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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
Image Genius Professional can save busy photographers a lot of time by automating the
main processing functions according to a customized pipeline created by the user. One
reviewer reports that he processed over a thousand images in under two minutes: the
kind of speed that makes it ideal for Web catalog creation.
Version: Image Genius Professional 3.2 (2008)
OS: Windows XP and later, with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 or later
Supported file formats: Opens and saves JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, TGA, EMF, Exif, and WMF;
opens only CMYK TIFFs and JPEGs, PSD, and many RAW formats
Price level: Approx. $80
Address: Pixel Dragons Limited, 196 High Road, Wood Green, London N22 8HH, United Kingdom
www.pixeldragons.com
LEADViEW
Vendor: LEAD Technologies
Purpose: Image editing and paint package with support for RGB, HSB, HLS, CMY, CMYK,
and Lab color palettes
Description
LEADViEW is an extensive image -editing package that supports RGB, HSB, HLS,
CMY, CMYK, and Lab color palettes and offers gamma correction, color balance, hue
remapping, color channel splitting and merging, and many other features for adjusting
the image. Its masking facilities are first-rate, and include floater creation, selection
feather, and manipulation and transformation tools. You can select regions to remove
unwanted portions of a picture, get rid of red-eye, and change the color of selected items.
Its Photo Album software helps you to manage large collections of photos. Worth noting,
too, are its versatile batch file conversions, including TIFF to J2K and BMP to/from JPEG.
LEADViEW is particularly strong in optimizing images for the Web. It lets you create
image rollovers; gives an image preview with estimated download times; includes an
HTML mapping facility; has image preview from within the Web browser; and lets you
export images as an HTML photo album. Its organizational abilities are equally good—
you can categorize images and add unlimited notes to them. It lets you sort in ascending
or descending order and search by date, category, or comments. It also has full
drag-and-drop support.
Comments
The vendor, best-known for its application developer toolkits, claims that LEADViEW
is “the most comprehensive image-editing software package available.” It sounds like
overstatement, but could well be true given the remarkable number of features, including
facilities for digital painting. Other developers may purchase the software on an
OEM basis to include in their own applications.