Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Microsoft Expression Web 3.0 UK Upgrade

Microsoft Expression Web 3.0 UK Upgrade at Software.com

Expression Web 3 gives you everything you need to create and maintain exceptional standards-based Web sites, whether you work with PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP.NET, or ASP.NET AJAX. It provides built-in support for today's Web standards, sophisticated CSS design capabilities, and impressive visual diagnostic tools.

You must be a licensed user of one of the following products to be eligible for this upgrade version: any Microsoft Expression product, any Adobe Creative Suite product, or any Microsoft Office product.

Advanced visual diagnostics: Debug Web pages with Snapshot Preview, which shows rendered page changes while you code, and SuperPreview, which displays your page on multiple browsers on your development machine

Publishing flexibility: Choose the FTP method for publishing your site, whether FTP, SFTP, or FTPS, depending on what your Web server requires. Also do "live" on-server edits via FTP.

Precise control: Generate elegant, modern CSS layouts with a state-of-the-art design surface and the ability to directly manipulate positioning, sizing, margins and padding.

Professional graphics: Integrate vector artwork and bitmap images in the same document to create hybrid compositions that you can import in part or in whole into Expression Web.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) properties palette: Quickly see all of the styles, style properties and values, and order of precedence of styles used in the current selection in your Web page.

Professional code editor: Make your editing and debugging more productive with Intellisense and color-coding for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. Real-time standards validation provides instant feedback.

Dynamic interactive sites: Easily add Silverlight, Flash, or Windows Media files with drag-and-drop controls. Quickly encode and insert high-quality WMV, VC-1 and H.264 Silverlight video into your Web site.

Rich standards-based Web design: Work with nearly all essential technologies, such as PHP, CSS, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, Windows Media, Adobe Flash and Photoshop files.

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Caribbean and Antilles Map Package #211

Caribbean and Antilles Map Package #211 at Software.com

Mountain High Maps - Caribbean map #211 relief maps and vector geo-political maps of the West Indies, Greater Antilles in single map package make map-making easier and more affordable than ever

MOUNTAIN HIGH MAPS is a collection of relief map images and vector geopolitical map of the countries and continents of the world in a meticulously detailed and accurate topographical relief view. This map package comprises 5 relief maps and matching vector geo-political map of the specified region; using Photoshop and/or Illustrator, designers can create highly customizable maps for any media publishing project.

General description

Each relief maps in four variations of colorization, plus vector paths and a variety of bitmap masks. The high resolution relief maps feature ocean floor relief as well as land relief:

- Colorized map, JPEG, physical relief, low contrast land and ocean floor relief colorized according to elevation.

- Colorized map, JPEG, physical relief, high contarst land and ocean floor relief colorized according to vegetation.

- Colorized map, JPEG, political relief, low contrast land relief colorized according to international boundaries.

- Base relief map, JPEG, physical relief grayscale land and ocean floor relief.

- Masked relief map, TIFF, physical relief grayscale land relief, with white ocean areas.

- Corresponding outline versions of the map in Adobe Illustrator EPS format. The Illustrator file provide fully-editable outlines of this map, with each country placed on a separate layer for easy location and editing. Additional layers include rivers, major cities, graticules (lines of latitude and longitude), and scales. All long paths are split into smaller chunks - although Illustrator allows documents to have paths with more than 1,000 points, it will not print any fills applied to those paths, so areas with colored fills have been "tiled" to assist in printing. The Illustrator file also includes a layer into which one of the above corresponding relief maps can be placed. The Illustrator files can be placed directly into any draw or page layout application which accepts the EPS file format.

- Corresponding bitmap masks libraries for the above relief maps in TIFF format. These Photoshop files provide a collection of feature masks and a collection of country masks to be used in conjunction with this map. Each country featured in the map, whether fully or partially viewable, is included in the country mask library. The country mask allows the selection of a country taking advantage of Photoshop channels; a specific country may be selected for either in place editing or extracting from the main map and placed within its own separate map image. The feature masks library includes land/ocean mask, borders, rivers, major city locations, graticules lines of latitude and longitude, vignette and shadow masks; as for country masks, feature masks make use of Photoshop channels; a specific feature may be selected for either in place editing, such as colorizing rivers or the oceans, or extracting a feature from the main map and creating a new map image.

- Corresponding Photoshop Paths libraries for the above relief maps in JPEG format. The first Photoshop Path file provides paths for all features including land/ocean mask, borders, rivers, major city locations, graticules lines of latitude and longitude, vignette and shadow masks and a path for each country featured on the map; in addition, a second Photoshop Path file contains as separate paths all the text layers found in the EPS map: city name, country names, river names, island names, physical land and ocean features.

The TIFF and JPEG images are best used with image-editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint, but they can also be used within page layout and drawing applications, where color can be applied directly.

The compressed file sizes for the download are: Windows 7 Mb, Macintosh 12 Mb.

Mountain High Maps digitized map images Copyright � 2002 Digital Wisdom, Inc.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

IMSI DoubleCAD XT Pro

IMSI DoubleCAD XT Pro at Software.com

DoubleCAD XT Pro is a great companion to AutoCAD and an excellent drafting complement to popular mechanical design package such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solid Edge. With so many new, innovative features, you'll think DoubleCAD XT Pro is the upgrade for AutoCAD LT, too. If you are an AutoCAD LT user, DoubleCAD XT Pro will immediately feel familiar. Familiar menu, menu items, tools, icons, command line, keystrokes... even a familiar intelligent cursor.

Effective drafting and detailing are the heart of CAD productivity. DoubleCAD XT Pro employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, and spline tools, so that no matter the situation you have got the right tool for the job. When used with DoubleCAD™ XT Pro snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids, you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.

Powerful tools such as custom brush styles, transparencies, and smart dimensions also greatly enhance detailing. No need to buy a separate hatch pattern creator, DoubleCAD™ XT Pro even comes with its own.

Most significantly, though, DoubleCAD XT Pro includes a powerful and innovative Drafting Palette that expedites the drafting-to-detailing process by creating fully associative, 2D views or hatched sections (even from xrefs).

Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles are changed automatically to reflect those changes and all hatches and dimensions are updated accordingly. The time savings and increased accuracy of this alone can pay for XT Pro many times over.

Architectural users will like intelligent, attribute-rich self-healing walls (a considerable improvement over the AutoCAD LT's double-line tool) and the range of other parametric windows, doors, slabs, roof, rails, and stairs that are ADT compatible. Any block can be used as a custom architectural element that will automatically align to self-healing walls when inserted. Advanced handle-based editing of selected objects gives you instant access to sizing, scaling, moving, rotating, and positioning without selecting multiple tools.

