Picture Arena 1.3.5 review
DownloadPicture Arena is the next generation tool to manage, use, rework, present and browse your digital picture collection.
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Picture Arena is the next generation tool to manage, use, rework, present and browse your digital picture collection.
Navigate by speech, quickly browse directories, rework your images, create a presentation CD, a web gallery, a slideshow or a printed album.
Here are some key features of "Picture Arena":
Browse the file system
Quickly browse your CDs and folders full of images without leaving a trail of thumbnail files behind.
Import
Import images and video clips from your digital camera, file system hierarchies or keep using or convert your existing iPhoto™ albums.
Create web galleries
Choose between numerous professional and varied themes, create online slideshows, interactive greeting cards, searchable databases - with just a few clicks.
Burn CDs and DVDs
Create cross platform HTML presentations and backups on CD or DVD or specially prepared CDs containing up to 9200 pictures for viewing on DVD players with just a few clicks. It was never easier to make one's personal photo archive portable, to present, protect and share it.
Print
Print greeting cards, contact sheets, attractive letter paper with a very special and personal touch or standard sizes with no effort.
Reworking and effects
Rework your images, add unique effects, create effect recipes and reuse them. And you don't even have to modify your original files. That's especially useful, if you have a lot of files on CDs, yet need powerful image processing.
Navigate by speech and present
Picture Arena cares about what you have to say. Say a command and it will act accordingly. But you can also "just" do a slideshow.
Resynchronize your files
At last! Finally, you can work on your images independent of network and servers - wherever you want. And then bring everything back in sync with just one click.
Tools
Auto-rotate images from your digital camera? Powerful batch operations? Batch renaming with undo? Searching albums? Sorting images by the date they were taken? Sounds like you use Picture Arena.
Even more reasons why you need Picture Arena
Because of its intelligent EXIF support, for example. Or because it makes optimal use of multiprocessor systems, has a compact interface, knows exotic formats.
What's New:
New: Translation of the interface and other parts into French by Patrick Thoennessen, Fr?d?ric Verges and Andr? Siegel.
New: Albums can now be grouped in folders and subfolders.
New: Picture Arena can now create directories and supports file operations like moving and copying of files via drag & drop.
New: Multi-screen support for slideshows, improved efficiency and behaviour of the controls.
New: If the location of files managed by Picture Arena was changed manually, any broken paths inside Picture Arena can now be "repaired" by choosing the new location.
New: Vastly improved data security through regular background backups and a safe "backup exploration" mode in case of crashes.
New: Support for Entourage, Eudora and Mailsmith in addition to Mail for sending photos.
Enhancement: Support for CMYK JPEGs, including those saved with Adobe® Photoshop.
Enhancement: The greeting card script now supports international characters via UTF-8, can store cards on the server (which is auto-detected) and allows to send plain text emails.
Enhancement: The greeting card and database scripts are now also localized in Spanish thanks to the work of Michael Paus.
Enhancement: Screensavers and system sleep are now automatically disabled during a playing slideshow.
Enhancement: Zoom + / - now works the default way on OS X via "Apple +" and "Apple -".
Enhancement: When browsing through images in view mode, the image viewed last will also be scrolled to in the browse mode on return.
Enhancement: When an image is displayed in "size-to-fit" magnification, you can now scroll through your images with the mouse-wheel.
Fix: The slideshow transition rendered too fast to be visible on Tiger. Fixed.
Fix: Added a workaround for a problem where thumbnails would be displayed upside-down when Quartz 2D Extreme was enabled.
Fix: Crash on pressing an Apple-key and the right mousebutton in empty albums.
Fix: Conditions that could lead to a crash with Core Image filters are now handled correctly.
Fix: The interpretation of EXIF dates was corrected so it now reflects the local time of the shoot, not GMT.
Fix: Clicking on "Page setup" inside the printing dialog could render the current Picture Arena project window unusable.
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