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Nik Software's Viveza 2, a plug-in for selective color and light control, will be available in December the company announced on Thursday. Viveza 2 now features global adjustments and precise selective controls using Nik Software's U Point technology. Thanks to this technology, it is now easier than ever to make color and light adjustments in photos. In fact, most can be accomplished in just one step.

With Nik Software's U Point technology, you can select areas of an image to adjust by simply pointing and clicking and then using sliders to adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation, structure, red, green, blue, hue, and warmth in a fraction of the time needed by other tools.

Viveza 2 is supported in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Apple Aperture.Read more

Powerful Organizer and Smart Technology Take Photo and Video Editing to New Heights

Sept. 23, 2009 - Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 & Adobe Premiere Elements 8 for Windows, the highly anticipated new versions of the No. 1 selling consumer photo- and video-editing software*. Available as standalone products or as a single retail package, the bundle offers the most complete photo and video solution by seamlessly integrating two powerful, yet easy-to-use, products. With this landmark release, Adobe equips users with a completely enhanced Organizer, which serves as a feature-rich media hub for both photos and videos. From the Organizer, consumers can launch directly into Photoshop Elements 8 to create extraordinary photos or Premiere Elements 8 to effortlessly make incredible movies with new, automated features.

"We want our customers to feel confident that they can achieve professional results with their photos and videos, without having to do any of the heavy lifting," said Doug Mack, vice president and general manager of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. "With this new release of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements we've incorporated smart tools with built-in intelligence that automatically analyze photos and recognize people, track motion in video for the easy addition of special effects and perform editing magic in just a few simple clicks. We pushed the limits of our software, so that anyone can create impressive digital memories and have fun in the process."Read more

Adobe today announced major upgrades to its popular digital photo and video software - Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows and Mac and Adobe Premiere Elements 8 for Windows.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows features:

• Enhanced Organizer: easily manage media and find photo and video clips even faster than before.
• New Auto-Analyzer: automatically analyzes and tags media so users can quickly find content
• People Recognition: identifies people in photos, becoming more intelligent over time, as it learns to associate names and faces.
• Sync: now users can automatically synch media across multiple computers
• Photomerge Exposure: merge multiple shots of the same scene, with and without a flash
• Recompose: the new Recompose makes it easy to automatically resize photos without distorting the image.
• Quick Fix previews: visually choose the best color, contrast and lighting adjustments from a series of previews.
• Online Album: share photos and videos with the new interactive Online Album templates

New Software Effectively Utilizes both Lightroom Edit-In and Export Features, Rounds out Support for Leading Image Editing and Workflow Applications

August 27, 2009 -- Imagenomic announced today the release of Portraiture 2 for Adobe Lightroom. This latest Portraiture 2 product edition from Imagenomic delivers all of the productivity benefits of fast and accurate skin retouching to the Lightroom user community, and complements earlier introductions of Portraiture 2 for Adobe Photoshop and Apple Aperture.

Portraiture 2 versions for Lightroom include native 32 and 64-bit support for Windows Vista, and support for the latest Mac Intel platforms and OSX releases for Apple computers. All of the familiar features and controls that have made Portraiture 2 popular with Photoshop and Aperture users are now available in the new Lightroom edition. Lightroom users also benefit from two Portraiture workflow usage modes, using both the Edit In and Export techniques for individual and batch image editing and processing.Read more

April 20, 2009 -- Today at the 2009 NAB Show, Adobe Systems Incorporated is highlighting advances in video and dynamic media software technologies that improve the creation and delivery of content across personal computers, televisions and mobile devices. The show sees the company debut Adobe Flash Platform for the Digital Home, an optimized implementation of Flash technology that brings HD video, interactive applications and services, new user interfaces and online content to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices (see separate press release).

Adobe also unveiled a software framework, code-named Strobe, that will help establish an open industry standard for media players and accelerate the creation and delivery of high-quality video and interactive experiences for Web audiences (see separate press release).

In addition, NAB 2009 sees the company preview Adobe Story, a new online and offline software application for collaborative scriptwriting, aimed at the film and broadcast markets. Currently in the early stages of development, Adobe Story ties into the pre-production phase of video workflows and will be integrated with other Adobe products, as part of the Creative Suite product family. Read more

February 9, 2009—TuneUp today announced a major licensing change for the company’s comprehensive, intelligent Windows optimization tool suite, TuneUp Utilities 2009. Effective today, users who purchase a single product license will be able to install and register the software on up to three computers. Each installation will be fully activated with the single license key, including all online updating functionalities on each PC. TuneUp Utilities 2009 optimizes computers based on the unique combination of hardware, software, patterns of use and user preferences.

TuneUp Utilities 2009 has been designed from the ground up to encompass the full spectrum of PC optimization for users, including speeding up access to the hard drive, improving program response time by removing unneeded registry items, eliminating redundant data and correcting faulty system settings. The software individually analyzes a PC’s configuration and, combined with user-specified requirements, determines the best optimization measures for that individual computer. Users can create a sharp, individual look to their computer by changing icons, the visual style, boot and log-on screens, and even the animated Vista startup logo. Designed specifically for both inexperienced and professional Windows users, TuneUp Utilities 2009 allows anyone to improve their PC experience. Read more