What-if analysis is made easy with 2D geometric and dimensional constraints and is a tremendous time saver as you iterate designs. Apply relationships between two or more objects for accurate designs which can then be adjusted easily. Make a change to one object in a design, and constraints automatically update the drawing based on the user defined parameters. A host of special tools, like a Gear Contour, Surface Roughness, and Weld Symbol tool, add mechanical capabilities not found in AutoCAD LT. And compatibility with .SAT, .IGS, and .STEP files means DoubleCAD XT Pro is an excellent drafting companion to any mechanical design package.

DoubleCAD™ XT Pro is compatible with whatever you are using: We believe we have some of the best -- and broadest -- translators in the industry. .SAT, .3DS, .OBJ, .IGS... all the important ones are here, 28 in total.

This includes .DWG, as you would expect.

What you may not expect is a DoubleCAD .DWG file, containing ADT-compatible walls and self-aligning blocks, can be brought into AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT and designs retain their self-healing properties. This intelligent behavior can save hours of adjustment and iteration within AutoCAD products and is yet another reason why DoubleCAD XT Pro a great AutoCAD® companion. With all the time and effort you will save, DoubleCAD™ XT Pro is a no-brainer way to kick-start an AutoCAD® project.

Here is something else you may not expect: DoubleCAD XT Pro imports and edits corresponding architectural objects from AutoCAD Architecture (ADT). Even AutoCAD can't do that.And another surprise: DoubleCAD XT Pro is not only compatible with Google SketchUp... but actually enhances SketchUp workflow.

IMSI DoubleCAD XT Pro

IMSI DoubleCAD XT Pro at Software.com

DoubleCAD XT Pro is a great companion to AutoCAD and an excellent drafting complement to popular mechanical design package such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solid Edge. With so many new, innovative features, you'll think DoubleCAD XT Pro is the upgrade for AutoCAD LT, too. If you are an AutoCAD LT user, DoubleCAD XT Pro will immediately feel familiar. Familiar menu, menu items, tools, icons, command line, keystrokes... even a familiar intelligent cursor.

Effective drafting and detailing are the heart of CAD productivity. DoubleCAD XT Pro employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, and spline tools, so that no matter the situation you have got the right tool for the job. When used with DoubleCAD™ XT Pro snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids, you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.

Powerful tools such as custom brush styles, transparencies, and smart dimensions also greatly enhance detailing. No need to buy a separate hatch pattern creator, DoubleCAD™ XT Pro even comes with its own.

Most significantly, though, DoubleCAD XT Pro includes a powerful and innovative Drafting Palette that expedites the drafting-to-detailing process by creating fully associative, 2D views or hatched sections (even from xrefs).

Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles are changed automatically to reflect those changes and all hatches and dimensions are updated accordingly. The time savings and increased accuracy of this alone can pay for XT Pro many times over.

Architectural users will like intelligent, attribute-rich self-healing walls (a considerable improvement over the AutoCAD LT's double-line tool) and the range of other parametric windows, doors, slabs, roof, rails, and stairs that are ADT compatible. Any block can be used as a custom architectural element that will automatically align to self-healing walls when inserted. Advanced handle-based editing of selected objects gives you instant access to sizing, scaling, moving, rotating, and positioning without selecting multiple tools.

What-if analysis is made easy with 2D geometric and dimensional constraints and is a tremendous time saver as you iterate designs. Apply relationships between two or more objects for accurate designs which can then be adjusted easily. Make a change to one object in a design, and constraints automatically update the drawing based on the user defined parameters. A host of special tools, like a Gear Contour, Surface Roughness, and Weld Symbol tool, add mechanical capabilities not found in AutoCAD LT. And compatibility with .SAT, .IGS, and .STEP files means DoubleCAD XT Pro is an excellent drafting companion to any mechanical design package.

DoubleCAD™ XT Pro is compatible with whatever you are using: We believe we have some of the best -- and broadest -- translators in the industry. .SAT, .3DS, .OBJ, .IGS... all the important ones are here, 28 in total.

This includes .DWG, as you would expect.

What you may not expect is a DoubleCAD .DWG file, containing ADT-compatible walls and self-aligning blocks, can be brought into AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT and designs retain their self-healing properties. This intelligent behavior can save hours of adjustment and iteration within AutoCAD products and is yet another reason why DoubleCAD XT Pro a great AutoCAD® companion. With all the time and effort you will save, DoubleCAD™ XT Pro is a no-brainer way to kick-start an AutoCAD® project.

Here is something else you may not expect: DoubleCAD XT Pro imports and edits corresponding architectural objects from AutoCAD Architecture (ADT). Even AutoCAD can't do that.And another surprise: DoubleCAD XT Pro is not only compatible with Google SketchUp... but actually enhances SketchUp workflow.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Final Draft 8 Professional Screenwriting Box

Final Draft 8 Professional Screenwriting Box at Software.com



Use your creative energy to focus on the content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final Draft is the number-one selling application specifically designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics, and stage plays. It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is no need to learn about script formatting rules - Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry standards as you write.

Scene View
Outline your script ideas and reorder scenes in this high level overview.
With the Scene View you can look at your script from a 5,000 foot view and select, drag and drop one or more scenes to reorganize your ideas as you outline. Insert new scenes easily, and hide or show information important to you such as the scene's action, title and summary. Scene View also displays a scene's color so you can quickly identify one scene from another. Print your Scene View or just view it alongside the script. With a double-click you can sync the script to instantly go to any scene you've selected in Scene View.

Scene Navigator
Manage and view the important details of your scene in this sortable floating palette.
Manage the pace and flow of your story and keep track of up to 9 categories of information related to your scenes. The Scene Navigator is a sortable, customizable floating palette that displays details about your script such as a scene's title, color, page number, length and location, and best of all it syncs with the script with a single-click. As your script progresses, you can pick and choose the columns of information that are relevant for that phase of writing.

Scene Properties Inspector (SPI)
Add scene titles and colors to track your story lines, characters, etc.
Track data specific to each scene in this new floating palette such as the scene's story beats that will eventually make up the action, characters and dialog of the scene. Add and edit your scene's title such as 'Villain introduced', and add color to the scene to help you track elements like storylines, character arcs, and material you need to get back to later. Like the Navigator, the SPI will display the details of whatever scene you're working on in your script so that you have your summary notes handy as you need them.

Index Cards
Easily outline your story and restructure your script by dragging and dropping multiple scenes at a time.
This improved feature has double-sided cards that display the script's scene on one side and the summary on the other. The Summary View allows you to enter ideas directly into the index card such as your basic outline, notes, sequence or act markers, comments, locations, blocking... anything you need to build and organize your story. You can also color your Index Cards to help organize themes, character arcs, A and B stories, etc. Select and rearrange multiple cards at once if you need to reorder your scenes or print your Index Cards directly on 3x5 or 4x6 cards for use in the 'traditional' way if you want to visualize and organize scenes outside of the application. Double-clicking on a card in Split Panel View will automatically sync the scene selected with your script.

