GivingTuesday Roundup: Wow Designer Moms all over USA – Beauty with Brains

Women make great designers as they are naturally given a better sense of color and hues. This does not mean that men are any less in design, but women, whether they are professional designers or not, are expected to be more harmonized and sensible when it comes to design and décor.

Remove red-eye with ease

DataMind Srl has launched Beryl Plugin 1.0, their new, professional level digital image processing plugin for Adobe Photoshop and Elements. Leveraging DataMind's proprietary state-of-the-art algorithms, Beryl is a Photoshop plugin that automatically removes the red-eye effect from digital photos.

With a focus on ease-of-use, choose to have Beryl process images automatically, or manually select the threshold amount of removal required. In both automatic or manual mode, users can set the intensity of correction. In manual mode, Beryl goes one step further by letting them choose between two sub-buttons (Find or Delete). When selecting Find, the single eye, or the area that needs the correction, is discovered and pressing the second deletes the correction.

 

ArtOptimizer for Illustrator

Zevrix Solutions today announces the release of ArtOptimizer 2.3, an update to its workflow automation solution for Adobe Illustrator. ArtOptimizer eliminates the excess image data of document links and performs essential image adjustments, thereby significantly reducing the size of Illustrator job and reducing output time and production costs.

In order to eliminate excess image data, ArtOptimizer automatically scales the images in Photoshop to match their dimensions in Illustrator, changes resolution according to the target resolution specified, and reimports images to Illustrator at 100%. As a result, the size of Illustrator job can be reduced dramatically - some jobs can shrink in size by half and more.

 

HDR Photography for Mac OS

HDRtist is a new Mac HDR photography tool from Ohanaware. HDRtist is easy to use HDR software, that creates HDR photos and tone maps them in a single step. An intuitive design makes it simple to choose from our 4 different tone mapping techniques. Even if you're not into HDR photography, HDRtist is a great tool to have for dramatizing dull photos, livening dark photos and boosting sunsets! We've included some HDR tutorials to help you get started with the amazing world of HDR photography.

Geocoding for iPhoto

HoudahGeo photo geocoding solution for the Mac allows for geocoding photos hosted in an iPhoto library and notify iPhoto'09 about new geotags. Version 2.2 also brings full support for viewing direction.

HoudahGeo is the premiere photo geocoding solution for the Mac HoudahGeo 2.3 tightens the integration with Apple's iPhoto photo management application. Upon exporting geotags, HoudahGeo 2.3 may notify iPhoto'09 so that it can update its Places database. HoudahGeo brings GPS enabled geocoding and Google Earth geocoding to iPhoto.