Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Plus Pinnacle Studio 10

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Product Information

Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 combines all the tools consumers need to do more with their photos and enjoy their memories - from sorting, viewing and enhancing photos to sharing them with friends and family. With easy-to-use tools suitable for the beginner or the advanced photographer, Digital Image Suite 2006 encourages consumers to learn, grow and excel in the art of digital photography, regardless of their skill level.

        Quickly organize your photo collection
        Enhance your photos with powerful tools
        Create a slideshow with narration and music
        Easily protect your memories by burning to a CD


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Microsoft and Pinnacle have teamed up to bring you a complete photo and video organization and editing software package that is sure to give your creativity a boost. Digital Image Suite Plus delivers professional quality features that allow you to effortlessly capture, edit, and share your photos and videos. 

Pinnacle Studio 10 provides the ease and power to quickly combine and enhance your precious memories and effortlessly preserve and share them on DVD and beyond.

• One button transfer to DVD complete with menus
• Capture video from multiple digital or analog sources
• Import and edit video from mobile devices and electronic formats
• Extensive pan and zoom capabilities
• Hundreds of 2D and 3D transitions and effects
• SmartMovie one button movie making
• Auto color correction, image stabilizer, noise reduction
• SmartSound instant background music
• Integrated CD and DVD creation
• Create custom DVD menus and buttons
• Product quick email-ready movies

New Features

Digital Image Suite 2006 introduces an array of new features designed to help people make the most of their digital memories. The enhanced Digital Image Library makes it easier to view and organize digital photos and now videos, in the same place. The editing area of the software adds powerful options for achieving different black-and-white effects and much more.

• Hierarchical Keywords and Labels provide customizable stacked tags that consumers can use to organize, view and find their images the way they like, whether that’s finding all the photos of a family vacation or a particular picture of someone special.
• Hover Thumbnail enlarges thumbnail images whenever a mouse hovers above them, making it easy to view the image, along with important details such as date taken, file type and size, resolution and assigned Labels.
• Video support offers consumers the option to view and organize their videos in the same place as their photos. They can easily assign a 5-Star Rating, add Keywords and captions, or mark videos with customizable Flags representing a variety of actions such as For Review or To Share. As with Photo Story 3 for Windows, consumers can view their videos using Windows Media Player.
• Black & White Effects unleash the artist within, making it a snap to transform color photos into stunning, contrast-rich, black-and-white images by choosing from a variety of preset filters. Consumers can now go beyond just black and white with a broad range of altering yellow, orange or red color tone and intensity filters, which are presets on the color channel controls. With the easy-to-read histogram, consumers can easily manipulate each of the color channels to get exactly the look they want.
• Intuitive Crop automatically analyzes the composition of a photo and suggests how to crop it so the subjects, such as faces in portraits and family photos, will be properly framed, resulting in the best possible image. Intuitive Crop is activated by simply clicking on the Crop taskbar.
• Photo Story 3.0 allows anyone to easily combine photos with voice narration, customizable pans and zooms, and music into a photo show consumers can watch on their computer, send in e-mail or burn to CD. This year Microsoft has added advanced features such as Quick edits (Red-eye Removal, Apply Black-and-White Filter). These allow photo editing without launching and then entering the editing area of the software and include customization options such as adding an original soundtrack, advanced pan and zoom effects, and CD burning with high-resolution video compact disc files, perfect for playing back on a TV.
• Enhanced! Panoramic Stitching makes it easier than ever to create vast panoramic shots by stitching together multiple shots. Instead of selecting from predetermined output sizes, consumers can now use a slider to indicate exactly how large they want their finished panorama to be. Images can be cropped before finalizing the stitch, and the crop rectangle can be rotated to correct misaligned photos.
• Sharing Disc allows consumers to easily burn photo CDs to share with friends and family, without disrupting detailed photo archive settings.
• Device Sync Support makes it easy to share photos with mobile devices such as Pocket PCs and Smartphones through syncing with Windows Media Player. Consumers can simply flag the desired images, and the next time the mobile device syncs with the PC, the photos will automatically transmit.
• RAW Support for Canon and Nikon cameras allows consumers to view, organize and edit images shot in RAW format, a high-quality photo format captured by many models of digital cameras. Similar to a film negative but with the option to make adjustments, RAW allows extra flexibility for consumers who would like to try something more sophisticated.

