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.

 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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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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 GreenPrint Launches a Free Version with the Hope of Saving 100 Million Trees
With the tagline “Free to Be Green”, The World Edition will be available globally at no cost

(CSRwire) PORTLAND, OR — January 28, 2008 — GreenPrint Technologies announced today the launch of GreenPrint World, a new version of its paper-saving software available for free to home users worldwide. The company estimates that with widespread use the software could save over 100 million trees and reduce greenhouse gasses by over 300 million tons globally.

“Our goal is nothing short of ending wasteful printing worldwide,” said CEO Hayden Hamilton, “We believe that GreenPrint World provides the opportunity to do exactly that. It gives home users everywhere the ability to eliminate waste which helps the environment as well as their wallets.”

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Pantone and the color experts at X-Rite Color Services today announced the 2008 release of the company’s highly popular seminar “Color Control Freak”. With a completely revised curriculum, Color Control Freak 08 offers an in-depth understanding of color, its value in the design process, and techniques for proper reproduction.

Sponsored by Pantone, HP, Eizo and X-Rite, this one-day interactive seminar equips design professionals with the latest color knowledge and tools, exposing a new level of design freedom. Industry experts will teach attendees basics in color trends and psychology as well as how to collect, build and specify color that remains consistent from screen to print.

“Color is a key inspirational element in any design project. Choosing the right color is critical in portraying the intended message and creating the desired response. The right color can be motivational, emotional and very persuasive,” says Doris Brown, Vice President of Marketing at Pantone, Inc. “Accurately capturing the desired color, and reproducing it faithfully and consistently, is imperative in maintaining the intended message and integrity of the design project.”

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Pantone, Inc., the global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, announced the release of the summer 2009 edition of the PANTONE VIEW Colour Planner, its cross-discipline color forecasting tool, titled “Independence.”

Summer 2009 celebrates the spirit of independence and the promotion of individuality. Rather than follow any one specific trend in color, this season focuses on a state of mind and is largely influenced by sociological factors.

The changing world and emergence of new markets have resulted in many people taking a proactive stance in their personal contributions to the betterment of the world.

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Brand System Speeds Business Growth for a Newly-Debuted Technology Company

 San Francisco, CA— January 22, 2008 — Method, a leading brand experience agency, today announced the development of a comprehensive, multi-platform brand system for Organic Motion, a venture-accelerated Method client, and a leading innovator of computer vision and highly advanced markerless motion capture systems. Debuted at SIGGRAPH 2007 and featured in the CES 2008 Keynote presentation with Intel CEO Paul Otellini, the new brand system includes new identity marks, business papers, marketing brochures, product naming and a web site to fully communicate the value and reach of Organic Motion’s breakthrough technology.

 Organic Motion has brought to market the world’s first turnkey markerless motion capture system for the entertainment and life sciences industries, as well as a customized offering for use with the general public. The new line of products harnesses the company’s core computer vision technology, enabling computers to cognitively “see” people’s complex movements and generate highly accurate 3D tracking data in real-time, all without body suits or tracking devices.

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X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) – Pantone and the color experts at X-Rite Color Services today announced the 2008 release of the company’s highly popular seminar “Color Control Freak”. With a completely revised curriculum, Color Control Freak 08 offers an in-depth understanding of color, its value in the design process, and techniques for proper reproduction.

Sponsored by Pantone, HP, Eizo and X-Rite, this one-day interactive seminar equips design professionals with the latest color knowledge and tools, exposing a new level of design freedom. Industry experts will teach attendees basics in color trends and psychology as well as how to collect, build and specify color that remains consistent from screen to print.

“Color is a key inspirational element in any design project. Choosing the right color is critical in portraying the intended message and creating the desired response. The right color can be motivational, emotional and very persuasive,” says Doris Brown, Vice President of Marketing at Pantone, Inc. “Accurately capturing the desired color, and reproducing it faithfully and consistently, is imperative in maintaining the intended message and integrity of the design project.”

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X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ:XRIT) – The color experts at X-Rite Color Services today announced the 2008 release of it’s well-known and newly updated Fundamentals of Color and Appearance seminar.

This one-day seminar is tailored for quality control & assurance professionals, lab technicians, parts suppliers, manufacturing specifiers, or anyone who evaluates or approves color. Attendees establish a solid foundation in color and appearance science. From the physics of color to lighting, spectrophotometers and color data, attendees learn how to measure, view and understand color data. Taught by X-Rite color experts, the seminar is easy to understand and applicable to nearly every industry and business.

The one-day course requires no prior color training and will address color control for a variety of industries, including retail and apparel brands, business and consumer electronics, automotive, packaging and their related industries in plastics, coatings and textile manufacturing.

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Album DS the easiest, most feature complete tool for professional photographers to produce panoramic albums, today announced that Album DS 5.0 My Designer Edition has been honored with Professional Photographer magazine’s 2008 Hot One Award. The Hot One Awards honor the photographic industry’s best new products for professional photographers. This award marks the first entry for Album DS which just made it’s official North American debut in October 2007.

