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What is Picture Arena?
Picture Arena is the next generation tool to manage, process, use, present (even by speech) and browse digital picture collections. It elegantly and transparently unifies different product categories with fascinating innovations and thus allows a broad and versatile use.
The highlights at a glance:
Picture Arena is the next generation tool to manage, process, use, present (even by speech) and browse digital picture collections. It elegantly and transparently unifies different product categories with fascinating innovations and thus allows a broad and versatile use.
The highlights at a glance:
- Browsing the file system
The integrated file browser displays pictures and movies as thumbnails, thus allows for easy and quick browsing through the file system, network volumes and removable media. The size of the thumbnails can be altered in realtime and files are automatically viewed as a magnified "sneak preview", as long as the mouse cursor is positioned over them. Combined with the built-in favorites management, history functions, the quick navigation bar and the seamless integration into the Picture Arena concept, these features cater for highest convenience while browsing.
- Import from digital cameras, iPhoto™ and directory hierarchies
Old material as well as new pictures and video clips can be imported effortlessly into Picture Arena. Users who have previously organized their pictures in directories can use the directory import assistant that can even take over existing hierarchical structures. Those who have used iPhoto™ before, will be happy about the dynamic import of their albums which allows the flexible use of Picture Arena as an add-on or replacement. New photos and video clips finally can be conveniently imported from digital cameras or be added to new and existing albums via drag and drop from the Finder™.
- Creating professional web galleries
The creation of impressive internet presentations of photos without any HTML programming knowledge is a breeze with Picture Arena. Numerous varied and professional themes are already included and advanced features such as online slideshows, interactive greeting cards and online searchable databases can be added with just one mouse click for each.
- Manifold burning functions
Creating cross platform HTML presentations and backups on CD or DVD or specially prepared CDs containing up to 9200 pictures for viewing on DVD players takes only a few mouse clicks in Picture Arena. It was never easier to make one's personal photo archive portable, to present, protect and share it.
- Better printing
Besides the usual standard formats and contact sheets, Picture Arena also prints innovative new designs: Eye-catching circle-shaped photo collages or greeting cards and letter paper with a very special and personal touch are easily brought to paper in one of three different quality levels.
- Effectively powerful: reworking and effects
With over 20 different effects and operations, Picture Arena makes every photo an eye-catcher. Among other things, colors, proportions, red eyes, skew horizons and the lighting can be easily and intuitively corrected. No matter whether the user needs "just a picture", a piece of pop art, an oil painting or a high resolution picture mosaic consisting of thousands of other pictures - Picture Arena delivers. Thanks to Picture Arena's concept of effect lists, all this can even be achieved without any modification of the original files. Users who happen to have lots of photos saved on CDs, will love this feature. To ease repetitive tasks and empower batch operations, effect sequences - entered once - can be saved as effect recipes and be reused flexibly.
- Presentations navigated by speech
Magical presentations with Picture Arena. Navigation through slideshows with freely configurable speech commands, performing rotations and jumping to particular pictures just by pronouncing a word or sentence .. sounds like science fiction? Picture Arena makes all of that a reality today. Besides the navigation by speech, Picture Arena of course also supports mouse and keyboard.
- Independence through resyncing files
The resync feature of Picture Arena gives its users independence from the network and freedom of choice regarding their equipment and working location. Creating graphics independently, yet integrated into a team? Network connections that are not permanently available? Relocating work from the desktop to the notebook on sunny days? Not a problem: Picture Arena gives its users maximum flexibility and takes care of distributed file bases staying consistent and up-to-date.
- Integrated tools
Many practical tools in Picture Arena ease the everyday life of its users. For example, the orientation of digicam pictures can be corrected automatically. Batch exports and conversions can be combined with effect recipes. Batch renames may be performed and - in contrast to other applications - also be undone with the inbuilt undo feature. Pictures can be searched for and found, sorted by different criteria and much, much more.
- Inner qualities
Without creating confusion, Picture Arena manages to give the user access to its diverse functionality via a compact interface. Furthermore, it shines with full multiprocessor support, widely available internal multitasking, full support of alpha channels, intelligent EXIF support, a theoretically unlimited number of project windows and the support even of exotic formats. Currently supported are BMP, GIF, IFF-RGB8, IFF-ILBM (except HAM), IFF-YUVN, JPEG, MacPaint, PBM, PCX (including the 24 bit version), PhotoCD™, Photoshop® PSD (including alpha), PDF, PGM, PICT, PNG (including alpha), PPM, TARGA (including alpha), SGI, TIFF, WBMP and many more.