File Format (now XML)
Other software now works seamlessly with the new Final Draft .fdx file format.
Final Draft version 8 has a new file format that we have shared with a number of technology partners to make the writer's overall experience better. Now you can save to the new Final Draft file format in a variety of products. Your information can then be opened directly in Final Draft with perfect format and structure. No more reformatting in Final Draft and no more re-typing or lost information!

Keeps your script in sync with Index Cards and Scene View
Like most writers, you probably need to keep a lot of ideas at the front of your mind while you're writing. With the Panels System, you can split your screen into separate panels and view your script pages in one panel while you view another section of the script, your Index Cards or Scene View in the other panel. With the Panels System you can compare two scenes' dialog and pacing side by side even though they may be separated by a vast number of pages. If you want an overview of each scene, use the Index Cards or Scene View on one side and the script in the other. A double-click in any scene will keep the panels in sync.

Templates
Jumpstart your writing by using one of our built-in templates
Television show, screenplay, stage play and graphic novel templates are included to help get you started. Looking for an old series no longer on the air? The Final Draft Online Template Library is updated regularly and allows registered users to download additional templates directly from finaldraft.com.

Page Count Management
Now you have even more control about what fits on a page
Our new Leading Style in version 8 allows you to adjust the spacing of the entire script or you can select individual sections of text and adjust their spacing to help manage your page count.

Built-in Spell-Checking and Thesaurus
Now you have the ability to select an additional language
The vastly improved spell-checking engine comes with English (US) and a built-in thesaurus plus the option to install one of 15 additional language spell-checkers and thesauri. The application provides real time auto-spell check, catches capitalization errors and will assist you in finding synonyms. With definitions for 80,000 plus words from Merriam-Webster and a full thesaurus, you have all the tools at your fingertips. In addition, all the words you added to your user dictionary from version 7 will automatically populate your user dictionary when you install version 8.

Remember Workspace
No more searching for the correct draft you were just working on
It's important if you are working among multiple drafts to make sure that you are editing the correct one. With the new Workspace preference, you can have Final Draft open all the files you had open, in the order you were working on them, the last time you worked in Final Draft.

Final Draft Courier Font
An improved appearance helps your eyes during those long rewrite sessions
Having a consistent page count that production companies and studios can depend on to help them estimate their budgets is crucial when working on a script. That's why Final Draft offers its own font that will ensure proper pagination on both Windows and Macintosh. With version 8 we have made the font easier on the eye so you can better endure when you're writing for long periods of time.

Printing and PDF Options
Greater flexibility, more options and improved printing interface put you in the driver seat
Now, not only can you print your script in its entirety, you can choose which sets of revisions you want to print and you can print other views such as the Scene View and Index Cards. We've added the ability for you to print directly on 3x5 or 4x6 index cards and print your script directly to PDF so you can decide whether to send a full script or subset of pages to someone via PDF. The Title Page is also conveniently available as an option to include in your PDF or printed output.

Writing Management
Track your daily writing goals
Use the Statistics Report to check how much content you've completed in a writing session to help you manage your writing goals. You can also track things such as your ratio of Action to Dialog and whether there may be some unnecessary profanity in your script if you're attempting to 'clean it up.'

Breakdown your script and prep it for scheduling applications
This updated stand-alone application reads any Final Draft script and enables you to "tag" elements within the script [cast, costumes, props, etc.] and export the results into most scheduling applications. Tagger allows you to select text from the script and add any element with a click of the mouse in any category for that scene - or for any or all scenes where that element appears. The element text is highlighted and color coded, and can be customized to suit the way you like to work. Created with the help of veteran Assistant Directors, Producers and Unit Production Managers, Tagger means no more going over a paper script again and again with highlighters.

Easy-to-use tools for handling script changes once you go into production
From the ability to omit scenes, lock pages and A-pages as well as set your revision colors, version 8 provides you all the tools you'll need to take your script through production. With version 8, we've created a new feature that will automatically track the page header's revision color so you can issue one set of revisions or all of them as needed. Merging pages that have been cut once a script is locked is also a snap. With new how-to tutorials, you have step-by-step instructions on how to merge pages without affecting your overall page count. Final Draft also includes standard revision colors in each film and television template.

Monday, June 15, 2009

WhiteSmoke English Writing 2009 - General Edition

WhiteSmoke English Writing 2009 - General Edition at Software.com

WhiteSmoke General Writing Software is the perfect introduction to the world of WhiteSmoke, giving you full access to our advanced grammar and spelling engines, as well as text enrichment suggestions that are suitable for daily use. These core features are supported by a one-click English dictionary and thesaurus, and a whole range of letter writing templates. Whether you need quick and accurate grammar checking, an intelligent spell checker, or the help of WhiteSmoke's text enrichment to improve your writing style, you will find WhiteSmoke to be an indispensable companion any time that you need to write.

Who Uses the General Writing Version?
Users of the General Writing Version are often seeking a convenient and powerful solution to English editing and proofreading while using word processors, writing email, participating in blogs, forums and other social media sites, and connecting with friends via instant messaging. Fully integrating with your favorite desktop and Internet based applications - in fact, any application that features text entry - your own personal English editor is always just one click away.

Key Features:

  • Click the WhiteSmoke key to instantly check your writing - it is that easy!
  • Grammar Checker - advanced grammar correction and detection based on natural language patterns
  • Spell Check - powerful, context-relevant spell checking
  • Text Enrichment - This patented process suggests synonyms, adverbs and adjectives that can enhance your existing sentences
  • English Dictionary - integrated with the software for immediate access to any word definition
  • English Thesaurus - for fast look-up of synonyms, antonyms and more
  • Over 600 letter templates to get your writing going!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

IMSI DoubleCAD XT Pro

IMSI DoubleCAD XT Pro at Software.com

DoubleCAD XT Pro is a great companion to AutoCAD and an excellent drafting complement to popular mechanical design package such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and Solid Edge. With so many new, innovative features, you'll think DoubleCAD XT Pro is the upgrade for AutoCAD LT, too. If you are an AutoCAD LT user, DoubleCAD XT Pro will immediately feel familiar. Familiar menu, menu items, tools, icons, command line, keystrokes... even a familiar intelligent cursor.

Effective drafting and detailing are the heart of CAD productivity. DoubleCAD XT Pro employs a large selection of line, arc, curve, and spline tools, so that no matter the situation you have got the right tool for the job. When used with DoubleCAD™ XT Pro snaps, modification tools, and drawing aids, you will be able to quickly draft and document your designs with outstanding flexibility.

Powerful tools such as custom brush styles, transparencies, and smart dimensions also greatly enhance detailing. No need to buy a separate hatch pattern creator, DoubleCAD™ XT Pro even comes with its own.

