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AKVIS MultiBrush 4.0: A Collection of Photo Retouching Tools

AKVIS Software Inc. announces the release of AKVIS MultiBrush v.4.0 for Windows and Macintosh. AKVIS MultiBrush makes it easy to retouch damaged photos and enhance portraits. It is available as a standalone application as well as a plugin to the mot popular photo editors. AKVIS MultiBrush is a new enhanced version of AKVIS Stamp, therefore the registered users of Stamp can activate MultiBrush for free.
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Green Screen Shooting: Smart Trick Can Save You $15,000!

Actual Tools, a developer of desktop enhancement technologies, announces the new application field of semi-transparency effect in Windows 2000 and later versions. It can greatly facilitate the process of green screen video shooting or green screen photography, with a PC as a media storage/processor. Actual Transparent Window, a helpful utility by Actual Tools, makes this effect available to the user and fully customizable for any window. You can overlay semi-transparent live camera image and a background image: the ghost composite of two images allows you live lineup during recording.

Video shooting or photography against a special green (or blue) screen is a well-known and widespread technique that implies replacing the green background with any other one, static or animated. Using a regular PC as a media processor simplifies and speeds up both the process of shooting and the following picture processing, so that such a technique is affordable for small photo- and videostudios.

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Kodak Selects Digital River to Run Global E-Commerce Operations

MINNEAPOLIS–Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a leading provider of global e-commerce solutions, announced that it is significantly expanding its relationship with Eastman Kodak Company to manage Kodak’s global e-commerce operations. Under the agreement, Digital River will be providing a full range of e-commerce and e-marketing services to support all consumer online sales of Kodak’s innovative line of digital cameras, digital video cameras, digital picture frames, all-in-one inkjet printers, film and accessories across multiple countries in North America and Europe.

“Conducting cross-border e-commerce is a complex proposition involving multiple languages and currencies, banking relationships, international regulations, taxes and more,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “Digital River has the global footprint, infrastructure and e-commerce expertise to help companies cut through this complexity and successfully enter online markets much faster and with less risk than they can on their own. We are pleased to expand our relationship with Kodak and work with them in delivering their world-class brand and products to customers around the globe.”
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