Paint.NET v3.36

Whats New:

• Improved: Effect rendering should be a little faster now.
• Changed: Implemented some changes to the "Add Noise" effect that were suggested by a forum member.
• Changed: The canvas background color is now always #c0c0c0.
• Changed: The auto-updater should now correctly detect .NET 3.5 and newer, which will help to save bandwidth when Paint.NET v4.0 is released (it will require .NET 3.5).
• Fixed: Paint.NET now works on a system that has the .NET 3.5 SP1 "Client Profile" installed.
• Fixed: When zoomed in and the cursor is to the top-left of the image (negative coordinates), the ruler is now highlighted in the correct area. Fixed: The effect rendering system no longer sets the "Tag" property on the configuration dialog.
• Fixed: Some incorrectly authored plugins would cause a crash when loading their support details (author, copyright, etc.).
• Fixed: There was a bug in the color wheel for IndirectUI that caused it to show the wrong values at initialization.
• Fixed: There was a performance problem for effects that used the IndirectUI color wheel control.
• Fixed: In some rare cases, Paint.NET would crash while shutting down.
• Fixed: When using the "Fixed Ratio" feature of the Rectangle Selection tool, it would crash if 0 was specified for both the width and height.

Paint.NET v3.36

Photosynth - Converts Pics into 3-D environment

Photosynth takes a collection of regular photographs and reconstructs the scene or object in a 3-D environment. For those of you who have seen the videos or tried our tech preview, you could experience synths that we made in the lab and get a feel for what Photosynth is and how it works. But now, for the first time ever you can create synths from your own pictures and share them with your friends. Explore great synths from others or create a few of your own.

photosynth.net

Snapter - camera photos will be scanned documents!

Snapter is software that lets you use a digital camera as a mobile scanner. The software automatically crops, stretches, flattens, and converts photos of documents, whiteboards, posters, business cards and receipts into more portable images. Whether you are in a library, conference room or classroom, just snap the photo and run it through Snapter to produce images that look as if they have been scanned through a flatbed scanner!

snapter Homepage

Nvidia GTX card cheaper

Its a great chance for geeks.Run and get it now.Just check the prices :).

NVIDIA HAS slashed the price its newest GTX 260 and 280 GPUs in response to ATI's offerings which are looking pretty good. Last night, Nvidia said the GeForce GTX 280 will be in the shops for $499 and the GTX 260 for $299. Both cards were only released four weeks ago. The GTX 280 was selling for $649, while the 260 was priced previously at $399.

The Inq

Adobe Acrobat 9

Share your ideas
Use Acrobat 9 to create polished PDF files, present multiple documents in a PDF Portfolio, and even add multimedia. And all in a single file.

Control your work
Use Acrobat 9 to apply passwords, set permissions, and permanently remove sensitive information — so you can feel confident your work is safe.

Work better with everyone
With Acrobat 9, your entire team can view and respond as comments are being made — streamlining your reviews and approvals.

Simplify form creation
With just a few clicks, you can create a form that virtually anyone can fill out and save electronically.

Adobe Acrobat 9

Pictomio 1.0.11

You can see full details on previous post on pictomio
Here i am only including the latest changes.

New in this build:

* Text rendering shows wrong characters on some systems
* Single Image view sometimes does not show images when indexing
* Optimized application responsiveness while indexing
* Stabilized video playing
* Trying to access Floppy and CD-ROM drives when selecting local drives
* Histogram channels red and blue were inverted

Pictomio home page

Adobe Flash Player 10 beta

Adobe today rolled out a beta version of its Adobe Flash Player 10 (formerly called Astro) browser plug-in, which adds features to help designers and developers create special effects and cinematic Web experiences.

The new offering adds support for custom filters and effects created using Adobe's Pixel Bender tool kit, Adobe said. The Pixel Bender technology is used in the company's After Effects CS3 tool, which creates motion graphics and visual effects for film and broadcast.

"We're doing things that really change the game of what's possible on the Internet,"

said Tom Barclay, senior product marketing manager of Flash Player.

"The community now has the ability to upgrade the capabilities of the player and create new types of effects and cinematic experiences that are not available with any other browser plug-in."

The beta version of the player also includes native 3-D transformation and animation capabilities, an extensible rich-text layout, and graphics processing unit hardware acceleration, he added.

ComputerWorld

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope

Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is a virtual telescope software that enables you to explore the universe with the help of interactive star charts and high resolution imagery from some of the best land and sky based telescopes. You can manually explore the night sky for your geographical location or enjoy one of the many interactive tours that will take you on an educational journey across the universe, to visit the solar system, black holes, star clusters, nebula, cosmic events and more. WorldWide Telescope also supports the ASCOM platform which allows you to connect and control a compatible telescope directly to the software. Other features include real-time tracking of the night sky in your location, a finder scope to reveal details for any object, multiple sources for imagery, object search and filtering, and morel. WorldWide Telescope provides a user friendly interface, and is well suited for casual night sky explorers as well as more advanced star gazers and hobby astronomers.


