Select, a Plug-in for Photoshop and Corel PHOTO-PAINT provides color corrections without masking. With professional color-correction tools such as multi selective color correction and swap color correction, the user can test and output up to nine sets of color corrections side by side.

The selective color correction is an essential tool, as there is no other way to precisely change the yellow in orange or the blue in green. With Select, easily and accurately apply sophisticated color retouching to RGB or CMYK images within Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, or Corel PHOTO-PAINT.

Select works precisely and very smoothly. View exact results with a proprietary WYSIWYG mechanism. Use exclusive color-correction features such as the unique selective multicolor correction, advanced plate manipulation, and fully adjustable curves as found on high-end color systems and drum scanners.

Easily re-color images in RGB or CMYK, and mask, even the most difficult image, at the same time. Automatic color correction is perfectly smooth on the edge. Use up to six channels for multicolor masks.

Select is visual but precise. Pick a color, select a target color, and adjust the range. Provides exceptional color-display accuracy. Easily perform true selective-color changes on up to six specific colors, with similar controls and capabilities as those available on high-end drum scanners. Select and adjust specific colors without affecting other color densities and eliminate time-consuming masking. Independent-range adjustment per channel, providing for no color break in images.

Features:

• combine colors in a similar fashion as a high-end, prepress workstation such as Scitex;

• easily and quickly manipulate in percentages, a matrix of colors;

• multiply, add, subtract, or combine any color or plates;

• exchange or swap separations, create duotones, tritones, sepia, and more;

• create four-color black and white from color images;

• remove color casting;

• perform custom UCR/GCR;

• create special separations (touch plates);

• from RGB video pictures, adjust the colors;

• easily perform ghost effects using an instant preview of changes in real CMYK or RGB;

• provides preview of the effect plate by plate, and a densitometer reading for perfect control;

• includes a library of effects or customize effects, and save for future or repetitive use;

• four curves adjust global-color correction in any color range of the image with numeric entries;

• instantly preview changes on a CMYK-calibrated display of the original picture and the corrected version, or view channels independently;

• advanced-zoom mechanism enables the user to check, precisely and instantly, color changes in full detail;

• save adjustments for further editing and use on other images; and

• output color corrections side by side.

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Organize a department and reduce confusion using Slugger to generate indispensable trafficking and document information stamped compactly and conveniently, yet very legibly on each page. In a Macintosh-production department with complex or high-volume jobs, Slugger will make sure documents travel with pertinent information attached.

Suitcase Fusion 2 provides the perfect testing ground for your type. The new interface provides the perfect excuse to mix a little play with work. Its sleek, straightforward design makes it easy to locate, group, examine, preview, and activate any font in a library.

Font Auto-Activation enables you to focus on your work, not your system. Suitcase Fusion 2 comes with professional-grade, auto-activation XTensions and Plug-ins for critical design and publishing applications, including InDesign(R), Illustrator(R), and QuarkXPress(R). These utilize Font Sense to precisely match and auto-activate the right font types when you open a document. To avoid other conflicts, these XTensions and Plug-ins will also auto-deactivate the fonts upon closing a document.

Breathtaking previews so you can see your type for what it is. Suitcase Fusion 2 offers unprecedented font and glyph preview options including a slick slider bar that lets you dynamically resize your font preview. See how typefaces stack up side by side even down to their individual glyphs. Tear off your previews and drop them into your document to see what they look like in action.

Font Sense gets your type right. Suitcase Fusion 2 is equipped with industry-tested, patented Font Sense technology. Font Sense uses multiple criteria to uniquely fingerprint each version of a font, delivering precise font matching and auto-activation.

Suitcase Fusion 2 supports Adobe InDesign CS3 and CS4, Illustrator CS4, and QuarkXPress 7 and 8 on Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard).

Manufacturer: Extensis, Inc.

With Xtream Path, drag anywhere on a path without working around direction lines and control points. With useful tools, filters, and effects, Xtream provides the flexibility and accuracy needed when using Illustrator. Illustrator users must do at least some path editing. Editing paths can be tedious and time consuming. Xtream Path, a Plug-in for Illustrator offers simplicity by reducing the number of steps needed to work on paths.

Xtream Path boasts 36 tools and filters, and its editing capability offers simplicity, creativity, and accuracy. It provides flexibility and functionality to do almost anything to a path.

Xtream Path enables novices to edit paths just like the pros in no time! Editing paths is among the most essential skills needed to work efficiently in Illustrator, but Xtream Path is so intuitive and easy to use that beginners will be manipulating paths as if they had been using Illustrator for years.

Traditionally, paths were edited using control points and direction lines. There was no way around it. Now, with Xtream Path, that is a thing of the past. Xtream Path enables the user to click anywhere on a path and drag to make adjustments to the segment. It is that simple! Edit paths more intuitively by pointing directly to the place to edit rather than selecting, adjusting, and working around direction lines and control points.

Xtream Path offers plenty of creative tools. Pick an existing font and the smart rounding effect will instantly round sharp edges to add warmth or friendliness to the font in just a couple of steps. Creating a patterned object is also a breeze. Select artwork and arrange it neatly throughout the document to make wall paper. The tremendous flexibility ensures the result is precisely what the user wanted.

Editing one particular segment of a path and maintaining the same precise Bezir curve is no easy task. In the past, illustrators used the eyeball method, comparing side by side. With Xtream Path, obtain the numerical information of a direction line's length and direction by simply clicking on a segment. Taking advantage of the numeric edit tool, easily repeat the same Bezir curve on a different segment. It is as easy as copying and pasting, and you've never been more accurate.

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Manufacturer: CValley, Inc.