CYBIA - Software for digital artists and photographers
Copyright  S.W.Upham 2011
Visit the website for more info: https://www.cybia.co.uk


ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

Pulp Styler 1.2

Convert your photos into artistic illustrations! Recreate a similar style of interior artwork from the old pulp magazines, when images were often quite basic and crudely reproduced. This software produces a rough block-printed effect in black-on-white. There are 13 different variations on the effect. You can view and save the outline layer, the shading layer, or the final black & white composite image. Plus you can overlay the original picture in colour or greyscale, tint the image with a pale colour wash or soft vivid airbrush effect, or use the flat colour cartoon style. 

Works best with 3D renders or photographs which have a good balance of light and shadow. Avoid using images which have gradients or heavily textured areas in the mid-tones, as the outline conversion will pick up on this and create too dense a pattern in that area.

Use the "Auto-Enhance" option to boost underexposed pictures. This will usually result in extra detail on the final black and white layers.

Load and save *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.tif, *.pcx, *.bmp and *.tga formats.

Pulp Styler is a very simple automatic conversion software. Although the results can be used as final images in many cases, you may want to take these into your image-editing application (not included) for further editing later.


WHAT'S NEW?

Version 1.2 adds a new Cartoon Colour style and extra variations of other settings. Also, the outline width is now proportional to the image size. This does make the process longer on high-res images, but you get a better and more predictable result on all size photos.


PRODUCT CONTENTS

Readme.txt - This text file
PulpStyler.exe - Pulp Styler application
PulpStylerGuide.pdf - Quick reference guide for users


LICENSE AGREEMENT

This program is FREEWARE. You may install it on as many computers as you want! You may use it without any charge for both personal and commercial work. While every effort has been made to ensure the compatibility and stability of this application, no warranty is given on its use. Cybia is NOT liable for any damage or loss of data resulting from the use of this software.

All resources are Copyright  S.W.Upham 2011. This agreement does NOT grant you any intellectual property rights in the software.


DISTRIBUTION

If you wish to host this utility on a website or include it on a CD compilation (i.e. magazine cover CD), then please contact me first for permission. All Zip file contents MUST remain intact and unmodified for distribution purposes, thank you.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

In order to use this software you need to be running XP, Vista or Windows 7. Sorry, there is no Mac version available at the moment. The application itself is a 32 bit edition but will run on both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of Windows.

You should use a minimum screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels in order to view the software dialog box and controls. The recommended setting is 1024 x 768 or above for ease of use.

The application should work on any system that is capable of running graphics software, but please be aware that editing large images can be very memory-intensive so make sure you have enough RAM to cope with your processing requirements.

You can load and save *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.tif, *.pcx, *.bmp and *.tga format images.


INSTALLATION

1. Unzip the PulpStyler.zip file to a suitable folder on your hard drive, for example... C:\Cybia\PulpStyler.

2. Manually create links (if needed) in your Start Menu or on your Desktop and click on the PulpStyler.exe link to run the program, or the PulpStylerGuide.pdf to open the PDF user guide.

To uninstall the program, delete the folder containing the files and any links you created.

