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News Release from: DCP Systems | Subject: Photoshop And QuarkXPress software plug-ins
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 07 February 2007
Software Updates For Photoshop And
QuarkXPress
DCP Systems has introduced three new software updates from the Onone portfolio for Windows and Macintosh platforms.
DCP Systems has introduced three new software updates from the Onone portfolio for Windows and Macintosh platforms Four plug-ins for Photoshop are included - Photoframe 3, Mask Pro 4, Intellihance Pro and pxl Smartscale - as well as QX-Tools Pro 7, the new collection of QuarkXPress XTensions
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 22 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Darren Walker, DCP's sales director, said: "Onone software tools continue to develop as the sophistication and capability of essential software programs such as Photoshop and QuarkXpress progress.
These software plug-ins strive to make the functions of Photoshop and QuarkXpress faster, easier and more beneficial for the user.
These new versions from Onone bring even more capability, functions and efficiency to the benefits of Photoshop and QuarkXPress." Photoframe 3 is said to puts the finishing touch to pictures and graphics by adding borders and edge effects.
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The software includes over 2,000 natural and digital frames and also has the capability to create original frames for combination and customisation.
The Photoshop plug-in also enables experimentation with edge effects, colours, blend modes, shadows, textures and bevels, added the company.
In version 3, a new frame browser provides frame finding and selection.
A new frame preview grid simultaneously previews multiple frames and the new random frame generator automatically adds random frames, with favourites selectively saved for fast and easy future retrieval.
New Mask Pro version 4 is said to facilitate Photoshop in the creation of masks, selections and clipping paths on difficult and intricate areas, such as hair, glass and fog, maintaining transparency without edge haloing.
The plug-in's toolbox, according to DCP Systems, enables selection of the right tools for the job, for different parts of an image, with selection refinement in real time and background replacement.
New to version 4 are built-in video tutorials and tips for each tool palette.
The upgrade also features Wacom tablet support with users now able to take advantage of brush tool pressure sensitivity, increasing pressure on the Wacom pen, to vary the hardness and hence sharpness of the mask edge.
DCP Systems added that a new keep and drop detail palette enables the exact colours selected with the eye-dropper and highlighter tools to be viewed to see if the wrong colour has been selected and that the same colour is selected in both keep and drop areas.
Also new to Mask Pro 4 are improved navigation windows and additional tool improvements.
Multi-navigation windows can now be opened, each showing a different view from the original unmasked imaged, for example.
At the same time, the masked image against a solid colour background, above a new background, black and white masks and in the software's exclusive clean-up mask view, added DDCP System.
New tool improvements include seeing numerical values in tool palettes, auto-scrolling when the edge of the image is hit, a hot key to constrain the pen tool to 45O angles and enforcing highlighted zones, all making Mask Pro more functional for power users and easier to learn for novices, it is claimed.
The company added that Intellihance Pro 4 enables Javascript image enhancement and colour correction, enabling processing to make Photoshop images look their best.
The software automatically and simultaneously compares and prints up to 25 professional enhancement variations at once.
The plug-in can enhance digital images from any source and is said to be suitable for digital camera pictures.
The software interactively adjusts any setting including colour, contrast and sharpening in preparing its simulations for comparison.
Enhancement settings can be saved for future use and presets are available directly from the Photoshop menu for processing.
DCP said that pxl Smartscale provides image scaling with edge controls in increasing image size in Photoshop.
Tools enable size and resolution scaling, with previews in real time.
Quality can also be refined by controlling overall sharpness, edge contrast and edge detail, with image editing using the included crop tools.
The software adds extra control over image edges as size and resolution are increased.
At the same time, pxl Smartscale examines the image edges before scaling and after increasing in size, it provides the opportunity to fine tune edge treatment and sharpening control.
With the fine tuning ability, pxl Smartscale is claimed to be suitable for images with distinct edges, or for images with edge halos that need to be reduced or eliminated.
QX-Tools Pro version 7 is said to be time and cost saving software that features Xtensions to make everyday use of the QuarkXPress creative design software faster and easier.
This new update is fullye compatible with QuarkXPress 7, added the company.
The plug-in now includes QX-Find-Change, which allows users to queue several find-change commands in to a single process.
Also new to Version 7 are capabilities designed to improve QuarkXpress.
There is a new multiple text selection tool, QX-Superselect, QX-Underline for rule and line control and QX-Tips and Tricks.
The new QX-WYSIWYG palette displays all active fonts and QX-Drag And Drop provides drag and drop capability with even more scope, said DCP Systems.
All Onone Software's productivity and performance tools can be purchased on-line.
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