Quick 3D Cover ver 1.6
Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Alexei Plotnikov

Home page: http://www.nervepreserve.com/quick3dcover/
Contact: contact@nervepreserve.com
Support: support@nervepreserve.com


DESCRIPTION

Quick 3D Cover allows to create high-quality 3d-looking illustrations: software boxes ("boxshots"), CD and DVD boxes, eBooks covers and others. The program carries on board a set of manualy drawn templates for various types of objects. It substitutes your artwork into the templates to get the resulting picture.

INSTALLATION

Run q3dsetup.exe and follow onscreen instructions.


UNINSTALLATION

From the Start menu run
Start > Quick 3D Cover > Uninstall


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Quick 3D Cover was tested under Windows 98/ME/NT4.X/2000/XP. 

Quick 3D Cover usually needs 15-20MBytes of memory. The value also depends of sizes of your pictures you load into the program.

The program doesn't need 3d hardware accelerator

ATTN! Possible problems with accessing Quick 3D Cover's Help!

Users of old operating systems may encounter problem with accessing Help file
due to absence of modern operating system patches on their computers. In 
this case, simply visit page

http://www.nervepreserve.com/quick3dcover/help.html

for online help.


THANKS

Current version of Quick 3D Cover uses free CxImage library 
(http://www.xdp.it/) for reading and writing image files. My thanks 
to Davide Pizzolato and other people, who made CxImage.

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VERSIONS HISTORY

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20 May, 2008 ver 1.6

- Large disk print area support
- 8 new templates
- some minor changes and bug fixes
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23 Sep, 2007 ver. 1.5.1

- added support for Photoshop PSD file
- 8 new templates
- some minor bugs fixes and changes

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22 Jun, 2007 ver 1.42

- Sharpness control added
- 21 new templates added
- some other changes

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6 Mar, 2007 ver 1.31

New in this version:
bug fixes, some minor changes

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9 Jan, 2007 ver 1.3

New in this version:

- Photoshop-like picture File Save Dialog, which allows interactive selection of 
format and adjust parameters;

- 10 new templates added;

- ability to open Quick 3D Cover's project files (with .q3c extension) from command line. 

- ability to start Quick 3D Cover by double-clicking on its project in Windows Explorer.

- added wizard-like Assistant dialog. 

- new color selection dialog. Particulary, it allows to type to input color in web hexadecimal format.

- improved quality for small-size (less than 150 pixels) output pictures.

- some other changes and improvements.

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23 Oct, 2006 ver 1.2

New in version 1.2:

- better rendering quality, including more precise anti-aliasing, better shadows, more exact reflections, removed artifacts;

- 11 new templates added;

- maximum output resolution increased to 3000 x 3000 pixels.

- some minor bug fixes;

- minor UI changes.
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8 June, 2006 ver 1.1 

The version has a lot of significant changes.

- Fully redesigned Gallery of templates. 

- Added Possibility to Open/Save projects.

- Maximum output resolution is 1000 x 1000 pixels.

- Added reflections

- Added transparency

- Added batch render.

- More control over result's look is given.

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8 Nov, 2005  ver 1.0.1 released

ver 1.0.1 corrects some bugs.

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16 Aug, 2005  ver 1.0 

- new release



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Known bug: 
Program fails if you press some of controls on its main dialog, while Batch rendering is runing ("Batch in progress" dialog is on the top).

