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# Windows : Windows is the most innovative and powerful Operating System today. It has the most user friendly features that you won't find in any other OS. Moreover it is compatible with all software of today. |
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* With Windows, you can work with several Programs at once.You can switch between Programs with a couple of keystrokes or a click of a mouse, reducing the time required tomove from one application to another.
* You can give any name to a file; you are not limited to eight characters with a three character extension as in DOS. You can even use spaces.
* Windows now supports the use of drives greater than 2 GB (gigabytes) in capacity. The maximum supported drive size is 2 TB (terabytes).
* Windows prints your documents "in the background," so you can get back to work quickly after you send your document to the printer. |
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| * Nowadays all the software are Windows based. |
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| # Pagemaker+Qxpress : Desk Top Publishing is the latest phenomenon in pre-computerized technology. But D T P now helps to combine both, text and graphics/scanned images to form a well planned layout. |
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* You can create a page layout with Graphics easily and rapidly.
* You can work with multiple Publications and open multiple Windows.
* You can create Text wrapping with Images.
* You can work with Layers.
* You can create your own Style to Design Books and Newspapers. |
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| APPLICATIONS OF PAGEMAKER+QXPRESS |
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* Business Houses, Advertising Agencies, Printing Industries, Hotels, Travel Agencies, Publishing Houses, Architects, Interior Decorators, Insurance, Large Companies with in-house publishing.
* Publications like printed price lists, order forms, memos, posters, reports, internal newsletters, business cards, technical documentation, training manuals,catalogues and advertisements. * Advertising agencies. |
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| Digital Art |
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| # Corel Draw : Coreldraw is a Vector graphic software, allowing the user to produce World Class Illustrations with 16.7 million colours. |
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* WithCorel Draw you can create Illustrations from scratch, enhance the Designs, use and embellish scanned Photos of your Digital Art, and send your finished work out in many ways.
* Vector-based drawing Program with extensive text handling and precision-drawing features.
* Ideal tool for virtually any design project from Commercial Art to technical illustrations, advertisements, publishing and Internet publishing. |
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* Full-color Design Illustrations.
* Complex Design Drawings.
* Commercial Art.
* Photorealistic Design Images.
* Surrealistic Images.
* Animation sequences.
* Libraries of Designs.
* High-quality drawings from low-resolution originals.
* Web page designing.
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| # Illustrator : Illustrator is a vector graphics creation software for print media and web, allowing the user to produce World Class Illustrations with 16.7 million colors. |
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* Creative tools for Print Media Output.
* Sophisticated Web Graphic Tools.
* Special Effects to Images.
* Versatile Transparency Capabilities
* Dynamic Media Projects |
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| APPLICATIONS OF ILLUSTRATOR |
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* Complex and High Quality Output.
* Logos.
* Libraries.
* High Quality Illustrations.
* Creating Banners, Posters, Handbills etc |
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| # Adobe Photoshop : Adobe Photoshop is an Image Processing software package that enables you to create & edit images on IBM personal Computers. Adobe Photoshop is acknowledged in professional fields as the cutting-edge Program, the final word in Commercial Art. |
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* With Photoshop's tools you can paint a likeness of a physical object.
* Mixing and Manipulating of colours at a click of a button.
* You can Blend 2 Images.
* You can create Patterns and Artistic Designs using Fills and Colours.
* You can manipulate your Design images with Special Effects and Techniques.
* You can Import and Export your Images.
* Retouch, Manipulate and Enhance Designs & patterns.
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* It has been used to edit and create images as diverse as Commercial Art, Cosmetic ads, New Photos, Motion picture footage, Animation cells & Fine Art work.
* Creates original Art & converts it to desired Platforms.
* Retouch, manipulate & enhance photographs of Digital arts.
* Master the special effects you've always wanted.
* Learn the secrets of Output & Storage of your Images.
* Web page designing. |
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# JwelCad : JewelCAD has the power and tools for you to create jewelry in an intuitive and timely manner. From the virtual to reality, JewelCAD will be your tool. |
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* Fun and easy-to-use interface allows reasonable learning curve.
* A built-in-library of parts and mountings gets you started.
