Year: 2008

Akvis has released Akvis Artwork, a special effect tool that applies
different painting techniques to common digital pictures. Available
in Mac and PC versions stand-alone or as a plug-in for Adobe
Photoshop, it’s designed to make digital photos look as if they were
real oil paintings.

ArtWork allows creating an oil portrait, a landscape painting or a
still life picture in a fully automatic or assisted mode. You can use
the software to create paintings out of pictures taken with any kind
of digital cameras, including digital SLRs and compacts.

Digieffects (http://www.digieffects.com), a
developer of visual effects software plug-ins, is
shipping Simulate: Camera, an US$99 plug-in
package offering a specialized collection of
effects for mimicking camera and projection
artifacts. All Digieffects plug-ins support Adobe
CS4.

Wolfram Research has released Mathematica 7, an update that
accelerates the drive to integrate and automate functionality as core
Mathematica capabilities, adding image processing, parallel
high-performance computing (HPC), new on-demand curated data, and
other recently developed computational innovations — in total over
500 new functions and 12 application areas.

Industrial-strength, high-performance functions for image
composition, transformation, enhancement, and segmentation combine
with the existing Mathematica infrastructure of high-level language,
automated interface

Like Thought (http://likethought.com/ ) has announced Opacity 1.2, an
update to their editor for screen graphics. This update adds a number
of iPhone graphic creation features and many interface improvements.
Opacity requires Mac OS X 10.5.5 Leopard. Opacity Express 1.2 is also
available with the core features of Opacity 1.2 at a more affordable
price.

Opacity already makes it easy to design graphics for desktop
applications, but the new version now makes it easy to create
graphics for iPhone apps as well.

ATTO Technology (http://www.attotech.com/), which specializes in
storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive
computing environments, says its Celerity FC-84EN, FC-82EN, and
FC-81EN Fibre Channel Host Adapters have been verified by Brocade
Communications Systems. as compatible with Brocade-based Storage Area
Networking (SAN) infrastructure, according to the testing
requirements of the Brocade Data Center Ready Program.

The program is an initiative designed to foster interoperability in
multi-vendor Brocade-based data center environments.