Most significantly, though, DoubleCAD XT Pro includes a powerful and innovative Drafting Palette that expedites the drafting-to-detailing process by creating fully associative, 2D views or hatched sections (even from xrefs).

Because they are associative, if the model is changed, or the section plane is updated, the 2D profiles are changed automatically to reflect those changes and all hatches and dimensions are updated accordingly. The time savings and increased accuracy of this alone can pay for XT Pro many times over.

Architectural users will like intelligent, attribute-rich self-healing walls (a considerable improvement over the AutoCAD LT's double-line tool) and the range of other parametric windows, doors, slabs, roof, rails, and stairs that are ADT compatible. Any block can be used as a custom architectural element that will automatically align to self-healing walls when inserted. Advanced handle-based editing of selected objects gives you instant access to sizing, scaling, moving, rotating, and positioning without selecting multiple tools.

What-if analysis is made easy with 2D geometric and dimensional constraints and is a tremendous time saver as you iterate designs. Apply relationships between two or more objects for accurate designs which can then be adjusted easily. Make a change to one object in a design, and constraints automatically update the drawing based on the user defined parameters. A host of special tools, like a Gear Contour, Surface Roughness, and Weld Symbol tool, add mechanical capabilities not found in AutoCAD LT. And compatibility with .SAT, .IGS, and .STEP files means DoubleCAD XT Pro is an excellent drafting companion to any mechanical design package.

DoubleCAD™ XT Pro is compatible with whatever you are using: We believe we have some of the best -- and broadest -- translators in the industry. .SAT, .3DS, .OBJ, .IGS... all the important ones are here, 28 in total.

This includes .DWG, as you would expect.

What you may not expect is a DoubleCAD .DWG file, containing ADT-compatible walls and self-aligning blocks, can be brought into AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT and designs retain their self-healing properties. This intelligent behavior can save hours of adjustment and iteration within AutoCAD products and is yet another reason why DoubleCAD XT Pro a great AutoCAD® companion. With all the time and effort you will save, DoubleCAD™ XT Pro is a no-brainer way to kick-start an AutoCAD® project.

Here is something else you may not expect: DoubleCAD XT Pro imports and edits corresponding architectural objects from AutoCAD Architecture (ADT). Even AutoCAD can't do that.And another surprise: DoubleCAD XT Pro is not only compatible with Google SketchUp... but actually enhances SketchUp workflow.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Markzware FlightCheck Professional 6.x Mac

Markzware FlightCheck Professional 6.x Mac at Software.com

FlightCheck is the essential tool for Print Shops, Creative Designers, Prepress Departments, Customer Service Reps and Graphics Professionals within the digital print and publishing industries; helping you prepare PDF and other document types for commercial printing. Markzware FlightCheck Professional is your prepress application used to manage quality control for print jobs. This solution provides both native file and PDF preflight checking and is backed by a United States patent.

FlightCheck helps you create excellent PDF files for magazines, catalogs, brochures, advertisements, manuals, and virtually any printed document. It provides complete quality control saving printers and publishers time and money by avoiding re-printing jobs.

FlightCheck preflights digital files thoroughly and warns you about potential printing problems while guiding you directly to them for repair. It issues a complete analysis of the print job highlighting potential errors, item by item, including wrong document size, missing fonts, incorrect colors, transparency of spot colors, incorrect image resolution and much more. FlightCheck then collects all required elements of the print job, such as images and fonts, to insure that jobs print as expected.

One of the key capabilities of FlightCheck Professional is its power to preflight a wide variety of file formats and image types. A partial list includes - QuarkXPress, Adobe InDesign, Acrobat PDF, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe FreeHand, Microsoft Office, CorelDRAW, EPS, TIFF and many more.

The FlightCheck Ground Control tool gives you full control to create and manage hundreds of preflight checklists. Simply by turning on warnings or errors, you can customize inspection to focus on certain aspects of the document. Print production managers can save these profiles, or rule sets for specific print or publishing workflows. The Ground Controls Sets can then be shared by importing them into other user FlightCheck applications.

Industry standard specifications for PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 for print compliancy as well as the Ghent PDF Workgroup (GWG) PDF/X PLUS V2 are special Ground Control Sets built directly into FlightCheck ready for use.

After verification of the print job, FlightCheck Professional generates a detailed preflight report highlighting specific print problems; providing a quick and easy means to navigate to the error for repair. Print shops can review these reports with customers; helping to communicate their print requirements. This communication process helps to educate everyone involved in the print process to create better print-ready documents.

BENEFITS
- Preflights both PDF and non-PDF files
- Preflights multiple print jobs in one session
- Preflights wide range of file types for print
- Minimizes time to identify print errors
- Minimizes time to correct print errors
- Maximizes printing operations capacity
- Maximizes feedback to your customers
- Maximizes print quality and continuity
- Save money by eliminating job re-prints
- Native applications are not required

FEATURES
- Stand-Alone application
- Refined Interface for PDF preflighting
- Categories of potential problems
- Customizable rule sets to check PDF and non-PDF files
- QuarkXPress 7 and InDesign CS3 support
- Support for third-party font applications
- Customizable font & image paths
- Scans, reports and collects the entire job
- Much, much more !

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Alaska Map Package #203

Alaska Map Package #203 at Software.com

Mountain High Maps relief maps and vector geo-political maps in single map packages make map-making easier and more affordable than ever

MOUNTAIN HIGH MAPS is a collection of relief map images and vector geopolitical map of the contries and continents of the world in a meticulously detailed and accurate topographical relief view. This map package comprises 5 relief maps and matching vector geo-political map of the specified region; using Photoshop and/or Illustrator, designers can create highly customizable maps for any media publishing project.

General description

Each relief maps in four variations of colorization, plus vector paths and a variety of bitmap masks. The high resolution relief maps feature ocean floor relief as well as land relief.

Colorized map, JPEG, physical relief, low contrast land and ocean floor relief colorized according to elevation.

Colorized map, JPEG, physical relief, high contarst land and ocean floor relief colorized according to vegetation.

Colorized map, JPEG, political relief, low contrast land relief colorized according to international boundaries.

Base relief map, JPEG, physical relief grayscale land and ocean floor relief.

Masked relief map, TIFF, physical relief grayscale land relief, with white ocean areas.

Corresponding outline versions of the map in Adobe Illustrator EPS format. The Illustrator file provide fully-editable outlines of this map, with each country placed on a separate layer for easy location and editing. Additional layers include rivers, major cities, graticules (lines of latitude and longitude), and scales. All long paths are split into smaller chunks - although Illustrator allows documents to have paths with more than 1,000 points, it will not print any fills applied to those paths, so areas with colored fills have been ""tiled"" to assist in printing. The Illustrator file also includes a layer into which one of the above corresponding relief maps can be placed. The Illustrator files can be placed directly into any draw or page layout application which accepts the EPS file format.

