NEW RELEASE!
Now shipping Squizz! version 4.8
Distortion Tools like on an HighEnd System

NEW SQUIZZ! 4.8 Distortion effects plug-in for Windows/PowerMac
Provides advanced distortion controls (Silly Putty, Bezier Grid mapping) plus morphing right inside Photoshop

Wilmington NC -
Now in its fourth generation of Distortion filter for Adobe Photoshop HumanSoftware is proud to announce SQUIZZ version 4.8 Universal for Mac OS X Intel or Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Easy-to-use User Interface
The new SQUIZZ comes as a filter plug-in compatible with applications supporting Photoshop CS or more plug-in kind such as Photoshop, Elements , Corel PhotoPaint or PaintShop. This new release of SQUIZZ provides new controls and an advanced user interface for maximum precision whatever the distortion work to be done!

Basic Principles
SQUIZZ offers an advanced user interface with an extra large preview and now an unlimited zooming ability on any portion of the working area. Thanks to its virtual mecanism, users apply all kind of distortions (it is like having a rubber desktop!) in real time whatever the picture size. SQUIZZ supports RGB, LAB, CMYK, individual channels, layers or transparency.

SQUIZZ at work
SQUIZZ provides several distortion modes.
1. With its famous brush, user simply push or pull any part of the image to achieve very precise or caricatural distortions. The SQUIZZ brush is fully undoable. You can also do frost, displacement maps through a brush.
2. SQUIZZ allows distortion through layers of custom grids. The number of steps in the horizontal or vertical directions are fully adjustable. One grid may be used as a template for another image. SQUIZZ has added to this release multiple layers of meshes and an ultra precise smooth distort to make meshes Corrections very easy to perform.
3. A new method of distortion is based upon envelopes. Envelopes are very useful to warp any bitmap around cones, cylinders or achieve difficult effects (flags...). All envelopes may be saved and recalled at a later time as a template to any image.
4. Three Bezier Paths may be used to achieve special photographic distortions such as fish-eye effects etc...

See the Mesh Warping at work, any kind of mesh may be easily created and saved

Use Ghost Images for precise Distortions
SQUIZZ lets overlay another image or layers on top of the liquid and active one. This very important ability gives maximum precision to the work, because it is possible to distort an image precisely while looking at the image below!

Free Freeze Brush
SQUIZZ support a freeze channel, this channel is used to 'freeze' or prevent any kind of distortion that may occur, thisis very convenient and give additional controls!

Create Unique Warp, Animated Banners, etc...
SQUIZZ is the ideal tool for web and multimedia artists. Within an image editing application such as Photoshop, the final effect can easily be uploaded to an internet-compatible JPEG or GIF.

Large Preview and unlimited Pan&Zoom
SQUIZZ 4.8 new interface supports Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3 or Elements 2.0 and more filter plug-in standard, the product is therefore compatible with numerous other applications. The interface has been redesigned to make it very easy to use. Very straightforward buttons guide the user, even beginner, to perform complex warping immediately. SQUIZZ features a very large preview and an advanced zoom&pan to preview one effect at any level of details virtually and immediately.

Building New Templates
Through the different tools available (brush, grid, envelope, path warp), it is possible to save the current state of distortion as a template. This template may be used again on another image of the same or even of different size or color mode! Any new Grids or Envelopes can also be saved and incorporated to the current library for future re-use.

System Requirements
SQUIZZ 4.8 is fully compatible with Windows 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS X Universal native on PowerPC Intel. The product supports Adobe Photoshop CS and higher, PhotoPaint 9.0+, PaintShop Pro.

Availability
SQUIZZ 4..8 sells for a street price of $149.95. Upgrade from Squizz version 3 is $79.
HumanSoftware products are distributed in the US and in more than 20 countries worldwide.

Products are also available through selected retail stores and can be ordered directly by calling Human Software at (408) 3990057 or on-line via our secure ordering system at www.humansoftware.com.

A word about The Human Software Company Inc
The Human Software Company Inc, founded in 1993, is a specialist in all multimedia development, design, prepress and video. The team experience includes original design and concept of many high-end prepress related products and other software since 1984!
Other Human Software products include Select, AutoMask, AutoCorrect, MagicFrames, Textissimo, XFiles

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