ANN: Fantastic Photoshop Plugin Available on Mac/PC

ANN: Fantastic Photoshop Plugin Available on Mac/PC

This must-have PhotoShop plug-in is now available for the Apple Macintosh
and Windows platforms! Cinematte is an advanced plug-in for PhotoShop that
can automatically create masks and clipping paths using blue/green screen
technology. Support for PhotoShop's Layers and Actions allows batch
processing and multiple layers. Allows blue or green screen background for
input and can output layer masks, mattes, transparencies and keyed
foregrounds.

A Snap for Photographers

Photographers love Cinematte because it allows them to composite backgrounds
in later to suit the client's needs. Cinematte's controls make creating
mattes and transparencies simple.

A Must-Have for the Print Industry

Creating catalogs, brochures or flyers? Cinematte automates what used to be
a laborious task of creating clipping paths. Now you can simply use
Cinematte to generate a transparency and either use it directly to composite
with background layers or turn it into a path with PhotoShop's Paths
Palette!

Easy to Use

A PhotoShop standard interface, with friendly online help, lets you create
transparencies easily and quickly. Simple, straightforward, and standard
controls let you work in an integrated real time preview so you can see the
results of your work instantly!

Cinematte Features

.. Macintosh OS 8.6 through OS X compatible or any version of Windows
.. Works with PhotoShop Elements through PhotoShop CS and JASC PaintShop Pro
.. Large preview mode option for detail work
.. Uses and supports PhotoShop layers and Actions
.. Totally resolution independent - works on any size RGB image up to 20mb+
.. Supports both blue and green screen backgrounds
.. Sophisticated color-spill algorithms
.. Foreground color protection keeps your colors accurate
.. Multiple output options for keyed foregrounds, mattes and more

Inexpensive

Cinematte is available immediately at a direct price of $189.95 plus
shipping and handling. You can order by calling (804) 282-1157 or order
online from our web site at www.novadesign.com

 

Boycott all companies who use SPAM to advertise their products.

 

Agreed, especially when they send them to countries other than their origin!

Duncan

 

This is not spam. It is perfectly on topic. It isn't like they are selling
chicken heads or something. It is a Photoshop product in a Photoshop
newsgroup.

On the other hand this is not their first posting for this product. Once is
definitely enough. At least per version/upgrade.

Jerry

 

Its an unsolicited commercial...its SPAM. It's cross-posted all over the
place. It's not true either. Over and over again they claim to be a leader
in computer graphics. ..but who has ever heard of them? Not me.

 

This is not spam.

It absolutely *is* spam... unsolicited, uncompensated advertising on
Usenet is spam. If they are a reputable company with a quality
commercial product that they wish to sell for a profit then they should
pay for advertising like everyone else; allowing these cretins to invade
Usenet is only setting a terrible precedent, and pretty soon
commercialism will be everywhere.

 

I'm not a fan of spam by any means; however, you may wish to note that
the official Usenet charter for comp.graphics.apps.photoshop
specifically permits the posting of announcements for new,
Photoshop-related products.

 

I'm not a fan of spam by any means; however, you may wish to note that

How very unfortunate. I have to say that I would have voted against such
a clause were I involved in creating the forum (which I wasn't, of course).

Despite my being an unapologetic capitalist I cannot help but feel that
overt commercialism is invading every single facet of our lives; where
does the line get drawn?

 

That's true. However, the obviously phony subject line is just too cute and
puts in the realm of spam for me. "Hey, Ann! Have I got a hot deal for you!"
Pardom me while I retch. . . . patrick

 

Perhaps, knowing what you know today; however, the group was chartered
at a time when few people would have envisioned how grossly
commercialized (and concurrently uncivilized) the Internet would
become.

As with most facets of life, we each draw our own line.
Unfortunately, our lines sooner or later are stepped upon by someone
who has drawn the line at a different point. C'est la vie?

 

I can't help but feel that if someone came on and wrote that they have
created a new plug-in for chromakeys....they would not be attacked. That is
information...the rest is advertisement.

 

/snip/

ANN: is short for ANNOUNCEMENT and is quite commonly used. When you see
it you know it's probably an ad and can ignore it.

 

Oh, well just because you haven't heard of them makes it bogus. Well I have
never heard of you, does that make you bogus. As I said posting such a
message once is fine. It is a Photoshop product in a Photoshop newsgroup,
commercial or not.

If you have a problem with this then you should have a problem with Joe Smoe
posting his web site address to a site that has ads on it (place by him or
not) that sells anything. Commercial is commercial.

In this case I do have a problem because they did cross post, which by
itself isn't a problem, but that couple with the constant reposting is. Any
one that is interested in the product would have already since the thing
with the first post. Posting it over and over is needless and anything.

Jerry

 

It gets draw by complaining to them. Not because the posted the message, but
because they kept on posting it. While this type of message is allowed there
was no need to keep reposting. In fact had they only posted it once and even
went to the trouble of posting to each group separately I doubt anyone would
have had a problem. At the very least and the very most it is was poor
judgment on their part. Send them an e-mail suggesting that if they want to
not be hated to be more sensible in their posting habits.

No need to be mean or rude. They just need help understanding.

