Axialis IconWorkshop v6.20 Corporate Edition

Axialis IconWorkshop v6.20 Corporate Edition - May 8,2008 (formerly AX-Icons) - is a powerful tool designed to Create, Extract, Convert, Manage and Redistribute WindowsIcons. It has a fully integrated workspace that permits you to work efficiently and create professional icons in minutes.

Create professional Windows icons: - Full support for Windows Vista PNG-compressed icons.
IconWorkshop loads, creates, edits, saves Vista icons. Microsoft Vista, the next version of Windows to arrive, includes a new PNG compressed icon format. It permits to create icons up to 256x256 with alpha channel with smaller file size.
Axialis IconWorkshop now fully supports this new format in all features: edition, automatic format creation, batch creation, batch conversion, format normalization... Don't wait and create today your icons for Vista.
Create quality icons for Windows and Macintosh OS:
- Axialis IconWorkshop is the first icon editor which permits to create Windows and Macintosh icons. You can easily create icons for both systems. IconWorkshop creates Windows icons up to XP and Macintosh icons up to 256x256 Tiger (Mac OS 10.4). Windows XP and Mac OSX come with a generations of icons using variable transparency. This feature permits to create beautiful icons with smooth borders and shadows. You need a professional tool to create such icons. Axialis IconWorkshop has been designed with one goal in mind: "Icon Quality". Enjoy the powerful editor which permits to create the various image formats of an icon from an original drawing without quality loss.
Convert icons between Macintosh and Windows - Macintosh designers are prolific, especially when it comes to icon creation. Use IconWorkshop to read Mac icons and convert them to Windows. It reads all kind of Mac icons up to Tiger (OSX 10.4).
If you're a software developer, you'll enjoy the ability to create applications for both Windows and Macintosh platforms by converting your icons. If you're simply a Windows user you'll be able to use Mac icons on your XP desktop.
This new version includes a feature which permits to convert icons between the two systems in batch-processing mode (several icons are converted in one fast operation). IconWorkshop fully supports MacBinary file format. It permits to easily transfer icons between Macintosh and Windows.
Automatically create icons from images - Axialis IconWorkshop features a powerful editor. But sometimes it's easier to create an icon from an existing image. Basically, you can import all kind of existing images: PSD, PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF...
An exclusive feature permits to create an icon, with its several image formats, in just one operation! All is done automatically: Alpha channel is preserved, palettes are calculated for 256 color formats and even 16 color formats with transparency are generated.

Export icons to images to illustrate your applications - If you create applications, you know that images are required to create an attractive user interface. IconWorkshop permits to export any image included in an icon (Windows/Mac) to an external bitmap file. You'll be able to easily use these images in your program to create beautiful toolbars for example.
NOTE: The Corporate Edition lets you compile icon libraries and distribute them for commercial and/or profit purpose without royalties. When you place a corporate order you receive a Fully Working Version of the program by mail or e-mail. You will be authorized to install the program on several computers according to the number of copies you ordered.

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onOne Software FocalPoint v1.0 - plug-in for Adobe Photoshop

Portland, OR May 8, 2008 onOne Software, Inc., announces today that its new software plug-in for Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements - FocalPoint v1.0 - is now available for immediate download.

onOne Software's FocalPoint is a selective focus and vignetting plug-in designed to help photographers easily blur and/or vignette areas of an image. Popular among professional wedding, portrait and commercial photographers, the soft defocused look typically produced in camera by using special selective focus or tilt-shift lenses, filters or vignetting hoods can now be created quickly within Photoshop using onOne Software's new FocalPoint.

This new plug-in provides both professional and advanced amateur photographers with additional creative options when editing their images in Photoshop.
FocalPoint provides photographers with a way to create realistic depth of field control, plane of focus control and selective focus to any image after it is photographed allowing for more control and precision. The plug-in's unique FocusBug control has a tangible, hardware feel much like adjusting a lens. This special on-screen control makes it fast for a photographer to choose the "sweet spot" of focus either in a round aperture shape or a planar aperture shape and then control how much and what kind of blur they would like to add. Blur choices include a standard defocused look as well as a blur that simulates motion. This has a huge benefit over hardware tools like auxiliary lenses and filters because it allows the photographer to control the focus and blur after the image is taken, giving them more control and requiring fewer shots in camera. FocalPoint uses the same FocusBug controls to allow the photographer to simultaneously selectively blur as well as lighten or darken the areas outside of the "sweet spot" of focus.
FocalPoint can also be used just for vignetting without blurring the image at all. In addition, the FocusBug allows users to tilt the chosen "sweet spot" aperture in 3D, simulating the tilt effect of a view camera or tilt-shift lens. This allows users to increase or decrease the amount of feathering or blur across a plane. And once a photographer has created an effect they like, they can save it as a preset so they can easily recall it.
FocalPoint remembers all of the settings applied including the relative size and position of the FocusBug so users can apply it to similar images without having to make any additional adjustments. By using Photoshop actions to access a FocalPoint preset photographers can even batch process an entire folder of images.
FocalPoint is designed for use with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Elements and supports Adobe Photoshop CS2 and CS3 and Elements versions 4.0.1, 5, 6 and higher.

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GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD v.11 HOTFIX 1210 - UPGRADE ONLY

NOTE: This Hotfix corrects a bug in the Interactive Schedule Add-On that causes incorrect values in zone schedules. (bug ref. no. #75784).
This Hotfix can only be applied to ArchiCAD 11 Build 1200!
If you are updating from an erlier build of ArchiCAD 11, please install
Hotfix-1200 first.