Pinnacle Studio Version 10

• Instant Transfer to DVD
• Real-time Effects with Preview
• Many Popular Sources and Formats
• Background Saving

Product Features

Microsoft Digital Image 2006 Suite

From the busy mom who wants to make party invitations using her child ’s latest birthday snapshots, to a newlywed couple sharing honeymoon highlights, Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 allows everyone to visually express themselves in new and creative ways, and have fun every step of the way.  Most important, Digital Image Suite 2006 as the ability to grow with users as their photography skills improve.

• Import Pictures Wizard helps transfer photos and videos from a digital camera to the PC in a few easy steps, making it easy to organize, view and find photos and videos and keep cameras from getting clogged with too many files.
• Find Similar Picture makes it easy to locate photos with shared characteristics. The consumer simply selects a photo and chooses Find Similar Picture to display a series of results based on color, outdoors versus indoors, and face-recognition technology.
• Comprehensive toolsets keep features related to similar tasks in one place in the software, such as Color & Saturation, which includes all the color management features, and Exposure & Lighting, which includes exposure and contrast auto fixes, Add a Flash, Reduce Backlighting and easy adjustments for shadows, midtones and highlights.
• Selection tools such as Marquee, Magic Wand, Edge Finder, Selection Brush and Selection Mask allow consumers to highlight specific areas of a photo for precise editing.
• Curves provide advanced exposure and color control over five channels: luminosity, red, green, blue and saturation. Accessible from either of two toolsets, Curves can be comfortably used by advanced photographers right away. And beginners will benefit from the interactive and educational aspect of this feature.
• Creative Elements include more than 5,000 stock images, 3,000 designer photo project templates and 200 effects filters to assist in the creation of one-of-a-kind photos to share with friends and family. Filters add instant style to photos with variations such as Antique, Impressionism, Fresco, Cement and Stained Glass, while templates help consumers create photo albums and scrapbook pages, custom art for the home, and projects for every occasion and season of the year.
• Archiving helps keep photos safe for generations to come with Automatic Backup Reminders and enhanced CD-burning options. A convenient Archive Wizard takes consumers step by step through the process.
• Print Sharpening optimizes image quality for viewing on a computer screen and printing. Often what looks good on a screen may turn out slightly blurred or out of focus when printed. By sharpening an image before printing, edges are defined and prints are crisp.
• Mini Lab provides a quick and easy way to apply common corrections and effects to multiple photos at once. The Mini Lab includes one-click Auto Fixes, batch resizing and a redesigned interface.

Many consumers who are using digital cameras for the first time need help managing and organizing their photos. Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 provides this assistance and more, enhancing consumers’ photography experience by offering a collection of powerful yet easy-to-use photo tools that deliver dramatic results and allow consumers to preserve their memories for generations to come.




Pinnacle Studio Version 10

Introducing, from Pinnacle, the worldwide leader in home video editing, Studio version 10, the most friendly, complete and powerful home video editing solution available today. Studio combines the legendary ease of its intuitive three-step movie creation process with the power to quickly and reliably capture all of your precious memories from photos, videos and audio from all popular consumer electronic devices. Next, Studio intuitively walks you through adding groundbreaking effects, like Pan-and-Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster home movies for preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and beyond. With Studio, your home movies will always earn a top star rating with family and friends.

