Thursday, May 17, 2007

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-May 17, 2007

In today's Reader Mail & Rumor Report-we reveal that bPicture development has restarted and a reinvented, all-new release is on its way, and note the release of a UB build of BabyaTV, and Babya PhotoPro Art Collection .


Babya bPicture 2008:

Three teasers revealed the return of Babya bPicture-after last being updated in 2005:

Teaser-developed in VB .NET.
Teaser 2-familiar ACDSee style interface.
Teaser 3-built-in Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Photo Center.


The new look

Babya bPicture-organize photos/browser:
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8194/bpiictureorganizemj6.jpg
Babya bPicture-editor:
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/2599/bpiictureeditos7.jpg
Babya bPicture-print options:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6012/bpiictureprintag3.jpg
Babya bPicture-slideshows:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5053/bpicshowce6.jpg


Details about the new version are coming next week.


BabyaTV updated:
A Universal Binary version of BabyaTV has been released

.The initial release of BabyaTV was supposed to be a universal binary-but was actually a Intel only build (so PPC users could not run it).

This file will replace your BabyaTV with a version that is a Universal Binary.

How to update 1. Download update from
http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/downloads.

2. Unzip-either by double-clicking on the update or expand it using Stuffit Expander.

3. Move the UB build of BabyaTV.app to where BabyaTV.app is installed to-usually /Applications.
Download:
http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/BabyaTVUB.zip


Babya PhotoPro & Art Collection

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection has been released.

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection is a free add-on to Babya PhotoPro that includes all of the images from Babya Presenter Pack 1 and over 20 newly created images that are suitable for backgrounds or for use with the sculpture feature.

Also included is a PDF file showing all of the available images.
Download:http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaPhotoProArtCollection.exe

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection & Babya PhotoPro are now both at VersionTracker:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/112769

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/112770
That's it for today's report

Monday, May 14, 2007

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-May 14, 2007

In today's reader mail & rumor report, we note the release of the "best product we've ever shipped"-Babya PhotoPro.

Babya PhotoPro
Babya PhotoPro is now shipping!

Babya today announced that its professional image solution,Babya PhotoPro is now available.

Babya PhotoPro is designed from the ground up for the professional photographer, but is also suitable for camera enthusiasts and even home users.

Babya PhotoPro features Babya's exclusive Scuplture technology-with it, users are able to make stunning embossed style images with ease.

Use Babya PhotoPro's powerful and advanced toolset to create the most impressive graphics ever-perfect for any project.

Familiar tools included for Photo Workshop XL users-3d shapes, filters/adders and the file browser

Offering the largest number of drawing tools ever offered-over 150 in fact, Babya PhotoPro provides the ultimate image editing workflow and 1000 undos/redo levels.

Babya PhotoPro provides precision selecting and zoom tools along with support for Paint Shop Pro color palettes.

Features for powerful workflow automation include the unique ability to merge images instantly-within PhotoPro, and the scuplture feature.

Babya PhotoPro is a great sharer-from scanning in images (TWAIN and WIA), to round-tripping of images- such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop to PhotoPro and back again.

And of course-sharing-in JPG format.

Babya PhotoPro offers a built-in icon editor and image tracing, in addition to the above.


Babya's A.A. Fussy said, "Babya PhotoPro is a all in one imaging software-offering features you won't find in commercial software-like intergrated image tracing in a bitmap editing software and sculpturing. It's designed from the ground up to appeal to professiomal photographers. In conclusion, it is one of the best products that we ever shipped."
Pricing and Availability:


Babya PhotoPro is shipping now and is designed for Windows Vista and Windows XP.

It can be downloaded at the following sites:http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaPhotoPro.exe
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036978

About Babya:
Babya Software Group is an award-winning developer of digital media software for Mac and Windows, including bSuite,Babya OneVideo, bPicture, Babya Firestorm, Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.


Babya's software has won many awards over the past several years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005), a Softpedia Pick and 100% clean award (2006) and has been featured in magazines such as PC Utilities and PC Format.


The Art Collection will be released tomorrow.

That's it for this week's report.