Corresponding bitmap masks libraries for the above relief maps in TIFF format. These Photoshop files provide a collection of feature masks and a collection of country masks to be used in conjunction with this map. Each country featured in the map, whether fully or partially viewable, is included in the country mask library. The country mask allows the selection of a country taking advantage of Photoshop channels; a specific country may be selected for either in place editing or extracting from the main map and placed within its own separate map image. The feature masks library includes land/ocean mask, borders, rivers, major city locations, graticules lines of latitude and longitude, vignette and shadow masks; as for country masks, feature masks make use of Photoshop channels; a specific feature may be selected for either in place editing, such as colorizing rivers or the oceans, or extracting a feature from the main map and creating a new map image.

Corresponding Photoshop Paths libraries for the above relief maps in JPEG format. The first Photoshop Path file provides paths for all features including land/ocean mask, borders, rivers, major city locations, graticules lines of latitude and longitude, vignette and shadow masks and a path for each country featured on the map; in addition, a second Photoshop Path file contains as separate paths all the text layers found in the EPS map: city name, country names, river names, island names, physical land and ocean features.

The TIFF and JPEG images are best used with image-editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint, but they can also be used within page layout and drawing applications, where color can be applied directly.

Mountain High Maps digitized map images Copyright � 2001 Digital Wisdom, Inc.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard MAC Upgrade from CS - CS3 Suites

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard MAC Upgrade from CS - CS3 Suites at Software.com

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Standard software is the essential toolkit for print design and production. Boost productivity with exciting new tools that enable the creation of eye-catching digital images and vector graphics, sophisticated page layout, and efficient prepress and production. Work confidently within this tightly integrated creative environment to deliver exceptional print results. Design Standard combines Adobe InDesign CS4, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, and Acrobat 9 Pro with additional tools and services.

You will qualify for this upgrade if you have purchased Adobe Creative Suite 3.0, 2.x or 1.x Premium or Standard on the same platform with serial number. Other upgrade options are available on the final purchase page including from stand-alone Creative Suite products at a higher price.

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Serif PagePlus X3 Publisher Professional

Serif PagePlus X3 Publisher Professional at Software.com


Example PagePlus X3 Design Projects


Serif PagePlus X3 Publisher Professional is Serif's new powerful Windows Vista certified DTP superstar - the easiest way to boost your business with unrivalled in-house graphic design and publishing. With PagePlus X3 it's simple for anyone to create, publish and share high quality designs as outstanding printed documents, stylish websites and eye-catching emails. Plus import, edit, and export PDF files for reliable commercial output and near-universal sharing compatibility.

Stand out from the crowd with new Image Cutout and Logo Studios, support for up-to-the-minute graphics formats, stunning new special effects, enhanced usability and even more powerful text handling, tables, and publishing! Serif Software Publisher Showcase

Professional, Customisable Templates
Get high quality results fast with over 2500 professional templates, logos, and gallery graphics. New Design Packs give your documents a full style makeover!

  • Get results fast or use designs as inspiration
  • Includes over 2500 templates and design elements
  • All fully editable to suit your needs
  • Templates use high quality HD images
  • Design Packs include stylish themed business publications

Amazing Graphics and Creativity
Cut out, correct and enhance your images, design outstanding graphics, add impact with galleries of effects, or use class-leading drawing tools in the new Logo Studio.

  • Professional image correction and photo effects
  • Powerful drawing tools and new Logo Studio
  • Flowchart symbols with live connections
  • Design and special effects galleries
  • Professional and Flexible Publishing


Create almost anything with PagePlus's flexible document creation and output capabilities. Print publications of any size to any Windows printer.

  • High quality desktop printed output
  • PDF publishing to commercial print standards
  • Scaling and tiling fits any document to any paper size
  • Flexible document types for folded, small, and large designs
  • Websites, emails, PDF forms and multimedia slideshows


Unrivalled PDF Import & Editing
Beating other desktop publishers at all price points, you can open and fully edit PDFs from anywhere just as if they were regular PagePlus documents.

  • Import PDFs from colleagues, associates, family or friends
  • Fully edit, customise or switch document types
  • Move, resize, reshape and reformat any objects
  • Share with almost anyone by republishing as PDF
  • Optimise PDFs for efficiency or commercial printing


CREATIVE GRAPHICS

Logo Studio
The unique Logo Studio is your in-house professional design agency, giving you access to all of PagePlus's drawing and graphics power. Work on logos and graphics in isolation and with helpful presets and advice.

Image Cutout Studio
Give your products or other photo subjects total focus by removing backgrounds, or place them over new backgrounds! Get outstanding results fast with the amazing Cutout Studio. Even use the cutout photo shape as a silhouette or as a frame for text or another photo.

Realistic Glass and Metal Effect
Add striking and eye-catching new glass and metal effects for a professional touch to your documents. The Reflection Map filter effect gives you control over the look of your reflective surfaces - and Styles presets give you instant impact!

Stylish Reflections and Outlines
Transform flat adverts into style icons by adding modern reflections to text headlines, logos or images. Enhance photos and headlines further by adding an outline - with controls to vary colour, transparency and more.

HD and EPS Graphic Support and more
Keep up with modern advances - PagePlus now supports HD Photo images and the Windows Imaging Component. WIC easily allows support for new image formats to be added to Windows - and PagePlus X3. Also now import and enhance EPS PostScript® graphics.

Easy Blended Edges for Cropped Graphics
Cropping is now better than ever. Trimmed graphics, images and text can have easy feathered edges using the context toolbar - the easiest way to blend object edges against new backgrounds and clear away unwanted coloured tinges from cropped photos.

Full Colour with Confidence
If it's a specific Pantone colour from a business logo or a shade you like from a photo, you can confidently design and output in full colour with PagePlus X3.

ENHANCED USABILITY

Revamped and Editable Interface
PagePlus X3 is sporting a new stylish interface and has the latest Studio tab layout for higher productivity. The Gallery has been revamped and there's increased flexibility to customise toolbars. You can also now customise keyboard shortcuts for even faster workflow.

Enhanced Layout Controls
Have more control over your layouts with easier-to-move objects, editable nudge distance, customisable pasteboard colours, and editable guide line colours that can match your document's layer colours.

IMPROVED TEXT AND TABLES

More Powerful Text Editing
Text handling is even more powerful in PagePlus X3 with enhanced AutoFit options for controlling text in frames and path text. Frame text can now have fills and transparency like Artistic Text, and we've added a new Word 2007 text import filter.

Table Enhancements
As used in dedicated spreadsheets, PagePlus tables now support absolute cell references (e.g. $A$2), adding rows and columns has been made even easier, plus new drop-down menus in column/row headers offer fast access to useful commands.

