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Nikon releases free my Picturetown application for iPhone and iPod Touch

4 January, 2009 (19:22) | Nikon, Software | By: Camera News

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iPhone

Nikon has announced an iPhone application that lets you connect your iPhone and iPod Touch to my Picturetown. The application is free and can be downloaded from Apple’s iTunes App Store.
The application lets you upload pictures from my Picturetown to your iPhone and iPod Touch, and you can move your pictures from your iPhone/iPod to my Picturetown. This can be done both manually and automatically.

My Picturetown is a service developed by Nikon for their customers to enjoy their photos everywhere via the web service.

IrfanView out new version 4.23 – Free image viewer

1 January, 2009 (10:18) | Software | By: Camera News

IrfanView is a freeware image viewer that support a lot of different image formats including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF and TGA. See this list to see all the formats that IrfanView support.
The program is now out in in a new version, 4.23. The updates include history for random pictures in slideshow, possible to make several pages for PDF files, possibility to save changes in pictures when exiting the program, better panorama function, support for Wavelet Scaler Quantization (WSQ)-format and much more.

Version 4.23 (Release date: 2008-12-29)

– Added History list for Random slideshow (“No file repeat” removed)
– New multipage images menu: Create Multipage PDF
– Option to save changes on exit (Properties->Misc 1, default: OFF)
– TIF loading bugs fixed (Thanks to j00ru//vx)
– New command line option: /filelist=txtfile; Examples:
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:\mypics.txt
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:\mypics.txt /thumbs
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:\mypics.txt /convert=d:\*.jpg
=> use files from mypics.txt as input for different operations
– New Contact Sheet options: Set custom paper size and units
– Options to set start parameters for external editors (see Help file/button)
– External editor names are showed in the menu text
– New Panorama dialog option: Add space between images
– Browsing: if CTRL + number (0-9) pressed, the file index increases by number
– New wallpaper menu: Stretched – proportional
– New Slideshow dialog option: Remember last file index on exit
– New option to show DDS alpha color (Properties->Misc. 1)
– Support for WSQ format (Wavelet Scaler Quantization, PlugIn by Steven Venable)
– New Thumbnail option: Use full file path for sorting (if subfolders loaded)
– New thumbnails tree menu: Load subfolders
– New hotkeys: SHIFT + arrows = Move selection rectangle
– New hotkeys: SHIFT + N = Create new image; SHIFT + V = Add canvas;
CTRL + SHIFT + Y = Auto crop borders; CTRL + SHIFT + J = Lossless JPG crop;

SHIFT + O = Fit window to image; F11 = show/hide mouse in Fullscreen/Slideshow
– Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions:
Download from: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm (plugins version is 4.22)
– Some bugs fixed (SGI loading, crop selection)
– Two small 4.22 bugs fixed: Next toolbar button, PDF saving

Tiffen announces Dfx v2 Digital Filter Software – Plug-ins for Photoshop and Aperture

1 January, 2009 (07:52) | Software | By: Camera News

Tiffen Dfx v2 Digital Filter Software
Dfx v2 Digital Filter Software

Tiffen has announced a new version of their digital filter software Dfx. The new version have plug-in support for both Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture instead of just a standalone application like the previous version was.

Tiffen has also added more than 1000 new digital filters and effects that should make post processing of your pictures more interesting and it might be a good alternative to optical filters.

The Dfx v2 Digital Filter Software is available as download at tiffen.com as a free trial. If you want to purchase the software it costs $99.


Press release:
LAS VEGAS, NV, DEC. 30, 2008 — Based on the success of its original award-winning Dfx Digital Filter software that revolutionized the digital filter market, Tiffen has introduced Dfx v2 at the Winter CES show. The new version now features multiple masking and layering capabilities with its Photoshop and Aperture plug-ins, previously only offered with the Stand-alone edition, plus more than 1,000 new filters and effects including: Ambient Light, Close Up Lens, Dot, Eye Light, Flag, Gobo, HFX® Star, Haze, High Contrast, Ice Halos, Rainbows, Sepia, Sky, Soft Contrast, Soft Light, Warm Center Spot, Warm Polarizer, Water Droplets, Wide Angle Lens and 812® Warming.

Professionals and enthusiasts alike can now choose from a palette of more than 2,000 standard, exclusive and special effect filters that simulate Tiffen’s award-winning optical equivalents. These can all be quickly and easily customized, then saved to a filter library for later use.

An exclusive new feature with Tiffen Dfx v2 plug-ins for Photoshop/Elements and Aperture owners is multiple masking and multiple layering capabilities without having to exit the plug-in each time.

This revolutionary new feature, speeds workflow and extends the already incredible capabilities inherent with Dfx Digital Filter software.

Unlike other software that professes to offer you selection technology that is precise, our exclusive EZ Mask, one of seven mask types, allows users to create precise multiple masks with just a few quick strokes.

And, with our multiple layering, users can quickly and simply add multiple filters on a single Photoshop layer. In addition, filters and masks can be easily copied and moved between Dfx layers.

Creative control no one else can even come close to, and there’s still more!

Tiffen Dfx v2 now includes foreign language support for French, Spanish, German and Japanese in the Adobe Photoshop, Apple Aperture and Stand-alone editions.

Tiffen Dfx v2 is available as a Stand-alone application for still images, specific plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Elements and CS4, Apple Aperture and the most popular video post-production host software, such as Apple Final Cut Pro, and Express, Adobe After Effects and Avid Editing Systems. Tiffen Dfx v2 is available for Windows XP and Vista and Macintosh systems v10.4 or higher and its new comprehensive Stand-alone edition has a suggested retail price of $99.95.

All Tiffen Dfx v2 software is available as a free trial download from the Tiffen website at www.tiffen.com.

Current owners of original Dfx editions will be able to upgrade to the corresponding Dfx v2 edition and should visit the Tiffen website for complete details.

Free 3D image management system program – Visions version 1.0.0.1609 out now

31 December, 2008 (17:45) | Software | By: Camera News

Visions 1.0.0.1609 program
Visions

Visions is a program that let you show digital images in a 3D world. Version 1.0.0.1609 of Visions has just been released with lots of updates. Here are some of the updates:
-Better search function
-More file options
-New filters and artwork add ons
-Optimized installation process

Visions has also been updated with several bug fixes that was discovered in the last version
Visisons support Windows 2000, XP and 2000, and can be downloaded here.


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