PhotoSpin Inc. and Altamira Group Inc. Form Alliance to Bundle Altamira's Genuine Fractals 1.0 With PhotoSpin's New Collection of Royalty Free Digital Images.PALOS VERDES Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. This affluent bedroom community is known for its dramatic views, good schools [1] extensive horse trails [2] , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 13, 1998-- Genuine Fractals Genuine Fractals [1] is a Photoshop plug-in developed and distributed by onOne Software of Portland, Oregon. Genuine Fractals was originally designed and developed by Steven Bender (co-founder of Altamira Group) and his team in 1996. Plug-in for PhotoShop, a pixel-free image scheme, enables users to easily render smaller or larger image file sizes without losing the quality of images (Gutenberg Booth #137) -- PhotoSpin Inc., a leading supplier of Royalty Free Digital Images (RFDI RFDI Radio Frequency Identification RFDI Refrigerated Food Distributors, Inc. ), and Altamira Group Inc. today announced a bundling agreement to include a limited version of Altamira's Genuine Fractals 1.0 Photoshop Plug-in A third-party software product that extends Photoshop's capabilities. There are countless plug-ins that provide ways to enhance and change an image beyond the set of tools that are built into Photoshop. software with PhotoSpin's Portfolio Catalog featuring its latest collection of high-quality digital images. Genuine Fractals 1.0 empowers design professionals to take PhotoSpin's non-compressed digital images into Photoshop and scale them to larger or smaller resolutions than the original image file, without a noticeable loss in quality. During Gutenberg, both PhotoSpin and Altamira will provide demonstrations and showcase outputs of PhotoSpin's images from the Genuine Fractals product in larger-than-life-size images. A six-foot, high-quality large format print will be displayed to prove the remarkable scalability of continuous tone color tone color n. The timbre of a singing voice or an instrument. photographic images using Genuine Fractals plug-in for Photoshop, one of the industry's first pixel-free imaging schemes. "This amazing technology allows a 25Mb image file to finally be big enough for just about any type of output device from high-quality printing to billboards, all without visible image degradation The reduction of the inherent optimum potential of individual sensor systems caused by error in sensor operations, processing procedures or incorrect film handling. Reduction in quality caused by unavoidable factors not associated with the sensor system, i.e. . No more sending out the transparency to be rescanned for a bigger file size. Plus, images can be converted into fractal encoding for a quick and easy way to send across the Internet," said Stephanie Robey, president of PhotoSpin Inc. Altamira's Genuine Fractals 1.0 offers visually loseless compression for rendering high-resolution output image sizes. Termed "resolution on demand", users can encode a medium-resolution image to as small as 1Mb, then extend it to any output resolution necessary. For example, a 100Mb output image could be worked in a 15 to 25Mb file, encoded with Genuine Fractals to a file between 2 and 5Mb, then rendered back to the 100Mb size, or even larger - all without quality loss due to interpolation interpolation In mathematics, estimation of a value between two known data points. A simple example is calculating the mean (see mean, median, and mode) of two population counts made 10 years apart to estimate the population in the fifth year. . "PhotoSpin's uncompressed images are an excellent source for manipulating high-resolution composites and maintaining their rich quality," said Dennis Aubrey, president of Altamira Group. "Since Genuine Fractals throws away pixels and replaces them with mathematical descriptions that have no inherent resolution, PhotoSpin's images can be rendered to very large sizes while maintaining their sharpness and vibrant color." Genuine Fractals preserves excellent image quality by representing encoded images in the proprietary resolution-independent graphics image format known as Fractal Image Format (FIF (Fractal Image Format) A graphics file format from content management company Interwoven, Inc. San Jose, CA (www.interwoven.com) that stores fractal images with compression ratios as high as 2,500:1. FIF was originally from MediaBin, Inc. ). This format allows images to be enlarged without interpolating pixels or blurring details. Through FIF, Genuine Fractals identifies image shape and color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour groupings and then rewrites these groupings in mathematical equations rather than picture elements (pixels). Fractal compression (algorithm) fractal compression - A technique for encoding images using fractals. Yuval Fisher's fractal image compression site. is done by recording images in equations that are iterated many