Current Version: 3.0.6

Go Home Early Tonight!!

There are two ways to get Photoshop graphics into Director - the PhotoCaster way and the hard way. Before PhotoCaster, multimedia developers and artists had to spend untold hours tediously exporting, indexing, importing, repositioning, renaming, and cursing. Now that PhotoCaster has arrived those hours have just become free time.

Download It and Try It Out!

All of our Xtras are available for Mac, Windows, and OS X. You'll find them on our download page.

PhotoCaster is distributed as an unlockable demo. Until it is purchased it will deface any graphics it creates with blue lines.

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What is PhotoCaster?

PhotoCaster is an Xtra for Macromedia Director that lets you bring your Photoshop files, layer by layer, into your Director cast with one click. Each layer appears as an individual cast member, indexed, anti-aliased, properly registered, transparency preserved and good to go!

Want more?

Here is a screenshot of PhotoCaster's user interface. But, the best way to get "more" is to download the unlockable demo and try it for yourself!

Features

• Create individual cast members from Photoshop layers Import Photoshop files directly into your Director cast
• Import directly to the score
• Preview layers before importing
• Supports Director 5, 6, 7, 8, MX, MX 2004(and later)
• Works with all versions of Photoshop files from version 3 and later, including Photoshop CS2
• Supports Most Photoshop Layer FX (see FAQ for details)
• Supports alpha channels in those versions of Director that support them (7+)
• Control color mapping: 24-bit, current palette, or custom palette
• Generate a custom palette derived from the layers in your Photoshop file
• Text layers can be imported as text castmembers.
• Keeps layer registration Preserves anti-aliasing between layers
• Flatten linked layers into single cast members
• Optionally ignore hidden layers
• Improved color reduction and dithering
• Dithering to a specified number of colors
• Arbitrary selection of which layers to import
• Works seamlessly with Media Lab's AlphaMania Xtra for creation of AlphaMania cast members directly from Photoshop layers (supports multiple layer import)
• No lingo required

What's New in PhotoCaster 3?

• Photoshop Layer F/X are supported.
• Text layers can be imported as text castmembers.
• 8 bit castmembers can be mapped to any palette without having to make that palette active.
• 16 bit castmembers are now dithered.
• Dithering (8 bit or 16 bit) is now optional.

 

Macintosh System Requirements Macintosh Power PC OS 7.61 or higher, or OS X Director version 5 or higher, including Director MX 2004 Photoshop version 3 or higher, including Photoshop CS2	Windows System Requirements Pentium or higher Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, or XP Director version 5 or higher, including Director MX 2004 Photoshop version 3 or higher, including Photoshop CS2
Still have questions? See the PhotoCaster Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

Other Xtras and Plug-ins

Media Lab also makes a set of Xtras called AlphaMania and the Effector Sets. They do real-time special effects in Director and even tie-in to PhotoCaster.

And, if you are using Photoshop for design work, you might be interested in our other products that support Photoshop. We have two Photoshop plug-ins. PSD2FLA is a plug-in for saving Photoshop files to editable layered Flash .fla files (sort of like PhotoCaster for Flash). And SiteGrinder is a Photoshop plug-in that converts a Photoshop design to a fully working web site.