Gluestick A simple yet powerful graphics editor exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard
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A simple yet powerful graphics editor exclusively for Mac OS X Leopard Todays graphics software has grown more and more complicated. A simple task such as resizing an image or stitching together a few images for an iMovie is a complex task, requiring expensive software.Gluestick takes care of this problem by offering a simple and elegant interface to creating a graphic from your existing images. Easily create an icon. Stitch together some family photos for an iMovie. Create simple web graphics. Easily resize graphics. Gluestick provides a quick and easy way to handle the common image needs of the average user.Easy Mac OS X Icon CreationIncluded with Gluestick are templates to assist in the creation of Mac OS X icons. Use templates for one click creation of icons, and also use Gluestick's preset image libraries to browse for images to add to your icon. Create your own custom image libraries to manage your existing assets.First Class OS X InterfaceMac OS 10.5 Leopard introduces a new feature called Core Animation. Core Animation allows programs to take advantage of rich and smooth animated interfaces. Gluestick is one of the first programs to leverage CoreAnimation. Your entire composition animates as you build it. Layers fade into position as you add them. Images slide into place as you move them. Watch the effects you apply to your images animate as you change them.CoreAnimation provides more capabilities than just a pretty workspace. Because Gluestick renders your composition in CoreAnimation, your composition will be created on your computer's graphics card. This ensures a snappy user experience. In addition, image effects are applied using Apples CoreImage API, which is also accelerated using your computers graphics card. Here are some key features of "Gluestick": CoreAnimation Interface: · Gluestick's interface is beautifully rendered in CoreAnimation. Your library items slide into place as your search, new layers fade into your composition, and image effects gently animate. Quick Icon Design: · Included templates help you create icons in one click. Infinite Stage: · Stop deciding how large you want your image to be before you actually create it. Your workspace in Gluestick will automatically expand as your image gets bigger. Want to manually specify how large your image should be? Manually define the bounds of your composition, or choose one of Gluestick's predefined sizes. Requirements: · Any G4, G5 or Intel processor Limitations: · Nag screen What's New in This Release: · One feature that has been requested is the ability to change the transparent color of an image. This is helpful for dealing with images that come with some sort of background, like JPG’s that have a white background. We’ve already written some custom CoreImage code that does this, and we’ll be integrating it into Gluestick 1.1. · The second thing we’ve been working on is AppleScript/Automator support. This is one of those obvious things that just didn’t make it into 1.0. · Another issue we’re working on addressing is bringing in images with different aspect ratios into Gluestick. When you use a template, you can replace images in the composition by dragging a new image onto the appropriate layer in the layer list. This works great if the original image and the replacement image have the same aspect ratio, if you don’t, there is some awkward stretching. This can make things rough if you want to do something like badging folders with pictures from iPhoto. To address this, we’re adding a sheet that drops down when the new image has a different aspect ratio. It will let you size to fit, or adjust the bounds of the layer to the right aspect ratio. · Which also reminds me. We’re adding support for proportional scaling of images in layers. · I’m also looking at the bundled templates. In 1.1 we’re going to push user created templates more. User created templates are available in 1.0, but they aren’t well documented, and you can’t add user created templates to the templates menu. All the templates in Gluestick are also icon related. I’ll be adding some more templates for more vanilla tasks, like framing photos.

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