Adobe ImageStyler Version 1
David Corly · Information Technology and Libraries · 1999
Adobe ImageStyler Version 1 AdobeSystems, Inc. http://www.adobe.com Minimum hardware requirements ,for Windows 95/98/NT: Intel Pentium or faster processor. Macintosh systems require a PowerPC processor and at least MacOS Software version 7.5.5, but MacOS Software version 8.0 is recommended. Windows and Macintosh both require 32 MB of RAM, 40 MB of free hard disk space for installation, 256-color video display card (required), 24-bit video display card (recommended), and a CD-ROM drive. Price: $124 downloaded; $144 with printed User Guide and installation CD. Adobe ImageStyler provides the means for businesspersons and others who are not graphics professionals to create more visually interesting Web pages. The program is based on two concepts that allow easy graphic creation. The first is object-based editing, which treats all objects (geometric, text, image) equally. The second is the idea of graphical styles, which allows different visual effects to be applied to objects in a graphic in independent, editable layers. These concepts make it possible to change a texture, shape, effect, or other attribute of an object within the graphic without changing the entire graphic. Each object can have up to five layers, each of which can be changed without affecting the others. Tweaking and experimenting for just the right effect becomes easy. The graphics creation and manipulation capabilities are located in a series of windows arranged around a composition area. ImageStyler has a tool box (similar to the tool box in other Adobe products) with various selection tools, and a shape creation tool for creating geometric shapes such as rectangles with squared or rounded corners, ellipses, and polygons. There are also text, cropping, rotation, and skewing tools. An eyedropper tool permits sampling of a color or style anywhere on the desktop. These colors or styles can then be applied to an object with the paint bucket tool. Hand and zoom tools allow viewing of different areas of the composition at different magnifications. The toolbox also contains an easy way to move between foreground and background. There are five windows each with a variety of palettes with different editing capabilities. The windows can be grouped around the composition area for easy access and use. The shapes, texture, and style palettes are combined in one window. These provide 179 pre-formatted shapes from apples to yin, 56 textures from blinds to yellow brick, and 97 styles with enticing titles, such as ghostly and ripple radar. …