ABSoft Press Release

Improving the de facto standard, ABSoft introduces the next generation noise reduction solution

Neat Image team, ABSoft, is pleased to announce the introduction of a new generation of its noise reduction solution for digital photography that inherits and refines the highest quality and efficiency traditionally delivered by Neat Image: Neat Image v5.0 /Win.

New in Neat Image v5.0 /Win is significantly improved quality and efficiency of noise reduction, stronger integration with the latest image editors and enhanced usability.

Renowned for its noise reduction quality, Neat Image is used by photographers all over the world as a tool that turns noisy photos and grainy scans into clean and neat digital images.

Pixmantec and Imagenomic Press Release

Pixmantec and Imagenomic Team Up To Promote RawShooter™ And Noiseware™ To Digital Photographers Worldwide

Copenhagen, Denmark and Alexandria, Virginia, USA, May 20, 2005 – Danish and U.S. digital imaging software specialists Pixmantec ApS and Imagenomic, LLC announce that they will be jointly marketing their respective software products, RawShooter essentials 2005 and Noiseware.

Working in synchrony, these two highly sophisticated and complementary ‘tool sets’ extend RAW conversion and noise removal to an elevated level of workflow performance and convenience. The companies will initially cross-promote RawShooter essentials 2005 and Noiseware as a precursor to joint marketing and distribution. Pixmantec and Imagenomic also intend to explore the potential to forge closer cooperation through joint product and technology development.

PhoTags Inc. Press Release

PhoTags Inc., Receives US Patent Number 6,888,569 For Active Captions Technology

Garden City, NY, May 20, 2005 -  PhoTags Inc., the portable infoimaging company, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded U.S. Patent Number 6,888,569 for its Active Captions Technology. Active Captions allows anyone to add viewable, non-destructible text and object to a standard JPEG file.

The technology utilizes MARKERS allocated by the JPEG format to store any type of metadata inside the photo including text, sound, frames and other media elements. An unlimited number of “messages” can be stored in each file.

Luminous Landscape have just published a review of the ColorEyes Display, an inexpensive monitor calibration product.

“Many people will think so, and find that the idea of paying another $175 for specialty software an unnecessary expenditure. But for those that want to refine their colour workflow to the greatest extent possible, ColorEyes Display from Integrated Color Corporation may be what they’re looking for. ($300 with a bundled XRite colorimeter). ColorEyes is available for both Macs and PCs, and users are allowed to install the software on up to three computers.”

Website: Luminous Landscape - ColorEyes Display Review

PixelGenius Press Release

Chicago, IL - May 13th, 2005 - PixelGenius LLC announces updates to PhotoKit, PhotoKit Color and PhotoKit Sharpener for use with Adobe Photoshop CS2. The updates are free for all registered users and available for download from: http://www.pixelgenius.com/downloads.html

PhotoKit: Analog Effects Toolkit
PhotoKit is a photographer’s plug-in toolkit comprising 141 effects that offer accurate digital replications of analog photographic effects. PhotoKit’s image enhancements and adjustments are designed to work in a way familiar to photographers. A simple dialog calls up the PhotoKit tool sets, where you can easily select the desired image effect, and let PhotoKit do the work and greatly improve your digital photography workflow. Compatible with Adobe Photoshop 6, 7, CS and CS2.

AKVIS LLC Press Release

AKVIS Coloriage Turns Grey Skies To Blue

AKVIS LLC introduces Coloriage 1.1 for Windows.

Since 2004, AKVIS LLC has been designing digital photo editing software tools which inspire professional and amateur photographers alike to produce the most creative and fascinating images. With the introduction of Coloriage, the AKVIS family of software broadens into the arena of automatic photo colorization.

AKVIS Coloriage will add color to black and white photos with the same ease with which it will change the color of an object within a color photo. Whether the goal is to add the blush of young love to an 80 year-old wedding photo or to show your teenage son how much of a mistake green hair color might be by trying it out harmlessly on a photo first, AKVIS Coloriage offers an interface is as simple as a child’s coloring book.

Red Paw Media Press Release

London, U.K.—May 12, 2005

Bring your images to life - ProcessFX transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Red Paw Media (www.redpawmedia.com) is pleased to announce the release of its latest plug-in filter for Photoshop compatible applications, ProcessFX.

ProcessFX digitally simulates traditional film cross-processing techniques, creating skewed color effects that range from the subtle to the extreme.

Cross-processing is a technique used in traditional photography where C-41 print film is processed in the chemicals meant for the processing of E-6 slide film, or vice versa. Images processed in this way are easily recognisnisable, with their strangely altered colours and contrast.

plasq Press Release

PLASQ RELEASES COMIC LIFE 1.1 UPDATE

South Carolina, USA and Melbourne, Australia (May 12, 2005) - plasq today announced the immediate availability of Comic Life 1.1 (Update) 
for Mac OS X.

