ALDUS GALLERY EFFECTS(TM) 1.5: CLASSIC ART, Volume 1
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GENERAL INFORMATION


PRODUCT SERIAL NUMBER
Your unique product serial number is displayed
when you open the Gallery Effects application. You can
also display it from the Gallery Effects application by choosing 
"About Gallery Effects" from the "Help" menu.


DONT ALTER INSTALLED FILES
Other than moving or copying the installed files as 
mentioned on the System Requirements and Installation Card, 
you should not move or delete any of the files installed by 
Gallery Effects. For example, you should not move or delete 
the items that are installed in the ALDUS or 
CLASSIC.GE directories.


ABOUT THE ALDUS DIRECTORY
Gallery Effects uses the ALDUS directory to store
files that are shared with other Aldus products.

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USING THE FREE GALLERY EFFECTS: 
CLASSIC ART, VOLUME 2 SAMPLER
A FREE sampler from Gallery Effects: Classic Art,
Volume 2 has been included to give you the opportunity
to experiment with one of the effects from Classic Art,
Volume 2. The Sampler is the Texturizer effect, which
integrates an image with a user-selected surface texture.

To use the Gallery Effects: Classic Art,
Volume 2 sampler:
1. Open or paste the bitmapped image to which you 
want to apply the effect.

2. Use one of the Selection tools to select an area to 
which to apply the effect, or select the entire image. 

3. Choose the effect from the appropriate menu.

* In the Gallery Effects application, choose Texturizer
from the Gallery Effects: Classic Art 2 
cascading menu from the Effects menu.

* In PhotoStyler, choose Texturizer from 
the Gallery Effects: Classic Art 2 cascading 
menu from the Image menu.

* In Fractal Design Painter, choose Texturizer 
from the Filter cascading menu from the Edit menu.

Note: For information about accessing plug-in filters 
in other host applications, consult their respective user manuals.

The Effects Settings dialog box for the effect opens. 
The image is displayed in the left frame as a thumbnail 
view of the original image or selection.

4. Drag the preview frame over the part of the image you 
want to preview.

The area within the frame appears in the box labeled "Before".

5. Click Preview to preview the effect.

After a short delay, a preview of the effect applied to the 
framed image appears in the box labeled "After".

6. Click the Texture Controls button to access and change 
the texture settings.

7. Adjust the controls to experiment with different settings. 
Experiment using different textures by choosing a texture
from the Type pop-up menu or by choosing "TIFF File" and
using the textures within the TEXTURES directory or your
own texture file in the TIF format. For specific information 
on the individual controls for each effect, click Help. 
After adjusting the controls, click OK to close the 
Texture Controls dialog box

8. Click preview to see the effect of the new settings. 

9. When the effect is the way you want it, click Apply 
to apply the effect to your image or selection. 


Price for Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 2 is: $99 (US)

To order Gallery Effects: Classic Art, Volume 2,
call 1-800-888-6293, extension 2.

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INFORMATION ON USING THE EFFECTS

14 MB LIMIT ON IMAGE FILES
The effects can work with images up to 14 MB in size, 
if your system can accommodate such large files.


IMAGE MAY APPEAR DARK AFTER 
APPLYING CERTAIN EFFECTS
If you apply certain effects to an image in which 
there is not much variation in brightness, the image 
may appear very dark. In particular, this may occur 
with Fresco, Dark Strokes, and Watercolor, since 
these effects are best suited for images with a wide 
variation in brightness.


PREVIEW MAY NOT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE FINAL RESULT
The preview in the Effect Settings dialog box 
corresponds as closely as possible to how the effect 
will look when applied to the entire image or 
selection. With some effects and images, there can be 
a discrepancy between the preview and the final 
result. This is because the preview shows the effect 
as it appears on a portion of the image or selection. 
To obtain a better indication of the final result, 
preview several different areas of the image before 
applying the effect to the image.


IF PREVIEW FRAME IS NOT EASILY VISIBLE IN PREVIEW
In rare cases, if you are working with an image 
containing a lot of noise, the preview frame in the 
Effect Settings dialog box may not be easily visible 
in the preview. The preview frame is actually there, 
but may not be easily visible because of the visual 
interaction with the image in the preview. To move 
the preview frame, move the pointer over the center 
of the preview; the cursor will change to a four-way 
arrow allowing you to move the preview frame.

