BenVista Press Release

AMSTERDAM, August 22, 2006—After a long period of research and development, BenVista is proud to launch the official successor of their digital image enlargement software, PhotoZoom Pro. As of today, PhotoZoom Pro 2 is a fact, and available for both Windows and Mac OS X platforms. Over the past years, PhotoZoom Pro has proven itself to be one of the leading products for digital image resizing, renowned for its patented “S-Spline” algorithm. Now, with PhotoZoom Pro 2, BenVista introduces a new and even more efficient technique: “S-Spline XL”.

While the S-Spline algorithm already excelled in preserving sharp edges, S-Spline XL also adds preservation and reconstruction of fine, more subtle details. This allows PhotoZoom Pro 2 to preserve the original sharpness of photos, without introducing artificial or cartoony looking side-effects.

Instead, S-Spline XL enlargements look very photorealistic and natural. As for personal taste: the S-Spline XL algorithm can be fully tweaked to the professional user’s liking.

Besides the S-Spline XL algorithm, PhotoZoom Pro 2 comes with many other new features, such as full EXIF and IPTC support, improved crop functionality, faster image processing, and several user interface improvements. Furthermore, the Mac version of PhotoZoom Pro 2 is now a Universal application, running on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.

Free demo versions (for both Windows and Mac OS X) can be downloaded now, from www.benvista.com. For registered PhotoZoom Pro users an inviting upgrade offer is available.