Software Industry Announcements and News


Smith Optimal Solutions releases new Motion Control 3D software product

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 09.12.10 under ASP Member Companies, Graphic Apps, Home & Hobby

Motion Control EZ (TM) is now available for the home hobbyist

Frisco, TX, September 12, 2010: You’ve seen those cool three dimensionalimages on the History Channel, NFL and Olympics broadcasts, Discovery Channel, all over the place. The effect is called Motion Control 3D.”

Now you can create that cool Motion Control 3D effect at home, on your own computer, for a fraction of the cost of the products that the pros use.

Motion Control EZ (MCEZ) is a simple-to-use, inexpensive-to-purchase product that runs on your home PC. All you need is an affordable image editor such as Paint Shop Pro or Gimp to split your images into multiple layers, and Motion Control EZ to create the Motion Control 3D effect.

The finished product types include QuickTime Movie (.mov), Microsoft AVI (.avi), and Animated GIF (.gif) files. These files can be used on your website, family DVDs, Digital Picture Frame, Facebook profile, for digital scrapbooking, and many other places.
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Discover a More Vivid Way to Value Your Memories

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 07.27.10 under ASP Member Companies, Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps

PearlMountain Soft has announced immediate availability of CollageIt. It allows you to form inspiring collages for all your favorite photos in seconds. The program creates templates for any number of pictures, requires no additional training and transforms ordinary photo viewing into a much more amusing experience.

Let’s admit it, looking through familiar photos or showing them one by one to friends and relatives over and over again isn’t that exciting. Is there a more vivid way to value your memories? Yes, there is. CollageIt was designed to give everyone an opportunity to brighten up one’s photo collection. In a matter of seconds, it will turn any ordinary set of photos into an impressive array of collages.
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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Now Available

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 06.04.10 under Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps

Major Release Advances Image Quality, Performance and Workflow Flexibility for Photographers

SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 software for Windows® and Macintosh, the essential digital photography workflow solution that allows photographers to quickly organize, enhance and showcase their images from one application. First released as a public beta in October 2009, the final version of Lightroom 3 introduces a completely redesigned performance architecture that better handles growing image libraries and provides an unrivaled raw processing engine with noise reduction and sharpening tools to achieve the highest image quality. The 64-bit capable Lightroom 3 includes new features that optimize workflows and allow images to be shared in creative ways, including support for DSLR video files and tethered shooting on select cameras.
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C-Photo Recovery: Recover Your Pieces of Photo Art

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 06.01.10 under Desktop Publishing, Graphic Apps

Carpov Data Recovery company announces the major update of C-photo Recovery, a tool for digital photographers recovery. Developed for restoring lost and corrupt digital pictures, the solution has now increased in efficiency due to Power Search technology. Even if a memory card or a hard disk drive is completely unreadable, C-photo Recovery is still able to find and recover necessary files.

Though memory cards that are used in up-to-date models of digital cameras are much more reliable than photographic film, sometimes certain digital pictures get damaged, and whole memory cards can get absolutely unreadable. No photographer would put up with loss of his pictures, be that real pieces of art or just happy memories of a vacation. Of course, there is a variety of recovery tools, but C-photo Recovery is intended for photos recovery only – and that is why it works more thoroughly, recovering maximum possible number of images in all popular formats.

The most recovery tools work as follows: they search for records of recently deleted files in the file system and try to recover them on the basis of such information. But what if the file system is corrupt? The secret of efficiency of C-photo Recovery lies in the special Power Search technology used when scanning memory cards or hard drives. The solution detects signatures marking the beginning and the end of digital pictures and uses the results of the scanning together with file system records, performing comprehensive recovery even in case of hard drive or memory card corruption.

Besides compact-size digital cameras, a considerable number of people use SLR ones to use more sophisticated settings and to get pictures of higher quality. Shooting in .RAW format contributes to the convenience of processing and increases image quality, but such images are not supported by common recovery solutions. However, C-photo Recovery is able to recognize and recover SLR .RAW files, which is a really rare feature.

C-Photo Recovery at a Glance:

- Power Search technology for comprehensive recovery;
- Support for SLR .RAW (Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Samsung, SONY and Adobe DNG .RAW files)
- Support for all popular graphic formats (.JPEG, .GIF, .PNG, .BMP, etc.);

Pricing and Availability

C-photo Recovery is compatible with Windows 98ME/NT/XP/2000/2003/Vista. A single-user license of C-photo Recovery costs 39.95 USD. Further information on the product, as well as its free trial edition, is available from http://c-datarecovery.com

About Carpov Data Recovery

Carpov Data Recovery is a software development company specializing in thorough and reliable recovery tools. Its major product is C-photo Recovery, an advanced tool for recovery of digital pictures. For more information on the company and its products please visit http://c-datarecovery.com

Home Photo Studio 2.15: Now Featuring HDR-Like Effect!

[ Comments Off ] Posted on 02.24.10 under Graphic Apps

February 24, 2010: AMS Software announces the release of a new version of Home Photo Studio, a convenient program for creative photo enhancement. Besides ample opportunities for photo editing, creating original greeting cards and decorating ordinary pictures with the help of numerous frames, tools, masks, filters and effects (such as 3D and plastic effects), Home Photo Studio 2.15 now supports unique HDR-like (High Dynamic Range) effect, which makes digital images really vivid and impressive.

Home Photo Studio was originally developed for uncomplicated photo editing, and, though new advanced features are constantly added, the program always remains easy-to-use and convenient. As for its effects and filters, they are easy to apply and produce the result instantly, changing a common picture beyond recognition and making it special.

Among the recently added features there is one-picture High Dynamic Range effect, a remarkable feature for producing an HDR-like image from a single photo. Usually an HDR image requires two pictures of the same object or landscape with different luminance; and creation of such an image involves time, skill and professional photo editing software.

Home Photo Studio is used by most users for creating original greeting cards, as the number of templates, frames and clipart images is quite extraordinary. Besides, effects and filters give free play to imagination and ensure creative photo enhancement: the user can add natural phenomena (such as stars, clouds, rain, snow and lightning), noise and blur, stylize a picture (ancient photo effect, pencil drawing, lithograph, etc.), adjust brightness and saturation and make complex combinations. The transparence of the effects can be adjusted, as well as the area to be processed (the top, the bottom, the center, the borders, etc.).

By the way, the Deluxe edition of Home Photo Studio is rich with extra advanced features: creation of 3D compositions, automatic creation of collages, plastic effects and import of PNG / Photoshop™ templates.

Features:

- Support of more than 20 graphics formats;
- pseudo-HDR effect;
- Convenient image cropping;
- Hundreds of filters, effects and masks;
- Fast photo enhancement and retouch;
- Creation of slideshows with smooth transition effects;
- Greeting card templates and picture frames;
- Automatic creation of collages and 3D compositions;
- Auto enhancement and red eye removal;
- Multi-language support: English, French, Italian, Spanish.

Pricing and Availability

A single-user license of Home Photo Studio runs under Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7. Standard edition costs 39.00 USD, Deluxe edition costs 59.00 USD. Further information on the product, as well as its free trial version, is available at http://home-photo-studio.com/

About AMS Software

Founded in 2003, AMS Software specializes in photo enhancement software. Among its major products are Frame Maker Pro, Photo Effects Studio, Media Show Pro, Beauty Studio and Auto Collage Studio. The products by AMS Software have got various awards from the Internet’s most respectable software download sites. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://ams-photo-software.com

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.

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