Easypano Holdings Inc has recently released Panoweaver 6.00 Professional and Panoweaver 6.00 Batch. With Panoweaver 6.00 you can stitch spherical panoramas from fisheye photos and stitch cylindrical panoramas from single-row/multiple-rows of photos. The software also supports HDR panoramas.

Panoweaver 6.00 is available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish for US$499.95 / 499.95€

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Save up to 40% instantly - get Photoshop Elements 7 for only $59.99 or Photoshop Elements 7 with Photoshop.com Plus membership for $89.99. Ends April 23, see terms and conditions.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 with Photoshop.com Plus* membership

Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 7 software combines power and simplicity so you can make ordinary photos extraordinary, tell amazing stories, and share them virtually everywhere. And now, extend the capabilities of your software with new Photoshop.com Plus* membership that includes:

+ Ongoing delivery of tutorials, artwork, and templates
+ 20GB of online storage
+ Access to your photos and videos virtually anywhere you are
+ And fun, interactive photo-sharing experiences for friends and family

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Adobe has made the Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 available as final releases. The Lightroom 2.3 update includes several bug fixes. In the Windows 64-bit version of Lightroom an sFTP upload process could cause Lightroom to crash, Slideshows could return to the first image randomly during playback, A memory leak could cause Lightroom to crash while attempting to process files with local adjustments, Canon EOS 5D Mk II sRAW files could process with artifacts in Lightroom 2.2, Lightroom 2.2 could cause disc burning to fail for Windows customers. Updates are also including camera support for the following models: Nikon D3X & Olympus E-30.

FIXES new to the final version of Lightroom 2.3: Attempting to undo(CTRL-Z) a single step in Lightroom 2.2 on Windows could cause a series of previous actions to be undone.

You can download these updates by following this link

Corel have today introduced Corel Painter 11, the newest edition of the world’s leading painting and illustration software. With more than 40 new and enhanced features, Painter 11 provides the most inventive drawing and painting tools available, making it the ultimate art studio for those ready to expand their definition of creativity.

Since its inception, Corel Painter has set the standard for painting and illustration software. With Painter 11, artists can now expand their digital toolset with the most advanced painting and natural media tools available. New pressure-sensitive brushes allow hand and brush to fluidly work as one, producing brushstrokes that are unrivalled in texture and precision. Enhanced drawing tools and customisable media allow users to create distinct art every time.

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With the recent addition of several high resolution full frame DSLRs, the question extracting detail from raw files has become increasingly important. Nature Windows has done a good job of comparing six RAW Converter software and writes;

“In the end, the differences in image quality are subtle enough to be insignificant in all but the largest prints. This is particularly the case with the post processed set of images.”

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AlphaPlugins, LLC is glad to present for your attention a newest version of our most popular Photoshop’s plug-in - Engraver II. Now both Windows & Macintosh versions of plug-in are available. And Photoshop CS3/CS4 is supported.

AlphaPlugins Engraver II simulates old engravings or lithography by converting images into thin curves. Intuitive controls for all parameters let you quickly turn photos into masterpieces with the look of old-style engraving-even like a president on paper money.

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Protect your photos and other digital pictures by adding visible watermarks easily and automatically

PicMarkr Pro makes it easy to add digital photo signatures or watermarks to photos stored on your PC or in your Flickr account, protecting your images against unauthorized use or distribution.

Sign or watermark images with text or another picture, use logotypes or tiled watermarks, and place one or many watermarks onto a single picture. You control the size, placement and look of your watermarks by adjusting their every aspect such as fonts, colors, transparency, and background.

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Adobe has made the Photoshop CS4 available for you to try for 30-days. Adobe Photoshop CS4 software provides improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.

Download Adobe Photoshop CS4 Trial Version

New features include Adjustments panel, Auto-blending of images, Masks panel, Improved Adobe Photoshop Lightroom workflow, Content-Aware Scaling, Extended depth of field, Auto-alignment of layers, and Better raw image processing.

ACDSee has launched the ACDSee Photo Manager 2009. The software allows you to browse your collection, find photos quickly and share them through e-mail, prints and online albums. Fix red-eye, lighting and more with powerful correction tools.

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ACDsee Photo Manager 2009 Features

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Adobe has announced the Photoshop CS4 which is available in two editions; The Adobe Phtooshop CS4 and the Adobe Photoshop CS4 extended. The Photoshop CS4 Extended includes tools for editing 3D models and motion-based content and performing advanced image analysis and it’s ideal for film, video, and multimedia professionals, architects and engineers, Graphic and web designers using 3D and motion, and manufacturing professionals.

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