Stone Design's iMaginator updated to version 2.0

This is kinda old news, dating back to July 11th but it's good to be reminded it's out there. From the good folks at Stone Design Corp., makers of Stone Studio and Create, comes iMaginator which was updated to version 2.0. iMaginator has over 108 filters and effects for you to work with and you can "combine text, paint, images, filters and effects to turn photos into art and QuickTime movies." System requirements ask for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Once you buy your licence (only $49), upgrades are free for life as is the case with all Stone Studio software.

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From the press release:

Stone Design, the original Mac OS X software house with over 19 years of experience, today announced immediate availability of iMaginator 2.0, a free upgrade of its powerful image processing application. iMaginator provides an intuitive and easy to use interface for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)’s Core Image technology, giving both home users and graphics professionals instant access to over 108 effects, transitions, and filters. With iMaginator, users can layer images, paint and text, and apply, modify, and re-order multiple effects to achieve subtle enhancements or astounding artistic results from any photo or image. Crop, scale, rotate, flip, skew, change exposure and brighten images in real time, and then save processed images as industry-standard TIFF or JPEG files, and even create QuickTime movies showing the effects changing over time. ...

iMaginator 2.0 is twice as fast as the original release by using OpenGL and CoreImage directly. Paint can be applied on any number of layers with any size square or round brush. It can erase the image or be blended in 20 different ways to achieve stunning results. Many new effects chains have been added to the Library, including the winners of the iMaginator Contest. The crop rectangle can be set exactly, and moved by holding down the option key. Additionally, several important bug fixes make the product extremely stable.

Developers working with Tiger for INTEL can also run iMaginator as it ships with a universal binary that runs on Power PC as well as INTEL hardware. ...