New Photo Editing and Image Processing Software Named "Best of Show" at Macworld Expo

Palo Alto, CA & San Francisco Macworld Expo 2006 (PRWEB) January 13, 2006

Light Crafts, Inc. today announced that its breakthrough photo editing software LightZone has received a Macworld Best of Show Award, representing the most exciting hardware and software products announced at Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco.

LightZone provides a complete photo editing tool that significantly reduces the time photographers spend after a shoot, producing high quality photographs. LightZone offers photographers an advanced RAW editing experience that is easy to use while delivering a highly integrated editing environment that produces professional results.

Designed and built from the ground up for professionals, LightZone for Mac OS X is available as a free 30-day trial at http://www.lightcrafts.com. LightZone will be available for Windows in late January.

LightZone is a better way to view, manage, edit and correct digital photographs and create stunning photographic and fine art prints. Based on light values and shapes, LightZone works in the same way that photographers think about their photographs. The technology behind LightZone was first previewed at DEMOfall 2005, where it received the DEMOGod Award. Because of its multi-platform support, LightZone users will be able to quickly become productive, regardless of their computers operating system, and seamlessly collaborate and share files edited in LightZone.

"Were proud that LightZone has received recognition by the leading Macintosh conference that showcases the top creative solutions for professionals, said Dean Tucker, CEO and president of Light Crafts. LightZone is the answer for photographers who want to spend more time on photography and less time learning paint-shop software. LightZone releases photographers from the tedious technology of the past and gives them more time to express their creativity. We built LightZone with professional photographers in mind, so professionals get the power they want, yet its easy enough for avid photographers to use.

LightZone is full of pleasant surprises for first-time users, said Lars Vinberg, professional photographer and director of product management for Light Crafts. One of the surprises is its performance. While traditional photography software grinds to a halt when editing and processing large image files, LightZone rapidly hums along through the editing process.

Integrated Solution Optimizes Photo Editing, Workflow and Output

LightZone provides serious photographers with a tightly integrated digital workflow to help them make the most efficient use of their time viewing, organizing, editing, correcting and printing their photographs. LightZone provides a tightly integrated editing environment to help photographers make the most efficient user of their time viewing, organizing, editing, correcting and printing their photographs. Key features in LightZone include:

StudioZone

An innovative image viewer and file browser, StudioZone lets photographers view, print and publish their photographs using a true digital negative format. A powerful search function, with metadata search, helps you find specific images in an instant. An integrated RAW converter provides a seamless transition from camera media to LightZone.

ZoneFinder

Using patent-pending technology, ZoneFinder analyzes and displays an image in shapes and tonal values, just as photographers pre-visualize their prints.

ZoneMapper

ZoneMapper provides an easier way to control and adjust the light and tonal values of an image. ZoneMapper is the most powerful way to precisely remap tonal values for color correction, to set the optimal points for highlights and shadows, and to correct contrast.

RegionMapper

RegionMapper simplifies selecting even the most complicated regions of an image and it expertly blends the effects of the tools and transformations with the rest of the image. This simple technique provides extraordinarily precise and accurate control of the area being edited.

True Non-Destructive Editing

LightZones non-destructive image processing engine does not alter any portion of the original image file, so photographers can modify or delete changes at any point in their workflow. LightZone treats an original image as a digital negative, so the original image file is always unchanged. And the transformations made to the photograph are saved in a way that tells the application how to display or print the modified photograph. Now photographers can create multiple versions of an image without duplicating files or using up large amounts of hard drive space.

Linear Color Space

LightZone works in linear color space instead of a gamma-corrected color space, allowing more precise calculations for consistent color and predictable results on a display or on paper.

Pricing and Availability

LightZone is available for Mac OS X immediately at http://www.lightcrafts.com for $ 249.95 (U.S. Suggested List Price). LightZone will be available for Windows in late January. Customers also have the option of downloading a free 30-day trial version. LightZone for Mac OS X supports Mac OS X v.10.3.9 or later. LightZone for Windows supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

About Light Crafts, Inc.

Light Crafts, based in Palo Alto, develops digital photo processing software for professional and prosumer photographers. For more information, visit http://www.lightcrafts.com

Light Crafts, LightZone, StudioZone, ZoneFinder, ZoneMapper and RegionMapper are trademarks of Light Crafts, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Dean Tucker

CEO and President

650-331-1989

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Jackman Communications

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According To Riverview Software Solutions, Winter Storm Season is Almost Here -- Broadcasters And Emergency Services Need To Be Prepared

Guntersville, Alabama (PRWEB) November 19, 2011

Riverview Software Solutions provides a software application named "Disaster Resource Navigator" to provide diaster preparedness and assist during disaster recovery efforts.

The Disaster Resource Navigator software application provides an organized method of keeping track of important information and provides quick navigation of local resources offering critical services and supplies such as food, water, ice, shelters, generators and fuel. With the Disaster Resource Navigator, this information is just a mouse click away saving valuable time for the broadcast staff, listeners and viewers.

The Disaster Resource Navigator eliminates having piles of notes to sort through or lose during a natural disaster or emergency.

The Disaster Resource Navigator application is intuitive for radio and TV broadcasters of all levels of experience. Minimal typing is required with only 3 data fields. All data is automatically saved - no buttons to click, just enter the data on the fly and it will be saved automatically.

The Disaster Resource Navigator user interface provides a simple and intuitive interface for the user. Users can click on a category and the Resource List is instantly populated with all resources providing that particular service. Hot buttons are provided for immediate access to the most critical information.

