One of two PR's for today and no post's!!!
The price makes this very enticing.
biz.yahoo.com
Tuesday August 10, 8:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
MetaCreations Announces Painter 6, Powerful Upgrade to the Ultimate Painting Tool
New Version of the World's Premier Natural-Media Software Offers Breakthrough Paint Technology, Updated Interface, Faster Performance
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1999-- MetaCreations Corp. (NASDAQ:MCRE - news), the Creative Web company, Tuesday announced Painter 6, the feature-packed upgrade to the world's indisputable leader for Natural-Media® image creation, enhancement, retouching and compositing.
Painter 6 features the next generation of brush engine technology, as well as remarkable new capabilities to offer unprecedented realism and unlimited creative paint options.
Enhanced ease of use via an updated user interface, significantly faster performance, superior tablet support, and better workflow integration through industry-standard tools and file support make Painter 6 the must-have computer application for artists, graphic designers and Web-content creators.
Since the introduction of Painter, hundreds of thousands of users have embraced the product for its ability to faithfully capture the subtleties of an artist's gestures and translate them to print or the Web.
Painter's revolutionary Natural-Media digital technology faithfully recreates traditional artists' mediums -- in unlimited quantities -- such as oils and acrylics, airbrushes, colored pencils, chalk, charcoals, crayons and felt pens, combined with hundreds of papers, patterns and textures.
Painter 6 goes well beyond previous versions to truly enable limitless creativity for art, fine art, graphic design or Web-content development.
Painter 6 includes many new features such as the ability to paint in incredible depth with impasto brushes, run text along a curve, and layer vector and bitmap images in one file for high-quality output for print and the Web.
Functionality enhancements include an updated, more intuitive interface; significant speed improvements; industry-standard layers implementation; and CMYK TIFF support. Additionally, Painter 6 offers extensive support for the Wacom Intuos tablet, pen and airbrush technology.
From real-world paint simulation to super-natural tools, Painter incorporates sophisticated technology that offers the power to create amazing graphics for a variety of uses.
''With Painter 6, we've really returned to our original product vision of providing limitless supplies, true-to-life brushes, textures and materials to enable extraordinary art in digital formats,'' said Mark Zimmer, artist, Painter co-creator and chief technology officer, MetaCreations.
''The vision of Painter is, and has always been, that with infinite supplies and tools comes infinite creativity and uses. Painter 6, with incredible brush technology, better usability, speed, memory handling, tools, colors, file formats, tablet support and other great features, is that and more. We firmly believe that Painter 6 can expand your creative universe.''
''My background in animation has always hinged on my striving to craft the visual message into different illustrative looks. When Painter came along, I had already used a few different paint applications with some success but the capabilities and depth of Natural-Media brushes made Painter a real dream come true for me,'' said John Ryan, animation director, Click3X.
''I found myself routing my production path into Painter on a more and more regular basis. Painter has now become an integral part of my toolset.''
Painter 6 new features include:
-- Next-generation brush engine technology provides unprecedented
realism, depth and creative control for artists working within
Painter 6. Brush controls provide more options per tool than ever
before.
-- Brush loading for painting with multiple colors in each brush
stroke -- up to a different color loaded on each individual
bristle.
-- Impasto (painting with depth) adds extreme realism to artwork
and interactively renders painted surfaces in 3-D. Impasto
painting can both build up above the canvas or cut through
multiple layers of paint all the way down to the canvas.
-- Responsive palette knife that interacts with your individual
brush stroke -- bearing and pressure -- plus takes advantage of
the new multicolor brush loading.
-- Interactive Image Hose that sprays images in real-time on
your canvas with interactive rotation and scaling based on the
bearing, tilt and pressure of your hand. Includes hundreds of
incredibly realistic new Image Hose nozzles added for instant
image creation or enhancement.
-- Text on a Curve and more is available with Painter 6's improved
Dynamic Text. Reshape the baseline by moving Bezier curve
handles; insert, edit, tilt, rotate, stretch, scale and type
words directly on a curve -- all with automatic, configurable
drop shadows.
-- Updated user interface improves workflow through expandable
palettes in an intuitive, accessible, easy-to-use environment.
-- Faster performance via a revamped memory architecture
dramatically reduces processor wait times.
-- Fastest, smoothest painting ever using multistroke spooling,
motion damping and cubic interpolation.
-- Industry-standard extensible layers are incorporated into Painter
6, enabling unprecedented, powerful combinations of paint layers
and effects.
-- CMYK TIFF format support allows easy and fast opening and saving
of CMYK TIFF images without the use of an additional software
application.
-- Extensive support for the Intuos tablet, pen and airbrush
technology for more intuitive painting, freedom of illustration
and faster image editing. Painter 6 provides support for Tilt and
Bearing to capture more nuances of the artist's expressive
gesture. Take advantage of 1,024 levels of pressure sensitivity
for smooth curves, gradual transitions and precise control.
Pricing and Availability
Painter 6 is expected to be available in September 1999, for an estimated retail price of $399. Upgrades from previous releases of Painter are $149. For more information customers may look on the Web at metacreations.com, or call 800/846-0111.
Minimum System Requirements
Windows: Pentium, Windows 95/98/NT 4.0, 32 MB system RAM (64-plus recommended), color display (24-bit recommended), CD-ROM drive.
Macintosh: Power Macintosh, System 8 or later, 32 MB of application RAM (64-plus MB recommended), color display (24-bit recommended), CD-ROM drive.
About MetaCreations
MetaCreations, the Creative Web company, is focused on developing and marketing 2-D and 3-D visualization software for graphic artists and the World Wide Web.
MetaCreations' Creative Web strategy is centered on the company's new MetaStream(tm) and MetaFlash(tm) technologies, and employs an array of MetaCreations' software development tools to accelerate the creation of 2-D and 3-D graphics for online applications, and to make fast, interactive use of photorealistic 3-D on the Web practical and pervasive.
MetaCreations offers a complete product line of award-winning graphics desktop software, with products available in more than 50 countries.
The company has headquarters in Santa Barbara County, Calif., and development centers in Scotts Valley, Calif., and Princeton, N.J., as well as an International Operations Center in Dublin, Ireland. MetaCreations can be reached on the World Wide Web at metacreations.com.
This release contains forward-looking statements made pursuant to the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially as a result of a number of risks and uncertainties affecting the company's business, including the timely release of Painter 6. For a more detailed discussion of factors that affect MetaCreations' operating results, interested parties should review MetaCreations' Securities and Exchange Commission reports, including MetaCreations' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 1998, and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q.
NOTE: MetaCreations, Painter 6, MetaStream, MetaFlash, Kai's Power Tools 5, Natural-Media and Image Hose are either registered trademarks or trademarks of MetaCreations Corp. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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Contact:
MetaCreations Corp.
Dorothy Eckel, 800/566-6464
deckel@metacreations.com
or
Justin Chernow, 415/974-6200
jchernow@gcigroup.com
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