Jeff Kent, Professional Photographer magazine, Hot One Editor, also recognized the significance of this achievement: “As the Hot One Awards continue to expand, the competition for each category has heated up accordingly. For the 2008 awards, we had more than 220 total products entered in 58 categories by nearly 150 companies. That makes the 2008 Hot One Awards one of the biggest, most comprehensive photographic product competitions in the industry. Winners of a 2008 Hot One Award should be proud that they have achieved recognition in such a competitive and high-profile award process.”

The contest was judged by a panel of 18 professional photographers voting on categories that fit within their areas of expertise. The judges voted on products based on many criteria including ease of use, suitability to task, workflow, and support.

“I am absolutely thrilled with Album DS’ win, especially since we just entered the North American market,” said Bryan Linden, Vice President Marketing, Album DS. “We’ve worked very hard to make Album DS the most comprehensive photographic design product available and the fact that it works from within Photoshop(TM) a product photographers already know and love means a short learning curve for our program and true Photoshop power with Album DS ease of use. We’re very pleased with the designs My Designer Studios did for this special edition and we want to give special thanks to Dawn Erney, the lead designer for My Designer Studios.”

“With the My Designer Edition of Album DS we offer far more than just wedding album designs and also provide photographers with cards, sports traders, baby products, senior products, and more,” said Alejandro Fresno Meyer, President and lead developer, Album DS. “I ‘m really happy to be honored by this award and want to specifically thank Dawn for her fantastic designs and Bryan for his efforts introducing Album DS in North America. Album DS was born as a tool for the creative but time limited photographer who wants to easily create astonishing albums. Our main goal is to help them get to this point as soon as possible with outstanding support. We get great feedback and keep integrating customer workflow and suggestions into every release of Album DS.”

The 2008 Hot One Award winners will be highlighted in the upcoming February 2008 issue of Professional Photographer magazine. Additional information on the 2008 Hot One Awards and winners is available on Professional Photographer’s website at www.ppmag.com.

Album DS 5.0 My Designer Edition is available immediately for purchase and download from www.albumds.com and is $449.00 including more than 1070 templates all of which are automatically resizable to any album format from any manufacturer, 200 masks and sloppy borders, 560 frames, tons of special effects beyond standard b/w and sepia of most products, clipart, high resolution backgrounds and support that is happy to help and easy to reach. Any aspect of any template is quick to modify and building templates from scratch is not only possible but easy.

Simply put, Album DS will make professional photographers more productive at producing albums and will likely help inspire photographers who use it to produce albums that are just as beautiful as they are easy to design. Albums can be printed via professional lab or in-house and Album DS makes it easy to resize albums from one aspect ratio to another even after design.

Album DS is developed in Valencia Spain by Art Fotografic and has been available since early 2006. Used extensively throughout Europe and Latin America Album DS has in a very short time developed into the most flexible tool for album design available today. With a solid commitment to service and support, Album DS is poised to be a global leader for professional album design.

Album DS 5.0, Makes creating panoramic wedding albums a breeze from within Adobe Photoshop(TM) a program professionals already know and love. Album DS is very easy to use even for those with limited Photoshop experience and acts like a album design dashboard from within Photoshop. Version 5.0 adds several new features including Album Easy effects, ability to load most Photoshop actions as Album DS buttons and so much more. Album DS is developed in Valencia Spain by Art Fotografic and has been available since early 2006. Used throughout Europe and Latin America Album DS has in a very short time developed into the most flexible tool for album design available today. With a solid commitment to service and support, Album DS is poised to be a global leader for professional album design.

Collages.net was recently honored with its seventh, eighth, and ninth Hot One awards from Professional Photographer magazine.

Langhorne, PA, January 08, 2008 –(PR.com)– Collages.net was recently honored with its seventh, eighth, and ninth Hot One awards from Professional Photographer magazine. Winning first place in three categories of the prestigious competition – display item, website, and online printing/order fulfillment service – Collages.net was recognized for its gallery wraps, its Build Your Brand marketing campaign, and collagesDesktop™ + collagesColor™.

“We are very excited about the award from Professional Photographer, most especially because it reaffirms our belief that photographers are looking for creative, innovative, and flexible products from a company committed to high quality and excellent customer service,” stated Director of Product Development, Deirdre Gillin.

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New, free tool supported by the Kuler community provides Dreamweaver users with latest access to colors
 WebAssist today announced the release of the free Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler, enabling instant access to the most recent, popular, or highest-rated colors and palettes right within Dreamweaver. With development contributions and support from the Adobe Kuler community, users can now experience the best in color choices and palette selections through Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler.

Kuler is the Adobe web application for designers to create, explore, and share color schemes. WebAssist’s Dreamweaver Tools for Kuler enables users to get the latest colors and sample colors from any Dreamweaver color picker. In addition, users can now insert a hex color value into code with a single mouse click.

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IT Enquirer Releases Basic Quark Job Jackets Training Pack, a Multimedia Tutorial Showing How To Create and Use Job Jackets
 The IT Enquirer, a leading cross-media publishing industry website, has just released a Basic Multimedia Training Pack that teaches users of QuarkXPress 7 how to use Quark Job Jackets. The Basic Training Pack teaches QuarkXPress 7 users how they can simplify their workflow and save time with Job Jackets and Tickets. The Basic Quark Job Jackets Training Pack also outlines how to create Job Jackets from scratch for more advanced usage.

