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features of “StudioLine Photo Basic”:

New Customizable User Interface
· The newly designed user interface offers panes for you to neatly organize descriptors, hints and image/folder information. Size, move, dock or hide panes to perfectly adapt StudioLine to your work flow. Even image tools can be restricted to a pane so that they don’t obstruct your view of your images.
XML Format for Exchanging Data with Other Applications
· StudioLine Photo 3 can export metadata in XML format. This standard format simplifies the exchange of image descriptors with other applications.
Backup Reminders
· A new backup assistant can remind you in regular intervals to backup your images and offer to launch the appropriate backup task. You choose whether the reminder is based on days elapsed or the number of new images.
Expanded Database Search by Time Spans
· The new search engine has intuitive controls to restrict the search to a certain time span. This makes it even easier to find images of a particular event.
Convenient Search and Replace
· The new function to replace image descriptors is ideal for correction spelling mistakes or to standardize similar keywords, e.g., “vintage car” vs. “classic car”.
· Special Export and Email Filters
· StudioLine Photo Classic 3 offers special filters for exporting and emailing. Images canbe cropped, sharpened and overlaid with text to prepare them for a particular one-timeuse.
Web-Gallery Design Wizard
· Make up your own web gallery designs with the help of the new wizard. You choose the thumbnail size, borders, backgrounds and the use of image descriptors. Detail view pages with navigation links are designed in the same fashion. You can save your creations for later reuse.
Loading and Managing Media Files
· With StudioLine Photo Classic 3 you also load and manage the audio and video files recorded by your digital camera. A new icon in the image archive allows you to play any voice annotation that you associated with an image.
Transition Effects for Slide Shows
· The updated slide show offers a wide range of transition effects. You can pick your favorite or have StudioLine randomize the effect for each image.
Online Order for Prints and Gift Items
· Prints and gift items with your images can be ordered directly from StudioLine Photo Classic 3.
· Timeline view automatically organizes images by date.
· A clever image archive filter to find your pictures faster.
· “Click & Tag” keywords and categories.
· Rate your images with 1 to 5 stars.
· Live histogram with 18 views for an in-depth analysis of your photos.
· Highly intuitive white balance tool with one-click tone adjustment.
· Gradation curves to fine-tune luminescence for each color channel.
· Support for ICC color profiles.
· Print projects for calendars, cards, CD covers and more.
· Design editor to freely layout album pages, greeting cards, etc.
· Adjust RAW and DNG settings.
· Editing image in RAW format.

features of “The GIMP”:

Painting:
· Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone,
· etc.
· Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
· Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
· Supports custom brushes and patterns

System:
· Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
· Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

Advanced Manipulation:
· Full alpha channel support
· Layers and channels
· Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
· Editable text layers
· Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
· Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
· Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
· Transformable paths, transformable selections.
· Quickmask to paint a selection.

Extensible:
· A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from
· external programs as in Script-fu
· Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
· Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new
· effect filters
· Over 100 plug-ins already available

Animation:
· Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
· MNG support
· Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
· Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
· Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

File Handling:
· File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
· Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
· SVG path import/export

The all-new ProShow Producer allows you to create advanced, professional-grade presentation masterpieces that not only emotionalize and inspire audiences but also bring them to the point of sale.

With an award-winning feature set, including copy protection, show templates, unlimited photo/video layering, built-in media authoring and branding, plus all-new creative features like masking, vignetting and motion keyframing, the only limit to your success is your imagination.

features of “ColorEdge”:

· Color Near Edge / Color Far Edge
· The colors are applied to the points near or far from the visible edges.
· Color Ramp
· Defines the distances from the edge to build a gradient with the supplied colors. d0: offset, d1: ramp up, d2: width, d3: ramp down.
· Noise
· Add noise effects using the same parameters as the Max texture plugins. See 3D Studio’s reference for more help (such as Gradient Map and others)

Requirements:

· 3D Studio Max

features of “Pinnacle VideoSpin”:

· Mix videos, photos and music together
· Add titles and transitions
· Upload to the web in a snap!
· Direct upload to YouTube and Flash support*

features of “FastPictureViewer”:

· Instant flip to the next image using either the keyboard, a mouse click or the mouse wheel.
· Easy browsing of tens of thousands (yes!) of images, even in deeply nested subfolders.
· Instant switch between fittowindow and 100% mode view from a single key press, with optional highquality image scaling.
· Adobe XMP sidecar files creation (stores rating, labels, urgency settings in XMPcompliant metadata format).
· Embedded metadata writer for JPEG files (Adobe XMP rating/labeling and Windows Vista rating).
· Clickandhold instantaneous 100% zooming and configurable 50d00% rightclick magnifier.
· Seamless multiplesubfolders browsing, in one single continuous sequence (easily browse an entire drive at once).
· Drag & drop support, drop a folder or a set of files on FastPictureViewer to quickly view them.
· Singleclick or single keystroke background copy of the “keepers” to a preset folder, without disruption of the viewing flow.
· Plug’n'play integration with optional automatic browsing of inserted media or digital camera quickly view images straight off the camera.
· Shell integration with “Open with FastPictureViewer…” contextmenu options for local folders and drives.
· Instant automatic detection of new images added anywhere to the folder tree, while you browse (”hot folder” concept).
· Multimonitor awareness and huge monitor support, with fullscreen borderless kiosk mode available at the press of a key.

