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Informatix Piranesi 5 review

Verdict

Piranesi gets the major overhaul of interface and tools that its extraordinary creative power deserves.

Review Date: 13 Aug 2007

Reviewed By: Tom Arah

Price when reviewed: (£464 inc VAT); upgrade £120 (£141 inc VAT)

Overall Rating
5 stars out of 6

PCPRO Recommended

When you've finished populating your scene, you're ready to export your artwork. Here, the big news is Piranesi 5's support for the PSD format, which makes it easy to work further on your image in Photoshop - especially as cutouts can be exported to their own layer or layers, and materials to masks. And Piranesi has one final trick up its sleeve: by saving your tool settings as styles, using the Style Recorder, you can reuse them to quickly apply a similar house style to another render of your scene or to a completely new project.

It all makes for an impressive upgrade to an already unique combination of 3D and bitmap power, which will appeal to both novice and expert alike.

Author: Tom Arah

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