FilmLoop Press Release

New Tools Help Users Generate Photo Story Loops and Showcase Them at FilmLoop.com Web Site

PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/—FilmLoop, Inc., a provider of free software that enables people and businesses to broadcast and share photo story Loops, today announced the general availability of FilmLoop 2.0 for Windows, as well as a completely re-vamped Web site (www.filmloop.com). A major upgrade to FilmLoop 1.0, the latest version provides new features to allow users to easily tell “photo stories.” Studio features include captions, bubbles, frames, tattoos, slide sorter and easy posting to Web sites like MySpace, Live Journal and Blogger. The new Web site is designed to showcase thousands of photo story loops submitted by users.

KoffeeWare Press Release

Strasbourg, France – KoffeeWare, a company dedicated to peer-to-peer groupware solutions, launches KoffeePhoto a free software to manage, store and share personal pictures. Including an integrated peer-to-peer secure backup system, pictures are available from any connected computer. “KoffeePhoto is an innovative answer to photo sharing needs,” claims Gilles Pommereuil, CTO of KoffeeWare “and will soon provide new means of accessing to the personal digital picture library giving a new and deeper sense to the promise of an universal access to pictures”.

Apple have just released Apple Aperture 1.5.1, which addresses numerous issues related to overall reliability and performance in all areas of the application. The download is 125Mb.

Aperture 1.5.1 addresses numerous issues related to overall reliability and performance in all areas of the application, including: Keywords, Loupe, Cropping, Previews, Metadata presets, Versions, File renaming, iPhoto Library import, Watermarks

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/

ACD Systems Press Release

ACDSee Pro Photo Manager Gives Professional Photographers Total Control Over Their Workflow with public beta RAW Format Support.

Victoria, British Columbia – November 2, 2006 – ACD Systems International Inc. (TSX: ASA), today announced a public beta software release which updates ACDSee® Pro Photo Manager, adding support for the newest RAW formats. Developed specifically for the professional photographer, ACDSee Pro will be showcased from November 2-4 at PhotoPlus Expo, Booth #1212, in New York. ACDSee Pro delivers advanced functionality designed to streamline the workflow of professional photographers, while incorporating the speed and organizing capabilities synonymous with ACDSee software solutions. “Once again, our commitment to working closely with professional photographers yields support for the newest digital cameras”, said Doug Vandekerkhove, CEO of ACD Systems.

REALVIZ Press Release

Sophia Antipolis, France (November 2, 2006) - REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce the availability of their innovative software, VTour, on the Macintosh® platform. REALVIZ VTour, which launched in March of this year, draws on the award-winning technology of Stitcher® and ImageModeler®, and offers users of all levels an innovative and effective solution for the creation of photo-real 3D environments from 2D pictures or panoramas. VTour has been specifically developed for use in a wide range of applications, such as virtual walkthroughs, 3D simulation, virtual reality, urban planning and video games, and is also well suited for the creation of virtual sets for film and television.

ExpressDigital Press Release

New Plug-In for Apple Aperture 1.5 Provides Direct Link to ExpressDigital’s PhotoReflect.com - Aperture users can now upload photos directly to the Internet’s largest storefront site for professional photographers

Englewood, CO—November 2, 2006—ExpressDigital® today announced support for an Apple®  Aperture™ 1.5 plug-in that allows users to upload photos directly to PhotoReflect.com®, the Internet’s largest virtual storefront for professional photographers. PhotoReflect.com offers photographers the tools to sell prints and photo-related products online, generate proactive e-mail marketing campaigns to their customers, design custom storefronts to match the look and feel of their business and manage all ordering and payment directly from the site. PhotoReflect.com also supports the ability to offer the unique photo options today’s customers are demanding, including album pages, memory mates, collages and trading cards. Through PhotoReflect.com, professional photographers are able to provide their customers with a fully functional and professional Internet store to order finished, high-quality professional photo products.

Phase One have released version 3.7.6 of Capture One, which mainly adds Live preview for Phase One digital backs and improved camera support for the Nikon D80, Canon 400D/Rebel XTi, Leica M8 and Sony ? (alpha) DSLR-A100.