What's new in this version:
- New: Support for Postscript and EPS files.
- New: The render resolution, transparency and background color for PDF, Postscript and EPS files are now settable.
- Performance: PDF thumbnail creation is faster now.
- Fix: "Apple + H" is no longer used as key combination for the home directory and again available to hiding the application. "Apple + G" is now used instead.
- Fix: Photoshop files with a depth other than 32 Bits are now shown correctly.
- Fix: Some international characters in file or folder names caused problems when files were added to albums.
- Fix: iPhoto™ albums can now be burnt.
- Fix: In rare occasions part of the GUI was trashed when scrolling big images horizontally.
- Fix: The drag & drop focus ring in lists does no longer persist.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.3
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
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Feedback Summary:
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| Overall Rating: |   (3.0) |
Features: | (3.0) |
Support: | (3.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (3.3) |
Quality / Stability: | (3.0) |
Price: | (4.0) |
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No more development... - Version: 1.3.5, 1/4/2008 01:54AM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
Flinx
Promising, but worrying developer silence - Version: 1.3.5, 7/26/2007 04:31AM PST
acd3
I tried this out last year, and even bought it because it was so nearly a great app. I've been waiting for the next version to solve certain glitches and polish a few of the slightly rough edges. Sadly, judging by the Picture Arena forum and lack of news, it look suspiciously as though there won't be a next version. A pity, as I expected to be able to use this to replace iView and iPhoto.
Really not working... - Version: 1.3.2, 5/16/2005 05:02AM PST
penguiner
Hi everyone,
Experiencing some trouble with iPhoto and finding that it has not enough possibilities to edit pictures, I decided to go for Picture Arena.
But this doesn't work at all. First, it recreates a thumbnails database each time it launches. So with an iPhoto Libray holding 2750 photos, it takes a while to load the whole thing. Besides, it happens to show all the photos upside down… No kidding : everything has to be rotated to be seen ! Unbelivable, but true
Then, if I try to edit a picture, it crashes most of the time…
And it misses an important feature : you can crop images, but you can only do that by "hand". I think the developers should implement a feature where you can choose to crop it to a specified scale to be able to print directly to 4X6 papers, without margin.
And even with that feature, I doubt Picture Arena would be useful, because it seems to be completely incompatible with shared networked printers. If I try to change the printer I want to print to, almost all menus are greyed out and I can't even quit Picture Arena (except with a Force Quit) !
Definitely not convincing here. Sorry…
Regards.
PENGUINER
Experiencing some trouble with iPhoto and finding that it has not enough possibilities to edit pictures, I decided to go for Picture Arena.
But this doesn't work at all. First, it recreates a thumbnails database each time it launches. So with an iPhoto Libray holding 2750 photos, it takes a while to load the whole thing. Besides, it happens to show all the photos upside down… No kidding : everything has to be rotated to be seen ! Unbelivable, but true
Then, if I try to edit a picture, it crashes most of the time…
And it misses an important feature : you can crop images, but you can only do that by "hand". I think the developers should implement a feature where you can choose to crop it to a specified scale to be able to print directly to 4X6 papers, without margin.
And even with that feature, I doubt Picture Arena would be useful, because it seems to be completely incompatible with shared networked printers. If I try to change the printer I want to print to, almost all menus are greyed out and I can't even quit Picture Arena (except with a Force Quit) !
Definitely not convincing here. Sorry…
Regards.
PENGUINER
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- Really not working... (1 replies)
Official from the dev site:
"At this point no plans for future Picture Arena updates exist due to the lack of sufficient demand and a strongly changed market situation. [29/12/2007]"
After letting its users wait for almost two year for a universal binaries update the dev just let them down.
No more update for ACD See, PhotogridX and now picture arena.... and no potential replacement for those apps under MacOS X.
The Mac is now without a solid picture browser (don't speak to me about iPhoto, Aperture, lightroom or any of the database driven app that tells you how and where to store your photos...)