Requirements:

· User must install the Windows Imaging Component prior to install FastPictureViewer

Magic Whiteboard is a fun and colorful network drawing software, designed especially for kids’ entertainment.

It is known that drawing, as well as playing with toys and making something with hands develops children’s thinking and logic, allows them to develop their brain with the help of motion activity.

Magic Whiteboard is a perfect tool developing your children’s abilities. It lets kids express themselves by drawing and is a constant source of fun and joy for the entire family.

Magic Whiteboard is designed not only for individual use, but also for collective drawing in a home network.

Magic Whiteboard can be used in a home PC network with up to 5 computers, so you and your kids can draw pictures all together at the same time.

The main feature is that you all are drawing at the same sheet or board on the screen. So, if you have another PC or laptop, you can play with your kids or let their friends draw something together.

With Magic Whiteboard you can show a real miracle to your kid: you can hide with a laptop in another room and draw some pictures on the screen, and your kid will definitely think that there is a lovely small kitty or a cute dog or one of two nice gnomes that is drawing with him and adding more details to the picture.

Or, you can just watch your kids drawing, and surely you will discover a lot of interesting things as children often create very unusual images.

Learn more about your kids’ way of thinking, worldview, imagination and skills with Magic Whiteboard. It gives a handful of ideas how to spend your spare time having fun with your kids.

Magic Whiteboard allows printing and saving drawings in such common formats as BMP, JPEG, and GIF. No doubt, its colorful graphics and amusing cartoon characters make this program a really fascinating pastime.

Requirements:

· 32 MB of RAM
· 7 MB of available hard disk

features of “FastPictureViewer”:

· Instant flip to the next image using either the keyboard, a mouse click or the mouse wheel.
· Easy browsing of tens of thousands (yes!) of images, even in deeply nested subfolders.
· Instant switch between fittowindow and 100% mode view from a single key press, with optional highquality image scaling.
· Adobe XMP sidecar files creation (stores rating, labels, urgency settings in XMPcompliant metadata format).
· Embedded metadata writer for JPEG files (Adobe XMP rating/labeling and Windows Vista rating).
· Clickandhold instantaneous 100% zooming and configurable 50d00% rightclick magnifier.
· Seamless multiplesubfolders browsing, in one single continuous sequence (easily browse an entire drive at once).
· Drag & drop support, drop a folder or a set of files on FastPictureViewer to quickly view them.
· Singleclick or single keystroke background copy of the “keepers” to a preset folder, without disruption of the viewing flow.
· Plug’n'play integration with optional automatic browsing of inserted media or digital camera quickly view images straight off the camera.
· Shell integration with “Open with FastPictureViewer…” contextmenu options for local folders and drives.
· Instant automatic detection of new images added anywhere to the folder tree, while you browse (”hot folder” concept).
· Multimonitor awareness and huge monitor support, with fullscreen borderless kiosk mode available at the press of a key.

Requirements:

· User must install the Windows Imaging Component prior to install FastPictureViewer

features of “TwistedBrush”:

· Performance: Pixarra’s attention to performance is a top priority. As an artist draws and paints the tools should disappear from thought and allow focus on the creative process rather than waiting for the tool to finish its job. In addition the responsiveness of the brush tools should be quick and show marks on the page instantly to allow the artist to enter the “zone”.
· High Precision 64 Bit Brush Engine: Most graphic programs offer at most 32 bits of color resolution. TwistedBrush represents all image data internally at a full 64 bits of color resolution. This allows for super smooth color mixing and alpha blending.
· Brushes: TwistedBrush has hundreds of different brushes available. These range from very simple color dots to realistic representations of natural artist tools to very wild brushes
· Paper Textures: A wide variety of paper and canvas textures can be selected so that brush strokes respond with the texture as they are placed on the paper or canvas
· Filters: Over 50 filters can be used to quickly alter and adjust your image.
· Tracing Paper
· Cloners
· Masks
· Layers
· ArtSets
· Scripting
· Undo/Redo: Yes there are multiple levels of undo and redo. Up to 50 levels in fact, memory permitting.
· File Formats: Most standard image formats are supported. This Include, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, PSD, BMP, PCD, WMF and EMF.
· Sketchbook Paradigm
· Drawing Tablet Support
· Brush Effects System
· Random Brush Generation
· Photo Editing
· Free Upgrades Forever.

Requirements:

· 20mb disk space
· 16, 24, or 32 display mode. Will not run in 256 color modes
· 256 MB ram

This is very interesting graphic program, you can make a normal photo look like hand drawn photo or Sketch. You can turn your photo into a black & white or colour pencil sketch, then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in a few seconds