04-25-2005, 06:30 PM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
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Conduits Pocket Artist 3.0 Released
"Conduits Technologies, Inc. announced today the release of Pocket Artist 3.0 for the Windows Powered Pocket PC, Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition-compatible devices. Pocket Artist is a drawing and image manipulation program for Windows powered devices, and has been awarded the Graphic Design and Drawing Application prize at the Best Pocket PC Software Awards three years in a row. Pocket Artist 3.0 provides full color graphics editing on mobile devices. The user interface is optimized for small screens while retaining a full set of features-supporting both digital photo management and original art development. Pocket Artist fully supports a variety of graphics formats, such as JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP and the multifaceted PSD format. With Pocket Artist 3.0, users can open, edit and save multi-layer images with their Pocket PC."
Beta testing this product was a whole bundle of fun, and suffice to say, it's packed with more features than ever before. Some of the newer features include: WM2003SE/VGA support, batch JPEG processing, animated GIF wizard, twelve new filters with a plugin framework, IPTC/EXIF support, caption editor, multilevel undo, virtual memory swapfiles engine, layer masks and alpha channels. The full press release can be read here. Existing Pocket Artist customers can purchase the upgrade for $19.95 (a free upgrade is available for those who purchased Pocket Artist after November 1st, 2004). Otherwise, new users can download a trial version from Handango, and purchase the full version for $49.95. [Affiliate]
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04-25-2005, 07:41 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
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You're not kidding. Beta testing these past few weeks has been rather ridiculously fun! I'd begged for years for animated GIF authoring, half the time figuring it just wasn't going to happen... and of course the nasty copyright law was in the way. That's no longer an issue, it expired, so now we've got a wicked animation tool with proper stylus support. My kid's loving it. Here's my first semi-presentable effort - kinda bad, I know, but I'm a woodworker not a painter:
If that's too much (about 200kb) I'll pull it down, just let me know.
I think it's amazing PA still costs $50. When I paid that back in fall of 2000 the program was already intense, but the price scared a lot of people. With all the new features this is a steal at that price.
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04-25-2005, 09:26 PM
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Intellectual
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Hey that is really good, you are an artist. 
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04-25-2005, 10:12 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Sep 2005
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Originally Posted by Gerard
Here's my first semi-presentable effort - kinda bad, I know, but I'm a woodworker not a painter:
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From one woodworker to another.....very cool, Gerard! Nicely done.
Dave
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04-26-2005, 05:54 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Does it support PSP9's pspimage format with layer groups already? 
I guess I'll buy the upgrade (I did it last time too). 
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04-26-2005, 02:18 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by juni
Does it support PSP9's pspimage format with layer groups already?
I guess I'll buy the upgrade (I did it last time too). |
Pocket Artist 3.0 doesn't support the native PSPIMAGE Paint Shop Pro format, but you should be able to save as PSD from PSP9, and Pocket Artist will read those files. Pocket Artist doesn't yet support layer groups, though we did enhance our PSD file format support in other ways for this release.
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04-27-2005, 01:23 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2003
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Looks great!
The price IS quite steep, but I think I would go for it if it was directly compatible with PSP9 and layering!
Is that a possibility in the near future?
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04-27-2005, 01:45 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by JMac
Looks great!
The price IS quite steep, but I think I would go for it if it was directly compatible with PSP9 and layering!
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It's certainly something we could add for a future 3.x release -- this is essentially the only requests for PSPIMAGE support, since Paint Shop Pro 9 can also Save As PSD format. Just so there is no confusion, Pocket Artist 3 does support layered PSD images, including blending modes, opacity, masks, metadata, etc.
In addition to our image processing plugins, we hope to support file format plugins in a future 3.x release too - after looking at the PSPIMAGE specification, it doesn't look too hard to implement, and we'll add that to the to-do list. It seems there might even be a market for a PSP-to-PSD converter that Pocket Artist would become, as a side effect.
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04-27-2005, 06:15 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 761
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PSP9 saves as psd, but I use the layergroups all the time (I haven't used Photoshop in a long long time. I sort of assumed it had that function too). It is one of the best features of PSP.
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04-27-2005, 06:24 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 98
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Originally Posted by Jason Patterson
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Originally Posted by JMac
Looks great!
The price IS quite steep, but I think I would go for it if it was directly compatible with PSP9 and layering!
Is that a possibility in the near future? |
It's certainly something we could add for a future 3.x release -- this is essentially the only requests for PSPIMAGE support, since Paint Shop Pro 9 can also Save As PSD format. Just so there is no confusion, Pocket Artist 3 does support layered PSD images, including blending modes, opacity, masks, metadata, etc. |
I understand that it supports PSD, and that is certainly a much more widely used photo software. I'm certainly not knocking that compatibility! I have been using Paint Shop Pro for almost five years now, and on the occasions that I had to use PSD it was a bit confusing - mostly due to my familiarity and comfortability with Paint Shop Pro I'm sure.
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In addition to our image processing plugins, we hope to support file format plugins in a future 3.x release too - after looking at the PSPIMAGE specification, it doesn't look too hard to implement, and we'll add that to the to-do list. It seems there might even be a market for a PSP-to-PSD converter that Pocket Artist would become, as a side effect.
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The converter idea sounds like a winner. As it stands now, I may have to end up switching photo software anyway, since Corel purchased Jasc and doesn't appear to be fully supportive of PSP. Of course I may end up with another application altogether - possibly Ulead. But that's hopefully in the future!
BTW, your quick reply is very much appreciated.
I also see that you have a responsive user forum on your website, which is a must-have for me. Excellent!
One more question...I see on your site that the current price is an "introductory price". What does that mean? Looks like this is a special price that will be going up shortly. 8O Any details? Such as, I should purchase by a cetain date or......
Thanks!
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