Website: Capture One 3.7.6 (Windows)

Website: Capture One 3.7.6 (Mac)

Adobe have released Camera Raw 3.6 for both Windows and Mac platforms. Support for 13 new cameras has been added in this update, including the Canon EOS 400D / Rebel Xti and Nikon D80.

Website: Adobe Camera Raw 3.6 (Windows)

Website: Adobe Camera Raw 3.6 (MAC)

Breeze Systems Press Release

BreezeBrowser Pro v1.6.2 adds support for the new Canon EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi/Kiss Digital X and Nikon D80.

New in BreezeBrowser Pro v1.6.2:

  * Canon EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi/Kiss Digital X, Nikon D80 and Nikon D2Xs raw conversion
  * Full support for Canon EOS 400D/Rebel XTi/Kiss Digital X shooting data and focus point overlay display
  * New “Advance on ranking/tagging” option in slideshow for faster ranking of large numbers of images

DxO Labs Press Release

DxO Labs adds highly sought-after cameras and lens combinations to its DxO Optics Pro offering

New York, NY and Paris, France, October 31, 2006– DxO Labs announces today that DxO Optics Pro v4 Digital SLR and lens automatic image quality enhancement software now supports the recently released Nikon D80 and the Canon EOS 400D (also known as the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi) Digital SLR camera bodies. DxO Optics Pro v4 is the award-winning digital image enhancement tool incorporating revolutionary optics, geometry, noise, exposure and color corrections in an easy-to-use, feature rich application. Support for the new cameras is provided in both the ‘Standard’ and ‘Elite’ versions of DxO Optics Pro v4. DxO Optics Pro v4 for Windows is available immediately from www.dxo.com and selected resellers. The Macintosh (Universal Binary) version is slated for late November.

Bibble Labs Press Release

A minor maintence release of Bibble (4.9d) has been moved to the download area from the public testing section: http://download.bibblelabs.com/

This update fixes a number of issues with 4.9 including a severe problem with Sony A100 files. It adds support for the Lecia Dlux3, but mainly fixes problems and memory leaks. It is a recommended update for all users, but also, please keep a backup of your regular 4.9 install should you need it.

Nik Software Press Release

New Software Bundle from Nik Software, Inc. and iView Multimedia Enhances Digital Image Workflow - Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Select and iView MediaPro 3 now available together

San Diego, CA – October 25, 2006 – Digital imaging software developer Nik Software, Inc., today announced an arrangement with digital asset management pioneer iView Multimedia Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft Corp., to offer a software bundle of Nik Color Efex Pro 2.0 Select Edition and iView MediaPro 3. This bundle combines two leading software solutions for improving digital imaging workflow to provide solutions for busy professional photographers. The Nik Color Efex 2.0 Select and iView MediaPro 3 software bundle is available for purchase beginning today for $229.00. This is a $119.00 savings if each application were purchased separately.

Avanquest UK Press Release

Avanquest UK, a leading developer and publisher of business and consumer software for the global PC market worldwide, has launched Photoshow HQ; a one-stop solution for photos and photo slideshows. With digital camera sales estimated at 89 million units worldwide this year, and the ever increasing number of camera phones on the market, we are taking more digital photos than ever – but what do we do with all of those images we take of loved ones and holiday memories?  Leave them to fade in a computers’ memory as we once did with our 35mm film? With PhotoshowHQ you can turn your images into impressive 3D photo slideshows to play back on your TV or computer, complete with music, transitions, narration, text and amazing effects – all in a few easy steps!