Jerry

 

You can also filter it out. I filter out attachments in newsgroups, as I
don't trust. luckily I have the brains to know that when someone announces
something I can either read it out skip it. I already knew what this plug-in
was and I have a good idea of who uses it (whose does the most blue and
green screening?) This is not a product for most people, how many people
have the lighting and blue or green screens setup for such work at home. Not
many.

Some could also argue that the bull shit Adobe spouts out about Photoshop is
a bunch of crap to. Lets face Photoshop is starting to fall behind other
programs on the market. Feature wise, speed wise and in the ever growing
number of bugs and the so far total lack of a patch to correct the bugs.

If you don't like these posts, then filter them out. Or don't read them.

Jerry

 

STOP these advertisements. They are SPAM at best. I hope your software
finds it way to Kaaza!

 

No intention to start a flame-war here. I just invested money into buying
Photoshop, so it's not pleasant to hear that it's falling behind; I'd heard the
contrary from people I consider knowledgeable in the area. What would you have
suggested instead?

Thanks,

-dhaley

 

As a matter of fact...chances are if they are a leader in computer
graphic...I have heard of them. I am not claiming that they have heard of
me....but the odds are very good that I have been reading trade magazines
since before they would have gotten a mention in one.

 

David, don't worry Photoshop is good, I guess my big complaint is that in a
lot of ways it is behind the times, it is also full of half completed
features.

In the behind the times categories we have...

Filters, even the basic and most useful of the lot that haven't been updated
in years.

We are still lacking a customizable interface so that you can create a
completely custom work environment that works for you and save it for use
later. Just about every other image editor does this.

Full built-in scripting support, with editor and basic protections for the
authors scripts. Instead what we have is a poorly done scripting plug-in
with poor documentation, no editor, and only one of the supported languages
having direct menu access support in Photoshop and no protection of any kind
for the authors scripts. Mean while programs from Jasc and Corel have had
these capabilities for years.

Filter layers. Adobe says they can't be done, but they have been available
in other programs for years including Canvas and Adobe's own video editing
programs.

There are others in this category. On the half done features arena we have.

Natural media brushes that are some of the suckiest I have ever seen. If
real watercolor brushed looked like what Photoshop renders artists would
have gouged out their eyes years ago. Not to mention that Photoshop isn't
even smart enough to tell a pen from a mouse and turn off the pressure
sensitive stuff for mouse users so you have to go do this each time you
change brushes. This gets old fast and why you have to do this is unless you
turn those things off you can paint with a mouse.

The new Filter Gallery, is one big waste of screen space. It doesn't support
all of the filters in Photoshop. It allows you to layer them, but doesn't
have opacity or blending mode controls. You also can't turn the damn thing
off when you are fed up with it, it uses a generic image to show what the
filter will look like. Overall, a half done mess.

File browser. While this does seem to be getting a little better with each
new version, it should have been done right and finished by now. It is still
far too slow, and is still far too limited in the file formats it supports
and is far too limited in features.

The history palette. Instead of just giving us multiple undo's which is what
was asked for they give us the history palette, but only half of it. You
can't save your history steps with your image, it is limited in the number
of steps you can have, you can't turn the history in an action and it can
only be edited linearly. Again, another great feature but only half done.

Actions. Awesome idea, but only half complete. There are now logic commands
(if/then/else statements). No editor for changing your actions. No way to
password protect them. They need to be made more like a macro language like
in Word, etc. You need to be able to password protect the editing of them
and you need a way to edit them without having to recreate them.

Again, the list of half done features goes on and on. You mention any of
this to Adobe and their canned answer is that it can't be done. Which is
bull because these things and more have been done in other programs like
Corel Photo-Paint, Jasc PaintShop Pro and even Painter which they had the
chance to buy but didn't. That would have really give you nice natural media
painting tools in Photoshop.

Jerry

 

Well, thanks for your answers. The bad news for me is that a lot of that really
does sound like it would have been useful. I have to admit that the file browser
seemed awfully slow (it eats up all my cpu/memory, it's faster to open up
explorer and go to thumbnail mode, and drag the files into photoshop), in
addition to the filter gallery being incomplete.

The good news is that most of the concerns seem to be for somebody more advanced
than myself. Then again the goal is to become more proficient so maybe I will
start caring about all that. The other piece of good news is that I bought the
student version for "only" $300, so I guess it's less painful than if I had
spent the full $700 or however much it costs for the normal version. As far as I
can tell, the student version is fully featured, but just has 'Education' on the
splash screen.

As a programmer, I dare suggest that perhaps what they mean by "it can't be
done" is more like "our software design is becoming antiquated, we're having
trouble with the half-arse port from Mac to Windows, so to add that stuff would
mean a complete rewrite of the software that we don't feel like doing." To be
honest I was a little miffed to see the Mac Aqua interface in my PC program. :/
Not that I don't like the Mac OS/X visuals (quite the contrary, in fact); I just
don't want to see them in a PC program! I suspect that the PC version is slow in
part because it's loading up some kind of Mac-to-PC library that makes the
porting job easier. Which would explain perhaps why all the scrollbars and stuff
look like the Mac OS, and don't use the Windows environment.

In any case I appreciate your explanations, thanks for going into that for the
novice Photoshop user.

-dhaley