times by using the result of one equation as input to the next, enabling the image to be recorded in more detail. Additional Features of Altamira's Genuine Fractals Plug-In - Available in Windows 95, Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and Mac/PowerPC platforms. - When acquiring images, they can be opened at any resolution size allowed by computer resources. Users can specify width and height in pixels or enter file size to automatically calculate width and height. - For quick web graphic display, compresses graphics up to 125:1 and provides a sliding scale slid·ing scale n. A scale in which indicated prices, taxes, or wages vary in accordance with another factor, as wages with the cost-of-living index or medical charges with a patient's income. with 50 settings between Small Photographic and Tiny Impressionistic im·pres·sion·is·tic adj. 1. Of, relating to, or practicing impressionism. 2. Of, relating to, or predicated on impression as opposed to reason or fact: impressionistic memories of early childhood. . Additionally, images can be zoomed, scaled, flipped, and rotated online. - For print output, users can work in medium resolution, encode the image to about a 2-5Mb file, then render them to print graphics sizes of 100-200Mb and greater. Additional PhotoSpin Image Features & Pricing Since its inception, PhotoSpin, Inc. has been a leading supplier in the RFDI industry due to its stringent five-step quality assurance test. Each image contains extensive built-in image capabilities including Alpha Channels and PhotoSpin's trademarked Transflectance(TM) capabilities. In addition, images do not utilize lossy compression A compression technique that does not decompress data back to 100% of the original. Lossy methods provide high degrees of compression and result in very small compressed files, but there is a certain amount of loss when they are restored. at any point in their production process living up to PhotoSpin's tagline, "We Don't Compress Anything. But Time." All of these incorporated features save time and money for professional designers and provide the highest image quality possible. PhotoSpin's TIFF and/or FlashPix images featured in professionally bound 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). packages are currently shipping. The Portfolio CD-ROM Catalog, priced at $39.95, includes the entire image collection with more than 1,000 low-resolution images and $250 worth of image editing Changing or improving graphics images. It typically refers to bitmapped images rather than vector graphics drawings. Using an image editor, images can be modified by an artist using pen, brush, airbrush and other "painting" tools. software including a limited version of Altamira Group's Genuine Fractals 1.0. For users wanting the full version, Altamira offers Genuine Fractals 1.0 for $159 with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Each title is a four-disk CD-ROM set consisting of 50-to-110 high-resolution images with prices ranging from $189 to $329. The cost of the Portfolio may be applied towards the purchase of the first title and upgrades are automatically sent out free. For Photospin's customers worldwide, every CD-ROM title is also localized with instructions, background and ReadMe information provided in more than six different languages. About PhotoSpin PhotoSpin is dedicated to building a successful business that continually serves the needs of designers, consumers, artists and photographers by providing a rich, interactive, two-way bridge between creators and users of digital images. By combining the perspectives of these experienced professionals along with a commitment to intelligent uses of the most appropriate technologies, PhotoSpin is dedicated to bringing the focus of the RFDI industry back to serving its end-users' real-world needs. For more information about PhotoSpin and its collection of images, visit its web site at www.photospin.com or call 888/246-1313. About Altamira Group Altamira Group, Inc. is a privately held software development company located in Burbank, California For the community in Santa Clara County, California, see Burbank, Santa Clara County, California. For other uses, see Burbank. Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2004, the city had a population of 105,400. . The company specializes in developing graphics applications using fractal technology from Iterated Systems, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. Genuine Fractals is currently available for Photoshop 3.0.4 and later, on Macintosh PowerPC, Windows 95, and Windows NT platforms. -0- Notes: PhotoSpin and Transflectance are trademarks of PhotoSpin Inc. Genuine Fractals is a trademark of Altamira Group, Inc. CONTACT: The Ardell Group Michele Moninger, 619/792-2942 michele@ardellgroup.com or Altamira Group Inc. Carolyne Walton, 818/556-6737 cwalton@altamira-group.com |
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