Breeze Systems

BreezeBrowser Pro v1.4.2 adds support for the Canon EOS 30D and has improved color management when printing. New in BreezeBrowser Pro v1.4.2:

  * Support for the new Canon EOS 30D including: raw conversion (requires Canon ZoomBrowser EX 5.6), focus point overlay and detailed display of shooting data
  * Improved color management when printing images
  * Fixes problems with PSD and NEF thumbnails

BreezeBrowser Pro runs on Windows and is available on a 15 day free trial from Breeze Systems’ website. BreezeBrowser Pro v1.4.2 is a free upgrade for all registered users who purchased a license within the last year. BreezeBrowser users and users who purchased a license for BreezeBrowser Pro before 23 March 2005 please see the upgrade page for details on upgrading.
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/index.htm

REALVIZ Press Release

Introductory Discount Offer of up to 40% Until 15. April 2006

Sophia Antipolis, France (March 23, 2006) - REALVIZ, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce that VTour, the latest addition to their software portfolio for content creation, is now available. The product, which was unveiled at the recent IMAGINA show in Monaco, 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. Starting directly from digital photographs, or from full 360-degree panoramas (created using Stitcher, for example), VTour facilitates the creation of 3D scenes such as interiors, or urban areas using polygonal photo-textured primitives. The results can be exported/published as either a 3D movie, or as an interactive application using 3D viewers such as Spi-V3d viewer (based on Shockwave).

Digital Domain Press Release

Digital Domain Inc. has just released Qimage v2006.250.  This latest release of our professional Windows photographic printing software offers better quality and control over the non-photographic objects in your print job such as borders, page background color, and floating text.  All of these objects are now color managed just like your photographs so there will be no more surprises or unexpected color when printing borders, text, or page backgrounds with a printer ICC profile enabled.  You’ll enjoy the ability to create photo mats using the new double borders and will sail through your project with the new border dropper for picking just the right color to match your borders to your photos!  Other cosmetic changes have been made in specific areas to make your photographic printing job even easier and we’ve even thrown in a performance improvement to increase print quality when doing extreme enlargements (printing very large prints from low resolution photos).

Apple Press Release

Aperture 1.1—the first Universal version of Aperture—offers increased computer and camera compatibility. The upgrade allows photographers to run Aperture on both PowerPC-based and the new Intel-based Macintosh computers, including MacBook Pro. Developed in consultation with pro photographers, Aperture 1.1—scheduled for release in March—will be available for $499. Current owners of Aperture 1.0 can upgrade to Aperture 1.1 via Software Update. In addition to enhanced compatibility, Aperture 1.1 also provides a variety of significant performance and feature enhancements.

Breeze Systems Press Release

New Breeze Systems PSRemote 1.5 supports Canon PowerShot A620, S80, S2 IS and S3 IS cameras and improves exposure control

16th March, 2006: Breeze Systems today announced PSRemote 1.5. Photographers can now use Breeze Systems’ highly regarded software to control the Canon PowerShot A620, S80, S2 IS and S3 IS cameras as well as many other PowerShot models. Improve exposure control in tricky lighting conditions with PSRemote’s unique ability to auto bracket a sequence of up to 15 images with a Canon PowerShot camera. PSRemote 1.5 allows auto bracketing by varying the shutter speed or the aperture and is ideal for capturing high dynamic range images (HDR).

Canon USA have released updates for several of the company’s software applications:

- Digital Photo Professional (DPP) 2.1
- EOS Utility 1.0
- CameraWindow DSLR 5.3R2 (Windows)
- ZoomBrowser EX 5.6.0 (Windows)
- ImageBrowser 5.6.1a (Mac).

