Released on: September 12, 2007, 4:45 am

Press Release Author: AKVIS LLC

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Software for quick colorizing of B&W photos and replacing
colors on color photos

Press Release Body: September, 2007 - AKVIS LLC presents the cutting edge
technology for automatic B&W photo colorization. Version 5.0 of AKVIS Coloriage is
now available as a standalone application and as plugin to a photo editor.

To add color to black and white photos or recolor areas on a photo with AKVIS
Coloriage is as easy as handling a coloring book. In fact, \"coloriage\" means a
coloring book in French.

The colorizing technique is easy: you take the Pencil tool, select a color and draw
a rough outline within the area to be colorized; the program recognizes the borders
and paints in the new color keeping the tone transitions. No layers manipulation, no
manual painting!

The list of the tool\'s uses is practically endless. Home users can apply it to
colorize old B&W photos from the family archives, for example, to make a present to
the grandma by adding color to her early days\' photos. Professional designers can
use AKVIS Coloriage to try different color schemes for interior and exterior design.
Anime and manga enthusiasts can apply it to add color to hand sketch drawings and
comics.

The software does not only colorize B&W photos, the available Keep-Color tool makes
it possible to replace colors only in defined areas of the picture. Thus, you can
recolor clothes on your color photo or change the color of the hair, eyes, etc on a
portrait. Selective desaturation and selective colorization of a color photo is made
easy. Examples are available at:
http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/examples-add-color.php

Earlier only the users of photo editing software could take advantage of the
program, as it was available only as a Plugin. Starting with version 5.0, Coloriage
also works as a stand-alone application.

AKVIS Coloriage runs on Microsoft Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista and on Macintosh Mac
OS X 10.4, PowerPC G3 and above. The program is Universal Binary, it works equally
well on both PPC- and Intel-Mac.

The plug-in version of Coloriage is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop
Elements, Corel Photo-Paint, Paint Shop pro, Bodypaint, etc

AKVIS LLC offers a 10-day fully-functional trial of AKVIS Coloriage. Registration
costs USD $97.00 for a home license and USD $246.00 for a business license. Home
users can enjoy the full line of AKVIS digital imaging processing software in the
AKVIS Alchemy bundle (Coloriage, Retoucher, Chameleon, Stamp, Enhancer, Sketch,
Decorator, LightShop, Frame Suite and Noise Buster) for USD $325 USD, a savings of
$387 over purchasing each separately. These details are available at
http://akvis.com/en/discounts.php

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More information about Coloriage: http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/index.php
Direct evaluation download URL: http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/download-add-color.php
Screenshot URL: http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/screenshots-add-color.php

Web Site: http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/index.php

Contact Details: Address: Russian Federation, Perm, Malkova, 20-36, Perm
Russian Federation

Phone Number: 7-342-2379328
Email: submit@akvis.com