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onOne Software, Inc., announces that Mask Pro 4 - the upgrade to the company’s popular digital image masking plug-in Mask Pro 3 - will begin shipping on November 18, 2006. Mask Pro 4 provides a complete collection of Photoshop® plug-in tools that allow users unprecedented flexibility when tackling the most challenging masking job. And this new version focuses on teaching the user how to best use each comprehensive toolset for masking a wide range of images.

onOne Software, Inc., announces the immediate availability of the new professionally designed Jack Davis Digital Frame Collection. This new collection adds to the already extensive library of easy-to-use border and edge effects currently available for users of onOne Software’s PhotoFrame Pro 3 and PhotoFrame 3 designed specifically for Photoshop® Elements.

REALVIZ®, a leader in image processing software development, is pleased to announce the availability of their innovative software, VTour, on the Macintosh® platform. REALVIZ VTour, which launched in March of this year, draws on the award-winning technology of Stitcher® and ImageModeler®, and offers users of all levels an innovative and effective solution for the creation of photo-real 3D environments from 2D pictures or panoramas.

ACD Systems International Inc., today announced a public beta software release which updates ACDSee® Pro Photo Manager, adding support for the newest RAW formats. Developed specifically for the professional photographer, ACDSee Pro will be showcased from November 2-4 at PhotoPlus Expo, Booth #1212, in New York. ACDSee Pro delivers advanced functionality designed to streamline the workflow of professional photographers, while incorporating the speed and organizing capabilities synonymous with ACDSee software solutions. “Once again, our commitment to working closely with professional photographers yields support for the newest digital cameras”, said Doug Vandekerkhove, CEO of ACD Systems.

Apple has just released Apple Aperture 1.5.1, which addresses numerous issues related to overall reliability and performance in all areas of the application. The download is 125Mb.  Aperture 1.5.1 addresses numerous issues related to overall reliability and performance in all areas of the application, including: Keywords, Loupe, Cropping, Previews, Metadata presets, Versions, File renaming, iPhoto Library import, Watermarks

DxO Labs announces today that DxO Optics Pro v4 Digital SLR and lens automatic image quality enhancement software now supports the recently released Nikon D80 and the Canon EOS 400D (also known as the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi) Digital SLR camera bodies. DxO Optics Pro v4 is the award-winning digital image enhancement tool incorporating revolutionary optics, geometry, noise, exposure and color corrections in an easy-to-use, feature rich application. Support for the new cameras is provided in both the ‘Standard’ and ‘Elite’ versions of DxO Optics Pro v4. DxO Optics Pro v4 for Windows is available immediately from http://www.dxo.com and selected resellers. The Macintosh (Universal Binary) version is slated for late November.