Website: Canon USA Download Library

Realviz Press Release

Sophia Antipolis, France (March 14, 2006) - REALVIZ, a leader in image processing software development, has confirmed that version 5.1 of their multi award-winning panorama software Stitcher is now available. With version 5.1 Stitcher now also becomes available in German, in addition to English and French. The release of version 5.1 also accompanies the launch of a brand-new website (http://stitcher.realviz.com), dedicated to the REALVIZ stitching products, Stitcher & Stitcher Express. The REALVIZ Team will be demonstrating Stitcher 5.1 along with Stitcher Express and new product, VTour on the DIGIT’ACCESS booth at this week’s Multimédia Photo Image Show, from 16.-20. March 2006 at the Porte de Versailles Exhibition Center in Paris.

PMA 2006: Imagenomic Press Release

“Breakview” Noiseware 4 Sets New Gold Standard for Speed, Quality, Workflow and Ease-of-Use

Orlando, FL, February 24, 2006 – Booth #1653 / Technology Suite X4 – Imagenomic, an independent software vendor specializing in digital imagery enhancement solutions, has announced the release of Noiseware 4, the latest generation of its highly acclaimed, award winning noise correction technology, here at the Photo Marketing Association’s annual trade show and convention. Noiseware 4 features a range of high performance and unique feature enhancements, including Unmatched Processing Speed, Intuitive and Intelligent Workflow, and new, Powerful Noise Suppression Controls.

iView Multimedia and Memory Corp Press Release

Memory Corp encourages digital photographers to manage their creativity with iView Media - iView Media bundled with new PRO X memory card range

LONDON, Mar. 9, 2006 – Digital asset management (DAM) pioneer iView Multimedia and Memory Corp, the European designer and manufacturer of digital storage and memory products, have partnered to promote the importance of cataloguing, archiving and digital asset management through an exclusive product bundle. Memory Corp’s new PRO X range of memory cards, launched at CeBIT 2006 (Hanover 9 th – 15 th March), will include a fully licensed version of iView Media from the award winning DAM software developer iView Multimedia. The purchase of a PRO X memory card will also include an exclusive discount on upgrading to iView Multimedia’s professional DAM tool, iView MediaPro.

PMA 2006: Bibble Labs Press Release

Bibble Labs releases 4.6 update with Noise Ninja Technology and Intel Macintosh Support - Other improvements include revised user interface and more speed

PMA 2006 Orlando, FL (February 24th, 2006) - Bibble Labs, Inc. announced today the immediate availability of version 4.6 of its popular Raw Workflow software. Bibble 4.6 offers a major breakthrough via the direct integration of Noise Ninja Technology from Picture Code, LLC. High ISO noise and digital artifacts are one of the more challenging aspects of today’s digital workflow. Historically photographers have had to use 3rd party tools and extra post processing steps to deal with this noise “After the fact”. By directly merging Noise Ninja technology into Bibble’s already blazing fast workflow, better results can now be achieved in shorter amounts of time.

PMA 2006: Adobe UK Press Release

Adobe Highlights Lightroom Beta and Photoshop CS2 at PMA 2006 Convention and Trade Show - Lightroom Public Beta 2.0 Photography Community and Photoshop CS2 Ecosystem Partners Rally to Support Digital Imaging Innovation

London. — Feb. 27, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced wide-spread support from the photography community and ecosystem partners for Adobe® Lightroom™ Public Beta 2.0 and Photoshop CS2 software.  With two open and extensible architectures, both applications allow for new, customisable workflows and innovative plug-ins and devices. “The inspiration for the development of Lightroom Beta and the exploration of new directions for Photoshop has come from our customers and ecosystem partners,” said Deborah Whitman, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging at Adobe.  “There has been a flurry of activity in the Lightroom Beta forums and it’s exciting for us to watch the beta evolve as photographers help us build an application tailored to their needs.”

