Extensis Press Release 12/07/04

Specialist photography bundle now with added DAM features

Northampton, UK. - Monday 12th July, 2004 - Extensis has today announced that’s its popular photography bundle, the Photo Imaging Suite, has now been updated to include the latest version of digital asset management solution Portfolio. The bundle now consists of Portfolio 7, Mask Pro 3, SmartScale 1, Intellihance 4.1 and PhotoFrame 2.5, and is still priced at just ?299.99 - offering customers a saving of over ?450 from the recommended retail price of buying all the products separately.

The Photo Imaging Bundle is a combination of a number of award winning creativity tools from the Extensis stable aimed at any individual or business wishing to master photo imaging.  The recently launched Portfolio 7 is an invaluable cross platform tool for anyone generating digital assets including images, photographs and brochures. It creates a visual database of your images to help you organise, find and distribute your files with ease as well as offering support for raw image files from the most popular high-end digital cameras.

The most dramatic new addition to the Portfolio 7 is NetPublish ? an add-on module that automates the process of dynamically distributing Portfolio catalogue contents through the Internet. With NetPublish, elegant full-featured websites can be created in seconds ? with no knowledge of HTML or JavaScript required.     

For users of Photoshop 6 or above, who love the product but are aware of certain limitations, Extensis has a range of plug-ins to enhance the functionality of this popular imaging software:

SmartScale is for increasing the resolution of digital images without compromising quality. It offers easy, intuitive image scaling up to 1600% with no discernable loss in printed quality.

Mask Pro makes masks, selections and clipping paths easy with the added benefit of perfect edges, no stray pixels and colour decontamination. 

For those working with digital photos, Intellihance Pro quickly fixes the image colour, saturation, sharpness, contrast and more as well as allowing users to compare before and after images. 

For people who have ever thought that plain rectangular images sometimes need jazzing up, there is PhotoFrame.  With over 2000 frame files users can utilise a template or customise their own frames experimenting with edge effects, colours, blend, modes, textures, bevels and more. 

Bob Campbell, European Business Director at Extensis comments, ?The Photo Imaging Suite has proved very popular since its launch at the end of 2003.  The latest version of Portfolio has an array of new features and functionality, which we wanted to make available to those interested in this specialist bundle.  Anyone using Photo Imaging Suite now has a range of totally up to date creativity tools at their fingertips for an incredibly low price.?

For further information on the Extensis range of products, please visit www.extensis.com or call +44 (0)1604 636300.