15 January 2008
HDX4 Photo Manager will be presented on the PMA in Las Vegas
The ECCE TERRAM Internet Services company will go to Las Vegas to present its Photo2lab Software Suite on the main photo trade fair PMA, which will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2008. Integrated into the Photo2lab Software Suite is the HDX4 Photo Manager of HDX4 GmbH. This is a HDX4 Photo SDK for professional picture optimisation.
HDX4 GmbH has specialised in the development of software all about the topics of burning and multimedia. A suitable tool for digital photography is the SDK HDX4 Photo Manager, which other companies can license to upgrade their own software with new functions. SDK includes the two modules HDX4 Natural Enhancement and HDX4 Upscaling, both proprietary developments from the technology laboratories of HDX4 GmbH.
A distinctive feature of the HDX4-modules is that they can help to turn any snapshot into a really professional photograph – it only takes a mouse click. So far, photographers rather used trial and error to adjust brightness, contrast and colours; now the software can detect imperfections of pictures and corrects them without need for further user intervention. Frank Simon of ECCE TERRAM: "Thanks to the HDX4-functions, dark pictures with low contrast and matt colours are definitely a thing of the past. Suddenly, the sky prints perfectly blue and details, which were in the shade become visible again."
Photo2lab Software Suite on the PMA in Las Vegas
Among the companies having licensed the HDX4 Photo SDK is the German company ECCE TERRAM Internet Services. Photo2lab Software Suite has been especially developed for digital photo services, which want to digitise all procedures from the order to printing in the laboratory.
Part of this suite is the eccePhoto Offline-Client, which enables the customer to select his own pictures that are to be ordered as prints or to be used as fun products or for the creation of photo albums or calendars. Integrated into the Offline-Client is the HDX4 Photo Manager. It serves to optimise the pictures per mouse click before uploading them to the Internet, in order to bring out the best of the photographs. This is important because large photo laboratories cannot carry out later modifications of photo albums and calendars – in contrast to prints – without large effort. The Managing Director of the developer ECCE TERRAM, Frank Simon states: "Among our customers are ORWO, Farbglanz Imaging, Pixelnet, Focus, TV Spielfilm, Kodak and many more."
ECCE TERRAM Internet Services presents its Photo2lab Software Suite with the integrated HDX4 Photo Manager on the worldwide most important photo trade fair PMA, which takes place in Las Vegas from 31 January to 2 February 2008. It can be found on stand K191-1 (ECCE TERRAM GmbH, LVCC, 2nd floor).
Homepage HDX4: http://www.hdx4.com
Homepage ECCE TERRAM: http://www.ecce-terram.com
About HDX4 GmbH:
HDX4 GmbH was founded in 2001 and has its headquarters in Dortmund, Germany. The medium-sized company mainly deals with the development of new picture-and video optimization, which considerably increases the quality of the source material by means of a self-developed technique. Via SDKs these functions can be taken over to any Multimedia-Software. HDX4 GmbH also offers all-encompassing support for a veritable cornucopia of video codecs, including (but by no means limited to) MPEG 1/2/4 (of course, the latter in the older H.263 as well as the newest H.264/AVC styles), Flash and MJPEG. The technology covers a range of audio formats, like AAC-LC, AAC-HE, ADPCM, AMR-NB and G.726, and an arsenal of container formats, such as 3GP/3GPP, AVI, MP4 and ASF. Detailed information can be found at www.hdx4.com.
Information about the manufacturer
Mr. Markus Unger (Press relations officer)
HDX4 GmbH, Essener Str. 20, 44139 Dortmund, Germany
E-Mail: info@hdx4.com, Web: www.hdx4.com
Phone: +49 (0)1805 / 36435626
Fax: +49 (0) 700 / 36435626
Press Contact:
IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews. IITM will be pleased to provide an image, NFR versions for review and background information.
IITM LLP
Washington
Email: pr (at) IITM.info
Tel. +1 202 4703242
Labels: calendar photo, HDX4, processing, SDK
20 November 2007
FotoInsight starts the Calendar 2008 Season with new, larger Photo Calendars
A professionally printed calendar with own digital images must rank among the most convenient personalised gift ideas among for friends and family. A UK photo service is expanding this idea with a greater choice of calendars.
FotoInsight is growing and the size of its photo print products seems to grow with the company. Posters, canvas printing and the photo book XL format are now followed by a new, larger photo calendar format. The largest photographic calendar is exclusive to the FotoInsight Pro software; the use of an offline ordering software client became necessary to ensure a safe upload of larger images to the lab. With the FotoInsight Pro photo calendar and photo book software comes a range of editing tools, which internet browser could not handle. Editing the calendar through a special software tool allows for example to freely position any number of images on a single page. This is useful when a event should be enhanced by scanned holiday memories, like entrance tickets, postcards or maps – these can now be integrated into a professionally printed photo calendar. The increase in design flexibility follows requests from customers, ordering personalised photo calendars year after year for friends and family.
The resolution of digital images is constantly increasing and professional laboratories now achieve super sharp prints in large formats. “With the improvements in digital cameras it started making sense to offer larger photo calendars”, says FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann and adds: “We do not limit the print area for images on the monthly calendar page. Photos can cover the whole page and the calendar template can be layered over images.”
The number of photos taken has been increasing sharply, with the share of those being printed dropping constantly. With the technological advancements in screens and photo-sharing the user prints special images for special occasions; quality expectations towards print products and photo gifts are on the rise. Photo calendar print from digital images is ‘the fashion’. A photographic calendar ordered through the online service FotoInsight, gets printed on the latest generation of Indigo printing equipment. In this process so called ElectroInk, with particles 1µm to 2µm small, is applied. The reduced particle size of the toner creates a higher perceived resolution of the printed image, cleaner edges and finer, finer, more adherent layers than traditional printing methods.
Sticking in is so yesteryear – today it’s professionally printed calendars
FotoInsight is updating it’s photographic calendar range just in time for the year-end gift shopping season, with photo gifts made from the users own digital images, which the online service delivers professionally printed on 250 g/m² paper. Instead of sticking images in, digital image files allow for an individual design and professional print, on a variety of personalised gifts like photo mugs, shirts or photobooks. FotoInsight’s Managing Director comments “FotoInsight specialises in photographic gift items. The new generation of photo calendars will resolve many people’s problems in finding unique gift ideas.”
Range for photo calendar printing at FotoInsight :
Year planner NEW £ 4.99Table calendar NEW £ 8.99
A2 Wall Calendar New £ 34.99
A3 Wall Calendar NEW £16.99
A4 Wall Calendar £ 9.99
Kitchen calendar NEW £ 6.99
Wall appointment calendar £14.99
Desktop appointment calendar £ 9.99
Picture Pairs game £ 9.99
Postage & packing per order £ 2.99
Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk
Labels: calendar photo, photo calendars, photo gift, photo printing, print, wall calendar