PMA 2006: Lexar Press Release

New Digital Imaging Applications Developed For Lexar’s ActiveMemory System to Improve Professional Photography Workflow

ORLANDO, Fl., February 27, 2006 – Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies today announced several applications developed for the ActiveMemory™ System (AMS), the company’s innovative digital photography workflow technology.  New and improved professional photo-imaging applications now supporting ActiveMemory, including Photo Mechanic by Camera Bits, Corel Paint Shop Pro X, and ProShooters Digital Pro 4, will be demonstrated at the Photo Marketing Association International Show (PMA). Lexar is also introducing Lexar Smart Download, an innovative image acquisition plug-in enabling Adobe Creative Suite 2 (CS2) customers to download images and take advantage of the AMS workflow when using the Adobe Bridge Image Browser.

PMA 2006: Lexar Press Release

Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Family of Software Supports Lexar® ActiveMemory™ System to Enable Automatic Processing of Photos During Download

Ottawa – February 27, 2006 – Corel Corporation today announced a partnership with Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXR) to provide customers with a unique automated solution for transforming photos as they are downloaded from a memory card. Corel® Paint Shop Pro® X and Corel® Photo Album™ 6 software will now support the Lexar® ActiveMemory-enabled flash memory cards for digital cameras. By storing their Paint Shop Pro X automation script on a Lexar AMS-enabled flash memory card, customers can download and preprocess their photos in a single, seamless process. Savvy digital camera users are looking to transform each photo they take into high quality images. But, transferring large batches of photos from the digital camera to the computer and then editing each photo one-by-one can be time-consuming. By leveraging the new interoperability between Paint Shop Pro X software and AMS, photos may be automatically edited—according to the user’s set preferences—while they are downloaded to the computer.  The result is a seamless, customized digital imaging workflow.

PMA 2006: Lexar Press Release

Lexar Smart Download To Offer ActiveMemory Functionality For Adobe Creative Suite - New Module Will Improve Digital Imaging Workflow for Photographers Using Adobe Bridge

ORLANDO, Fl., February 27, 2006 – Lexar Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEXR), a world leader in advanced digital media technologies today announced Lexar® Smart Download, an intelligent acquisition plug-in module that will allow photographers to rapidly download and manage images directly from their memory cards via Adobe® Bridge, a component of Adobe Creative Suite (CS2). On display at the Photo Marketing Association International Show (PMA), the new plug-in will make it possible for photographers to leverage advanced features offered by Lexar Professional ActiveMemory™ CompactFlash® (CF) and Secure Digital™ (SD) flash memory cards and will provide a productivity boost with the ability to manage multiple concurrent downloads using Lexar’s Professional Firewire and USB 2.0 CompactFlash Readers.

Adobe Press Rlease

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Macintosh Delivers Editing Magic to Digital Photo Enthusiasts - New version of No. 1 selling consumer photo-editing software* provides innovative tools to creatively enhance and share photos

London — Feb. 27, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) today announced Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 4.0 for Macintosh, an all-in-one photo editing and creation solution for Macintosh users. Consistently ranked as the No. 1 selling consumer photo-editing software, Photoshop Elements 4.0 maintains its popularity by merging powerful digital photo editing capabilities with easy-to-use tools, allowing photo enthusiasts to quickly and creatively enhance their photos for sharing. “Photoshop Elements for Mac delivers the features photo enthusiasts need to make their pictures stand out from the crowd,” said Deborah Whitman, vice president of product management for Digital Imaging at Adobe. “The Magic Extractor is an example of the power consumers have to seamlessly extract one image out of a photo and easily drag and drop it into another photo, so it looks like it has always been there.  Adobe’s continued investment in imaging innovation ensures our customers get the most out of today’s powerful digital SLRs and point-and-shoot cameras.”