Tow.com Press Release

Annoture 1.0
This update brings compatibility with Aperture 1.5 and iView MediaPro 3.1.2, along with speed improvements, Aperture selection support, German localization, and more. Annoture is a metadata bridging solution for Aperture and iView MediaPro! With Annoture, you’re just a click away from sharing metadata between these two popular image management and cataloguing applications. Spend more time working with your decisive moments than worrying about double-entry and incomplete metadata!
http://www.tow.com/software/annoture/

Timeature 1.0.1
Timeature lets the user adjust the Image Date field of images imported in Aperture. The correct Image Date ensures that your photos are sorted properly within Aperture. This field is sadly not currently user-editable, hence the need for Timeature.
http://www.tow.com/software/timeature/

Corel Press Release

Corel Will Deliver New Products and Optimize Current Offerings for New Windows Platform

Maidenhead, UK - 25 October 2006 - Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE), the maker of Corel® WordPerfect® Office, CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite, Corel Paint Shop Pro® Photo, Corel Snapfire*, Corel Painter* and WinZip®, today announced that it will release Windows Vista versions of each of its major products. “Corel is pleased to announce our commitment to Windows Vista by offering a full array of products for this new operating system. Each of these products will deliver the trademark ease of use, powerful feature performance and outstanding value for which Corel products are known,” said Shawn Cadeau, vice president of global marketing for Corel.“This commitment to deliver outstanding applications for Windows Vista makes Corel software the ideal choice for customers and partners who are planning the move to this new operating system.”

AKVIS Press Release

October, 2006 - AKVIS LLC announces the release of AKVIS Enhancer plug-in v.5.0 for Windows and Macintosh. The version introduces the long-awaited batch mode that allows you to improve a series of pictures in a row.  Besides, the installation procedure for Macintosh was simplified. AKVIS Enhancer is an image enhancement software for revealing details on a picture. Enhancer allows detecting details from underexposed, overexposed and mid tone areas of a photo. The tool is useful in cases when a photo lacks detail. For example, when a picture has been taken with the background overexposed and consequently the foreground is hardly discernible, which is especially annoying when you take a picture of a person; or when a photo lacks dramatic effect due to vagueness of the scene.

KeywordCompiler.com Press Release

KC Lite is easy-to-use software for keywording stock photos and footage, designed for photographers, photo agencies and footage libraries. KC Lite, from KeywordCompiler.com, adds keywords and tagging to stock photography for search.

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 24, 2006—KeywordCompiler.com, the most advanced keywording and asset tagging software in the stock photo industry, now offers KC Lite™, which is the simplest. KC Lite is designed to assist individuals of all skill levels in creating keywords and metatags to optimize keyword search of their photographs, video, footage, mash-ups, web sites, archives and other visual content.

Adobe have just released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Beta 4.1. Photoshop Lightroom beta 4.1 was posted on 19/10/2006 in order to resolve some issues with the original beta 4 build. The following bugs were fixed:

  * There was an issue where a user could not edit a metadata field after editing it for another picture which has been fixed.
  * The preview cache was using wrong relative path.
  * There were a couple fixes in the database update feature, fixing a few situations where the database would not update properly.  Also, upgraded libraries would not always allow images to be moved between shoots.

Adobe Press Release

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Oct. 19, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it has acquired Serious Magic Inc.™, maker of video software and communications tools for creative professional, business, consumer, and education markets. With Serious Magic solutions such as DV Rack extending direct-to-disk recording and monitoring into the field and Visual Communicator and Vlog It™ delivering the power of video communication to general business users and casual bloggers, the acquisition strengthens Adobe’s leadership position in video software—for both video professionals and consumers. “The huge momentum behind Flash® Video, which is powering everything from online TV shows to YouTube and MySpace, is turbo-charging Adobe’s video business,” said John Loiacono, senior vice president of Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe. “The purchase of Serious Magic accelerates our vision to make, not just video but all dynamic media, an even more ubiquitous communications vehicle, whether you’re delivering content for the broadcast market, over the web or on mobile devices.”

Breeze Systems Press Release

New in DSLR Remote Pro v1.3: Canon EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi and Multiple Camera Support

20th October, 2006: Breeze Systems today released DSLR Remote Pro v1.3. Photographers can now use Breeze Systems highly regarded software to control the new Canon EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi as well as the 30D, 5D, 350D/Digital Rebel XT, 1D series cameras and most other EOS Digital SLR cameras. DSLR Remote Pro v1.3 adds support for tethered shooting with the new Canon EOS 400D/Digital Rebel XTi, enhances automatic exposure bracketing and multiple cameras to be controlled from a single PC.