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 Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) today unveiled the most sweeping transformation of its corporate identity in the company’s history. The new brand is designed to reflect today’s Xerox, a customer-centric company built on a continuing history of innovative ideas, products and services that meet the needs of businesses small to large.

“We have transformed Xerox into a business that connects closely with customers in a content-rich digital marketplace,” said Anne M. Mulcahy, Xerox chairman and chief executive officer. “Our new brand reflects who we are, the markets we serve and the innovation that differentiates us in our industry. We have expanded into new markets, created new businesses, acquired new capabilities, developed technologies that launched new industries — all to ensure we make it easier, faster, and less costly for our customers to share information.”

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Registered members of gulli.com are offered a gulli.com email address with 5 GB space, POP3-, IMAP- and web mail-support in cooperation with Google Mail. gulli is Google’s first partner of this size in Germany offering this service.

Bochum, Germany (PRWEB) December 27, 2007 — Registered members of gulli.com are offered a gulli.com email address with 5 GB space, POP3-, IMAP- and web mail-support in cooperation with Google Mail. gulli is Google’s first partner of this size in Germany offering this service.

The newly launched gulli:mail-Accounts feature 5 Gigabyte storage, effective spam protection, POP3 and IMAP. With support for mobile phones and smartphones, the service is primed for the upcoming mobile age of the internet.

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The 2008 Lyra Imaging Symposium will feature unrivaled market research analysis and forecasts focused on office and enterprise printer, copier, and MFP devices and the services and solutions that drive them. The conference will be held Mon., Jan. 28 to Wed., Jan. 30, 2008 at the newly remodeled Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, California. For more event information, visit http://www.lyra.com/symposium

Newton, MA (PRWEB) January 3, 2008 — The 2008 Lyra Imaging Symposium will feature definitive digital imaging market research analysis and forecasts on office and enterprise printer, copier, and MFP devices and the services and solutions that drive them. Thought-provoking presentations from recognized industry leaders will complement Lyra’s analyst presentations. The conference will be held Mon., Jan. 28 to Wed., Jan. 30, 2008 at the fully remodeled Rancho Las Palmas Resort and Spa in Rancho Mirage, California. The theme of this year’s conference is “New Technologies Challenging the Business Model.” Adobe Systems will return as the official event sponsor, and Global Graphics Software will kick off its 2008 worldwide conferences sponsorship at the Symposium. Early registrations indicate that the 2008 Symposium attendance will exceed last year’s record turnout. To register, visit http://www.lyra.com/symposium

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Collaboration Pairs Two Pioneers in Open Standards-Based Enterprise Technology

Quark Inc. and Alfresco Software, Inc. today announced a new partnership to develop integrated enterprise-class publishing and content management solutions for professional and corporate publishers.

With 15 years of workgroup publishing experience, Quark has designed technologies such as Quark Publishing System 7® (QPS® 7) to streamline the editorial and creative workflow processes while improving production. Alfresco, the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management (ECM), couples the innovation of open source with the stability of an enterprise-class platform.

This new partnership will enable Quark and Alfresco to provide cost-effective end-to-end content management and publishing solutions based on open standards – enabling seamless integration with an organization’s existing business system. Publishers will benefit from Quark and Alfresco’s combined technologies which are both highly scalable, easy to deploy, and enable real-time collaboration and timely content delivery.

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Nitro PDF Software, the company that revolutionized PDF software with its launch of the first true alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, today announced the acquisition of PDF Download, one of the Web’s most popular PDF products. The free Firefox extension helps millions of users regain control over the PDF files they encounter online, making browser crashes and slow downloads a thing of the past, while offering a free PDF-to-HTML conversion service.

CA (PRWEB) December 20, 2007 — Nitro PDF Software, the company that revolutionized PDF software with its launch of the first true alternative to Adobe® Acrobat®, today announced the acquisition of PDF Download, one of the Web’s most popular PDF products.

The free Firefox extension — one of the most popular of all time — helps millions of users regain control over the PDF files they encounter online, making browser crashes and slow downloads a thing of the past, while offering a free PDF-to-HTML conversion service.

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The Industry Measure today released the latest results of its twice-yearly survey of the graphic design and production markets, the most recent in a series of surveys that the company has conducted since 1996. The 246-page report contains the results of an extensive mail survey of the creative markets, and features The Industry Measure’s standard “boilerplate” questions about Business Conditions, Business Challenges, Sales Opportunities, and Planned Investments (as well as 12-month Investment Projections of more than 100 equipment, hardware, and software categories, including expected number of units shipped and dollar values). The Winter 2007/2008 survey also asked several specialty questions on such topics as stock photography (how many images per month creative companies buy as well as how much they spend); the extent to which creative companies are working on wide-format output projects, what the top applications are, and where those jobs are output; the perceived effects of and responses to the recent postal rate hike; the extent to which creative companies are working on multichannel marketing projects for clients, and which media channels comprise those projects; and more.

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