Digital Duo: Olympus Develops PhotoGenetics Deal; Camera Giant to Bundle Photo Enhancement Software with Digital Cameras.SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1999-- Q-Research, developer of PhotoGenetics digital image enhancement See image editing. software, announced today that Olympus will distribute PhotoGenetics software through the Olympus retail outlets in Europe, including Russia, Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. , Israel and South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . In addition, Olympus will bundle a trial version of PhotoGenetics software with all its digital cameras sold in this region. PhotoGenetics allows casual PC users and digital photographers to dramatically and easily improve the quality of their digital and scanned photographs with less than five minutes of training. Using only one interface element, called the evaluator, PhotoGenetics applies a dozen global image processing image processing Set of computational techniques for analyzing, enhancing, compressing, and reconstructing images. Its main components are importing, in which an image is captured through scanning or digital photography; analysis and manipulation of the image, accomplished functions at the same time with a single mouse click. Users simply compare the images that appear on their screen until they see what they like, without having to learn a complex image-editing program. Olympus expects to sell in excess of 250,000 cameras with the bundled software (1) Applications that are included with new hardware. For example, a new PC often comes with several applications, many of which may be light versions or full versions with no limit on usage. Others may be only 60- or 90-day trial packages. See bundle. during the first year of the agreement. "Our partnership with Olympus, an innovator and leader in the digital photography industry, confirms the powerful simplicity of PhotoGenetics," said Q-Research President Del Clark. "With Olympus recognizing the value that PhotoGenetics can bring its customers, we're able to reach a vast new audience of digital photographers. We see this initial partnership as the beginning of a long and mutually-beneficial alliance." Through this agreement, Olympus has the exclusive right to package and distribute a "shrink wrap" version of PhotoGenetics throughout Olympus' European region. PhotoGenetics is available for the Win95/98 and Macintosh operating systems (operating system) Macintosh Operating System - (Mac OS) Apple Computer, Inc.'s proprietary operating system for their Macintosh family of personal computers. The part of the operating system that simulates the desktop is called "Finder. . Consumers can experience "genetic" optimization technology themselves, on their photographs, by visiting the Q-Research Web site at www.photogenetics.com. PhotoGenetics was developed by Q-Research, Inc., a North Bend North Bend is the name of several places in the United States of America:
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