The Overlay Maker 1.6 is a Image Utility product from theoverlaymaker.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, The Overlay Maker is a networked drawing software with the capability to manipulate paint objects and add icons. It is designed to support military planning however can be used for a broad range of drawing requirements. The software replicates the creation of overlay graphics on maps or other background images. It supports multiple overlays and a range of graphic drawing controls. Graphic objects can be drawn with various line, transparency and antialiasing characteristics in a full range of colours. Icons graphics can be created, stacked and manipulated in many ways. Over a local area network multiple users can collaborate to work on a stack of overlays in real-time with ease.
The Overlay Maker Features:
Draw standard graphic objects such as lines, scribble, ellipses and rectangles.
Draw and align text objects.
Drawing objects can be filled, antialiased, dashed, and semi-transparent.
The innovative Quad Arrow makes graphics look outstanding.
Drag icons from the library onto the map.
Icons in .jpg, .png (default), .gif, .bmp and .ico format may be used - just add them to the directory path.
Use the local icon set or use icons on a shared network drive.
Edit and create new icons using the internal editor.
Resize and rotate icons for strong visual effects.
Export icons to the clipboard.
Any .jpg, .png, .gif or .bmp image may be used as a background map.
The background can be toggled on and off.
Switch between background maps for different overlays.
Geo-reference maps
Create complex nested maps
Create Multiple overlay to organise your work.
Choose which overlays are displayed (turned on) and in which order they are drawn.
Merge and delete overlays.
Export individual overlays or the entire set to share with others
Easily create networks with other users by clicking the 'Server' button to share you work.
Other users (Clients) connect and get the complete set of overlays.
The Server or Clients can alter drawing, icons or entire overlays and the changes are made to all other users in near real time.
Clients decide which overlays in the set they want displayed and which one they want to edit.
Chat with other users.
The server can manage and remove clients from the network.
Copy overlays to the system clipboard (with or without the background map) and paste into other applications.
Export overlays as image files (.jpg, .png, .gif and .bmp).
Save overlay sets to share with other The Ovelay Maker users.
Export icons.
Crop and resize exported images automatically to fit in applications such as MS PowerPoint.
Java Standard Edition 6 features enhanced graphics performance.
The Overlay Maker makes optimum use of OpenGL based graphics acceleration of drawing objects with excellent performance.
Users without OpenGL based hardware acceleration may alternately benefit from the enhanced Direct3D support Java 6 provides. The license of this graphic software is Free Trial Software, the price is $70.00, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of The Overlay Maker, you can buy this graphic software.