Typical operations in image retouching programs like Adobe Photoshop can take minutes to complete. TIFFany II from BenchMark Development is the first of these programs to break the graphic artists' logjam by allowing an arbitrary number of operations to take place in the background while the artist continues to work.
TIFFany II sports a full complement of industry standard image retouching features and a strong interface at an eye-poppingly low price of US$145 for noncommericial users (other- wise it goes for $395). It runs on 486 or NeXT computers under the NeXTSTEP operating system. But TIFFany does not implement the hot new retouching technology, FITS (Functional Interpolating Transformational System), which uses equations rather than bitmaps to represent images. FITS technology is what makes HSC Software's Live Picture the current state of the art (though it lacks TIFFany's multitasking capability).
These drawbacks aside, TIFFany under NeXTSTEP is a strong and inexpensive contender for graphic artists who need to work with images all day long.
- Dan Lavin
BenchMark Development: +1 (606) 231 6599, info@bmd.com.
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