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cf/x alpha
advanced image composition

Create stunning compositions from images in seconds. Use advanced transparency and powerful blends to create a new masterpiece from your images - at any resolution, and with just a few mouse clicks. Try it now for free.

cf/x alpha at a glance

Version: 2.0.0
Date: 2011-Sep-02
 

Price: NOW $229 (single user)

System requirements:
Macintosh
2 GB RAM
OSX 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Dual Monitors (recommended)

Additional Information:
Documentation
 

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cf/x alpha version 2.0.0 (released: 2011-Aug-26)

cf/x alpha (Universal - 153 MB)
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cf/x alpha demo archives (PLEASE COPY TO YOUR DISK BEFORE YOU OPEN!)
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cf/x alpha 2.0 (released 2011-Aug-26) -- Major Update. Update is free to all registered users.

This update adds major new functionality to all aspects of alpha. Be prepared for foolishly happy grins, bouts of joy, and secure your jaw lest it drops too far.

cf/x alpha 2.0 can read all 1.x documents (but writes 2.x version documents only)

Warning To OSX 10.5 Users:

To use most of alpha's features, you must run OSX version 10.6 ("Snow Leopard") or above. alpha 2.0 has legacy OS support (it runs on 10.5 and PPC-based Macs), but many of alpha's new features may render incorrectly. For our old-school users we keep the last 1.x version around to download from our support pages (look for 'Legacy Support').

NEW FEATURES

cf/x alpha 2.0 represents more than 15 months of constant improvements based on feedback from all our users around the world: professional photographers, designers and artists alike. These enhancements dramatically improve the way you work and have fun with alpha - which is no surprise because it was you who suggested them. The free 2.0 update is our way to say 'thanks!' to all of you - and here's what 2.0 has in store for you:

INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS

- numerical read-out for all sliders
- Zoom (from 25% to 400%)
- a new 'Object' tab in the composition panel
- New tool palette to create objects

NEW FUNCTIONALITY

Template Manager and Prefab Templates:
alpha comes with over 50 ready-to-go professionally designed templates that make short work of routine designs. Better yet, you can convert your own designs into templates at the touch of a button.

Objects:
alpha has gained new 'killer' functionality in the form of smart objects. These objects mostly behave like images in earlier versions of alpha, except much more so. New Objects include:

Smart Images: The image objects of old have gained interactive functionality and now can receive new images via drag & drop - without forgetting any f/x, blend or property assigned to them.

Smart Text: Text objects that behave just like images - you can add f/x to them, add blends, and alter properties. Furthermore, they support 'wildcard' autotext for real-time updates like output date, image name etc.

Geometric Objects: A host of different objects that you now can create in-App with almost limitless variety. Objects include lines, panels, triangles, frames, polygons etc.

Light Objects: three different classes of fully configurable light objects allow you to quickly add lighting effects to your compositions: Flashes, Lens Flares, Star Bursts.

Generators & Gradients: Two- and three-color gradients (fully configurable), both linear and radial, plus checkerboard and stripes pattern generators.

New Contact Sheet generator:
With the addition of smart text objects, the 'grid' generator of old has gained a bigger brother (something that's very difficult in the real world): Contact Sheet. This purpose-built generator takes any amount of images, lays them out, and adds a real-text smart legend in a matter of seconds.

New f/x:
We added 15 new high-quality effects, some of them unique - just try the 'BRT point' effect and tell us that you are not impressed. Since f/x can be applied to all objects (not just images), they are now on equal footing with alpha's other signature feature, blends.

New Blends:
Of course we have added new blends to alpha. Only two have made the cut, but these two stand out because they are of the 'Special' blend category: Perspective project and Photo Curl. Use the Photo Curl on text, and you'll see what we mean. Try that in any other app.

Updated Documentation:
We updated the whole documentation. All 400+ pages. For you, we have included a 'Version 2' section to quickly get you started, and of course beefed up the tutorial/recipe section.

OTHER STUFF

There's a lot of other stuff that has been going on under the hood. Stability enhancements. Compatibility enhancements (Lion anyone?). Most of it is arcane, and, honestly, by the time you read this you could already have downloaded and tried it out for yourself. Go head - make your day!

Download includes full application that runs in demo mode until licensed. License can be purchased on-line or from within the application. Contains all manuals.

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