Macromedia xRes

<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p>xRes was originally released by Fauve Software Inc., based on their earlier Fauve Matisse software – this latter was the earliest consumer software introduced in North America to use <a href="/facts/Layers_(digital_image_editing)/InBRq6UF">layers</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> preceding their implementation in Adobe Photoshop 3.0 in 1994. LALF introduced Layers to the Japanese market in 1989.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> Fauve was purchased by Macromedia, who rebranded the software as Macromedia Matisse and Macromedia xRes, and who then released xRes 2.0.
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<h2 id="features">Features</h2>
<p>The main feature promoted by Macromedia was the ability of xRes to process files much larger than could be handled in memory (called 'xRes Mode'). It accomplished this by performing user interactions on temporary copies of the original file at the resolution and region of the image that was being displayed on the user's screen. This resulted in only a fraction of the memory use and faster interaction. The biggest downside to this approach was that once all editing was done, the user's edits needed to be applied to the original high resolution file, which could take some time to process.
</p><p>xRes continued until version 3.0, when the project was cancelled. It couldn't sustainably compete with the newer versions of Photoshop. Macromedia required a faster release cycle, and it would have taken too much time to develop it to the stage where it could compete. At this point, three of the main programmers left the company. Once they were replaced, Macromedia's focus had changed so much that xRes was discontinued.
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Notes
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080326221656/http://www.adobe.com/support/xres/ts/documents/tn3830.html">Official Macromedia xRes 3.0 Overview</a></li>
<li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070829180626/http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/xres-30.html?searchString=">MacUser Review of xRes 3.0</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Macromedia Matisse". pages.swcp.com. 1996-10-24. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2009-05-15. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170201140928/http://pages.swcp.com/rtoads/vivisect/software/matisse.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170201140928/http://pages.swcp.com/rtoads/vivisect/software/matisse.html</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>mit_u (2012-12-13). "ハイパー・グラフィック・ツール LALF (その2) -技術編-" [Hyper Graphics Tool LALF (Part 2) -Technical Edition-]. mit-u.hatenablog.com (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2023-05-06. Retrieved 2025-01-07. <a href="https://mit-u.hatenablog.com/entry/2012/12/13/213600" target="_blank">https://mit-u.hatenablog.com/entry/2012/12/13/213600</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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Macromedia xRes