Products for Creating Images

Imaging

 

BabelColor - BabelColor for Mac and Windows

On March 15, 2004, BabelColor announced the first release of BabelColor for the Mac, a stand-alone application dedicated to RGB color spaces conversion and comparison. This program was formerly available only for Windows. The target audiences are professional graphic and web designers, product designers, and colorimetry specialists. You can see screen shots and detailed specification on the www.BabelColor.com Web site. There, you can also download a free evaluation copy, with no questions asked. BabelColor for Mac is available in two versions, one optimized for Mac OS 8-9 (Mac Classic), and one optimized for Mac OS-X.

Fo2PIX - PhotoArtMaster Gold 1.5

image-editor that intelligently, meaningfully and automatically dis-assembles a single original image into hundreds of variants, or "Sources".

Extensis -

Software plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress and more

Equilibrium- DeBabelizer;

Product Information page

Batch image editing

Adobe's PhotoShop 7.0

Newly available, it now includes an image management module and several other neat tricks.

Internet Pictures Corporation

(iPIX) is the leader in dynamic imaging. The iPIX® end-to-end imaging infrastructure enables the capture, processing, hosting, and distribution of rich media.

Tiffkit

a collection of more than 25 useful utilities for single and multipage, multi-image TIFF files (and many other formats). The utilities support most standard TIFF compression methods, including singlestrip, multiple strips, fillorder modes. Some of the functions include: reformatting, change compression, resolution, shift, crop, batch print, transformation, edit and view header tags, pixel reduction, text annotation, image merge, image overlays, watermarks, combine or split multi-page, rotate, mirroring, invert, resizing, and much more. For Win95, Win98, NT4, Win2000. The supported formats are: multi-page TIFF, DCX, PCX, JPEG, PNG, BMP, WMF, Targa (read), Kodak Photo CD, TIFF/F Dialogic, (limited GIF, please inquire).

ThumbNailer

is a Windows utility that allows you to create thumbnail images a folder at a time. You can use it to convert between one graphics format and another, change image color depth, resize images, and more.

TMS, Sequoia -The Imaging Solutions Company

What makes a digital image? DOTS Generally between 50 and 300 per inch. So if you want to make changes in the image, you have to display, analyze, move, adjust, erase, decompress, or otherwise manipulate the dots. And TMSSequoia� knows dots better than anyone, bitonal, grayscale or color. TMSSequoia supports your image processing efforts post scanning with our powerful image enhancement, forms processing and image viewing applications and software toolkits.

 

Roxio - The Digital Media Company

Several imaging products, including MGI’s Panorama. A CD Creator, PhotoSuite, VideoWave.

Metasoft Systems Inc

The Metasoft Imager SDK Toolkit is specifically designed for OEM software developers that want to quickly integrate fax capability, document management and high-level document conversion capability into their client or server-based software applications.

Color Management

Visibone

get the code for the color you want.

Pantone

Color match for web or print

CGSD

builds high performance custom simulation and virtual reality systems and provides a specialized software product for color space manipulation.

ColorFun

Gretag-Macbeth Holding AG's color management/ calibration software

Image Compression

Welcome to LizardTech, Inc.

Mr. Sid -Image compression technology

Luna Imaging Inc

Image compression technology

Digital Publishing Japan

Vector Format for Zooming - converts your raster images to vectors - very interesting concept.

Xippix

provides a full range of Image Lifecycle Solutions. The ImagePump® application suite enables users to address all phases of the image lifecycle from acquisition to deployment.

JPEG 2000

(Aware software which makes a JPEG 2000 codec (compressor/ decompressor)..

Image WorkFlow

Groove Networks

Peer to peer computing-provides communication among individuals via the Internet without the need for a central server.

