Photodesk and OHP Upgrades, Fixes and Demos

Photodesk Upgrades

A draft copy of the new Photodesk Manual is now available to download. This is a work-in-progress, but is around 80%-90% complete. We would hope that what is written so far is helpful to most Photodesk users and would welcome any feedback. Click here (5.3Mb) to download the Zip file, which comes with full instructions on how to convert the blank manual on your Photodesk CD to the new version.

Photodesk 3.10 is now available to purchase/upgrade.
There are a number of improvements and bug fixes, mainly to the user interface, compared to the previous release 3.09x. Download a PDF of the changes (including pictures) here (680KB) (also available in German here (630KB).)

Here is a brief description of what's new:
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• You can now click with ADJUST on the buttons Bisect and Zero respectively to set the horizontal and vertical values in one go.

• Cutouts (Copy, distort, crop tool): Added ability to use the INSERT key to paste in a selection (or do the desired action). CTRL-V still works for that as well as:

• New feature Align to axis will ease the task of rotating an image so that a particular part of the image looks well-aligned.

• The dialogue will stay open if you click on Save without a valid path in the filename field.
• An image is no longer marked as 'saved' if the save location is the unsafe RAMdisc.
• New facility to force a DOStype-like extension depending on the selected RISC OS filetype.
• An Overwrite warning will be issued if you are about to save a file with a name that already exists at the destination.

• Improved the feature to guess what kind of image file it might be if the RISC OS filetype is not setproperly or is DOS, DATA or (new) TEXT.

• PhotoDesk used to try to load a RISC OS filetype of TEXT as Named Colours definitions and continues to do so (except first checking for image data; see above). It didn't load invalid content but used to update the Named colours dialogue improperly showing an empty colour pane and the filename of the not loaded file. This is corrected now.
• To give easier access to the dialogue box a button is included.
• The colours dbox is closed on closing the last image.

• A new button 'Screen' is included in the dialogue to magnify the image view to screen size.
• There's a second option to scale to screen size (including the window): click MENU on the magnifier icon in the toolbar.

• The section 'Scale by' behaves slightly differently in that the value entered is used to calculate the new dimensions and size in memory after scaling, displayed in the (greyed out) New size section.

• By clicking with ADJUST on either of the buttons Vert.Centre or Hori.Centre the centre is done for both of them.

• Increased the limit to around 100 chars. However it is recommended not to use more than 64 chars in leaf names.

• To distinguish between source and target frames the source has a noticeably more narrow dashed line and a smaller starting point.
• A frame can be moved around within an image by dragging one of its corner points with ADJUST.
• A frame can be rectangularly scaled by dragging one of its corner points with ADJUST + SELECT held down.
• Source and target frames can be created in one go by dragging out the first frame with ADJUST. This creates an identical target frame with a slight offset at bottom right. (Exception: If the source frame covers the whole image, the target is smaller and centred inside.)

• Dialogue boxes give back the focus to the image
• Fixed a bug introduced in v.3.09 which gives unexpected results of SFX Blur (Box/Gaussian) if used with a graduated mask.
• Fixed a long-standing bug preventing successfully installing PhotoDesk on pre RISC OS 4 machines.
• Default filename in New dialogue (Untitledxxx) has a numeric suffix which is increased each time a new image is created during a session.
• If a hidden mask is removed the flag hidden mask is also removed.
• The preview eye icon in processing effects (Enhance, Math, Emboss) switches the preview on/off.

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Photodesk Patches (for v3.10)

• Enable scanning directly from Photodesk
  
• Missing text from windows for RISC OS 3.7 users
  
• Ensures Photodesk cannot be started twice

An update to PhotoDesk 3.10 to fix a reported problem on the BeagleBoard/ARMini when carrying out Copy operations on a canvas is also available. This update is only of benefit to BeagleBoard/ARMini users.

Photodesk Demo

For more information about Photodesk there is vermilion sands the independent Photodesk site. There is also a Photodesk mailing list which you can signup to from the Freelists website.

OHP2 Upgrades

    This is an upgrade kit for OHP Version 2.5x; there will be a corresponding update for OHP_Show released later.

    This version provides some enhancements and two significant fixes over the baseline version of OHP2.

• OHP2 Upgrade 2.5x - 2.60 - 78kB

OHP Demo

If you are curious about what can be achieved using OHP then it is possible to download !OHP_Show. This application is the stand alone player for OHP. There is also an OHPdemo file that contains an example slide show to give you an idea of what OHP can do.

• !OHP_Show - 1.3MB
• OHP demo slide show - 1.2MB