Giveaway of the Day - Nature Illusion Studio Standard Edition
August 6, 2010This giveaway is not available any more.
Transform your real-world photo into an animated nature scene by adding a wide array of water, weather and sound effects to your own photos and images. All visual effects have been recreated with accurate physics, so ripples on the water or subtle movements of the air look and behave just like they might in the physical life. The end result is a superbly lifelike and atmospheric presentation that can be saved as a screensaver, a standalone executable, an AVI or animated GIF file and distributed to other people, who can admire your creation.
Key features:
- Apply up to 6 types of water effects to a single image
- Add snow or rain
- Add sound effects up to 8 channels
- A library of water presets for various effects, including Waterfall, Lake, River, Fire, Fog, etc.
- Save your creation as a screensaver, executable file, GIF or AVI file
Special offer for GOTD visitor:
Purchase Nature Illusion Studio Professional Edition now for only $15 (Normal price – $39.95). Professional edition allows you to add animated objects and background music. More over you will also get a free life-time upgrade for any new version of Nature Illusion Studio. Click here to buy Professional Edition.
| User Rating: Rate It! | 63 comments |
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| System Requirements: | Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista(x32 and x64)/ 7 (x32 and x64) |
| Publisher: | Nufsoft |
| Homepage: | http://www.nufsoft.com/nature_... |
| File Size: | 6.48 MB |
| Price: | $24.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on August 6, 2010, this giveaway is not available any more.
You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.nufsoft.com/nature_....
Terms and conditions
Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.
THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
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The Good
* Straightforward and easy to use.
* Allows users to add water, snow, and rain effects.
* Effects can be custom modified to change their parameters.
* Allows users to output animated scenes as screensavers, EXE Flash files, AVI videos, or animated GIFs.
The Bad
* Lacks in diversity of animated effects – need more than just water/rain/snow effects.
* Only allows users to animate JPEG/JPG and BMP images – does not support PNG or GIF.
* Only supports AVI format for output as video; lacks support for other popular format such as FLV or MP4.
* Uses non-standard hotkey for “Undo” (Shift + Ctrl + Z instead of Ctrl + Y).
* Incites users to download another program (Nature Illusion Screensaver) without clearly mentioning in the program that it costs $19.95
* Has the EULA automatically checked for acceptance. Users must opt-out of the EULA instead of the customary opt-in.
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The installer is today somewhat other than always. It only extracts a new installer into (default) C:/PM folder.
We have to run the new *.exe file from this folder.
We do NOT have to enter any codes, etc.
The program itself is very simple, maybe too simple.
We can select an area to engage one or more of 6 water effects on it – we can use all of it in one image.
We can also insert a global weather effect (rain or snow).
In standard version we can NOT add new objects. There is a button, but it doesn’t work (there is an error message).
When using this program I have noticed one weakness. It is a moving and zooming comfort. I propose to handle a middle mouse button as an image scrolling activator. In this program we cannot simple scroll. Even keyboard arrows doesn’t work.
I also propose to handle the mouse roller as a zoom tool.
This is something like in Adobe Reader or even gimp. Without it, the work is somewhat frustrating, especially when we have to work with big or zoomed image.
Zooming can be activated via keyboard shortcut, but scrolling doesn’t have even that!
Summing up: simple, plug&play program for making some funny animations with water and weather effects. I personally don’t like lack of image scrolling/moving control.
To do some funny animations with new objects we have to buy the pro version.
We don’t have also an option for inserting videos or morphing between two or more photos. We also can not simulate moving effect like in waterfall or a river.
Um Ashraf… You say in your list of The Bad
“* Only allows users to animate JPEG/JPG and BMP images – does not support PNG or GIF.”
What then is the “Build Gif” button for? The Gif it produced from the samples looked animated to me!