2007
Canto Cumulus Integrates with Quark Publishing System 7
Canto and Quark announced an integration between the Canto Cumulus digital asset management system and the newly announced Quark Publishing System (QPS) 7.
New capabilities for QPS 7 work groups include XMP and IPTC legacy and core metadata searching to find any image, text element or other asset.…
iDive, Cataloguing Video From Whatever Source You Wish
Aquafadas announced the first version of iDive sometime in 2004. Back then, it looked like iDive would become a killer-app, with videocasts being hyped as the obligatory content for any type of web site. But while podcasts are more or less mainstream today, videocasts are still a bit too far-fetched…
Alwan Color Expertise and Bodoni Systems Practical Pressroom Colour Management
Alwan Color Expertise and Bodoni Systems Ltd. are utilizing IFRA to showcase their combined solution ensuring fast makereadies, increased stability, ink savings, and ISO-12647 standard output. The integrated offering features Alwan’s CMYK Optimizer version 3 and Bodoni pressSIGN.
QPS 7 Already Supported by Quark Partners
“QPS 7 represents a huge step forward and will be extremely well received by our customers as it now supports both QuarkXPress 7, QuarkCopyDesk 7 and contains a powerful new web editor,” said Max Lyth, technical director at UK system integrator, Automatrix, who have been supplying and integrating QPS solutions…
Quark Publishing System 7
Quark announced the release of Quark Publishing System 7, its next generation collaborative workflow system. QPS 7 debuts to set a new standard in collaborative workflow systems, leveraging 15 years of workgroup publishing experience. This release introduces a host of new and enhanced features aimed at streamlining editorial and creative…
WoodWing Software introduced Smart Newspapers
At IfraExpo 2007 in Vienna, Austria, WoodWing Software has introduced Smart Newspapers — an integrated solution for the newspaper industry that utilizes state-of-the-art convergence technology. Smart Newspapers embodies WoodWing’s vision for the future of news publishing, offering tools to create a “blended media” experience.
“We’re calling…
Leaf releases version 11 of Leaf Capture
Leaf announces the release of Leaf Capture version 11, a newly designed version of the company’s popular image workflow software. The new Leaf Capture software enables photographers to easily and intuitively work with images, save time and benefit from significant improvements in their productivity.
The new version offers…
How to Create A Layout With The Divine Proportion
We all know about the divine proportion, right? It is the ratio based on the irrational number 1.61803. It’s called “Phi” in mathematics, and it is believed to be the most natural ratio, in a sense that many things around us can be expressed in this proportion. As nature was…
Genopal Pro For Creating Colour Harmonies
Genometri develops a colour harmony creation tool, Genopal. While Genopal is a nice tool that in its first version was used by professional graphics and textile designers who had to find fresh colour combinations, Genometri raised the bar with their recent release of Genopal…
Pantone’s VP for Europe on the Pantone Goe System
Pantone, soon to become a 100% subsidiary of X-Rite, has released a completely new spot colour system, Pantone Goe. 45 years after the launch of the first Pantone Matching System (PMS) for spot colours, the company thought it was about the right time to create a new, cross-media ready spot…
Cinema 4D R.10.5 Delivers DWG Import, XRefs, New MOCCA Tools and Accelerated HAIR-Rendering
MAXON released a dramatically enhanced version of its CINEMA 4D software. Sporting a wealth of new features added to the core CINEMA 4D program, the update also takes in a number of enhancements that have been made to CINEMA 4D’s optional modules. Chief among these are new tools for MOCCA…
New DxO Optics Pro v5 Has Breakthrough RAW Engine
DxO Labs is preparing the new version of DxO Optics Pro, version 5. This latest version of DxO Labs’ flagship software application for automatic image quality enhancement for Digital SLR camera users is to be released later in the fall. DxO Optics Pro v5 sets a new standard for image…
Cumulus Integration with Adobe CS3
