Adobe Photoshop

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Imaging tools and OCR S. Jayashree Information
Centre for Aerospace Science and
Technology National Aeronautics Laboratory
(NAL)Bangalore - 560 017 (E-Mailjay_at_css.cmmacs.e
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Imaging Adobe Photoshop

• Product of Adobe
• Latest version is Photsoshop 5.5
• Available for Win 95/98/NT and Mac (tryouts also)
• Filesize - 74.1 MB (Evaluation copy)
• price - US649.00 Upgrade - US199.00

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Features of Adobe Photoshop

• File-format and Cross-platform Compatibility
• Extensive filter collection
• Advanced Postscript Support
• Color support, Professional color separation
  color correction tools
• Transformations
• User Interface
• Painting and Selection Tools
• Layers support multiple undos

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Online Tutorials

• WDVL Website -
• http//WDVL.internet.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/
  Photoshop/
• The University of New South Wales -
• http//www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/Learning/Photoshop4/
• Downloadable Website(Evaluation copy)
• Adobe site - http//www.adobe.com/products/photosh
  op/demodnld.html

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Imaging Paint Shop Pro 6

• Product of Jasc Software Company
• Available for Win 95/98/NT (tryouts also)
• Includes full copy of Animation Shop 2 for
  free.
• File size - 14MB(Evaluation copy)
• Price - 99 USD (The Neth), 109 USD(other)

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Features of Paint Shop Pro 6

• Interface Highlights
• Acquisition Tools
• Creative Tools
• Image Manipulation
• Colour Adjustment
• Layers and Masks
• Output Tools
• Deformations, Effects, and Filters

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PSP Online Tutorials

• WDVL Website -
• http//WDVL.internet.com/Authoring/Graphics/Tools/
  PSP/
• Downloadable Web sites (Evaluation copy)
• Jasc Software - www.jasc.com/psp6dl
• Download.com - www.download.com/
• TUCOWS - www.tocows.com/
• Strouds - cws.internet.com/32image.html

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PDF Adobe Acrobat

• Product of Adobe
• Latest version is 4.0
• Available for Windows and Macintosh
• Adobe Acrobat 4.0 includes
• Acrobat Software (Exchange), Acrobat Reader,
• Acrobat Catalog, Acrobat Distiller,
• Postscript printer drivers
• Online User Guide
• Price US249.00

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Features of Adobe Acrobat

• Convert any document to PDF
• Mark up and annotate PDF documents
• Create PDF Web forms
• Integrate PDF files with Web servers and e-mail
• Do late-stage text and image editing on PDF
  files
• Reuse text, graphics, and table data from PDF
  files
• Retain and print sophisticated PostScript
  graphics
• Indexing and Searching Document Collection

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Advantages of PDF

• Compact, Cross platform and fully searchable
• Portable across diverse hardware and operating
  system
• Links, annotations, live forms, security options,
  video, and sound can be added to PDF files
• Allows Page-at-a-time downloading
• Supports multiple pages in a single file
• PDF supports JPEG, CCITT Group 13, CCITT Group 4,
  ZIP, and LZW industry-standard compression
  filters.

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OCR TextBridge Pro

• Product of Scansoft
• New version is TextBridge Pro 9.0
• Available for Win 95/98/NT
• Price - 99.95

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Features of TextBridge Pro 9.0

• Better Accuracy
• OCR in colour
• Enhanced Proofreading
• Retains the page layout
• Powerful table recognition
• Supports 56 languages including multiple
  languages in a single file.
• Turns paper in to formatted Web pages.