message about Ultimate Paint

[Alfredo Luis Mateus <almateus@globalsite.com.br>]

Joseph, please check what e-mail you used to subcribe to the list.
The message bounced to me saying you were not subcribed to it with this
address.
And congratulations on Ultimate Paint 2.0, I have looked at the pre-beta
and it is really full of features. I will look at the 2.0 beta.

Alf

> From: Joseph Ladanyi <jladanyi@megalux.hu>
> Reply-To: jladanyi@megalux.hu
> To: FFDG <ff@aurdev.com>
> Subject: Ultimate Paint v2.0 beta
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks Harry for the comments on UP v2.0. The version he found was only
> a pre-beta release, we've just released the first beta, which can be
> found at
> http://www.megalux.hu/upaint
> It still has its limitations, but also have some bugs fixed.
> 
> I also would like to thank many of you who provided support from the
> beginning (Kangaroo, Ilych the Toad, Harry the Raver (here again), Kipp
> McMichael, Greg Schorno, Andrew Buckle - and all whom I forgot to
> mention here). They provided some essential and great FF components to
> be included in UP. They're all entitled to a registered version.
> We also wanted to ask Sandy Blair and Mario Klingemann for their help
> but somehow could not reach them. We would like to include some of their
> beautiful free filters in the final product. [If you read this, please
> write to discuss the details!]
> We would also like to ask permission from Werner D. Streidt and Harry
> for reproducing a heavily shortened version of their marvellous FF
> tutorial in the UP help (if possible).
> 
> Furthermore have a question. We have Filter Factory 3.05 which serves as
> a testbed for problematic functions, etc. We discovered that for the TAN
> function TAN(x) != TAN(x-1024) in some cases. This way some of the
> filters that rely heavily on TAN (eg. TAN(TAN(something))) will produce
> only similar results. You can test it simply with a 1024-pixel wide
> image:
> R,G,B: tan(x)-ctl(0) != tan(x-1024) ? 255 : 0
> Change the value of slider 1 step-by-step.
> The question is: do all Adobe FF implementations have this or only our
> (maybe altered) version?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Joseph Ladanyi, jr.
> UP Development Team