Corel Press Release

Corel® Painter™ IX.5 Simplifies the Photo Painting Process for Professional Users and Extends Support to New Intel-based Macs

Maidenhead, UK - 27 February 2006 - Corel Corporation today unveiled the Corel® Painter™ IX.5 update to give professional photographers and artists new tools that make it easier than ever to transform photographs into paintings. Corel Painter IX.5 adds support for Rosetta™, enabling users to run Corel Painter on the new Intel-based Apple hardware. Corel Painter IX.5 is available now as a free download to registered Corel Painter IX customers and can be purchased directly from www.corel.co.uk. Corel Painter IX - the world’s most powerful and enjoyable digital art studio - is the tool of choice for leading professionals and artists in industries including film, game development and photography. Photographers choose Corel Painter IX because it is the ideal tool to help them generate additional revenue by creating hand-crafted paintings from their photographs. The new Photo Painting Palettes that are now offered in Corel Painter IX.5 further simplify this creative process.

PMA 2006: RawShooter essentials 2006 is introduced, including improved performance and camera support for 15 additional cameras. Also announced today is RawShooter premium 2006 which supports Nikon D200 including improved performancean is free for existing users. Finally RawShooter Color Engine has been updated to v1.1 to include additional camera support including Pentax and Konica Minolta.

Pixmantec Press Release

Orlando, FL. – February 25, 2006 – Pixmantec, a leading manufacturer of digital imaging software, continues to provide photographers at all levels of experience and expertise with the latest in RAW Workflow management technology with the introduction of RawShooter | essentials 2006, RawShooter | premium 2006 V1.02 and RawShooter | Color Engine V1.1, all being FREE updates. The software offers many new features, upgrades and is compatible with the most popular digital SLR camera models on the market including newly introduced models such as the Nikon D200, Canon EOS 5D, 1Ds Mark II, and 1D Mark II N, Sony R1 and several other brands and models. RawShooter | essentials 2006 continues to be offered as a forever FREE download via Pixmantec’s Website and has set the standard in the industry for quality, speed and certainly affordability.

PMA Show: Phase One Press Release

Phase One Capture One PRO and New iView MediaPro Bundled to Streamline Digital Photographers’ RAW Workflow

Photo Marketers Association (PMA) Convention, Florida, USA (26/02/06) - Phase One, the world leader in digital imaging solutions, and digital asset management pioneer iView Multimedia Ltd.™ (iView) today announce a chance for photographers to take advantage of a software bundling offer that combines two professional-grade tools designed to streamline RAW workflows. The pairing of Capture One PRO and the new version of iView MediaPro empowers photographers to work the way they want to. For a limited time only, iView MediaPro and Capture One PRO will be available for purchase together for $499 – this is $199 off the total price if each application were purchased separately. The offer will run until April 15th, 2006, and will be available as a download from each of the companies’ respective sites: www.iview-multimedia.com and www.phaseone.com. An accompanying RAW workflow guide detailing how the two programs can be used together is also available for download.

DxO Labs Press Release

Paris, France — February 24, 2006 — DxO Labs, a software company focused on research in image generation and enhancement for digital capture devices, announced today that Alpha Digital Services Ltd. will be responsible for distributing DxO Optics Pro software in the UK. DxO Optics Pro, the award-winning software tool for serious amateur and professional photographers, takes camera and lens performance enhancement to a new level with the incorporation of several new DxO technologies. DxO Optics Pro is available in three editions—Starter, Standard and Elite—and provides image correction capabilities for a wide range of digital cameras from high-end digicams to professional Digital-SLRs.

ExpressDigital Press Release

ExpressDigital Extends Darkroom Software with Retouching Tools, Advanced RAW Workflow, and Quick Set-Up Wizards

ENGLEWOOD, CO—February 24, 2006—ExpressDigital, the leader in digital workflow software, internet storefronts, and lab solutions, announced today an enhanced version of its flagship software,
ExpressDigital Darkroom. The enhancements include new built-in retouching tools, advanced RAW workflow, quick-and-easy set-up wizards, and proactive online marketing campaigns. “Ease-of-use combined with new money-making and time-saving features defines this release of Darkroom,” explained Graham McFarland, President and CEO of ExpressDigital. “With over 16,000 professional photographers relying on our solutions everyday, this new release was custom built for the digital professional.