Photo Montage Guide 1.3.1

Photo Montage Guide - separates solid objects from an arbitrary background, applies background effects (filling, shadowing, blur, monochrome), allows transferring objects to another photo, makes a photomontage, allows you to change the size or aspect ratio of an image keeping the "important" features intact and remove objects from photo without visible traces.

This program offers the following tools:
- Resize - allows you to change the image size.
- Crop - allows you to cut out an area of an image.
- Text - designed for inscribing images.
- Separation - allows you to separate an object from its background and to store it for later transfer to another photo; applies background effects.
- Paste Object - pastes a separated image into another photo.
- Smart Remove - removes objects without visible traces.
- Smart Size - changes the image size removing "unnecessary" portions while keeping the "important" features intact.
- Smart Patch - allows to apply a patch from one area of an image to another.

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Arcsoft Panorama Maker Retail 6

ArcSoft Panorama Maker will provide users with a very powerful digital imaging application which helps creating impressive panoramas from your photos or videos. As your media files grow, finding the right photos and videos to create your panoramas may not be easy.

ArcSoft Panorama Maker offers a powerful media management function which helps you organize, view, and search for the desired one easily and quickly. Files are organized into libraries, and can be rated or tagged for quick finding. Handy thumbnail allows you to preview the files before you open them.

Here are some key features of "ArcSoft Panorama Maker":

Create, view, and export dazzling 3D panoramas:

Turn your 2D photos and videos into a 3D work-of-art with Sim3D! Choose up to 32 photos normally or one video, select a stitch mode, put on your 3D glasses, and click the Preview in 3D button. It's that easy! And don't forget to save your panorama to an MPO file so friends and family can view your masterpiece in their favorite 3D viewing application. Supports popular 3D preview solutions: PageFlip, Line Interleave, Checkerboard and Anaglyph.

Provides five professional stitch modes:

With five professional stitch modes, you can easily make panoramas from vast landscapes, city skylines, a range of mountains, lush forests, towering skyscrapers and trees, and cascading waterfalls. All-inclusive.

Powerful media editing tools auto and manual:

Perfect each panorama automatically! Panorama Maker 6 now makes it easier than ever to enhance your panorama with auto-color balance, auto-brightness, auto-exposure, and auto-dynamic lighting. You can also the manual editing tools to crop, straighten, and adjust the brightness and contrast level.

Convenient online print service:

Is your panorama ready and you don't know where to print? The built-in online printing service helps you print your professional-looking panorama photos in a snap!

Create panoramas from videos

Make a panoramic picture from your favorite home movies!

Automatically split movie clips into still frames, allow you to select the ones you want.

Stitch the frames together to create an amazing panorama.

Supported video formats for panorama stitching: MPG, MPEG, AVI, MOV, MP4, M2TS, MTS.

All popular formats support

Import your pictures from anywhere!

Open all popular image formats from your network, hard drive, camera, scanner and memory stick, such as JPEG, TIF, RAW, and more.

You can even import movie clips, such as AVI, MOV, MP4, and more

System Requirements

*Windows 7, Vista, XP

*Pentium IV 2.4 GHz or equivalent AMD Athlon®

*60 MB free hard drive space required for program installation

*512 MB DDR RAM or above

*16-bit color display at 800x600 with DirectX 3D support (Geforce 6800, ATI 9550 or above)

*Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher

*Apple QuickTime® 7.0 or higher

Homepage : http://www.arcsoft.com/panorama-maker/

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Photomatix Pro 4.1

Photomatix Pro processes multiple photographs of a high contrast scene into a single image with details in both highlights and shadows. Photomatix offers two types of processes to increase the dynamic range. One process is called HDR Tone Mapping, the other Exposure Blending. Both processes are designed to produce an image with an increased apparent dynamic range, but their results are different. You should try both and then choose the result that works best with your images. The first section of this manual provides tips for taking photographs intended for High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing in Photomatix Pro. The second section describes how to create HDR images and process them through Tone Mapping. The third section deals with the Exposure Blending functions, and the fourth section with the Batch Processing tool. Finally, section five provides a few tips and techniques.

Features:-

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» Generation of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images from differently exposed images
» Conversion of single RAW file into pseudo-HDR image
» Tone Mapping tool for revealing highlights and shadows details in HDR image
» HDR Viewer shows local HDR image data at the appropriate exposure
» Display of HDR Histogram (logarithmic)
» Ability to batch tone map single HDR images
» Function to tone map large HDR image files while benefiting from a preview
» Read and Write support for Radiance RGBE (.hdr), OpenEXR (.exr) and Floating Point TIFF
» Color managed HDR workflow: passing trough of ICC color profiles from the source to the tone mapped images, and color managed display
» Four algorithms for Exposure Blending
» Automatic alignment option for hand-held images with two alignment methods available
» Preview and Loupe available for all Exposure Blending methods
» Ability to select the images for method 'H&S - 2 images'
» Automatic Batch Processing
» Support JPEG, TIFF, Radiance RGBE, OpenEXR, PNG, PSD, RAW files from several camera models.

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