The application includes a U.S. state, county and city database which can be setup for specific defaults and favorites - minimizing the number of items on the drop-down selection lists. Built in category lists are provided and new categories can be added as needed. The software also includes an activity logger to easily comply with FCC reporting requirements.

The software design is based on a "Real Life" scenario. In April 2011, tornadoes devastated many areas in Alabama with a record breaking 53 in one day throughout the state. Riverview Software Solutions is located in the northeastern section of the state where nine of the 53 caused severe damage.

A local FM station operated under FCC emergency broadcast rules for many days and fielded numerous phone calls from the general public, local businesses and other local service agencies. The FM station became a crucial communications hub that helped citizens find much needed supplies and provided the location of resources throughout the area.

Riverview Software Solutions design team monitored this activity and discovered that after days of taking notes and relaying information, the station staff had so many notes and occasionally, finding the desired information for callers was starting to take a considerable amount of time. There had to be a better way so the Riverview team set out to develop this software application.

Should a natural disaster strike a community in the future, having the Disaster Resource Navigator will be an essential tool for quickly providing information to the public.

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Wrike's Collaboration Software Included in Leading Analyst Firm's PPM Market Research

San Jose, CA (PRWEB) June 09, 2011

This year, Gartner recognized project collaboration as an integral part of effective project portfolio management and included a special report on collaboration tools in PPM Market Universe. The research is focused on reviewing techniques and tools for organizing the work of vitrutal teams. The worlds leading IT research and advisory company reviews Wrikes project collaboration workspace application.

It is impossible to underestimate the importance and scope of remote collaboration. According to Gartner, By 2015, 75 percent of knowledge-based project work in the Global 2000 will be completed by distributed virtual teams. This trend isnt new; however, not everyone has adjusted to it, and in many companies with virtual teams, the collaboration infrastructure is something that happened by accident, rather than design, as the research note states. These companies are still looking for an efficient solution to handle the challenges of virtual collaboration. Wrikes powerful social features help teams efficiently collaborate even if they cant have regular face-to-face meetings and direct communication.

A recent case study shows how inlevel, a successful IT company awarded with a European Union innovation grant, has found in Wrike an easy and efficient way to collaborate virtually with 20+ external partners. Wrike has become an easily accessible central hub for the team that accumulates project data and takes off the managers shoulders a big share of administrative work. The way the data automatically flows into Wrikes workspace keeps us all organized because we always know where to find the info that we need, and I dont need to spend time and effort on communicating the plan updates to the team members, comments Maciej Janiec, CEO at inlevel.

Offering its project management and collaboration service for more than five years, Wrike has become an irreplaceable tool not only for inlevel, but for thousands customers all over the globe, including such internationally renowned brands as Ecco, eBay, Kraft Foods and Salesforce. A lot of Wrike customers deal with a distributed workforce, and their experience of achieving fantastic results through remote collaboration, even when miles and time zones separate colleagues, is the best proof that Wrike is a perfect match for virtual teams. Every day, more and more teams get the maximum efficiency in remote collaboration with Wrike, says Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike.

To read the full version of the June 6, 2011 Gartner research note PPM Market UNIVERSE: Techniques and Tools for Project Collaboration, please go to http://www.gartner.com.

For more information on Wrike, please visit http://www.wrike.com.

About Wrike

Wrike is the leading social project management software. It helps thousands of companies, including eBay, Kraft Foods and Ecco, efficiently get things done together in real time. Wrike, Inc. has patents pending. Wrike, Inc. is a privately held corporation located in California.

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Update to Xpress Schedule Staff Scheduling Software Adds New Features, Refinements

Escondido, CA (PRWEB) January 13, 2006

Actoris Software, Inc. announced the planned release of Xpress Schedule 1.1. This first update comes only two months after the introduction of Xpress Schedule in November of 2005. Xpress Schedule is an easy-to-use software staff scheduling tool that is offered at an affordable price - two features that are key to the philosophy of Actoris Software.

Xpress Schedule's exciting new features were demonstrated this week at the 2006 MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, CA. The impressive list of new features included in version 1.1 include the ability to print graphical views of schedules, interactive calculations of scheduled hours during the scheduling process, support for international date formats, improvements to printed schedules, a new two week schedule report, an integrated software update function, the ability to email schedules, and other refinements to improve usability and customer satisfaction.

"The release of Food Cost Manager version 1.1 provides an exciting list of enhancements only two months after our product introduction," said Michael Munden, chief executive officer of Actoris Software. "These new features deliver new functionality that will save time, improve customer satisfaction and provide managers with valuable staffing benefits.

Xpress Schedule is the first staff scheduling solution for the Macintosh, and the only cross-platform solution available for the Windows and Macintosh OS X platforms. Information stored in Xpress Schedule can be used transparently on either platform.

Xpress Schedule 1.1 will begin shipping on January 20, 2006. A trial version of Xpress Schedule version 1.1 will be available for download at http://www.actorissoftware.com beginning January 20, 2006. Existing customers will receive a free upgrade to the new version. Product pricing for the Macintosh and Windows platforms remain at $ 99.00. A cross-platform package is available for $ 175.00 that includes both products.

About Actoris Software, Inc.

Actoris Software development business productivity solutions for users of the Windows and Macintosh OS X operating systems. Actoris Software, Inc. is located in Escondido, California, and sales offices in Utah, and Malaga, Spain. Visit us at http://www.actorissoftware.com for more information

Actoris, the Actoris logo, and Xpress Schedule are trademarks of Actoris Software, Inc. Additional company and product trademarks may be trademarks of the individual companies and are respectfully acknowledged.

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