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Welcome to Piranesi, the market leader in non-photorealistic rendering. You can download a demo version or watch a video showing the new features HERE.

Informatix Software International Limited is proud to announce the release of Piranesi 5.1 available on both Windows and Mac platforms! Currently there is no difference in content between the commercial and educational versions of Piranesi.

The Informatix development team has continued to build on the enhancements of Piranesi 5.0, extending its power even further. By listening to your requests and adding their own expertise, Piranesi 5.1 improves the user interface even further making it easier to learn and master.

In Piranesi 5.1 you'll find a reorganized user interface that makes it easier to learn, easier to find your way around, and yet manages to release more of the screen space for the image you're working on. There's a whole range of other new features and improvements to Piranesi and its sister program Vedute. We've also given you an extra 200 royalty-free images to use in your work.

Help Assistant
When you start up Piranesi 5 for the first time, you'll immediately notice the new Help Assistant. This tells you how the current tool you are using operates, and gives you a few tips on how to use it to best advantage. It changes automatically each time you select a new tool, and links directly to the full Piranesi Help if you want even more information. The Help Assistant is set up for you as a thin vertical panel which uses relatively little screen space, though if you prefer you can change its position or dismiss it entirely.

New Tools for Old
We've promoted a number of Piranesi 4 effects to be Tools in their own right. This makes them easier to find on the Tools toolbar, and if you have the Help Assistant turned on you'll be given step by step advice on how to use them. So now you have specialised Tools for:

- Text creation
- Edge detection
- Restore
- Smudge
- Construct
- Filter


Prior to Piranesi 5, text creation was an option to the Montage tool, and the others were "Render Actions"

Meanwhile the Piranesi 4 Pen has turned into a Pencil! Use it and you'll find you can do everything that you could do with the old Pen tool and more besides - such as creating filled areas and choosing between single and multiple line operation.

Global and Local Fills have been streamlined into one tool, with an option you can toggle on and off.

We're confident you'll find the new arrangement an improvement, but if you should lose track of which tool you're using just take a look at the cursor - it now looks like a miniature version of the tool. The cursor shape will also tell you whether you have any Locks active.

Tool Options
Most Tools offer different settings to the user, for example the brush shape and size. In Piranesi 5, the most common settings for each Tool are now right in front of you on the Tool Options toolbar. Most of the time you don't need to be bothered by advanced settings. If you do need them, just click the "Advanced" button which pops up a palette - which you can combine with other palettes to reduce the screen space used.

Incidentally, there's a new Color, Texture and Grain toolbar sitting alongside the Tool Options, which houses the remaining effect components. Locks are handled by a new Locks toolbar.

Plus much more...
Piranesi 5 contains more enhancements than we have space to list, but here's a few more:

- The Help information now contains several mini-movies so you can see the topic in action
- The menu bar can be floated and docked like other toolbars
- InfoTips have been improved especially for the color picker (try it!)
- New "Check for Updates" command for Piranesi 5 upgrades
- Improved graphic feedback when "tweaking"
- Random size variation in brushes and stamps


Piranesi v.5.1 is now Available!
Informatix Software International released the latest version of Piranesi, version 5.1, in May, 2009. New in 5.1:

• Download 3D models from Google 3D Warehouse™
• Improved Support for Sketchup V7 Files
• Revit® users can now easily work with Piranesi
• New 'command file' facility to automate a series of operations
• Photoshop® (PSD) files are now supported for cutouts and file import
• V5.1 is now available as a download (media available on request)

Please visit the Piranesi Compatibility List to see which programs work with Piranesi .