Software Industry Announcements and News
An Offline Stock Icon Catalog
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 01.20.10 under Development, Graphic Apps
SibCode announces the release of Sib Icon Catalog, a free Windows tool to help webmasters, Web and software developers find and purchase ready-made graphics. Indexing hundreds of royalty-free icon collections and thousands of tagged individual icons, Sib Icon Catalog makes it easy to locate, preview, and buy icons for almost any project.
About Sib Icon Catalog
Sib Icon Catalog makes it easier to find, preview, and order graphics without spending hours in Google. Indexing hundreds of ready-made icon collections and thousands of royalty-free icons, Sib Icon Catalog will help webmasters, designers, Web and application developers find graphics they need in just minutes. All icons indexed by Sib Icon Catalog are carefully tagged, allowing to find just the right images in no time. Instant icon previews are included with Sib Icon Catalog. Unlike online sources, Sib Icon Catalog previews icons in full size and with no watermarks.
All images indexed by Sib Icon Catalog are coming directly from the source, with royalty-free licenses that make it possible to use images as many times as needed without paying extra in licensing fees. Sib Icon Catalog greatly simplifies searching and buying icons.
Thousands of previews with no watermarks are included with Sib Icon Catalog download. The tool offers a choice of individual icons or discounted icon sets. All icons can be ordered immediately, and will be delivered in just a few minutes to help customers meet the tightest deadlines.
Stock icons indexed by Sib Icon Catalog are available in numerous formats, sizes and color depths. ICO, GIF, PNG, and BMP formats are indexed. Images of 16×16 to 256×256 pixels, in 256 colors or 32-bit True Color with alpha channel can be purchased.
About SibCode
Founded in 2005, SibCode specializes in delivering a variety of graphic-related products and services to businesses and end users. The company’s products range from lightweight font and graphic editors, image viewers, and watermarking software to a variety of ready-made icon collections. In addition, SibCode offers royalty-free icons as well as graphic design services.
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.
PicturesToExe Deluxe Creates Slideshows
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 11.19.09 under Audio & Multimedia, Graphic Apps
WnSoft has announced the release of PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0, the photo slideshow software for PC providing a smart solution to combine photos and music into an admirable movie. Version 6.0 of the Deluxe edition brings new enhancements to the program, including 3D effects and the capability to create executables for Mac.
What’s New in PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0?
The new version of PicturesToExe Deluxe delivers a number of new features and improvements to enable the creation of even more elaborate slideshows and ensure smooth user experience. To give the slideshows even more impressive look, a user now can utilize the extensive capabilities of 3D graphics, offered by the program. What’s more, various unique fonts can be used to give the slideshow a truly personal touch.
Those who have already appreciated the convenience of using more than one monitor will be delighted to discover that PicturesToExe supports multi-monitor configuration. Now if you click Preview button, the program will ask you to select the monitor for the full-screen preview of your slideshow.
What’s more, the new version fully supports Windows 7.
PicturesToExe Deluxe at a Glance
PicturesToExe is widely used by home users and professional photographers. Many Audio & Visual works in AV festivals and competitions in England and France were created with PicturesToExe.
PicturesToExe Deluxe is a program enabling its user to create impressive photo slideshows for any purpose. Whether you want a slideshow to surprise your friends and relatives, or to make a presentation for your business partner, PicturesToExe provides you with all the necessary tools for the task. The beneficial software allows adding your own soundtrack, sound effects and text comments to each slide. Slide show can be created as executables for PC and Mac and screensaver files, HD video, DVD video disc or iPhone video. Advanced yet and easy-to-use, the program enables quick export of slide shows to YouTube and Vimeo.
Pricing and Availability
PicturesToExe Deluxe 6.0 runs under Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000. Requires 384 MB of system memory and 128 MB of video memory. DirectX 9 or higher. The Deluxe edition is available at $75(US). All the registered users are entitled to free unlimited upgrades of the program and two years of free upgrades for VideoBuilder. For further information on the product, as well as its free evaluation copy and sample slideshows, please visit http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/index.html
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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SMARTDRAW 2010 PUTS AN END TO COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.02.09 under ASP Member Companies, Graphic Apps
2010 Version Includes Sought-After MS Visio® Filter, Large Scale Project Management, SharePoint® Collaboration
SmartDraw.com, maker of the SmartDraw, the software that helps you work smarter by communicating visually, today announced the release of SmartDraw 2010, a new offering aimed at helping organizations put an end to communication breakdown by enabling the average businessperson to communicate effectively using visuals.
“In this economy nobody can afford new software that offers only a few fancy new bells and whistles,” says Paul Stannard, CEO of SmartDraw.com. “People and their organizations are only going to invest in new software if the product can offer substantial return on investment, and that’s exactly what we have delivered with SmartDraw 2010.”
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