Software Industry Announcements and News
Your Digital Camera Knows Much More!
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.25.09 under ASP Member Companies, Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps
Two Pilots has released a new version of Exif Pilot. With Exif Pilot, you can see not only your photo image but also the accompanying metadata. You can view, edit, and create EXIF data.
Flash energy, aperture, exposure time, ISO, focal length… You may or may not be familiar with these technical characteristics, but you can adjust these camera settings, or you can simply photograph in automatic mode. In either case, these parameters define the quality of the photo images. Each time you take an image, your digital camera records date and time information along with technical parameters. This information is stored in a special format called EXIF. That is one of the advantages of digital photography.
In the new version of Exif Pilot, the list of supported image formats is significantly expanded. Now the program allows reading and editing the following file formats: JPEG, TIFF, PNG, DNG, NEF, PEF, CRW, and JP2. Read-only support is provided for these formats: PSD, RAF, CR2, MRW, ARW, and many others.
You can edit the date and time of your images. A necessary feature for crossing time zones while traveling, for instance. EXIF data are shown in a simple table without the need for difficult adjustment. The program also allows you to export data to an Excel table for analysis and storage. Batch editing is available with the Pro version.
With Exif Pilot, you can see what your digital camera knows and change the data as well.
Exif Pilot product line includes Exif Pilot Lite (free version), Exif Pilot, and Exif Pilot Pro. Exif Pilot Pro price is 39.95.
More about Exif Pilot: http://exifpilot.com/exif-software.html
Download free trial version of Exif Pilot Pro: http://www.exifpilot.com/load/exifpro.exe
The programs work on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7 platforms.
Image Comparer Is Getting Smarter in Assisting Photographers with Photo Duplicates Detection
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 10.16.09 under Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps
Bolide Software announces version 3.7 of Image Comparer, its groundbreaking image comparison software. This new version of Image Comparer offers even greater opportunities in terms of accuracy, functionality, speed.
Since the moment of the first release Image Comparer has become mature and sophisticated. Plenty of great features have been introduced and have significantly added to its performance and quality.
Thanks to multicore CPU optimization added, Image Comparer is getting much faster and efficient. The ability to mark images with lower quality automatically in addition to automarking images with higher quality accelerates operating with the files found. The whole process now takes up even less time than before, whereas the quality gets even higher.
What makes Image Comparer different from most of its competitors is that it uses the breakthrough content-based comparison approach, the mechanism implying that the search will analyze and recognize the actual content of the image – shapes, colors, textures. So, the program analyzes image content, not metadata such as captions or keywords. This mechanism makes it possible to search for resized, rotated and even flipped images.
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Adobe Unveils Photoshop Elements 8 & Premiere Elements 8 Bundle
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.23.09 under Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps
Powerful Organizer and Smart Technology Take Photo and Video Editing to New Heights
SAN JOSE, Calif.–Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 8 & Adobe Premiere® Elements 8 for Windows®, the highly anticipated new versions of the No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software*. Available as standalone products or as a single retail package, the bundle offers the most complete photo and video solution by seamlessly integrating two powerful, yet easy-to-use, products. With this landmark release, Adobe equips users with a completely enhanced Organizer, which serves as a feature-rich media hub for both photos and videos. From the Organizer, consumers can launch directly into Photoshop Elements 8 to create extraordinary photos or Premiere Elements 8 to effortlessly make incredible movies with new, automated features.
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Home Photo Studio: Unleash Your Inner Creative Spirit
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.08.09 under Desktop Publishing
AMS Software, a software developer specializing in photo enhancement programs, has announced the release of Home Photo Studio. It is a new program for photo editing, creating original greeting cards and decorating ordinary pictures. Home Photo Studio offers plenty of frames, tools, masks, filters and effects (such as 3D and plastic effects). The number of effects may be confusing at first, but it offers ample opportunities for making every photo special. One click of mouse can make a common portrait look enigmatically beautiful or vigorous and aggressive. Greeting card templates should be also mentioned: colorful or darkish, funny or romantic, they will help the user create a proper greeting card for any occasion.
Actually, Home Photo Studio offers all necessary functions for uncomplicated photo editing. The users do not have go deep in sophisticated tools and layers – Home Photo Studio effects and filters provide instant result, which is often as good as pictures edited in expensive programs.
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Introducing Corel® Digital Studio™ 2010
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.02.09 under Desktop Publishing
Ottawa, Canada – September 02, 2009
Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL) (TSX:CRE) today introduced its all-new photo and video product, Corel® Digital Studio™ 2010. Now it is simple, fast and fun for everyone to enjoy and share their favorite photos and videos all within one integrated and engaging environment. Offering an elegant design and intuitive tools, Corel Digital Studio inspires creativity and confidence by making it easy for anyone to create beautiful photo and video projects – no previous experience required!
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Corel Welcomes Kris Hagerman as Permanent CEO
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 08.01.09 under Business, Desktop Publishing
OTTAWA–Corel Corporation today announced that Kris Hagerman, who joined the Company as Interim CEO in May 2008, will assume the role of Corel CEO on a permanent basis effective today.
“We are delighted that Kris is joining Corel as its permanent CEO,” said Alex Slusky, Chairman of Corel’s Board of Directors and Managing Partner at Vector Capital, the Company’s majority shareholder. “Since joining the Company, Kris has been actively engaged in advancing all aspects of Corel’s business strategy, while steering the Company through a very challenging economic cycle.”
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