Reader Mail & Rumor Report-October 22, 2005:

In today's reader mail and rumor report-rumors include:Babya Presenter Pro, and a Babya DTP package at November 6's media event.


Babya Media Event:

While the announcement of Babya Photo Workshop 10.5 & Babya Photo Workshop XL 11.5 are expected at the event, we've received word that Babya Presenter 3.0, plus Babya Presenter Pro 3.0 with support for audio & images slideshow (previously rumored) will also be announced.

Babya Presenter Pro:
A official screenshot of Babya Presenter is below, suggesting that the development recently finished and ready for release at the media event:

From the offical Babya Software Group blog:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/babyasoftwaregr

The tagline for v. 3.0 is: "Slideshows on the go"

Screenshot:

http://img473.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bpresent301ok.jpg

Babya Publisher:
A easy to use Babya DTP package will also be released at the event, Alvin Novick (Product Manager for Digital Media) provided a screenshot of it as well:

http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/7145/bpws105publishrint2vr.jpg

Tagline "DTP with the ease of Babya Photo Workshop"

Basically it's going to a page layout application featuring a intergrated Babya Photo Workshop (a cut-down version-no support for custom color palettes ).

The intergrated Babya Photo Workshop has several new features, according to Alvin:

"About the built-in Babya Photo Workshop:

• New airbrush tool
• Can open and roundtrip files (eg. you could open a image in Publisher, edit it there and import that in to Photo Workshop) from Babya Photo Workshop Professional and Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL.
• File/standard and paint tool icons arragned vertically
• Image tracing
• Smudge brush
• Different text placement-a text box is placed first, whereas in the standalone Babya Photo Workshop, text is put on the canvas last.
• Text options-new 3D effect option
• Fill patterns
• "Hollow" shape option is called "Clear"
• No Magic wand tool for color changing
• Visual zoom tool
• Comic book creation (create your own Jhonen Vasquez style comics)-word balloons

I think the last one is a very fun new addition-you'll spend hours creating your own comics with it.

Thanks,

Alvin Novick

Product Manager for Digital Media "

That's it for today's reader mail & rumor report. We'll recap the expected announcements-as the event nears , cover the media event itself and finally we'll put up a rumor winners & losers list as well

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-October 20, 2005

In this week's reader mail & rumor report-we report on rumors about new versions of Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Photo Workshop XL and a media event for Babya graphics applications in November.

Babya Photo Workshop & Babya Photo Workshop XL:

According to the official Babya blog (,http://www.livejournal.com/users/babyasoftwaregr) Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Photo Workshop XL will be updated in November, and at the January Babya Expo :

A new version of Babya Photo Workshop-version 10.5 is expected be released in November with a new image masking feature.

Babya Photo Workshop XL will receive a major upgrade-to version 11.0 at the Babya Expo in early January.

I'd also like to let you know that Babya Album 2 is now included.

New Babya software next month?:

A invite to a Babya media event has been sent out to various Babya forums . It reads

"Join us for a special event on November 6, as we present the latest innovations in Babya software"

What will be announced at the event is not clear-sources say one of the names for a new Babya software is PhotoRoll.

Update-invite photo:

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/6462/babyameinvite8kj.gif

Update 2-Event will be located at the official Babya MySpace:

http://groups.myspace.com/babya

That's it for today's reader mail & rumor report.