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Software
Adobe will be demonstrating Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and offering inspirational tips to visitors on how to improve digital workflows.

For more than two decades, the company can safely claim that its award-winning software and technologies have set new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content across multiple media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident in whichever industry they are applied.

Like many exhibitors, Corel isn’t saying much about its plans for the show but visitors can expect to be able to check out the recently launched Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo XI, which is already winning awards, and also Snapfire, a free program which makes it easier than ever to create and share photo slideshows. Corel has also made some big improvements to its online stores, with a sleek new look-and-feel and a shorter checkout process, making it simpler to buy software.

Ideal Gallery offers a complete website design service for keen amateurs and professional photographers which provides “great features at an affordable monthly cost”. Due for launch in January 2007, the service offers a range of options which users can choose. These include complete website design, with which photographers can use quality predefined templates to create web pages themselves and control the content, a Photo Gallery Management System, which allows photographers to display and sell their work online, and Personal Wedding Websites through which wedding photographers can provide their clients with their own website.

Focus newcomer Niche Publishing Systems will be showing two new products for professional photographers who need to manage the publication, sale and transmission of their images. The company, a major supplier of software solutions to the UK newspaper industry, has extensive experience and an innovative approach which has resulted in a suite of groundbreaking and future-proof solutions in keeping with the evolving needs of newspaper publishers.

Niche Publishing Systems has developed a range of Media Publishing products to help newspaper publishers in their transition to the media houses of tomorrow.

imWIP provides a quick and easy solution for wireless image processing, allowing press-ready photographs to be uploaded to the newspaper or web just minutes after they’ve been taken. It doesn’t matter where photographers are. All they need is a GPRS signal, which means they are no longer reliant on the messy handling of laptop computers in all weathers trying to plug in expansion cards or relying on expensive third party software.

Then there’s PhotoPilot, professional online photo-sales solution with no software to install, and automatic optimising, resizing and watermarking of images to make file transfers a breeze. Administration is easy with pricing schemes and point of sale at users’ fingertips, giving photographers total control over the online sale of their images.

In the middle of December 2006, Photodex Corporation unveiled the next generation of its award-winning slide show software, ProShow Gold, the industry-leading slide show creation software for consumers. Its ease-of-use and rich feature set have made it an irreplaceable tool for any digital photography consumer. With features like multiple slide layers, enhanced video output and enriched motion effects, the new ProShow Gold 3.0 raises the bar for what consumers can create with their digital photos.

ProShow Gold 3.0 makes it easy to turn ordinary digital photos into a slide show masterpiece. Motion effects, like pan, zoom and rotate, make still photos come to life. Users can edit their photos, videos and music directly in ProShow Gold 3.0, saving time and making it easier to customize their slide show.

Accredited exclusively by the MPA and the BIPP, PhotographerOnThe.net prides itself on customer service and attention to detail supporting its stunning collection of website designs and feature rich functionality. And now the company has chosen but Focus-On-Imaging as the chosen venue for the launch of its new product “Site Creator”.
Simple instructions take users through how to modify content and the appearance of their chosen design with ease and gives them the ability to edit their site whenever they wish. PAS, the Photographer Administration System, provides all the functionality photographers expect including multiple image re-sequencing, automated thumbnail creation, watermark application, password protection, gallery visitor counters and more! Alternatively if they already have a website and want to take advantage of the PAS functionality, it can be integrated into that website for a low monthly cost.

Photojunction software has been developed to help portrait and wedding photographers organise and display their images, design their albums efficiently and creatively and process their orders automatically. It offers a complete solution for portrait and wedding photographers, including close integration with many album vendors, preparing orders and print-ready image files for any printing lab, creating electronic outputs like slideshows and web pages, and interfacing to Photoshop. Photojunction is fully supported (on-line, free-phone, tutorial movies and PDF guide) and is available by purchase or subscription.