Corel Corporation, a leading global software provider, is pleased to announce that at the Focus on Imaging show, it will be offering visitors 20% off three of its multiple-award-winning image editing and creativity products: Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2, Corel® VideoStudio® 11.5 Plus and Corel® Painter X™. And while stocks last, anyone who orders a copy of Corel Painter X will receive a FREE Pantone huey stick.

Corel® Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2is the easiest way to get professional-looking photos fast. At the show offer price of just £63 (SRP £79), visitors can get their hands on this simple-to-use, yet sophisticated, photo editing tool. With everything from automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 gives you full-power image manipulation at an unrivalled price.

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 Adobe is pleased to announce the release of the first Beta version of Digital Editions 1.5.

You can find it here

    The Beta is an opportunity for customers to test and provide feedback to Adobe on new features and compatibility with their digital publications.

    The key feature of Digital Editions 1.5 is the addition of new DRM support that provides “content portability” across computers and devices that you authorize with your Adobe ID.

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By Scott Gilbertson
Adobe has announced it will discontinue Adobe Stock Photos, its royalty-free image service, which shipped as part of Adobe Bridge. Stock Photos will be shut down April 1, 2008.

First introduced as part of the Adobe CS2 package, Stock Photos was touted as a one-stop image shopping solution. The goal was to provide a convenient way for photographers to search across multiple image libraries at once and purchase royalty-free images.

Unfortunately for Adobe, it would seem that no one wanted Stock Photos.

Adobe has posted an FAQ that covers common questions about the closure, including what existing customers can expect. The short version is that you have until March 3 to search for images and until March 31 buy any image you’ve downloaded.

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XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce XTend-Xport and BatchXport for QuarkXPress v7. The main purpose of document extractors is to significantly reduce the manual work needed to create text and image content suitable for web and database applications. Using BatchXport or XTend-Xport means no endless configuration processes to create multi-use output from QuarkXPress document text.

Major Upgrade Features Improved Interface, Faster Browsing & Enhanced Image Processing

 Apple® today introduced Aperture™ 2, the next major release of its groundbreaking photo editing and management software with over 100 new features that make it faster, easier to use and more powerful. With a streamlined user interface and entirely new image processing engine, Aperture 2 also introduces new imaging tools for highlight recovery, color vibrancy, local contrast definition, soft-edged retouching, vignetting and RAW fine-tuning, and lets users directly post their portfolios on the .Mac Web Gallery* for viewing on the web, iPhone(TM), iPod(R) touch and Apple TV®. At a new low price of $199, anyone can easily organize, edit and publish photos like a pro.

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 PaperSpecs today announced a free webinar, sponsored by Neenah Paper, to re-introduce letterpress printing to a new generation of commercial and corporate designers, as well as print buyers. Due to its unique look and feel, Letterpress Printing is making a resurgence in demand. The one-hour webinar, titled “Impressed with Letterpress,” will explain and demonstrate how this methodical process can offer clients a renascence image. The webinar will begin on Tuesday, February 26th at 2:00 EST/11:00 PST. To attend the FREE webinar, prospective attendees can register at www.paperspecs.com/webinar/letterpress.htm.

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 Bare Bones Software, developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today released Yojimbo 1.5.1.

Yojimbo 1.5.1 is a maintenance update that includes fixes for various reported issues to this popular, easy to use information organizer. Yojimbo 1.5.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). An update is available free of charge to all registered Yojimbo customers from the Bare Bones Software web site:

http://www.barebones.com/support/updates.shtml

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Posted by Stephen Shankland | CNet News
An Icelandic photographer has for a second time encountered the ugly side of Internet photo sharing, finding photos she published at Yahoo’s Flickr site being sold by somebody else through the iStockphoto Web site.

Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir, a professional photographer, found a picture she took of three frolicking horses on iStockphoto, a “microstock” site that licenses images for relatively low prices.

“I mean for crying out loud, out of 31 images this particular user has on his ‘portfolio,’ 25 of them are mine, and at least 3 are of me,” she said in the caption for a screenshot of the iStockphoto page.

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Colortrac has released CopySmart v1.3H2, the latest version of their professional scan-to-copy software solution for accurately duplicating color technical drawings and maps, etc, as well as superb, full-color, reprographics artwork.

CopySmart screen with printed copy control of colored originals

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Corel has launched The Painter Factory, an online community for Painter artists and enthusiasts. This global community site is the newest in a series that Corel is launching to support its various user communities.

Through The Painter Factory, artists, designers, and photographers can share their ideas ad projects, find solutions to design challenges, and provide feedback on Painter to the product’s design, development and marketing teams. The site provides members with a centralised location where they can access community news, participate in discussions in the Painter Discussion section and download content from the Painter Resources area.

In addition, members can learn from some of Corel’s Painter Masters by reading their blogs on the site or viewing their latest works on the Factory Wall.

For more information see the Corel Web site.

Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of “press-ready” output and new approaches to page layout.

Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
Download the Latest Scribus v1.3.3.11

Download ScribusThis stable release adds the following:
Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
New Arabic Translation.
More translation and documentation updates.
Many improvements to PDF Forms exporting and non-Latin script handling in PDFs.
Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
Improved Color Managed Display in some cases.
Some fixes to the Scripting plugin.

