New! Piranesi 5 for MAC + Wacom Tablet Promo!

Wacom Tablet Promo!
Order a full license of Piranesi 5, and get 50% off the Wacom Bamboo Tablet with Pen. This tablet normally goes for $99.95, but you'll be getting it for $49.97. Use it to take full advantage of the powerful features if Piranesi 5. It will also work with other popular programs such as PhotoShop and Microsoft Office 2007.

Welcome to Piranesi 5 for Mac!

In Piranesi 5 you'll find a reorganised 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 Colour, 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 colour picker (try it!)
- New "Check for Updates" command for Piranesi 5 upgrades
- Improved graphic feedback when "tweaking"
- Random size variation in brushes and stamps


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