Comic Life 1.1 takes advantage of Tiger’s tremendous CoreImage technology by providing a variety of instant filters that transform your photos into comic book illustrations. Choose from 16 different effects from high contrast black and white all the way to beautiful painted styles. It’s the perfect feature for giving your creations an authentic look. (Requires Mac OS 10.4)

Also new in 1.1 is video capture from your iSight (and other) video cameras. Now you can develop your creations entirely within Comic
Life, fast - from taking photos, all the way to printing. Great for parties and other spontaneous fun.

OurPictures Press Release

OURPICTURES LAUNCHES NEW VERSION OF AWARD-WINNING SOFTWARE FOR THE EASY SHARING, PRINTING AND ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL PHOTOS

Never Lose A Precious Digital Photo Again! New Groundbreaking Service - OurPictures PictureSafe - Automatically Backs Up and Archives Entire Digital Photo Collections

More Choices for Printing Digital Photos! OurPictures Expands Retail Choices for consumers to Include More Than 25,000 Retail Locations Including Wal-Mart, Costco and Longs Drugs

Palo Alto, Calif., May 12, 2005 - – OurPictures, Inc., a leading provider of complete digital photo solutions for retailers and consumers, announced today that the company has launched a new version of their award-winning software complete with several groundbreaking new features and services including OurPictures PictureSafe. Unlike other services available to consumers, OurPictures PictureSafe automatically archives and backs up entire digital photo collections, keeping them safe from computer viruses, theft and computer crashes. To coincide with the new software launch, OurPictures also announced an expanded retail print network that includes an agreement with digital image processing solutions provider Silverwire to leverage the company’s thousands of independent networked photofinishers and retail chains. In addition, OurPictures is offering consumers even more choices when it comes to the online ordering of digital photo prints by adding Wal-Mart, Costco and Longs Drugs to their retail network, which now includes more than 25,000 doors.

Phase One Press Release

CAPTURE ONE 3.7 - Available for download

Capture One 3.7 with new features & increased stability

What’s new in PRO/DB?
One of the major news in Capture One 3.7 PRO is tethered support for Canon cameras as well as new RAW file support for Canon 350D/G6, Nikon D2X, Olumpus E-300/C7070 and Pentax *istDS. Also, the new noise suppression slider will enhance the overall quality of your images.

The PRO Mac version provides you with the ability to use current image adjustments sliders to create special styles that can then be applied to individual images and saved as your personal styles.

Pixmantec Press Release

Pixmantec Demonstrate Impressive Dedication To Community Relationship Management

Copenhagen May 11, 2005 – Danish digital imaging software specialists Pixmantec ApS announce the appointment of Michael Tapes, as Executive Consultant. Michael Tapes, owner of RawWorkflow.com, will be head-up of Pixmantec community relationship using his extensive experience having previously held a similar responsibility for Capture One RAW conversion software.

Kenneth Laerke, Pixmantec CEO comments “Michael will manage our popular online communities and will serve our users with knowledge and integrity ensuring that they will get the best possible response to their product queries. With the unprecedented success of RawShooter essentials 2005 we aim to continue our valued community service and support and ensure that we provide the most up to date and best quality information available. Having a dedicated community manager clearly demonstrates our commitment to being the most responsive and innovative RAW workflow company in the market today.”

Total Training Press Release

Carlsbad, CA, May 12, 2005—Total Training™, Inc., a pioneer in engaging and innovative video-based training for popular software programs, today announced NewMedia AV as its newest UK trade distributor. NewMedia AV will market Total Training’s CD- and DVD-based video series for mastering Adobe’s print, web, and video software applications.

“We are delighted to be working with Total Training,” said Rob Pickering of NewMedia AV. “Total Training’s comprehensive videos are just what Adobe users need to develop a new skill or refresh existing knowledge. By providing resellers with a local source, it will now be easy for users to buy Total Training products and receive local customer support.”

“NewMedia AV will be instrumental in expanding the reach of our premium quality video training. We look forward to our new partnership with NewMedia AV and the opportunity to provide visual training to creative professionals around the world,” said Jerry Yen, VP of Sales & Marketing at Total Training, Inc.

Adobe has released new versions of Adobe Camera RAW and Adobe DNG Convertor.

Camera Raw 3.1 update
Support for the following cameras has been added.

  * Canon EOS Rebel XT (EOS 350D/EOS Kiss Digital N)
  * Nikon D2X
  * Olympus EVOLT E-300
  * Olympus C-7070 Wide Zoom

Adobe DNG Convertor is a free utility that converts files from more than 75 cameras to the Digital Negative (DNG) format. Version 3.1 adds support for the cameras listed above.

Website: Adobe Downloads

DxO Labs Press Release

DxO Labs Announces Public Beta release of DxO Optics Pro version 3.0 Software now featuring DxO Noise and DxO Lighting technologies.

Demanding photographers worldwide invited to preview major upgrade of software providing Digital-SLR and lens automatic image quality enhancement.

