit Web Image Maps for

clickable graphics linked to other Web locations

Optimize GIF files with minimized

color tables and/or picture data only to create smaller files for faster downloading

Clipping Paths permits placing

irregularly-shaped images in publishing programs like QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker

without the background visible

Auto-Save on Scan/Import for

batch importing of image from digital cameras or scanners

Pressure-Sensitive Tablet Support adds

a new level of creativity and control

Low Memory Requirements: Runs

in as little as 3 MB of RAM

Improve Images with Levels,

Curves, Unsharp Masking, Auto Contrast and Auto Enhance

CMYK Four-Color Separations for

process color printing with register and crop marks

Create Vivid Linear or Radial Gradient Blends containing up to 16 colors

Create Your Own Tool Sets load

a palette with multiple copies of tools (such as brushes, with different sizes, shapes

and opacities). Assign any tool to the Wacom stylus eraser

Paint with Patterns and Textures as

easily as solid colors, and create your own patterns

Kernel Brush Tool applies

convolution filter effects with any of 24 different brush shapes

Catalog your image files for quicker browsing and

retrieval

Export documents with clipping paths.

Remove scratches, dust, red-eye effects & more

with Color It! 4.0’s new built-in filters

Quickly create client- and server-side image maps for the

Web by simply defining shapes around parts of your image!

Mix paint and pasted images together with different effects

using Color It! 4.0’s new paint transfer modes.

Much, much more!

More information on Color It! 4.0

Tools

Palettes

Image Adjustment/Filters

Supported File Formats

Now get all seven Pattern Libraries (a $69.65 value) FREE with the CD-ROM version of Color It!

4.0! That’s over 1,100 patterns!

System Requirements

Color It! 4.0 requires any color-capable Macintosh or Power Macintosh (68020 processor

or greater, or a PowerPC chip) running MacOS System 7.0 or later with at least 3MB

of RAM and a hard drive with at least 5MB of available space.

Color It! 4.0 – Purchasing Information

Both packages include all necessary program and documentation files. Extra goodies included with the CD-ROM version (Over a hundred royalty-free photographic images, 65 pre-defined masks, demo versions of Alien Skin’s Xenofex and Eye Candy filter plug-ins, and the complete set of Pattern Libraries, volumes 1 through 7) are NOT available with electronic delivery.

*Shipping costs (S & H) shown are for orders within the U.S. Shipping

to Canada is $7.00; International $12.00. Amounts are in U.S. dollars.

Note: The manual is delivered in Acrobat .pdf (Portable Document Format) form. Printed copies are not available.

Description

Price

S & H

Total Cost

Color It! 4.0 – UPGRADE

Choose this package if you own a previous version of Color It!

Physical Shipment (1 CD-ROM)

– To order, call (800) 388-8109 Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM Central

time.

$29.95

*$ 5.00

$34.95

Electronic Delivery (Click here to order at any time!)

– NOTE: All files are delivered via electronic download.

The CD-ROM is not included in this delivery.

$29.95

N/A

$29.95

Color It! 4.0 – NEW USER

Choose this package if you’re new to Color It!

Physical Shipment (1 CD-ROM)

– To order, call (800) 388-8109 Mon-Fri 8AM-5PM Central time.

$49.95

*$ 5.00

$54.95

Electronic Delivery (Click here to order at any time!)

– NOTE: All files are delivered via electronic download.

The CD-ROM is not included in this delivery.

$49.95

N/A

$49.95

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