Check out these fantastic guests on InsidemacRadio this week

Nathanial Wice the Co-Founderof miShare talks about how to transfer music between iPods without your Mac – http://www.mishare.com /

Philip Hodgetts from the Open TV Network talk about all the Mac POST News of the week – http://www.opentvnetwork.com /

Dan Budiac talks about how he bought an Apple II unopened in box 20 years later – http://www.flickr.com/photos/dansays /

Vitaly Petritchkovitch the Director of Digital Audio for Simply Audiobooks talks about there Audiobook Rental Program for the Mac http://www.SimplyAudiobooks.com /

Andy Shalat with his Mac Design Out Of The Box Tip of the week – http://www.shalat.com /

Jay Nelson the author of Design Tools talks about his HOT product picks from Macworld – http://www.design-tools.com

 Adobe Systems Incorporated was ranked No. 40 on FORTUNE magazine’s eleventh annual “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. Adobe was among the top companies included from the high-tech sector. In FORTUNE’s subcategory of medium companies (those with 2,500 to 10,000 U.S. employees), Adobe ranked No. 12. This marks the ninth time Adobe has been included on list. The full list and related stories are currently available at www.fortune.com and will be featured in FORTUNE’s Feb. 4, 2008, print issue, available on newsstands Jan. 28, 2008.

“Adobe is proud to be ranked on this distinguished list once again,” said Donna Morris, senior vice president, Human Resources at Adobe. “Our employees are the best in the business – passionate, innovative, collaborative and driven by a set of core values that makes Adobe a place where people want to build their careers.”

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iRite by WebAssist achieves unparalleled cross-browser rich text editing in Dreamweaver.

Encinitas (PRWEB) January 24, 2008 — WebAssist today announced iRite™, a groundbreaking solution for Dreamweaver users that delivers the ability to edit text for web pages in the same way that you would edit text using a word processor like Microsoft Word. Bringing a familiar editing paradigm to Dreamweaver will provide users, of varying skill levels, a comfortable alternative to editing text by hand or through complicated HTML tags.

Without the rich text editor capabilities that iRite brings to the table, all the formatting and HTML coding has to be added manually in an additional process.

Based on the highly popular FCKeditor open source project, iRite allows formatted content to be brought over directly to text fields in Dreamweaver, or text can be formatted in Dreamweaver using the point-and-click menu that provides all the same features as word processing programs.

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SANTA ANA, Calif.—January 24, 2008—Markzware, the leading developer of preflighting, data extraction and conversion software, announced today that Enfocus/Artwork has entered into a settlement agreement for its part in the patent infringement lawsuit Civil Action No. SACV07-461-JVS, filed in the Central District of California in May of 2007.

Technologies at issue included preflight products as described in the ‘641 patent. The agreement resolves all pending litigation between the companies. Details of the settlement are confidential.

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XChange International, the source for extended technology worldwide, are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MadeToPrint XT for QuarkXPress 7 (Macintosh and Windows) as well as MadeToPrint for InDesign CS/CS2 for Acrobat 8 compatibility. MadeToPrint is an award-winning output organisation tool that provides features such as batch processing, token-based file naming and flexible layer output that go beyond the host application¹s built-in output functionality. More than that, the XTension allows hotfolder based processing of Quark 7 files, thus enabling users to output QuarkXPress documents completely unattended.

MadeToPrint XT was developed to streamline and enhance one of the most neglected but vital aspects of QuarkXPress: printing. At its simplest, MadeToPrint XT combines all the aspects of a given print job into a simple selectable item. These can include: the desired printer on the network, any special settings required for that device, page setup configuration and print dialogue settings‹including custom separation definitions and registration-mark text and placement. Features include the ability to automatically update and relink images before the current Quark document is output.

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Feb 01, 2008 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) — Corel, a developer of graphics, productivity and digital media software, announced that the newest version of its graphics suite, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, is now fully integrated with Bitstream s WhatTheFont service and ConceptShare, two web applications that accelerate the design process by providing users with online access to font identification and client feedback.

In December, Corel and ConceptShare, a company advancing online collaboration, announced the launch of CorelDRAWConceptShare.com, a site where CorelDRAW users could share designs online and collaborate with clients and colleagues.

With the launch of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, the two companies have taken the partnership one step further, introducing the new CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker, an online collaboration tool that is fully integrated within CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.

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An Astounding New Plug-In for Adding and Designing Borders/Edges/Frames effects, more than 3000 frames and 1200 edges included

NEW MagicFrame 3000 Drawing Tools and Type effects plug-in for Windows XP/Vista or on Mac OS Universal Tiger / Leopard provides easy-to-use effects for all design and web-related projects

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Adding to its line of filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop® , Corel PhotoPaint® ,Human Software is now shipping its new release of MagicFrames 3000.

MagicFrames comes as a filter plug-in compatible with applications supporting Adobe Photoshop® 7 and above – including CS3 on Windows or Mac OS X Universal- MagicFrames works great also with Adobe Elements® , Corel PhotoPaint®, Paintshop and more

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Getty’s Images Inc, a global supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, is for sale. The sale could reach a forecasted price of $1.5 billion.

“While the evaluation process, including discussions with various interested parties, is ongoing, there can be no assurance that any transaction will occur,” the company said in a statement.

Getty’s shares soared on Tuesday after it acknowledged it is exploring strategic alternatives.

With the enlistment of investment bank, Goldman Sachs, to facilitate financial advice, several private equity firms have expressed interest in Getty, such as Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Getty’s Images Inc, a global supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, is for sale. The sale could reach a forecasted price of $1.5 billion. “While the evaluation process, including discussions with various interested parties, is ongoing, there can be no assurance that any transaction will occur,” the company said in a statement.

Getty’s shares soared on Tuesday after it acknowledged it is exploring strategic alternatives. With the enlistment of investment bank, Goldman Sachs, to facilitate financial advice, several private equity firms have expressed interest in Getty, such as Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The tightening of high-yield debt markets cutting off private equity firms from the lifeline of their businesses, makes it a challenge to finance deals. This results in non-assured deals.

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