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INFORMATION ON THE GALLERY EFFECTS APPLICATION


"GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT" WHEN OPENING
GALLERY EFFECTS
In rare cases, when opening Gallery Effects, you may get 
a "General Protection Fault " alert message. This occurs when
Gallery Effects finds an older version of the ALDVM.DLL and 
ALDIM.DLL files on the hard disk. This problem can be addressed
by moving the reference to the ALDUS directory to the front of 
the path statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. 

Alternatively, if youve had previous versions of PageMaker on 
your system, the ALDVM.DLL and ALDIM.DLL files may 
be located in your WINDOWS directory. Compare the dates 
of these files with those in the ALDUS directory. If the 
ALDVM.DLL and ALDIM.DLL files within the WINDOWS 
directory are older than those in the ALDUS directory, then 
you should delete those in the WINDOWS directory.


14 MB LIMIT ON IMAGE FILES
The Gallery Effects application can open and work with images 
up to 14 MB in size, if your system can accommodate such 
large files.


NUMBERS MAY BE ROUNDED IN DOCUMENT INFO 
DIALOG BOX
When specifying an image size in the New Document 
and Resize Document dialog boxes, in any unit of 
measurement other pixels, the numbers will be 
rounded to the nearest whole pixel value. Thus, the 
sizes in the Document Info dialog box may differ 
very slightly from what you specified.


IF SMALL WHITE AREAS APPEAR WHEN 
PASTING INTO A SELECTION
In some instances, pasting an irregular selection into 
another irregular selection may cause very small 
white areas to appear. If this occurs, try using the 
rectangle selection tool to select the image you want to 
paste and then paste it into the irregular selection.


SELECTIONS WITH OPTA MONALISA OR 
RADIUS MULTIVIEW 24 CARD
When using the Opta MonaLisa or Radius MultiView 
24 graphics card, selections may blink on and off 
instead of appearing as moving dashed lines 
(marquee).


OPENED IMAGES DONT APPEAR
When running Norton Desktop 1.0, images that are
opened with Gallery Effects dont appear. To remedy this,
disable Desktop and run Gallery Effects under Windows,
or upgrade to Desktop 2.0.

If youre using an ATi video board with the Crystal Fonts driver
selected, images that are opened with Gallery Effects dont appear. 
To remedy this, in Windows setup, select an ATi driver that 
doesnt use Crystal Fonts.

Certain programs that automatically load on startup, such as 
WindowMaker or Your Way, may cause images that are 
opened with Gallery Effects to not appear. To remedy this, 
temporarily disable the line in the WIN.INI file that loads
the offending program.

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INFORMATION FOR ALDUS PHOTOSTYLER(TM) 1.1 USERS


IF YOU CANNOT ACCESS THE PLUG-IN FILTERS
If you cannot access the Gallery Effects plug-in filters from
within PhotoStyler, be sure that you are using PhotoStyler 1.1
or later.

IF AN IMAGE TURNS A SOLID COLOR, WHITE, OR 
BLACK AFTER APPLYING AN EFFECT 
Several effects (Charcoal, Chalk and Charcoal, and 
Graphic Pen) use PhotoStylers foreground and 
background colors when applying the effect. If both 
the foreground and background colors are the same 
color, the image will appear that color when applying 
one of the above three effects. You should make sure 
that the foreground color and the background color are 
different prior to applying one of these three effects.

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FOR FRACTAL DESIGN PAINTER(TM) 1.2 USERS

EFFECTS CANNOT BE PERFORMED ON MOVED OR 
PASTED SELECTIONS
If you paste a selection into a document or move an 
existing selection, you can choose an effect but 
nothing happens. To overcome this problem, you 
should deselect the current selection and then reselect it 
prior to choosing an effect.


EFFECTS CANNOT BE APPLIED TO FRISKETS
Even though the effects can be selected from the 
Filter cascading menu when a frisket is present, 
Painter does not apply the effects to the frisket.


FRISKET GETS CREATED AFTER APPLYING AN EFFECT
If you make a selection and apply an effect, Painter 
creates a frisket from the selection. If you want to 
paint as usual, clear or shut off the frisket.


NARROW VERTICAL LINE MAY APPEAR AFTER 
APPLYING AN EFFECT
After an effect is applied on a rectangular selection 
(not the entire image), a vertical line may appear at 
the left edge of the deselected image.

 

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