Canto will demonstrate its Cumulus CS Companion product for the first time at Apple Expo today in the booth of Canto partner Idea7. Cumulus CS Companion is poised to substantially increase work group productivity by enabling users of Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications to take advantage of the asset search…
Alwan Color Expertise partners with Gradual Software
Alwan Color Expertise, world leader in standardization and implementation of colour management, announces a partnership with Gradual Software to integrate Alwan’s preflighting, standardization and CMYK Optimizer colour technology within the SWITCH product line from Gradual. The agreement offers users a combined technical solution that delivers advanced automation and file optimization.…
Creative Manager Pro 8.4.4 Optimized For Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch And Ready For Leopard
As a web-based product, Creative Manager Pro’s Ad Agency software was had little to change to have it work with the iPhone and iPod Touch. As the lightest computers running the Mac OS, the iPhone and iPod Touch are the perfect tools for the Ad Agency manager who needs to…
Apple Motion 3, Compositing Without Effort
Apple Final Cut Studio 2 is increasingly becoming the final cut solution of large TV stations, video clip and movie makers. Final Cut Studio 2 comes with Motion 3, a significant upgrade, with some interesting new features. Even by just looking at Motion…
Match Colours in Artwork With Adobe’s Colour Swatches
Often, a brochure, an annual report, indeed any piece of information that uses artwork to illustrate content and juice up presentation, will benefit from colours that are harmonious. It goes even further than that: clashing colour schemes can have their appeal, but in publishing for print or web, such colour…
At IFRA Adobe Faces Some Stiff Competition From Quark
October is IFRA month. On October 8, all important players in the media industry will be present in Vienna. Desktop publishing and graphic design industry suppliers and service providers will do their best to convince the audience of the superiority of their products and services. This year, IFRA made me…
Leaf to showcase new AFi medium-format digital camera on pan-European road show
Leaf announced the start of a pan-European road show to demonstrate a fully functional version of the new Leaf AFi—a next-generation, medium-format digital camera aimed at professional photographers. Previewed as a prototype at Photokina, the Leaf AFi is now ready for live demonstrations to selected audiences. Specifically designed for high-resolution…
iWork ‘08 Media Browser Aperture Tip
In iWork ‘08 applications you can open a Media Inspector, as you could in iWork ‘06. Different in iWork ‘08, however, is that --if you have a copy of Aperture on your system-- you will also be given access to the Aperture library on your disk. It may happen that…
Creating Art by Parameter
ArtMatic Pro 4.1, ArtMatic Voyager, and vTrack 2.1 are three applications developed by U&I Software, a group of developers who want to do what Kai Krause did years ago, but better. ArtMatic Pro lives up to that promise, as does ArtMatic Voyager.
LightZone, A Better Photoshop?
People who are involved professionally with images, such as commercial and art photographers, but also advertising firms’ creative departments, and creative departments in corporate organisations: ask them which image editor they use, and they’ll almost invariably tell you “Photoshop of course”. But some companies believe they can do better and…
Sony Releases Alpha 700, New dSLR for the Semi-Professional
What sat in the pipeline for months, has happened today: Sony announces its newest addition to the Alpha digital SLR camera system. Aimed at serious photo enthusiasts and semi-professionals, the Alpha 700 teams uncompromising performance and responsiveness with superlative HD image quality --from shooting to viewing.
DxO Labs and Vertus Join for Discount
We received an email thatwent like this: “At DxO Labs, we’re always looking for ways to provide great technology and great value to the photographic community.
So we are happy to announce that DxO Labs and Vertus - the developers of Fluid Mask 3 - are getting together…
Printing Photographs for Business: ProofMaster 3
Commercial photographers and large photo studios need to be able to manage their printing workflow and set up colour profiles that manage ink limiting and basically control the printer’s inks individually. ProofMaster 3.x is a Raster Image Processor (RIP) that does this and more. It is said to be the…
