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June 2005...

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The Plugin Site Released Version 1.04 of its Sharpening Plugin FocalBlade

The Plugin Site (www.thepluginsite.com) released Version 1.04 of FocalBlade, a Photoshop-compatible plugin for sharpening your photos for screen display and printing as well as for producing great looking blur, soft focus and glow effects on 8bit and 16bit images. FocalBlade lets you sharpen photos without amplifying noise or artifacts and produces impressive sharpening results even on low quality images. More...

Plustek 7200i film Scanner

The OpticFilm 7200i Now Ships with SilverFast iSRD; Professional Resolution Scanner for Slides and Negatives with New Infrared Scanning Channel for Seamless Image Defect Removal.

If you are in need of a film scanner then this has got to be worth a look with really great resolution and the new infrared scanning channel. More...

Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP

The Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer is a free “PowerToy” for Microsoft Windows XP that provides the ability to view, organize, and print photos captured in RAW image formats from supported digital cameras.

This is now available for free download More...

Photorescue ver 2.1 released

PhotoRescue : the original digital image and data recovery software.

Have you ever had a corrupted image file, deleted a picture or whole card by mistake then help is at hand. With photorescue it is possible to recover these files, even when a card is formatted files can still be recovered. More...

IMS Launch IOptic liquid
IMS have launched a liquid to go with their successful DSLRClean sensor cleaning system. Designed to remove the stubborn 'sticky' spots on sensors, IOptic can also be used for general purpose lens and optical cleaning. More...

VSO Software has releasing a new version of its DVD slideshow generator : PhotoDVD 2.0. Hot new features include DVD subtitles for adding comments, multiple audio tracks per slideshow to fit the mood of various audiences, and focus points to each picture.

This is a great piece of software at a very reasonable price if you have been looking to put your pictures onto DVD then you can try this for free, so you have no excuses. More...  or download trial version vso-software

The Dickensian festival in Rochester is an annual event that has just taken place, if you missed it this year put it in your diary for next year. The whole community come together and dress up, there are some fantastic characters. Chris Burton a member of Bexleyheath Photographic Society has just put up a gallery on her website with a lot of the characters from the festival, take a look here> Chris's Photographic Wonders

Canon EOS 350D digital camera

If you have thought about getting a Digital SLR camera then there is no better time than now, the fantastic Canon EOS 350D will meet all of your needs. Of quality 8mp it will give fantastic results, A3 prints to die for, responsiveness this camera start up is fast with virtually no shutter lag. More...

Sign up with Snapfish and get 20 Free digital prints

Want to get your images printed then snapfish is the way to go for 10p a print 8p if you prepay and only a 99p delivery charge, that is only one of their services. More...

Pixmantec RawShooter Version 1.1.3 Released

Pixmantec have been at it again, still great free raw converter software but now includes support for Nikon D70s, Olympus C7070WZ, some other features and a number of bugs.

What is new since version 1.1.2
New functionality and improvements:
- Significant Performance improvements in many areas including:
- Preview/proxy creation
- Dynamic preview creation
- preview browsing
- Rendering at 100% and beyond
- When comparing images
- Automatic thumbnail scaling in Filmstrip mode
- Multiple CPUs fully utilized during batch conversion
- Enhanced Copy/Paste (Ctrl+C/V) of image corrections
- Ability to specify output DPI

Read my previous review Here...