PRESSRELEASE,  7.11.1999

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Innovative, the developers of successful AMIGA-products like fxSCAN or VLRec NG today
announced the availability of fxPAINT. fxPAINT is a new imageprocessing- and paintingprogram
with a gigantic functionality, an intuitive userinterface and support for the latest standards
and hardware. Furthermore fxPAINT is the first application to fully support the new features of
OS 3.5.

The features:

         · Support of existing hardware
                ·  Scanner (using RBM`s ScanQuix)
                ·  VHI-grabber (for VLab (not Motion) and other videoboards)
                ·  graphic tableaus

         · Creation of new pictures and textures as basic function
                ·  Fractals
                ·  Fire
                ·  Screengrabber

         · Full PPC-Support
                ·  PPC-support was included from the beginning on
                ·  Support of WarpUP and PowerUP (ppc.lib)
                ·  Open PPC-support allows support for theoretically every (maybe new) PPC-Driver-System

         · Optimized printing routines
                ·  Support for TurboPrint
                ·  Support for old printer.device
                ·  Support for the new API in AmigaOS 3.5

         · 24 Bit-Alpha-Channel
                ·  Easy usage and choosing
                ·  Full control over transparency effects
                ·  aimed changing of red-, green- and blue-compentents of an image

         · Open and publically documented Plugin-API fxPLUGIN for
                ·  Loader-Modules
                ·  Saver-Modules
                ·  Effect-Modules
                ·  Displaydrivers
                ·  Modules for additional functionality

         · Over 70 effects and special effects
                ·  Effects are being calculated and displayed in realtime
                ·  Effects are sorted by categories (-> find wanted effect fast)
                ·  Anti "red eyes"
                ·  Antique
                ·  Black&White
                ·  Bluebox
                ·  Bumpmapper (3D-Logos with shadows, glow, etc)
                ·  Buttonborder
                ·  Clone
                ·  Colourize
                ·  Compose
                ·  Convolution
                ·  Correction (Brightness, Gamma, R, G, B)
                ·  Create border
                ·  Create wave
                ·  Deinterlace
                ·  Draw
                ·  Dithering (14 different methods)
                ·  Distortion (Radial and quadratic)
                ·  Earthquake
                ·  Embed/Watermark Plugin (using PHILTH)
                ·  Emboss
                ·  Explosion-Tile
                ·  Fisheye
                ·  Gaussian blur
                ·  Gradation-curve
                ·  Glow
                ·  Oil-Painting
                ·  Pagecurl
                ·  Pixelise
                ·  Posterize
                ·  Pyro functions
                ·  RGB-Shifting
                ·  Remove isolated pixels
                ·  Replace color
                ·  RLE compression optimizer
                ·  Rotate
                ·  Rubthrough
                ·  Scale
                ·  Selective Gaussian Blur
                ·  Shear
                ·  Silhouette
                ·  Smooth
                ·  Spread
                ·  Straw
                ·  Supernova
                ·  Texture
                ·  Tile
                ·  TV Lace
                ·  ICS Color Correction
                ·  Insert brush
                ·  Invert/Negative
                ·  Lightsource
                ·  Lightspeed
                ·  Limit RGB
                ·  Logic
                ·  Maximum
                ·  Median
                ·  Minimum
                ·  MinMax
                ·  Mirage
                ·  Mirror
                ·  Mosaic (replace a picture with smaller ones)
                ·  Motion (Blur)
                ·  Move
                ·  Noise
                ·  Waves
                ·  Zoom-Blur
                ·  etc.

         · Extended painting tools
                ·  Magic Stick (Pantograph)-function
                ·  Gradients as basic tool
                ·  Smear- and Blur-Tool
                ·  usual basic-tools
                ·  draw with fire

         · integrated picture management with fxALBUM
                ·  Fast catalogisation of pictures on your HD
                ·  directly linked with fxPAINT and therefore has optimal abilities for image manipulation
                ·  Printing of overviews
                ·  Organisation as catalogues
                ·  export as HTML-overviews

         · integrated mini-converter fxCONV
                ·  conversion of several dirs full of pictures with some clicks
                ·  conversion from any to any format supported by fxPAINT

         · Completly new library of loader- and saver-modules
                ·  highly optimized
                ·  read/write formats like ILBM, PCX, BMP, TARGA, JPEG, YUVN, LJPG, PNM, RGB8, TIFF, IFF24, ..
                ·  preview of the JPEG-fractures

         · own GUI-System
                ·  Realisation as BOOPSI-Objects
                ·  24Bit GUI-elements and gradients
                ·  GUI contains many pictures
                ·  Bubble-Help for easy usage
                ·  three user-settable knownledge-degrees
                ·  automatic fixation of window-positions
                ·  GlowIcon-style
                ·  no hacks, patches, etc.

         · ARexx-support
                ·  connect fxPAINT with all your favourite programs!

         · AmigaOS 3.5 system enhancement
                ·  systemconform
                ·  allows fast overview of all your graphics
                ·  direct linking of Workbench and fxALBUM, fxCONV and fxCONV

         · Full AmigaOS 3.5 support
                ·  OS 3.5 icons
                ·  OS 3.5 printer support
                ·  OS 3.5 workbench support
                ·  OS 3.5 datatype support

         · Internal modules
                ·  fxALBUM
                ·  fxCONV
                ·  fxIMAGEMAP
                ·  fxPLUGINs

The price for fxPAINT is 77 US$/71 EURO. fxPAINT is available now.

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Innovative
c/o Felix Schwarz
Am Gründla 3
D-91074 Herzogenaurach
Germany

EMail: info@innovative-web.de
WWW:   www.innovative-web.de
Phone: +(0)049 (0)9132/3400