Homepage:Download | WorldwiseTelescope

Image2Html - ASCII art from images

Image2Html enables you to convert an image to full-color ASCII art that can be rendered in any web browser. The program analyzes the input image and creates a pattern by using colored font characters that will closely resemble the original image. There are some options to tweak the conversion settings but the default setting do a pretty good job. Image2Html supports conversion of single images, as well as batch conversion.

image2Html

Design the Firefox Logo in Photoshop

This tutorial is going to tell you how you can make firefox logo in photoshop in some easy steps.

very nice tutorial and shows simple steps making the hard logo! :)
after checking you will think, "ah!its very easy,may i have done this before firefox!".But then also, a cool tutorial.

The final output is attached here. but see the source for details.

Full thing @ henryhoffman.com

Pictomio 1.0 Final

Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection.
Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.

It says,

After a period of intensive bug fixing and optimization we are proud to present today the final release of Pictomio 1.0. As promised this version is still freeware and you can download it and organize your photos, create fancy slide shows or just view your photos with it. Though we fixed a lot of bugs and improved the performace, there might be still a few flaws and for sure there are a lot of features you'd like us to add (also we have a lot of new features in mind). Therefore we are still happy to receive your comments, suggestions and bug reports. The best way to let us know is to post them in the forum under the appropriate topic.

pictomio.com

Paint.NET v3.31

This is mostly a servicing release to fix a few important bugs.

* New: Enabled integration with Window Clippings, which is a high quality screen capture utility by Kenny Kerr.
* Fixed: Fixed a crash with the Open/Save dialogs if the Documents or Pictures directories were either inaccessible or if the user did not have certain file system permissions.
* Changed / Fixed: The hotkey for Adjustments -> Levels is now Ctrl+Shift+L instead of Ctrl+Alt+L. This was preventing certain characters, such as the Polish 'ł', from being typed.

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Pencil - open source animation/drawing software

Pencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

Pencil Homepage

InkScape - Open source scalable vector graphics editor

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

We have used this for our blog banner making and we found it very cool as CorelDraw. As per me, this is very cool and i give it 5 star vote.Very easy to use and exports image in PNG also.

Get, use it and write your comments.

Inkscape.org

wxFormBuilder v3.0

wxFormBuilder is an open source WYSIWYG GUI design tool for wxWidgets. See the Features page for a small list of what wxFormBuilder has to offer. This is a large release that has many updates, added features, and bug fixes. The change log is huge so read it at your leisure. Thanks to all who helped test wxFormBuilder, we really appreciate it. This program is available for Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, along with Linux and MacOSX.

ChangeLog:

* FS#349 - “RC8 menu editor still generate incorect menu item code”
* FS#345 - “Crash on Mac OS X when loading plugins”
* Fixed crash on close when showing a propgrid from the wxAdditions plugin
in the Designer window.
* FS#351 - “Can’t edit choices if the ‘\’ is used”

wxformbuilder

Paint.Net 3.3

Paint.NET v3.30 Released: April 10th, 2008
This release adds an Italian translation, a new "Fragment Blur" effect, and the ability to save PNG images at 8- and 24-bit color depths. For developers, the IndirectUI system has some new controls, some new constraint rules, and can now be used for file type plugins.

* New: Italian translation.
* New: Ability to save PNG's at 8- and 24-bit color depths.
* New: Ability to save BMP's at 8-bit color depth.
* New: "Auto-detect" bit-depth option for PNG, BMP, and TGA file types. It will analyze the image and determine the lowest bit-depth that can still save the image without quality loss.
* New: "Fragment" blur effect, by Ed Harvey

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Ubuntu studio - multimedia flavor of Ubuntu

Ubuntu Studio is aimed at the GNU/Linux audio, video and graphic enthusiast as well as professional.

A suite of the best open-source applications available for multimedia creation. Completely free to use, modify and redistribute. Your only limitation is your imagination.

UbuntuStudio.org

JScreenFix - fix stuck pixels!

JScreenFix is a software solution that can fix stuck pixels, reduce screen burn-in and improve the quality of images displayed on a screen.

A stuck pixel is a bright dot of colour most noticeable when the rest of the screen is black. Stuck pixels are fairly common on high resolution LCD screens. Stuck pixels sometimes start working again with time unless they appear black on a white background, these are known as dead pixels.

JScreenFix repairs stuck pixels through rapid, repetitive operation and resonance. Most stuck pixels are repaired within 20 minutes.

Dark patches on a plasma screen are the result of screen burn-in. Burn-in occurs on plasma screens if an area of the screen does not change for a long period of time. For TV input, channel logos often burn into the screen. This can also occur on LCD screens and is more correctly referred to as image persistence.

More @ JScreenFix

IcoFX 1.6

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there's virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. Create a favicon for your website or blog.

icofx.ro

Inkscape 0.46 - open source vector graphics editor

Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

Note: Officially Inkscape 0.46 has been released on March 24, 2008. Package for the Windows platform, has become available just now.

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