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Roxio Introduces Photosuite 7 Platinum
Simply Picture Perfect: Comprehensive, Powerful Photo Editing Software
April 7, 2004 - Roxio, Inc., The Digital Media Company, provider of the best selling digital media software in the world, began shipping its new PhotoSuite 7 Platinum software today. Building on the award-winning capabilities of its predecessor, the latest release of Roxio’s photo software extends its appeal with powerful multimedia slide show capabilities, professional level editing tools, and advanced Video CD authoring, components which are leveraged from Roxio Creator 7, Roxio’s market-leading digital media suite. Some photo applications focus strictly on editing, while others concentrate on organising. PhotoSuite 7 Platinum offers tremendous value by including all the tools needed to capture, edit, create, organise, share, and preserve digital photos on CD or DVD in one package, while maintaining the user-friendly interface for which PhotoSuite has been praised.
“Like all applications in our digital media software line, PhotoSuite 7 Platinum offers a clean user interface, intuitive workflow and powerful, seamlessly integrated components that deliver a complete solution at a competitive price,” said Stephen Mold, European Sales and Marketing Director, Roxio. “It is no longer necessary for consumers to have to buy and learn multiple applications to get the most out of their digital photography.”
Components new to PhotoSuite 7 Platinum include a smart capture utility for importing photos or video files from digital cameras, scanners, or storage devices, a flexible label creation tool, and a comprehensive media management system that provides a single, convenient location for locating, viewing, organising, and burning photos, video clips and audio files to CD or DVD. Another key addition is StoryBoard for creating dynamic slide shows with personal photos or video clips that include background music, text, transitions, special effects, and narration. Motion Pictures is also new; it brings still images to life with dramatic zoom and pan effects. One of the most significant new components included in PhotoSuite 7 Platinum is DVD Builder (VCD Edition) powered by the Roxio Creator burn engine, which enables consumers to create Video CDs of personal content complete with animated buttons and motion menus.
Key Features:
Capture and Organise
• Capture utility quickly imports photos or video clips from a digital camera – simply plug it in and go. This avoids installing and learning new software for each device
• Media Manager with advanced features for searching, tagging, burning to CD or DVD, viewing by date captured, and automatically organizing photos, video clips, audio files, and projects
Edit and Create
• StoryBoard for easily creating dynamic slide shows with personal photos, video clips, and audio tracks, complete with transitions, text, special effects and narration
• Motion Pictures adds life to still photos by adding pan, zoom and motion path effects
• Multi-photo Enhance to touch up a collection of photos simultaneously
• Touch up Brushes to selectively fix an area of a photo that is too dark or that needs to be sharpened
• Advanced paint tools to colorize a black and white photo, or create one-of-a-kind works of art
• A rich array of automated correction tools and fine-tune controls
• Professionally-designed templates and advanced project controls such as layer adjustment, edge fading and transparency levels for creating stunning collages, cards, calendars and more with minimal effort
• PhotoStitch for quickly turning multiple photos of a scene into a seamless panorama
Burn and Share
• Archive feature for burning photos, video clips and audio files to CD or DVD for safekeeping
• DVD Builder (VCD Edition) to make personal Video CDs with animated menus, buttons, chapters, and background themes to be enjoyed on home DVD players
• Photo resize options for easily sharing through e-mail, or uploading to a professional online service
• Label Creator with an extraordinary range of creative control for designing and printing disc labels and inserts
• Numerous print options and advanced settings for printing photos at various sizes, printing multiple photos per page or generating a contact sheet of an entire album.
Pricing and Availability:
PhotoSuite 7 Platinum will be widely available shortly at major UK resellers for a suggested retail price of £49.99 (inc VAT), and is available today at www.roxio.co.uk. PhotoSuite 7 Platinum is also available as a component of Roxio Creator 7 for a suggested retail price of £69.99 (inc VAT).
About Roxio
Roxio, Inc. provides the best selling digital media software in the world and owns Napster®, the world's most recognized brand in online music. Roxio makes award-winning software products for CD/DVD burning, photo editing and video editing. Roxio's family of products includes category-leading products Roxio Easy Media Creator(TM), Easy CD & DVD Creator(TM), Digital Media Suite®, Easy CD Creator® (Windows) and Toast® (Macintosh) for CD/DVD burning, PhotoSuite® for digital photography, and VideoWave® for digital video. Roxio's current installed base is in excess of 100 million users. Roxio distributes its products globally through strategic partnerships with major hardware manufacturers, in stores with the leading worldwide retailers, through Internet partnerships and also sells its products direct at www.roxio.com. Napster has content agreements with the five major record labels, as well as hundreds of independents. Napster delivers access to the largest catalog of online music with more than 500,000 tracks spanning all genres and artists from Eminem to Miles Davis.
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