Paris, May 3rd 2005. DxO Labs today made available a public beta version of its soon-to-be released DxO Optics Pro version 3.0 software.  DxO Optics Pro V3.0 automatically enhances images produced by Digital single-lens reflex (Digital-SLR) cameras and their lenses with revolutionary optics, noise and lighting corrections packed in an all-new, easy-to-use feature rich application.

Serious photographers worldwide are invited to download and test-drive DxO Optics Pro V3.0 from the DxO Labs Web site (http://www.dxo.com)and provide feedback on all aspects of this landmark application.

“I’m delighted that DxO Optics Pro software has won the praise of photographers and journalists worldwide since it was originally introduced in May 2004,” said Luc Marin, Vice President of the Photography Business unit at DxO Labs. “Now, less than one year later, with the announcement of Version 3.0 we are also adding significant new image enhancement technologies to benefit even more Digital-SLR photographers around the world.”

About Graphics have just reviewed VueScan from Hamrick Software, a third-party scanner software application.

“If not for VueScan, my project would not have been possible with the scanner I’d bought for the project. With the batch processing and infrared cleaning options in VueScan, not only was the project possible — it was a breeze. After a few trial passes to adjust my settings, I was able to save my options to a file and reload them each time I started a slide scanning session. Once my settings were loaded, I only needed to load the scanner’s slide tray and press the scan button. VueScan did the rest, saving each file with a custom name and serial number, while I worked on other things. “

Website: About Graphics - VueScan Review

Digital Outback Photo have published an article by Brad Hinckel that considers whether or not Adobe Photoshop CS2 is worth buying from a photographer’s point of view.

“Merge to HDR is one of Photoshop CS2 cool new features. Merge to HDR creates high dynamic range images - scenes will more exposure range than would normally fit in a single exposure; it takes multiple similar images shot at different exposures and merges these together to create a single image where the highlights and shadows both appear. For most image sets shot properly, you merely run Merge to HDR, select the images, and run; Photoshop will create a 32-bit high-dynamic range image from these source files; even easier than PhotoMerge. “

Website: Digital Outback Photo - Is Photoshop CS2 Worth It?

Adobe Press Release

Highly Anticipated Upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Includes New Vanishing Point Feature, Camera Raw 3.0 Workflow Improvements, Smart Objects and Customisable Menus

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 27, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today shipped Adobe® Photoshop® CS2, a major upgrade to the professional industry standard for digital image editing and creation. Available as a stand-alone software application or as a component of the Adobe Creative Suite® 2, also shipping today (see separate press release), Photoshop CS2 software is equipped with indispensable new features and simplified workflows delivering a greater level of power, precision and control to photographers, film, video and creative professionals.

Adobe Press Release

Adobe Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, GoLive CS2 and InCopy CS2 Also Available Today

SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 27, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the immediate availability of Adobe® Creative Suite 2 software. Adobe Creative Suite 2 Premium Edition integrates new full-version upgrades of indispensable design software - Adobe Photoshop® CS2 (see separate release), Adobe InDesign® CS2, Adobe Illustrator® CS2 and Adobe GoLive® CS2 - with the all-new Version Cue® CS2. It also introduces the Adobe Stock Photos service (see separate release), Adobe Bridge and includes the recently released Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional. Adobe Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2 and GoLive CS2 are also available today as standalone software products. In addition, Adobe InCopy® CS2, a professional writing and editing program that integrates tightly with Adobe InDesign CS2 software, is shipping today.

Babel Company Press Release

Impression automates data and asset archiving for OS X by specializing in moving large amounts of data to spanned DVD/CD sets or to mounted
drives for offline storage.  Other noteworthy features include the preservation of all HFS+/Spotlight meta-data, after-write file verification and bookmark-based management features.

New to version 2.8 comes ‘Tiger’ compatibility (a.k.a. OS X 10.4), cross-platform HFS+/ISO9660/Joliet disc burning, support for burning multiple copies of each archive disc, automatic archiving of Spotlight meta-data and a number of other enhancements.

Resco Press Release

Resco announces the release of the newest version of their popular Resco Photo Viewer, a device that allows users to view and edit digital photographs easily and quickly. The new version offers numerous improvements in terms of speed and memory.

Bratislava, Slovakia (PRWEB via Mobility Newswire) April 27, 2005—Resco , a leading provider of end-user mobile applications, today announced the availability of a new version of one of the company’s best selling applications, Resco Photo Viewer 5.30.

Resco Photo Viewer version 5.30 is an ideal enhancement product for a digital camera. It allows users to view photographs easily and quickly and to store them in the form of photo albums (which can later be edited and sent to other viewers). The slide show function allows users to present photo albums in a creative manner. Besides allowing users to organize a large number of pictures, it enables copying, cropping and resizing, and offers a plethora of other standard editing functions. Out of the box, it allows customers to add annotations in the form of text, sound or drawings.