Xentronix, makers of the graphic studio Refraction, have news of the upcoming Beta 7 version of the software.

Among numerous bugfixes and enhancements in particular is the continued offering of their "Early Bird License" to purchase Refraction for only 39.95 euros.

Here's a snippet of the changes to the upcoming Beta 7:

"- Toolbar freezes with Focus Follows Mouse are fixed and the look and feel is improved.
- Double items on the expanded menus are removed, expanded tools have tool tips too and holding left-
mouse will now also show the expanded palette.
- Printing now works.
- Problems with resize and crop, as well as crop to selection, are fixed.
- Mouse Panning is added on the middle mouse button. This also solves the problem people experience on Zeta, with the Scroll-Lock button on.
- Rearranging layers is fixed and now has physical indication of where the layer goes.
- A live preview is added to a lot of the filters.
- Color sliders now accept color-drops.
- File drops are expanded and made more intelligent."

It's not very expensive to take advantage of their early bird special, and try out what is shaping up to be a killer graphics suite for BeOS. Purchase it today, send in your suggestions, and it will get even better.