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Photolightning Introduces Fun, Easy-to-Use At-Home Digital Photo Processing Software; Now Anyone Can Print, E-Mail and Share Digital Photos.


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, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 30, 2002

Photolightning Corporation--a start-up Start-up

The earliest stage of a new business venture.
 digital imaging company--has introduced Photolightning(TM) 1.0, a complete at-home at-home
n. also at home
An informal reception in one's home.

adj.
1. Being, occurring, or functioning in one's home: at-home workers; at-home care.

2.
 photo processing software that makes printing, e-mailing, and sharing digital photos fast, easy and convenient, even for the most novice digital camera user. This software finally bridges the gap between taking digital photos and making prints from them.

Photolightning(TM) 1.0 removes the complexity involved with processing digital photos, allowing even beginners to print, e-mail and share photos within minutes. Now users can have their very own personal photo center right at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. . Following an easy three-step process, digital camera users can process a typical set of 24 photos in five minutes or less.

Photolightning(TM) 1.0 enables you to quickly download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer.  photos from your camera; preview; decide which photos to keep and discard; perform photo adjustments; rename Re`name´   

v. t. 1. To give a new name to.

Verb 1. rename - assign a new name to; "Many streets in the former East Germany were renamed in 1990"
 if desired; and begin printing, emailing, or sharing photos. What's more, the software is the only one on the market that allows photos to be easily placed directly into the body of an e-mail, eliminating the drudgery of sending or receiving large attachments. An extra benefit of this feature is that it enables even novice e-mail users to easily receive photos sent from Photolightning(TM) 1.0--regardless of their e-mail account e-mail account ncuenta de correo .

"Our software is designed to make processing and sharing digital photos easier. One of its key features is that it eliminates the hassles of printing digital photos," says Photolightning President Dan Slavin. "We've found that most digital camera users are taking pictures but then doing little with them because the process is so complicated. Our product solves this problem by making printing, sharing and e-mailing your digital photos a breeze," he continues. You can print your own photos on your home or office printer, or if you prefer, send your photos to a professional photo finisher."

If a professional photo finisher is used, Photolightning's unique Memory Card feature allows users to copy photos and other order information back onto their memory card and simply drop it off to a professional for processing. The application even remembers photos already downloaded so there are never duplicates. Photolightning(TM) 1.0 also will easily upload See download.

upload - /uhp'lohd/ To transfer programs or data over a digital communications link from a smaller or peripheral "client" system to a larger or central "host" one.

Opposite: download.
 your photos to online photo finishers.

Photolightning(TM) 1.0 is different from other products because it houses so many sophisticated capabilities in one single package, eliminating the complexity of processing digital photos by automating many basic tasks and streamlining more advanced tasks into an easy-to-follow three-step process.

These tasks featured under each step include:

Step 1: Preview & enhance (both new photos and those already stored on your computer)
-- Large preview area (rotate, delete and zoom)

-- Photo adjustment tools, including cropping; eliminating redeye; and a series of intelligent photo retouching tools for fixing backlit photos, sharpening, enhancing colors and other functions that will rescue your slightly imperfect photos.


Step 2: Add captions & labels quickly and easily

Step 3: Print e-mail & share

-- Print photos in standard sizes (wallet See digital wallet. , 3.5 x 5, 4 x 6, 5 x 7,

8 x 10) on your home or business printer on standard or

specialty papers.

-- Place photos directly into the text of an e-mail for easy

sharing with friends and family.

-- Photolightning is compatible with AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , web mail services

including Yahoo and Hotmail, as well as email software such as

Microsoft Outlook For the e-mail and news client bundled with certain versions of Microsoft Windows, see .

Microsoft Outlook or Outlook (full name Microsoft Office Outlook
 and Outlook Express.

-- Take photos to professional photo finisher by using the Memory

Card feature

-- Upload photos to online photo finishers

-- Create albums and FlipAlbums(R) by E-Book Systems

Photolightning(TM) 1.0 will sell for an introductory price of $39.95. For more information or for a free 30-day trial, visit our website at www.photolightning.com.

About Photolightning Corp.

Photolightning was founded in 2002 by Dan Slavin and other software industry veterans who were dissatisfied dis·sat·is·fied  
adj.
Feeling or exhibiting a lack of contentment or satisfaction.



dis·satis·fied
 with complex digital photography solutions that made even the most basic tasks difficult to accomplish. The company's vision is of a world where everyone has a digital camera and printing, e-mailing and sharing high-quality digital photographs is easy and fun for the whole family.
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