Optunis Releases Image Effect Trees 1.0

Optunis is pleased to announce the release of Image Effect Trees (IET) 1.0, a new, powerful, image editing program which unlocks the power of Apple's Core Image technology. With IET, you create image sources, and connect them to effects. You can connect the effects and sources to other effects, creating can image effect tree. Using the image tree, you can quickly identify where the best quality image resides in your processing chain, allowing you to extract optimal results.

IET is not a general purpose paint/draw program. IET is designed to combine images and text with effects, effects with other effects, and stacks of multiple effects with other stacks of multiple effects. The original images are always preserved, and all calculations are performed in floating point. IET works great with your general purpose paint/draw program.

Effect Trees vs Layers

Most imaging programs utilize the concept of layers. Using layers, you stack effects on top of other effects. The problem with layers is that after stacking several layers together, it's hard to keep track of everything that was done on a layer, and it's hard to see how an effect 10 layers deep might effect the final output. Typically, the designer cannot keep track of all the effect processing which is performed, and only looks at the last layer. As a result, there are often extra effects which are piled on top of each other, which may degrade image quality. For instance, sharpening an image which was previously blurred, or resizing and image which was previously resized.

Effect trees are different. Instead of merely stacking effects, you make a tree of effects and see the lines of interaction. Without even having to think about it, you will automatically identify and optimize your image processing data-path for the best quality.

Effects

The image effects come from Apple's Core Image library of image units. There are 100 effects including Image Effect Trees may be used for a variety of purposes including :

geometry manipulations (scaling, rotating, perspective distortions, cropping)
color adjustments (saturation, brightness, contrast,)
compositing operations
Sharpening
Median, Gaussian, Motion and Zoom blurs
glass distortion effects
stylize effects (edges, pixellate, pointillize, bloom, crystallize)
Gradients (Gaussian, Linear, Radial)

A single user license for Image Effect Trees is available for $49. Image Effect Trees is available as a universal binary download compatible with Mac OS X version 10.4. Additional information is available at http://www.optunis.com/imaging/image_effect_trees_info.html

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Optunis was founded in 2005 to develop software for Mac OS X. We make software that amplifies your capabilities.

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