• Simplicity and Ease-of-Use:  The intuitive user interface with simple three step process effortlessly guides you through the 1) Capture, 2) Edit (Enhance) and 3) Share steps and makes learning and using Studio literally a breeze. Add on-demand assistance, and making breathtaking movies was never so easy.
• SmartMovie:  Pinnacle Studio's SmartMovie feature literally walks you through the creation of amazing movies from capture to adding spectacular effects, transitions, titles and music in minutes. SmartMovie is intelligent enough to actually follow your personal direction in editing and enhancing your unique video and images to create incredible compelling movies. It is really just that easy!
• Built-in DVD Authoring:  Pinnacle's fully integrated CD and DVD authoring workflow allows you to easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly for playback on most consumer DVD players or DVD capable computers. Why waste the time and energy of going back and forth between two completely separate applications when with Pinnacle Studio you can preview your results with full DVD controls right from within your familiar editing workspace!
• Instant Transfer to DVD NEW!:  For those times when you want to quickly archive your treasured memories on DVD, Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder provides a quick and easy way to instantly create robust DVD's with menus without wasting the time and space of taking the extra step of first copying your files over to your PC hard drive.
• Pan-and-Zoom:  Effortlessly create captivating high-quality movies by animating your digital photos and images with close ups and pans and scans in any direction with Ken Burns like effects. Studio even includes great tools like red eye removal so that you have your best work when adding effects, transitions, titles and music to complete your masterpiece.
• Video and Audio Restoration:  Pinnacle Studio includes all of the tools you need to quickly and effortlessly take the quality of your work to the next level. The toolkit includes video cleaning to restore old damaged video tapes; image stabilization for shaky and jerky footage; as well as color correction for bringing out the genuine quality in poorly lit video shoots; and noise reduction for the elimination of extraneous distracting sounds such as wind and rain.
• Real-time Effects with Preview NEW!:  Pinnacle Studio includes hundred of extraordinary real-time effects and transitions that can be previewed immediately in their full-screen glory right on your computer monitor. And if you ever outgrow the hefty included effects palette, Pinnacle provides you with the peace of mind with knowing that there are always hundreds more very affordable effects available when and if you ever need them.
• SmartSound:  Pinnacle Studio's SmartSound feature provides a vast library of categorized royalty-free music to compliment your visual creation. Moreover, your music choice will always precisely match second for second the duration of your selected video clips or movie.
• Many Popular Sources and Formats NEW!:  Pinnacle Studio now gives you the power in combination with Studio's celebrated ease of use to capture video from the latest consumer cameras and devices including DVD video cameras. With Studio, you can actually import videos from non-encrypted DVD's for added enhancement and re-mastering.
• Background Saving NEW!:  Now with Studio, you can work uninterrupted and avoid derailing your creative process when transparently saving in the background to the high-quality format of your choice. This great feature will sharply reduce and in many cases even eliminate the added time needed to save out your final project for CD, DVD or the Web.

Windows Requirements

• Operating System for Digital Image Suite 2006: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows 98 SE
• Operating System for Pinnacle Studio 10: Windows XP
• Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.4-GHz or faster processor (2.4 GHz or faster recommended)
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 1.4 GB of available hard-disk space for software installation; 4 GB or greater for bonus content installation
• DVD-ROM drive
• Display Super VGA monitor (800 x 600, 16-bit color or greater)
• Other Syncing to devices and Photo Story 3.1 requires Windows XP and Windows Media Player 10
• 1 MB of Video RAM, DirectX 9 or later compatible graphics card with 32 MB (ATI Radeon or Nvidia Geforce 2 or later with 128 MB recommended)
• DirectX 9 or later compatible sound card (Creative Audigy or M-Audio recommended)
• Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 software required and included; up to an additional 60 MB of available hard-disk space may be required for Internet Explorer upgrade (installation will not replace your primary browser)

Compatibility:

• Most digital cameras, scanners, printers and storage devices
• JPG, MIX, PNG, TIF, BMP, GIF, FPX, select RAW formats and other image file formats

• Modem (33.6 Kbps or faster recommended) and Internet access for Internet functionality. Internet access may require payment of a separate fee to an Internet service provider.