
Watch Aunt Martha grow a Pinnoccio nose right before your very eyes. Or
maybe you wish to create some original art or effects for a more "serious"
project. Deformer is a fun new program with a stunningly beautiful user interface, that
makes it easy to deform, alter, transform, and animate pictures. Just put the pointer on
the area of the image you want to deform, and move your mouse -- transformations take
place in real time, so you can watch the show as you go. It's a great way to create unique
and entertaining image effects for your website. On the practical side, if you have an
image or picture that needs correction or reshaping, Deformer is the perfect tool for
image alteration. So Deformer is very useful for desktop publishing projects as well as
web-page design. (And good fun with email attachments to your friends, too.)
Deformer reads TIFF, Targa, PhotoCD, PCX, BMP, JPEG, GIF, and PNG formats, and accepts
images from hard drive or TWAIN-compatible scanner. Controls from the Start page have
picture-representation, just click around. It's very friendly. You can open an existing
image or scan one directly into the program. Then select from a variety of tools that
shrink, stretch, magnify, move, and swirl the parts of your image you sweep the mouse
across. And you can fine-tune the power (strength or thickness) of the tool to achieve the
desired special effect. Image transformations can be seen as you go, in real-time, can be
played back before saving, and the effects can be seen, animator-style, in frames
displayed below the image viewer.
Depending on your project needs, you can save a single transformed image or save the
entire series of deformations as an AVI (animation) file. Deformer is very easy to use to
achieve special effects, and an easier alternative than using a GIF animator to achieve
these results. It's available as a fully functional 15-day trial, with a nag screen. Free
support is offered for registered users.