In today's reader mail & rumor report, we start the coverage of today's media event with a report on the official announcement of Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 11.0.
Also announced today is the previously rumored, built-in Babya Photo Workshop included in Babya Publisher (also available as part of Babya Graphics Suite)-which has not been announced, yet.
Babya Software Group unveils Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 11.0
New versions of Babya Photo Workshop Professional & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL now include photo masking, and 2 innovative image creation applications.
Babya Software Group today announced Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 11.0
Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 11.0 now include photo masking for the first time with new Babya PhotoMasker, and 2 innovative image creation applications-Babya Particle Studio (generate particle based images) & Babya Mandela Painter.
Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 11.0 is the most advanced and free digital imaging suite available.
Containing features not normally found in over $300+ image editors such as Photoshop or Fireworks and unique editing features that aren't commonly available in any image editor.
This new addition to the popular Babya Photo Workshop image editor product line has all features from Babya Photo Workshop Professional that are a breeze to use and offers new and enhanced editing features such as gradients, advanced selection masks, neat and unusual drawing tools, a impressive pallete editor and layers support via a 'stack' tool and built-in file browser modelled closely on bPicture's image sorter tool.
In addition, Babya Photo Workshop Professional Babya Photo Workshop Professional & XL includes Babya Presenter, the neat Babya Photo Workshop Professional Mini Lab, and Babya Album.
Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy said, "With the new Babya PhotoMasker, Babya Mandela Painter and Babya Particle Studio, included in Babya Photo Workshop Professional & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL , we are giving users a variety of photo editing features, so they can create unique and wild images, and retouch photos effortlessly."
Other new and improved features in Babya Photo Workshop Professional:
-Mandela and automatic painting plugins
- Improved compatibility-Babya Photo Workshop Professional works with 8bpp BMPs in byte arrays but other formats can be converted in a Browser, Strict control over the colors can thus be maintained.
- Enhanced!-15 level undo/redo viewable
- New-a manipuable stack-similar in function to Microsoft(R) Digital Imaging products
- Improved with dozens of new drawing tools.
- Improved!-Filters:
-New!:Unique and revolutionary deformer and adder effects
-Improved-Many effects can work on the whole picture or on a selection including saving as 8bpp BMPs or GIFs and printing.
- Improved color management with several default palettes and a palette maker
- Completely new rectangular, circular, elliptical and lasso selections.
- Improved-Most shapes can be drawn with the mouse or keys.
- Expanded-new help has detailed description of all features.
-Optimize GIF files easily with Babya GIF Studio, now available in Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL for the first time
-Quickly preview images with the new Babya File Browser, similar to Adobe Bridge
Babya Graphics Suite also announced today includes Babya Publisher with a built-in Babya Photo Workshop with these new features :
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.
Fill patterns
"Hollow" shape option is called "Clear"
Visual zoom tool
Comic book creation (create your own Jhonen Vasquez style comics)-word balloons
Screenshots of Babya Photo Workshop Professional & Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL can be found be at:
http://groups.myspace.com/babya
http://geocities.com/babyap2002
http://photobucket.com/albums/v321/BabyaSoftwareGroupPR/
Pricing and Availability:
Babya Photo Workshop Professional 10.5 is now available to download at:
www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037114
Babya Photo Workshop Professional XL 11.0 will be available in mid-November.
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