Looking to barge into the market currently dominated by the likes of Aperture, Lightroom and ACDSee is Corel’s new AfterShot Pro software for photo management and editing.
ACD Systems have announced an update to their excellent ACDSee Pro 5 photo editing and management software, with the update to v5.1 adding new RAW updates for several new camera models.
With many bloggers, Tumblrs and liberty-taking companies treating the web as a free resource for any images they may stumble across, photographers and illustrators need to keep an eye out on who’s “borrowing” their work without permission.
There’s quite a few resources out there for ‘reverse searching’ images, but our current favourite is Src Img, a nifty free bookmarklet that lets you see if your web images are enjoying an unannounced second life elsewhere.
Billed as offering the ‘most advanced optical correction technologies on the market,’ DxO Optics Pro 7 is a major new release for the popular image-processing software.
Google has unveiled a couple of neat updates to its search pages, and it’s now possible to search by getting chatty with your PC or by dragging images into Google’s search box.
After a long session in beta, ACD Systems has slammed down the latest version of its popular ACDSee Pro 4 image editing, browsing and organisation software.
Previously only available as a Photoshop plug-in for Mac and Windows – and as a spiffing iPhone app – Athentech’s award-winning Perfectly Clear imaging software is now available for the Apple iPad.
When it launched back in 2001, Google Images initially indexed around 250 million images, a figure that had risen to 1 billion by 2005, and now stands in excess of a colossal 10 billion images today – a veritable shedload of images in anyone’s picture book.
Promising photo pros, “improved image quality, performance and workflow flexibility , ” Adobe’s latest version of their ‘digital photography workflow program,’ Lightroom 3 has been released.
Apple has announced Aperture 3, the latest version of its photo management software, with the update including no less than 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes.
Apple claims that Aperture 3 will make it easier and faster to organise large photo libraries, thanks to face detection and GPS geo-location, with the ability to assign locations by dragging-and-dropping photos onto a map.
Berlin-based Savoy Software have developed Liquid Scale, a ‘content aware image resizing’ app for the iPhone.
According to its makers, Liquid Scale resizes pictures while “magically keeping the important features of the image intact,” and can, “intelligently remove or add pixels to preserve important parts of the picture.”
If your wallet won’t stretch to the outlandish sums demanded for top-line image editors like Photoshop, or your editing needs are more basic, it might be worth taking a peek at the lightweight StylePix editor.
Small enough to slap on a netbook or thumb drive, StylePix image packs a fair bit of image-editing power or most everyday tasks and comes with a price that’s sure to please: free. Oh, yes!
A long time favourite with the Wirefresh crew, ACDSee’s Windows photo manager has always impressed us with its ability to take a manly grip on large, unruly digital photo collections and slap them into nice ordered piles.
Now available in an upmarket ‘pro’ flavour for serious snappers, ACDSee Pro 2.5 aims to be a ‘one stop’ package for photographers, offering the ability to view, process, edit, organise, tag, catalogue, burn, publish, and archive images.
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