POWERFUL PUBLISHING

Duplex Printing Wizard NEW
Save paper and get smart results! Get the best from your desktop printer with the PagePlus X3 Duplexing Wizard. Let PagePlus help you figure out the minefield that is turning & tumbling pages for correct double-sided printing from a regular printer.

Package Contents for Sharing
Share your PagePlus X3 designs with co-workers or other PagePlus X3 users for a new level of collaboration. All the required fonts and images are built in to new packaged PagePlus files so there's nothing missing from your design.

Place multiple images in one go, selecting images and placing with successive clicks or drags on your page. Prevent arrowheads and corners from scaling when you resize QuickShapes with the new Lock Geometry option. Website colour schemes have been extended to include both on- and off-page background colours, and the website Layout Checker has been improved.

A new file format has been developed for PagePlus X3 and future Serif releases - Serif Metafiles will make it easier to transfer text, drawings and images between Serif programs. Objects now have a movable centre of rotation, available with the Rotation tool. The user interface now has 5 cool colour schemes to suit your mood or style.

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Caribbean and Antilles Map Package #211

Caribbean and Antilles Map Package #211 at Software.com

Mountain High Maps - Caribbean map #211 relief maps and vector geo-political maps of the West Indies, Greater Antilles in single map package make map-making easier and more affordable than ever

MOUNTAIN HIGH MAPS is a collection of relief map images and vector geopolitical map of the countries and continents of the world in a meticulously detailed and accurate topographical relief view. This map package comprises 5 relief maps and matching vector geo-political map of the specified region; using Photoshop and/or Illustrator, designers can create highly customizable maps for any media publishing project.

General description

Each relief maps in four variations of colorization, plus vector paths and a variety of bitmap masks. The high resolution relief maps feature ocean floor relief as well as land relief:

- Colorized map, JPEG, physical relief, low contrast land and ocean floor relief colorized according to elevation.

- Colorized map, JPEG, physical relief, high contarst land and ocean floor relief colorized according to vegetation.

- Colorized map, JPEG, political relief, low contrast land relief colorized according to international boundaries.

- Base relief map, JPEG, physical relief grayscale land and ocean floor relief.

- Masked relief map, TIFF, physical relief grayscale land relief, with white ocean areas.

- Corresponding outline versions of the map in Adobe Illustrator EPS format. The Illustrator file provide fully-editable outlines of this map, with each country placed on a separate layer for easy location and editing. Additional layers include rivers, major cities, graticules (lines of latitude and longitude), and scales. All long paths are split into smaller chunks - although Illustrator allows documents to have paths with more than 1,000 points, it will not print any fills applied to those paths, so areas with colored fills have been "tiled" to assist in printing. The Illustrator file also includes a layer into which one of the above corresponding relief maps can be placed. The Illustrator files can be placed directly into any draw or page layout application which accepts the EPS file format.

- Corresponding bitmap masks libraries for the above relief maps in TIFF format. These Photoshop files provide a collection of feature masks and a collection of country masks to be used in conjunction with this map. Each country featured in the map, whether fully or partially viewable, is included in the country mask library. The country mask allows the selection of a country taking advantage of Photoshop channels; a specific country may be selected for either in place editing or extracting from the main map and placed within its own separate map image. The feature masks library includes land/ocean mask, borders, rivers, major city locations, graticules lines of latitude and longitude, vignette and shadow masks; as for country masks, feature masks make use of Photoshop channels; a specific feature may be selected for either in place editing, such as colorizing rivers or the oceans, or extracting a feature from the main map and creating a new map image.

- Corresponding Photoshop Paths libraries for the above relief maps in JPEG format. The first Photoshop Path file provides paths for all features including land/ocean mask, borders, rivers, major city locations, graticules lines of latitude and longitude, vignette and shadow masks and a path for each country featured on the map; in addition, a second Photoshop Path file contains as separate paths all the text layers found in the EPS map: city name, country names, river names, island names, physical land and ocean features.

The TIFF and JPEG images are best used with image-editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint, but they can also be used within page layout and drawing applications, where color can be applied directly.

The compressed file sizes for the download are: Windows 7 Mb, Macintosh 12 Mb.

Mountain High Maps digitized map images Copyright � 2002 Digital Wisdom, Inc.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Carrara 7.0 3D Art and Animation

Carrara 7.0 3D Art and Animation at Software.com

An ideal 3D workhorse within any designer's creative suite, the highly-affordable Carrara 7 lavishes speed and power that enables users to create more freely and deliver the highest-caliber results under even the tightest deadlines. Finally, there is a single solution for realistic figure posing and animation combined with advanced modeling, terrain-building, physics, and rendering that is readily compatible with a large array of 3D assets. If you're a 3D professional, illustrator, creative designer, digital photographer, hobbyist, or student, you owe it to yourself to check out Carrara 7.

Carrara 7 delivers a multitude of features that enable artists to build a project - from start to finish - with a single piece of software. From the multiple modelers, to the preset textures and shaders, to the ultra-fast and realistic rendering, users will find the toolset delivered in Carrara 7 to be full-featured and complete.

Carrara is recognized as a robust, versatile software package of 3D tools that includes modeling, rigging, animating, terrain-building, rendering, and more. With the addition of NLA Track Groups, Vertex Modeling in the Assembly Room, LOD Support for Figures, Improved Content Support, UV Relax Seams, and a COLLADA Export, the time for Carrara is now.

Sporting its familiar, elegant and easy-to-use interface, Carrara 7 provides 3D artists like you a professional, advanced, and complete tool set to take your art to exciting new horizons. Whether you work with people and places, landscapes and skyscapes, lights and shaders, plants, and oceans, or particles and physics, Carrara 7 will help bring your imagination to life.

Vertex Modeling -- The Vertex Modeling capabilities that were previously only available in the "Modeling" room are now available in the "Assembly" room.

COLLADA Export -- COLLADA is becoming a new standard for transferring content. In this new release of Carrara, you will be able to export your models in this new format. (WIN OS only)

Figure Content LOD Support -- Carrara 7 also includes support for Content Figures that have multiple Levels of Detail (LOD).

Non-Linear Animation Track Groups -- Using Carrara for creating animations? This new merge track tool will provide an improved interface to create groups of tracks then collapse or expand the tracks in those groups.

Improved Content Support -- Better capabilities in bringing DAZ 3D products into Carrara. Requires DAZ Studio 2.3.3.138 or higher (2.3.3.146 is strongly recommended).

Dynamic Hair -- With the Dynamic Hair and fur modeling/simulation feature, you can paint, cut, brush and shade hair to bring your images to realistic life --- and do it with the greatest of ease.

Symmetrical Modeling -- Streamline the modeling process. Ideal for creating and editing anything from characters to vehicles and more. This new feature allows users to edit both sides of a symmetrical object at the same time.