Picture Information Extractor

Software Tool for Digital Cameras. PIE shows you exposure information for each picture, renames the PIC000XX.JPG filename keyed to the date and time as well as other photo information and views the images

ScanFix

Improve Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy up to 50% and give your key entry operators something better to do. The ScanFixÆ scanner software and bitonal image optimizer application picks up where your scanner leaves off. TMSí scanning software creates smaller file sizes, higher OCR rates, and cleaner TIFF images. It's like turbo charging your scanner. Whether you process 50 or 5,000 images a day, letting ScanFix v4.2 improves your image quality and saves you time and storage.

Hardware

Digital Cameras/ Scanners

Robert Coldwell designed a digital photography system for archiving fine art, print material and photographs. Unfortunately this project could not be realized, but the equipment had already been acquired. The system sits unused in boxes as I have yet to find someone who could fully utilize the equipment. I am hoping you might know of someone who would have a use for this system.

Please take a look at images of the equipment and more detailed information on each item. http://camera.digitalguitararchive.com

The system was designed to be portable, but would work perfectly in a single location. It is based on a PhaseOne 16 megapixel digital back on a Hasselblad 553ELX with a 120Makro lens. The lighting system is a ProFoto 600 Compact Pack, so you get 1200 watts (2x 600 watt heads) of non-UV strobe lighting. The system can take 4080 x 4080 pixel (13.6" x 13.6" 300dpi) images at a rate of 2-5 secs. per image at 48- bit RGB. The system is complete so there are light stands, a tripod with geared head, softboxes for the strobes, light meter, etc.

All equipment (except Hasselblad) was brand new in June 2005. Two test shoots were undertaken in the in-house studio on fine art works and printed material. The total time the equipment has been used is approximately 4-6 hours. The digital back has had less than 1000 exposures. All equipment has been packed back in the original boxes and unused since July. Everything is indistinguishable from brand new.

Most of the equipment is on a lease. An Apple Powerbook G4 and the Hasselblad body/lens are not on the lease. As such, the equipment cannot be sold off the lease so I am looking for someone interested in assuming the lease from me. The Powerbook and Hasselblad could possibly be added to the lease or sold directly to the lease assumer if desired.

The lease is a 36 month, fair market value buyout lease. Since it was started in June there are about 30 months left. If someone were to assume the lease they would only be responsible for the remaining 30 months and not for what I have already paid. So this is equivalent to either a 30 month lease or a 36 month lease which has already had 17% paid on it. The leasing company is willing to change the buyout from fair market value to $1 buyout, however they are not willing to change the lease length.

My current payments are $650/month with an additional $75 for sales and property taxes. As a fair market value lease the payments are fully deductible as business expenses. I do not have numbers for what the cost of a $1 buyout option would be as the lease company has to determine that. The initial cost of the equipment on lease was close to $17,000 with the Powerbook and Hasselblad adding about $5000.

On lease assumption some changes can be made to the lease. No items can be removed, but items can be added. For example, PhaseOne now has up to 39 megapixel digital backs. They have a very good upgrade plan, so it is possible to upgrade to a higher level back on this lease.

This is a wonderful set of equipment and I don't like to see it just sit in boxes when it could be in active use. I am very interested in finding a new home for this equipment as soon as possible, so I am very flexible in working with interested parties.

Feel free to contact me directly by phone: 918-369-4126

Heidelberg

Premier scanners which are integrated into a complete prepress system of software and hardware

i2s

digital scanners and a restoration and treatment software that is now proving its interest and technology in Europe. We offer the possibility to interested people to send us a CD-ROM with five pictures to restore in order to prove the highly interesting modules fro this product.

 

 

 

Creo

a global company with key strengths in imaging and software technology. As the world's largest independent supplier of pre-press equipment, we are leading the digital transformation of the graphic arts industry. IQ SMART scanner, Leaf backs

Arius3D

high end 3D scanning. Arius3D is a Canadian company that manufactures and leases 3D color laser scanning technology.

Microtek

Epson

Umax

35 mm film scanners

Polaroid

Nikon