ArcSoft Releases Time-Limited Version of Full-Featured PhotoStudio for Windows, Free Download From The World-Wide Web and CompuServe, $4.95 By Mail.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1995--ArcSoft today announced the availability of a new, time-limited version of their PhotoStudio for Windows software, via CompuServe and the World-Wide Web (World-Wide Web, networking, hypertext) World-Wide Web - (WWW, W3, The Web) An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system which originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland. . The time-limited version is not shareware -- it's fully-featured software that works for 30 days or 100 uses, whichever comes first. PhotoStudio for Windows is a photo-editing program for multimedia authors, web-page authors, graphic designers and desktop publishers. It represents a new, intelligent choice for Windows users who want to professionally manipulate digital images without paying the $500+ price for high-end editing packages. PhotoStudio offers full TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) A programming interface that lets a graphics application, such as an image editing program or desktop publishing program, activate a scanner, frame grabber or other image-capturing device. support, CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow blacK) The color space used for commercial printing and most color computer printers. In theory, cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY) can print all colors, but inks are not pure and black comes out muddy. separations features, wide support for popular file formats, 6 smoothing filters, 6 sharpening filters, 5 liquid effects, 7 special-purpose filters (such as maximum, minimum, etc.) and a variety of popular effects like fisheye fish·eye adj. 1. Of or being a wide-angle photographic lens that covers an angle of about 180°, producing a circular image with exaggerated foreshortening in the center and increasing distortion toward the periphery. 2. , sphere, whirlpool and much more. Plus... some other effects that add value to the package like a built-in shadow function. In addition, it sports a built-in screen capture utility, a thumbnail viewing module, a utility for presenting images as a slide show, and all the photo-editing tools expected in a professional package like airbrush airbrush Pneumatic device for developing a fine, small-diameter spray of paint, protective coating, or liquid colour (see aerosol). The airbrush can be a pencil-shaped atomizer used for various highly detailed activities such as shading drawings and retouching , paint bucket, eyedropper eye·drop·per n. A dropper for administering liquid medicines, especially one for dispensing medications into the eye. , freehand See Macromedia FreeHand. select, and twenty other tools. Users may freely download the software directly from ArcSoft's web site: www.arcsoft.com or CompuServe (xxx forum, section xx), or call ArcSoft at 1-800-762-8657 to request the free software on disk ($4.95 shipping charge). User may then purchase the full version for $39.95 or the complete package (box, manual, original CD and technical support) for $49.95. Michael Deng, president of ArcSoft, explains the strategy: "We have accepted the on-line distribution of software as a mature channel now, and we fully believe it is a cost-efficient way for users to retrieve software in order to try it before they buy it. This is categorically different from the shareware model of software, which works the same whether people register or not. PhotoStudio, however, is a professional package, and when people register with us at the $49.95 level, they receive the entire package including the box, manual, CD and technical support. If they choose not to register, the software stops working after thirty days, and the user has paid nothing to try it." Users wanting more information may contact ArcSoft at 1-800- 762-8657. CONTACT: ArcSoft, Inc. 1-800-762-8657 Michael Deng, 408/262-8657 www.arcsoft.com (press area: www.arcsoft.com/editors/main.htm) or Arial Marketing, Inc. Mike Adams Mike Adams may refer to:
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