Rendering Options -- Now you can achieve a new level of realism in your scenes with Soft Shadows, Blurred Reflections, Blurred Transmission, True Ambient Lighting, Caustics, Global Illumination, Ambient Occlusion, HDRI, Motion Blur, Subsurface Scattering, Shadow Catch, Transparency with Absorption, Depth of Field, and more.

Sunday, April 26, 2009

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 at Software.com





With more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides users with the tools, resources and confidence to tackle a wide variety of projects - from logos and Web graphics, to multipage brochures, to high impact signage and digital displays. New text and page-layout enhancements, market-leading file format compatibility, and an expanded collection of high-quality content make this powerful suite the ultimate design partner, helping users turn inspiration into stunning results. To upgrade from a previous version see here.

A comprehensive suite of intuitive page-layout, illustration, photo-editing, and bitmap-to-vector tracing applications, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is the trusted choice of millions of professional and aspiring designers worldwide. The latest version of the suite includes new tools designed to fuel the creative process, simplify project management, and optimize the graphic design workflow.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 continues to offer the industry's best combination of usability, performance, and price. The latest version of the award-winning suite includes the following core applications and content:

  • CorelDRAW X4: An intuitive vector-illustration and page layout application, CorelDRAW X4 delivers results fast, whether users are creating a company logo or working to meet demanding production schedules.

  • Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4: Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a professional image-editing application that lets users quickly and easily retouch and enhance photos. It is specifically designed for use in a graphics workflow.

  • Corel PowerTRACE X4: Professional designers often receive poor-quality bitmap images from clients and face the challenge of turning these bitmaps into high-quality vector images for business cards, brochures, signs, or other promotional items. Corel PowerTRACE X4 solves this problem by letting users quickly and accurately convert bitmaps into editable vector graphics.

  • Corel CAPTURE X4: A one-click screen-capture utility, Corel CAPTURE X4 lets users capture images from an application or the Internet.

  • CorelDRAW Handbook - Insights from the Experts: The new CorelDRAW Handbook features the designs of accomplished CorelDRAW experts. Providing step-by-step guidance and design insights, experts from a variety of industries demonstrate the power and versatility of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4.

  • Training videos: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes two hours of training videos on DVD. Topics include illustration, design, and image-editing fundamentals, industry-specific design principles, and output details for various media, such as print or the Web.

  • CorelDRAW community site: Accessible from within the application, the CorelDRAW.com community site gives users a place to meet, share information and learn from other users. Combining forums, blogs, galleries, and other resources, CorelDRAW.com is a valuable source of information and inspiration for professional designers and occasional graphics users alike.

  • Increased content with more than 10,000 handpicked, high-quality clipart and digital images: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 4,000 new images, 1,000 professional, high-resolution digital photos, 1,000 OpenType® fonts - content worth thousands of dollars if purchased separately. The suite also includes a printed User Guide, Digital Content Guide, and a Quick Reference Card to help new users get started quickly.

Delivering a Superior User Experience Through Improved Usability, Enhanced Interactivity, and Streamlined Workflow

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 features more than 50 new and significantly enhanced features, including:

  • New! Live text formatting: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 introduces live text formatting, allowing users to preview text formatting options before applying them to a document. With this time-saving feature, users can now preview many different formatting options, including fonts, font size, and alignment, removing the "trial-and-error" typically associated with the design process.

  • New! Font identification: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 now integrates with WhatTheFont, the online font identification service from MyFonts.com. Users can save time by quickly identifying the font used in existing bitmap designs, artwork or other images received from clients.

  • New! Independent page layers: Users can now control and edit layers independently for each page of a document, reducing the occurrence of pages with empty layers. Users can also add independent guidelines for individual pages and master guidelines for an entire document. This gives users the ability to create different layers on a page-specific basis, unconfined by a single document structure.

  • New! Interactive tables: The new, interactive Table tool in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 lets users create and import tables to provide a powerful, structured layout for text and graphics. Users can easily align, resize, or edit tables and table cells to suit their designs. In addition, users can convert delimited text and easily add and adjust images in individual cells.

  • Enhanced! Windows Vista integration: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite is the only professional graphics suite Certified for Windows Vista. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 has been designed to take advantage of the latest innovations from Windows Vista, while still offering a superior experience for Windows XP users. CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 integrates with the desktop search capabilities of Windows Vista directly from within the Open and Import dialog boxes, enabling users to search for files by author, subject, file type, date, keywords, or other file properties. Users can also easily add their own keywords, ratings or other notes when saving files in order to better organize their projects.

  • New! CorelDRAW ConceptShare integration: The new CorelDRAW ConceptShare docker, accessible from within CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, integrates a valuable online collaboration tool directly within the user workflow. In a Web-based environment, CorelDRAW ConceptShare lets users share their designs and ideas with colleagues or clients in real time. Users can easily create multiple workspaces, upload their designs, and invite others to provide feedback or submit their own ideas without sending large files over email.

  • New! File format support: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 maintains its position as market leader in file format compatibility by adding support for Microsoft Office Publisher. Users can also expect seamless compatibility with Microsoft Word 2007, Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite 3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, PDF 1.7 (Adobe Acrobat 8), AutoCAD DXF and AutoCAD DWG, and Corel Painter™ X, making it easier than ever to exchange files with clients and colleagues.

  • New! Professionally designed templates: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 includes 80 professionally designed and customizable templates, giving users a springboard to the design process. Flexible and easy to customize, the templates are accompanied by Designer Notes that provide information on the design choices made for the template, tips for outputting a design based on the template, and instructions for customizing the template while still adhering to design principles.

  • New! Specialized fonts: An extended selection of new fonts in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 helps users ensure their output is optimized for its intended audience. This specialized collection of fonts includes single-line engraving fonts and OpenType cross-platform fonts, which offer enhanced language support for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic outputs in WGL4 format.

  • New! Welcome screen: With a new Welcome screen, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides users with a centralized location to access recently used documents, templates, and learning tools, which include Tips & Tricks and video tutorials. To inspire users, the Welcome screen also includes a gallery that showcases designs created by CorelDRAW Graphics Suite users from around the world.

New Additions to Corel PHOTO-PAINT

  • New! RAW camera file support: Corel PHOTO-PAINT now includes support for RAW camera file formats, enabling users to import RAW camera files directly from their digital camera. With support for approximately 300 different camera types and interactive controls that provide real-time previews, users can view file properties and camera settings, adjust image color and tone, and improve image quality, all from within Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 and CorelDRAW X4.

  • New! Straighten image: Using Corel PHOTO-PAINT, users can quickly and easily straighten images that were scanned or photographed at an angle. With interactive controls, a grid with vertical and horizontal guidelines, and an integrated histogram that provides results in real time, PHOTO-PAINT makes it easier than ever to straighten crooked images. In addition, users can choose to have their images automatically cropped.

