 Nik Software now provides 64-bit compatibility across the entire Nik Software product line, providing photographers with the highest level of workflow efficiency. Registered customers may download free updates for Dfine® 2.0, Viveza® 2, Color Efex Pro™ 3.0, Silver Efex Pro™, and Sharpener Pro™ 3.0, at www.niksoftware.com/downloads.
“Photographers using a 64-bit workflow can now take advantage of a much faster and more efficient memory management system with all of our plug-ins,” said Michael J. Slater, President and CEO of Nik Software. “I am confident that our customers will not only benefit from this update to our architecture, but also from future products that take advantage of this.”
Free updates to 64-bit compatible versions are available now to registered owners of Dfine 2.0, Viveza 2, Color Efex Pro 3.0, Silver Efex Pro, and Sharpener Pro 3.0 via the company’s website: www.niksoftware.com. Customers who purchased the Complete Collection Ultimate Edition or the Complete Collection for Lightroom and Aperture may also receive the updates for free.
All products are now compatible with both 32-bit and 64-bit image editing applications such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Photoshop® Elements, Photoshop® Lightroom®, and Apple® Aperture®. To review full system requirements, visit www.niksoftware.com/support.
Nik Software is available at an educational discount price from Creation Engine.
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 Beyond the usual performance enhancements and bug fixes, the primary new features of version 2 include the smart puppet feature which supports forward and inverse kinematics, making it easier to animate a complete character than before. Lip syncing is also available, with an automatic phoneme recognition tool – useful for quick animations, but not 100 per cent reliable by any stretch.
Additional effects and blending modes have been added, allowing output that would have previously required exporting to the likes of After Effects. The obligatory 3D support is here and cameras can also now be attached to objects in the 3D world, allowing interesting new perspectives.
Toon Boom Animate 2 is available at an educational discount price of $270 (download version).
As a current Snagit 10 customer, you can install Snagit on your Mac for FREE!
Your Snagit 10 product key will unlock Snagit on either Mac or Windows.
• Your Snagit 10 license is now authorized for a second installation to accommodate Mac use – but they are not for simultaneous use (e.g. Use Snagit on your home PC at night, and your work Mac during the day, or vice versa). Can’t find your product key? Click here for instructions on how to find it.
• Snagit on Mac is a Mac-native application developed specifically for Mac workflow. Key screen capture and editing features are included; however, the Mac version has a unique look, feature list, and experience – tailored to Mac users’ preferences.
SnagIt 10 is available at an educational discount price from Creation Engine.
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Enhance Your SketchUp Model in iClone and Win!
Reallusion and SketchUcation announce a contest for the iClone or SketchUp community to experience, create & win a full suite of Reallusion’s iClone 3D Animation and Natural Elements props, along with Grand Prizes of iPad and Sony Cyber-shot digital camera for two lucky winners. What you have to do? Bring your SketchUp model into iClone via 3DXchange and experience the real-time creativity that allows you to easily achieve attractive lighting results and many more useful enhancements, at your fingertips with iClone.
Google SketchUp Pro and iClone are both available at an educational discount from Creation Engine.
Link via CNET News
You can’t download Photoshop for your iPad yet, but the technology is getting close enough for Adobe Systems to begin showing what it’s got in mind.
Yesterday, John Nack, the Adobe Systems program manager leading the effort, revealed some ideas of how Adobe envisions marrying its flagship image-editing software to tablet computers.
Adobe displayed two broad possibilities in mock-ups and a presentation at the Adobe Max conference: first, a direct editing application for tablets that’s operated with a multitouch user interface, and second, a companion application that would let a mobile device augment Photoshop running on an ordinary computer.
Photoshop CS5 Extended Student & Teacher Edition is available at an educational discount price of $198.
Link via Tom’s Hardware
 Our original question was how best to accelerate Adobe’s Creative Suite. In After Effects, the move from CS4 to CS5 was a clear win, while scaling from four cores to six offered surprisingly little benefit. Photoshop CS5 is likewise mushy on its core scaling benefits, but if you can land a plug-in that supports CUDA, baby, hold on—the improvement is massive. Most of all, Premiere Pro performs exactly as we’d expect. The video editor scales well as threads increase, improves with Hyper-Threading, makes good use of the jump to CS5, and runs CUDA like nobody’s business in the Mercury Playback Engine. If Premiere Pro is your life, it’ll make good use of every improvement you can throw at it.
After Effects CS5, Premiere Pro CS5, and Photoshop CS5 Extended are all included in Creative Suite 5 Production Premium for Students & Teachers for $448 .
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 HDR Efex Pro is a brand new product from Nik Software. It is a High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging tool that gives you the full gamut of photographic possibilities, from artistic to realistic HDR images. The goal of HDR Efex Pro is to give you everything you need to create high quality high dynamic range images.
HDR photography is a process in which multiple exposures of the same scene are captured using various levels of exposure and then they are aligned and merged to generate a single image that enables a much wider range of colors and tonality. HDR techniques are typically used to enhance landscape, architectural, nighttime, and artistic photography.
HDR Efex Pro is very easy to use and provides really remarkable results. The interface is very logically laid out with the presets and previews on the left and the controls on the right. For those who are just getting started, choosing a preset is probably the best way and then from there experimenting with the controls to see how each one affects an image. If you like a look, you can save it as a custom preset for future use.
If you want a fast easy way to create HDR images without having to learn a lot of manual techniques, but yet still have full control over the images that are created, then HDR Efex Pro is the product for you.
HDR Efex Pro Mac/Windows is available at an educational discount price of $79.99
From now until Animator Standard’s official launch date (November 18th, 2010 eta), buy CrazyTalk 6 or CrazyTalk 6 Pro and receive a free copy of Animator Standard (a $49.95 value)!
Animator Standard free copy special offer
CrazyTalk Animator is the next major leap after CrazyTalk6. Before, the CrazyTalk product line was initially focused on talking head animation. In this new generation of CrazyTalk, you can not only animate a character’s face, but also do full-body animation with enhanced bone-based fitting technology in the unique puppeteering engine. CrazyTalk Animator is a revolutionary animation suite with 3D layering mechanics and drag-n-drop multi-media compatibility that allows you to import your characters and props directly from photos! Explore more, and learn all about the new enhancements below.
CrazyTalk 6 is available at an educational discount price of $39.
CrazyTalk 6 Pro is available at an educational discount price of $111.
Autodesk Maya 2011 Tips & Tricks Webcast
Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Pacific
Autodesk® Maya® 2011 delivers many advances including a revitalized user interface, enhanced viewport interaction, new 3d editorial capabilities, integrated color management, and improved character skinning and animation tools. In this webinar, hosted by Autodesk Technical Specialist Lee Fraser, you will see how to get the most out of Maya 2011.
Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2011 Student Perpetual License is available at an educational discount price of $359.
Includes 3ds Max 2011 for Windows, Maya 2011 for Mac/Windows, Softimage 2011 for Windows, and more!
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