ArcSoft Announces PhotoBase 2.0.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1998-- Compiles and Catalogues Photo, Video, Sound, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. & Text Files Creates Slide Shows & Video Postcards ArcSoft Inc., makers of the award-winning Zipshot video capture device Video Capture Device (full title Weezer - Video Capture Device: Treasures from the Vault 1991-2002) is the Weezer DVD. It contains footage of a lot of live gigs from early stages of their musical career, right up until 2002. , announced today PhotoBase 2.0 -- the newest addition to the ArcSoft "Building Blocks of Digital Imaging" product line. PhotoBase is an easy-to-use drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. multimedia manager and presentation application that builds albums of image, audio, video, HTML and text files for easy storage, retrieval, management and presentation. Entire albums of files can be copied, printed, moved and sorted in a single step. Users can quickly create multimedia slide shows, web album pages and video postcards using their own images, video and sound files. Thumbnails of files can be searched by keywords, such as names, dates or any other information entered in customizable data fields. "PhotoBase is the answer to the multimedia user's management and presentation needs and provides the perfect complement to standard office suite software," says Barbara Tsai, senior marketing manager at ArcSoft. "Users can now easily organize, enhance, present and share their multimedia files within minutes." Slide Shows, Video Postcards and Web Albums PhotoBase creates slide shows, video postcards and instant photo web pages. Self-running slide shows with full-screen display can be auto-looped with the option of including transitional effects and sound narration. Video postcards are created using personal video files (AVI) and offer the choice of using a personal photo or one of the many included images as a background. The Web Album feature creates an HTML file displaying contents of an album including actual files and information entered into data fields for others to access. Video postcards, slide shows and web albums can be copied to a CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). (including the actual files) or shared on other removable media. Xerox TextBridge Classic(R) OCR OCR in full optical character recognition Scanning and comparison technique intended to identify printed text or numerical data. It avoids the need to retype already printed material for data entry. Software PhotoBase includes Xerox TextBridge Classic for quickly converting scanned documents into text for immediate use. It converts into formatted text files that can be opened, edited and reformatted. Xerox TextBridge files are compatible with popular word processing, desktop publishing, database and spreadsheet applications. Quick and Easy Management Tools Easily identify graphic files with PhotoBase's thumbnail images. Create albums of images, audio, video, HTML and document (doc, xls, etc.) file types. Store and search for images and files with specific names, descriptions, dates, key words or any other information entered into customizable data fields. Using PhotoBase's one-step commands, users can quickly copy or move entire albums on the computer's hard drive or to other removable media without losing the links to the original files. Image Editor PhotoBase includes an image editor for cropping, rotating, sharpening, and color adjustments. Sound files can be recorded and attached to images for notation or narration. PhotoBase 2.0 supports Adaptec(R) Easy CD Creator Adaptec Easy CD Creator is a CD authoring program bundled with many early CD writers. It was part of a suite often just known as Adaptec Easy CD Creator, which consisted of:
TIF Tax Increment Financing TIF Temporary Internet Files TIF Transport Innovation Fund (UK) TIF Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund , JPG See JPEG. jpg - JPEG , GIF GIF in full Graphics Interchange Format Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987. , PCD PCD polycystic disease. , PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. , TGA and FlashPix image file formats Image file formats provide a standardized method of organizing and storing image data. This article deals with digital image formats used to store photographic and other image information. . Priced at $49.95, PhotoBase 2.0 will be shipping by Aug. 17, 1998. For more information, contact: ArcSoft Inc. 46601 Fremont Blvd., Fremont, CA 94538 (510) 440-9901 (800) 762-8657 fax: (510) 440-1270 web site: http://www.arcsoft.com. Founded in 1994 and based in Fremont, Calif., ArcSoft develops and markets digital imaging and video software designed for the creation of business graphics, consumer photo editing, multimedia and Internet publishing. ArcSoft believes in affordable, full-featured, high-quality software, and its retail titles are priced accordingly for the consumer market. ArcSoft's OEM customers are leading digital camera, printer, scanner and computer manufacturers, including Polaroid, Epson, Ricoh, Sony, Xerox, Canon, Adaptec and others. ArcSoft, Zipshot, PhotoFantasy, PhotoBase, PhotoStudio and PhotoPrinter are trademarks of ArcSoft Inc. TextBridge and TextBridge Classic are copyrights of Xerox Corp. Adaptec, the Adaptec Logo, Easy CD Creator and PhotoRelay are trademarks of Adaptec Inc. All other product names are trademarked or registered for their respective companies.
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