  • Enhanced! Tone Curve adjustments: With the enhanced Tone Curve dialog box, Corel PHOTO-PAINT X4 users can adjust their images with greater precision. With an integrated histogram, users now receive real-time feedback as they make adjustments to their images. In addition, the new Eyedropper tool lets users pinpoint specific color locations on the tone curve of their image, as well as select, add, or delete nodes along the tone curve.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Carrara 7.0 3D Art and Animation

An ideal 3D workhorse within any designer's creative suite, the highly-affordable Carrara 7 lavishes speed and power that enables users to create more freely and deliver the highest-caliber results under even the tightest deadlines. Finally, there is a single solution for realistic figure posing and animation combined with advanced modeling, terrain-building, physics, and rendering that is readily compatible with a large array of 3D assets. If you're a 3D professional, illustrator, creative designer, digital photographer, hobbyist, or student, you owe it to yourself to check out Carrara 7.

Carrara 7 delivers a multitude of features that enable artists to build a project - from start to finish - with a single piece of software. From the multiple modelers, to the preset textures and shaders, to the ultra-fast and realistic rendering, users will find the toolset delivered in Carrara 7 to be full-featured and complete.

Carrara is recognized as a robust, versatile software package of 3D tools that includes modeling, rigging, animating, terrain-building, rendering, and more. With the addition of NLA Track Groups, Vertex Modeling in the Assembly Room, LOD Support for Figures, Improved Content Support, UV Relax Seams, and a COLLADA Export, the time for Carrara is now.

Sporting its familiar, elegant and easy-to-use interface, Carrara 7 provides 3D artists like you a professional, advanced, and complete tool set to take your art to exciting new horizons. Whether you work with people and places, landscapes and skyscapes, lights and shaders, plants, and oceans, or particles and physics, Carrara 7 will help bring your imagination to life.

Vertex Modeling -- The Vertex Modeling capabilities that were previously only available in the "Modeling" room are now available in the "Assembly" room.

COLLADA Export -- COLLADA is becoming a new standard for transferring content. In this new release of Carrara, you will be able to export your models in this new format. (WIN OS only)

Figure Content LOD Support -- Carrara 7 also includes support for Content Figures that have multiple Levels of Detail (LOD).

Non-Linear Animation Track Groups -- Using Carrara for creating animations? This new merge track tool will provide an improved interface to create groups of tracks then collapse or expand the tracks in those groups.

Improved Content Support -- Better capabilities in bringing DAZ 3D products into Carrara. Requires DAZ Studio 2.3.3.138 or higher (2.3.3.146 is strongly recommended).

Dynamic Hair -- With the Dynamic Hair and fur modeling/simulation feature, you can paint, cut, brush and shade hair to bring your images to realistic life --- and do it with the greatest of ease.

Symmetrical Modeling -- Streamline the modeling process. Ideal for creating and editing anything from characters to vehicles and more. This new feature allows users to edit both sides of a symmetrical object at the same time.

Rendering Options -- Now you can achieve a new level of realism in your scenes with Soft Shadows, Blurred Reflections, Blurred Transmission, True Ambient Lighting, Caustics, Global Illumination, Ambient Occlusion, HDRI, Motion Blur, Subsurface Scattering, Shadow Catch, Transparency with Absorption, Depth of Field, and more.

Poser 7 - Complete 3D Figure Design and Animation


Poser 7 provides the easiest way to design with the human form in 3D. Using the rich collection of content included and powerful rendering to produce any style art, creative professionals, graphic artists and hobbyists can create stunning art, fine illustration and breathtaking animation for applications that integrate the diversity and spirit of human imagery.

With Poser, you can design using the human form for art, illustration, comics, pre-viz/storyboarding, medical visualization, animation, architecture and education - essentially everywhere your creative mind may take you as you design for print, video, film, or web!

Features

  • Complete 3D Figure Design - Create any figure imaginable using Poserfs powerful 3D toolset. Scale and manipulate individual body parts, modify facial expressions, customize ethnicity, add clothing and props, and pose your figures down to the finest detail.
  • Powerful Rendering Capabilities - Poserfs powerful FireFly render engine delivers high-quality artistic effects for creating extraordinary, professional renders with natural lighting, shadows, reflections and refractions. Customize your final output in many styles, including photorealism, sketch, cartoon, silhouette and more.
  • Animation Controls - Poserfs animation tools are designed to help you create stunning, realistic animations without much of the repetitive work involved in animating figures. Poser includes automatic keyframe creation, non-linear animation, lip-syncing and a walk simulator to simplify the animation process.
  • Dynamic Hair and Cloth - Dynamic props move with your figure and add realism to your animations. Clothing drapes and deforms just as it should in real-life over a human figure, while hair can be grown, styled and controlled dynamically as if blown by the wind.
  • Loaded With 3D Content - Poser includes high resolution male and female figures, children, animals, cartoons, robots, and more - over 80 fully textured figure models in all. Hundreds of poses, facial expressions, full body morphs, hair, clothing, light sets and props are also included so you can get started fast. Plus, sound and motion files included add life to your figures and scenes.

New in Poser 7

  • New Content - Poser 7 comes with over 1GB of high resolution 3D content. Leading the way are Simon and Sydney, the new male and female figures, plus loads of exclusive third party content, new wildlife, new motion capture data, light sets, poses, materials, and lots more.
  • Lip Syncing - Using the new Talk Designer in Poser 7, even beginning animators can easily make figures talk with facial movements that match real human behavior! Talk Designer will work with Sydney and Simon, as well as James, Jessi, and the Generation 2 Koji and Kelvin figures.
  • Multiple Undo and Redo - Return to earlier poses and designs, and step back and forth through up to 100 recent changes within your scene! Poser 7fs Multiple Undo and Redo is an incredible timesaver that can be applied on a wide range of your document changes, including all actions from the Poser library, applying poses, or deleting figures and props from your scenes.
  • Multi-Threaded Rendering and HDRI Support - Render up to four times faster with Multi-threaded Rendering (up to four threads) on machines with multiple CPUs. Poser 7 creates even more realistic images with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support for Image Based Lighting and textures.
  • Non-Linear Animation - Use Poser 7fs new Animation Layers to separate the various parts of an animation into independent pieces that can be individually moved, edited, hidden, or even phased gradually in and out.
  • Brush-like Morphing Tools - Poser 7fs new Create tab on the Morphing Tool palette provides powerful interactive controls for creating your own custom morph targets. Easily create custom morphs on your figures just like you would with any brush tool.
  • Universal Poses - Now you can apply any pose to any biped figure within Poser 7, regardless of that figure's joints or rigging, and see consistent, high quality results!