PANORAMIC DIGITAL NEWS

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HP Announces S20 35mm Photo Scanner

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Hewlett-Packard Company, today announced the HP 
PhotoSmart S20 photo scanner, a new product designed for photo and PC 
enthusiasts who want to scan 35mm photographic images to personal 
computers. 

Expected to sell for a U.S. est street price of $499, the S20 has 
features comparable to competitive units costing up to three times as 
much. The scanner, which provides an optical scanning resolution of up 
to 2400 dots per inch (dpi) at a color depth of 36 bits, is designed to 
capture the finest details, from rich colors to deep shadows. Exposure, 
color and sharpness controls in the new scanning software enable 
accurate adjustments to and greater precision control over the final 
image.
 

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02-18-99

Enroute Announces PowerStitch - Panorama Software for Professionals

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Feb. 18, 1999-- Enroute Imaging, the leading 
developer of digital imaging panorama software, announced today 
PowerStitch, the first full-featured panorama software for 
professionals. 

PowerStitch assembles any number of high-resolution images to produce 
greater than 50 Megapixel print-quality panorama output. PowerStitch 
provides manual automatic controls for sharper, more precise results. It 
is marketed towards professional and prosumer digital and film-based 
camera users wishing extra-large output and higher resolution images, so 
output is limited only by the user's hardware. PowerStitch produces 
wide-angle distortion-free output, pan-head wide angle output, and QTVR 
360 degree output. 

PowerStitch is also the ideal tool for creating large poster size and 
print production quality digital images. It works with scanned sections 
of large documents, such as maps, blueprints, and images that do not fit 
on a scanner bed. PowerStitch will be available in April 1999 for $399.


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02-18-99
 Ulead Systems Launches New Easy-to-Use Panorama Photo Creation Tool - 
Ulead COOL 360

TORRANCE, Calif., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Ulead® Systems Inc., a leading 
developer of Windows-based imaging, video and Internet software, today 
announced the release of Ulead® COOL 360(TM), a tool for creating 
panoramas from any digitized sequence of photos. COOL 360 will be shown 
for the first time publicly this week at the DigitalFocus '99 Event at 
PMA in Las Vegas, NV. 

Ulead COOL 360 takes a 3-step approach to panorama creation. Users begin 
by activating the New Project Wizard, which defines the type of panorama 
(wide-angle or full 360 degrees) and guides them in acquiring images 
from any TWAIN-compliant scanner or digital camera. 

COOL 360 lets users interact with and improve their original photos 
while creating projects. COOL 360 is built upon a powerful algorithm 
that allows for automatic stitching and intelligent blending and warping 
of photos. Users can sequence and overlap images automatically or 
manually, making use of tools to rotate and adjust perspective, hue, 
saturation, brightness or contrast between sets of photographs. 

Once the project is complete, the Finish step offers a variety of 
options for saving finished panorama projects. Panorama projects created 
using COOL 360 can be pasted into documents and presentations. Projects 
can be delivered via email as a stand-alone .EXE file or posted as an 
HTML-based panorama for use on the Web (a downloadable Ulead Panorama 
Viewer plug-in is required). Other output options include using projects 
for Windows screensavers, printing or exporting as .MOV files. 

Ulead COOL 360 is now available from Ulead's Web site and through all 
major online software distributors. The estimated SRP will be $39.95.

 
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