ArkiPix I/S Press Release 23/11/04

ArkiPix I/S is now offering an English version of their image archive management software ArkiPix in version 2.0

With this new and highly improved ArkiPix 2.0 for PC, photographers, companies and digital photography enthusiasts will find a wide range of functions for archiving, importing and searching for photos.

ArkiPix 2.0 turns the job of archiving into a positive experience with fast results. New users become familiar with the program quickly because ArkiPix in daily use requires only a few clicks of the mouse. The many essential and unique features of ArkiPix make it a strong competitor for established and more costly image archiving programs.

ArkiPix will archive your images directly from your hard drive and CD/DVD’s. You will not have to reorganize your images collection. When archiving your images ArkiPix collects the EXIF and IPTC information from your images. All original information from your digital camera remains in the archive images. The information is stored in a JPEG image file made from each of your original images and used for searching and preview.

ArkiPix is very fast, stable and capable of handling large numbers of images. Search time in e.g. 50.549 images in 213 folders (1,6 GB) on a 2,8ghz PC is normally 1-5 seconds!

The new ArkiPix 2.0 includes a powerful new Toolbox and it?s very easy to customize ArkiPix to fit your specific needs.

With the new Toolbox you can configure ArkiPix to be a program used for archiving, showing and searching for images; plus with a few clicks, you are able turn ArkiPix into an advanced workmate with a lot of useful features like:

Advanced import from card readers/hard disks with renaming on the fly
IPTC edit + batch search and replace in original image files
Include copyright in EXIF automatically
Converts FOTOSTATION offline images
Use of two monitors for better workspace
Set compression, color space and interpolations methods for image archive files
Make your own dictionary
Customize Contact sheet
Back up warning
CDArkiPix ? makes searchable Auto run CDs with your selection of watermarked archive images - a good idea to your customers.
Converts Canon RAW/CRW files to archive images.

Image editing with many advanced functions like:
Contrast/brightness
Hue/saturation/luminosity overall
Hue in each RBG color
Levels corrections
Gamma correction
Rotate
Sharpen
Crop tools
Red eye remover
and a lot of filter effects

ArkiPix 2.0 requires Windows 98, 2000 or XP. A test version can be downloaded and tested with up to 1000 images or 14 days of function and purchased from the www.ArkiPix.com website.

The price for all this is ? 185 or $ 225.

ArkiPix is based on an idea by commercial photographer Bent S?rensen (www.medvind.dk) as the result of his need for image archiving when he converted his business to digital in 1999. The development of ArkiPix is based on 25 years of experience with over 500.000 images on file. Approx. 50.000 of these images have been used daily in ArkiPix during the last 18
months. Peter S?rensen who also programmed the first DOS based image archive for Bent in 1986 does the programming.

For more detailed information on ArkiPix 2.0, please visit http://www.arkipix.com for our product website.