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PRESS CONTACTS: Ching Ching Yeh Ching@3d-album.com 630-963-5559
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LISLE, IL - Micro Research Institute, Inc. today introduced a new version of its 3D-Album Software,
designed to provide a complete digital image solution that lets you be as creative as a professional,
but without the learning curve and without the expense. The new version comes with three editions:
3D-Album PictureEZ , 3D-Album PicturePro, and 3D-Album PicturePro Platinum.
The Spectacular 3D Picture Showcase Tool lets you show, present, exhibit, animate, publish, walkthrough, and even design photo games. This is not just another picture slide show! Only 3D-Album brings you an exquisite photo show with true shadowing, lighting, reflection, and motion blurs effects, and provides interactive control of the album in a true 3D world. With over 100 fabulous 3D styles in the still growing collection, your digital albums will never be boring. Choose from amazing themes for wedding, reunions, graduations, parties, new babies, and many other special occasions. With 3D-Album's easy template creation, building professional 3D photo shows is as easy as 1-2-3. Create applications for pop-and-play CDs without any software installation. Share you albums with your family, friends and colleagues and surprise them with your unique and creative presentations. Make your karaoke MTV with your own photo collections and favorite MP3 or WMA songs. Create stand-alone desktop programs, screensavers, HTML pages, ZIP files, and self-expandable EXE files. And share your albums for special events via email and the web. Publish your digital catalogs, multimedia portfolios, yearbooks, and many more applications. Create your photo quizzes to test your kids' or friends' savvy. Make stylish and intriguing 3D movie players combined with your photos and music in the background. Advertise your artworks or products via your own screensaver distribution (for PicturePro.) One program, endless possibilities... The Complete Graphic and Photo Editor lets you paint, draw, decorate, illustrate, edit, and even create photos like a pro with easy and automatic tools. The 3D-Album Photo Editor integrates a complete set of drawing and painting features making 3D-Album not only an image editing tool, but also a powerful creating tool that will significantly enhance your creativity and boost your productivity. What is more, the 3D-Album Photo Editor includes many unique features that you cannot find elsewhere. These include: 3 dimensional photo composition; eye-catching 3D layer styles; 3D and vector brush design; creative vector stroke and mesh fill; and much more. Whether you are an ordinary digital camera owner or a professional graphic designer, the 3D-Album Photo Editor will fit you needs. It provides two sets of user interfaces: one contains the basic tools for you to do common tasks with a step-by-step guide; another contains a complete set of top-notch tools through which you can do advanced work efficiently. You can always start with the easy tools, which will inspire you to keep pushing your creative motivation to a higher level. The Professional Page Layout and Design Tool lets you design, document, publish, and print photos like an expert. With hundreds of creative, rather than "cookie-cutter" templates including contact sheets, album pages, standard photo sizes, seamless and borderless printing, catalogs, calendars, greeting cards, CD/DVD disc labels, flyers, and many other special designs, you'll make professional printing with ease. Specialized layout tools help you make precise adjustments and you'll never have to print twice. The 3D-Album Photo Printing integrates a complete set of text, drawing, and creation tools that makes the 3D-Album not only a photo printing utility, but also a powerful page design tool that will significantly enhance your creativity and boost your productivity. Explore your creativity using the many 3D-Album exclusive floating object creation tools. Easily put your photos on various kinds of 3D objects. Combine your photos with frames, masks, and other decorators with amazing and professional results. Select from a huge number of picture frames and paper textures. Advanced Photo Organizer lets you categorize, annotate, describe, sort, search, group, voiceover, and quick fix your photos via a set of efficient and powerful tools. Automatically manages categories. Drag and drop photos to change categories, Browse photos in a category tree the same way as you browse a normal folder tree. Search photos by name, size, date, and keywords. Easily organize and find photos by subject and categories. Sort out your photo CDs by virtual thumbnails without physically copying the image files into the folder. Create annotations with category, place, calendar, keyword, voice, copyright, and footnote. Displays information and create description from EXIF recorded in your digital camera. Save time by renaming, resizing, correcting, or converting groups of photos at once. Use design templates to batch create new images from the photo source in batch. Get your photos done quickly by batch processing and batch editing including format conversion, auto size reduction, renaming, overlays, touch-up, and crop. Professional Multimedia Authoring Tool provides experienced users more flexibility in multimedia publication with added controls for accurate editing. The 3D-Album PicturePro Platinum allows you to define hot spots -- particular areas in an image that take actions such as playing sound or video, displaying information, opening another album, turning to a page, or linking to a web site, when clicked or the cursor is over. Timeline provides experienced users the added control of accurate editing. With the timeline editor, you can synchronize photos with music by dragging the photo thumbnails along the music track. With a single click on the menu, you can instantly spread photos to fit the length of the music. The Video Capture Utility creates DVD-ready video files and other movie formats directly from your 3D animated photo showcase (not with PictureEZ.) Get your photos out of your computer and into your living room by creating DVDs or Video CDs. Mix multiple photo presentations on a single DVD disc or create karaoke DVDs using your own photo collections with stunning 3D effects. The video capture utility embedded in the 3D-Album lets you convert your 3D-Album presentations into DVD, SVCD, and VCD ready files and produces video in AVI, MPEG1, MPEG2, Windows Media, and RealMedia formats. Pricing, System Requirements and Availability System requirements include 512MB RAM with Windows 98 or NT4.0+, or 512MB RAM with Windows 2000 or XP; a 800 MHz or higher CPU PC; a 3D graphic accelerator Video card with 64MB RAM; 400 MB free hard disk space; and a CD-ROM or DVD drive. 3D-Album costs (MSRP) $49.95 for PictureEZ, $69.95 for PicturePro, and $149 for PicturePro Platinum. 3D-Album is available at Fry's Electronics, Micro Center and other select retailers, or online at www.3D-album.com. |