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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
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Bundled with Canon cameras, ZoomBrowser and ImageBrowser are quite capable as
basic organizers. Like a kit lens, they fill a gap with an adequate solution: in this case
making sure that all camera owners can at least get their images into a computer, look at
them, and print them. They usually form part of Digital Photo Professional (DPP),
Canon’s bundled software for DSLRs, which has additional dust delete functions. If you
lose the CD that came with your Canon camera, you have to install an earlier version of
ZoomBrowser (available online) before you can obtain the latest upgrade from Canon.
Version: ZoomBrowser EX 6.0 (2008)
OS: Windows 2000 (SP4), XP (SP 1&2), and Vista; Mac OS X
RAM: 512MB
Supported file formats: Canon RAW; JPEG and TIFF
Price level: Free with camera
Address: Canon U.S.A., Inc., One Canon Plaza, Lake Success, NY 11042, United States
(Japanese only) web.canon.jp
(Windows) web.canon.jp/imaging/software/zbex5-e/index.html
(Mac) www.canon.co.jp/imaging/software/ib5-e/index.html
CompuPic Pro
Vendor: Photodex
Purpose: Multi-featured software to manage, view, and use multimedia content
Description
CompuPic Pro is a commercial software package that allows you to manage, view, and
use all the images, movies, and sounds on your computer. It is a very fast image browser
(faster than any other on the market, according to the vendor) and it also has excellent
batch-conversion facilities. However large your image collection, CompuPic Pro can
make light work of browsing it.
Features include batch editing with the ability to apply crop, resize, text, and image
watermarking to many images at once. There are image enhancement features such as
auto-correction, red-eye removal, drop-shadow, and text effects. You can adjust brightness,
contrast, color, and hue, as well as resize to any size and rotate to any angle.
Output facilities include online publishing with customized Web pages and an option
to create Photodex PictureCDs that include the viewing software. You can create Picture
Index contact sheets and go on to print your photos at any size, or simply create screen
savers and desktop wallpaper. Sharing is easy because the vendor supports a lot of online
sites (and has one of its own, Photodex.com, which is free to join). You can also use the
integrated email feature.