*Mirror left-to-right earrings with a "click".
* Calculate volume and weight of the final product.
* Render your design for review.
* Scaleable gem shapes (round, marquee, pear, to name a few).
* Design data of JewelCAD are ready for mould-making by rapid prototyping.
* Export and Import models for use with Rhino3D, Vellum, .IGES, .STL files.
* Provides scale and cut to exact dimension and weight.
* Users can further expand the library by inputting their own designs.
* With Feature of simple wire-frame to full color images it is useful in 3D designs to store as data files taking up minimal disk space. |
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* If you are a Jewelry Manufacturer, designer, retailer, or enthusiast, JewelCAD has the power and tools for you to create and sell jewelry faster than ever before.
* Create 3D Jewellery (Rings, Chain, Pendants, Sets etc.)
* Create scaleable Gems, stones with different colours. |
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| # AutoCAD : AutoCAD is the most powerful and the most popular AUTOMATIC COMPUTER AIDED Drafting Program. We want to help you unlock AutoCAD's power to do your designing and drafting work, quickly and easily. |
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* With AutoCAD, you can draw 2D Drawings as well as 3D Models with Rendering.
* AutoCAD is also useful inMechanical Drafting,Architectural Drawing, Interior Designing, etc. * The main feature of AutoCAD is not only to create drawings but drawings with proper dimensions and scale. |
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AutoCAD is a software designed to create drawings related to various fields such as : * Interior Designing.
* Architectural Engineering.
* Mechanical Engineering.
* Electrical Designing. |
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| # 3D Studio Max : 3D Studio Max is a tool from Kinetix for making 3D Models, Designs and also to create simple as well as complex 3-Dimensional Animations. |
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* Create 3D Models and Render them into Images or Movie Clips.
* With Autodesk 3D Studio Max, you can create high resolution, True-colour Image files in industry standard file formats for Corporate Presentations, Broadcast graphics, Interior designing, Walk-through views, Design & Development.
* Enhance the look of your Interiors with Special effects.
* Give a Realistic look to your Interiors as well as to your Architectural Designs. |
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| Video Editing |
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| # Adobe Premiere : A powerful tool for professional digital Video Editing Designed for video professionals, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 software spans the world of broadcast and online media. Thanks to its elegant interface and superb editing tools, you can work with complete efficiency, control, and flexibility to produce broadcast-quality movies for video, film, multimedia, and the Web. |
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| SALIENT FEATURES OF ADOBE PREMIERE |
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* Digital video & sound, hence eliminates transfer losses.
* Edits video & multimedia movies in standard formats like AVI, MOV, RAM, MPEG etc.
* Creates Movie titles and graphics.
* Super imposes titles and graphics, animation on video and film.
* Adds transition and special effects.
* Uses digital filtering for special effects in video & audio tracks.
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* Multimedia presentations on any subject.
* Film editing with special effects and movie making.
* Movies and Video Clips for Online presentations and distribution. |
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| # Adobe After Effects : Adobe After Effects software delivers a comprehensive set of tools to efficiently produce motion graphics and visual effects for film, video, multimedia, and the Web. |
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* After Effects offers unparalleled integration with Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator to produce professional results.
* Control the compositing environment while working in a 2D or 3D with this tool. |
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* Multimedia presentations on any subject.
* Film editing with special effects and movie making.
* Movies and Video Clips for Online presentations and distribution. |
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| # Pinnacle : DVD2000 is complete videotape, CD-ROM, DVD, and Internet video delivery solution.It combines frame accurate dual stream MPEG-2 video editing and a complete DVD authoring solution. DVD2000 encodes directly in the DVD format and can edit or immediately author this video. |
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| SALIENT FEATURES OF PINNACLE |
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* DVD2000 features real-time component and DV video I/O with dual stream MPEG-2 broadcast quality editing.
* Video is always 100% MPEG-2 for the highest level of data efficiency without compromise to quality regardless of intended distribution. |
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| APPLICATIONS OF PINNACLE |
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* Dual stream real time effects and titling creation provides broadcast quality results.
* Output to broadcast quality videotape, interactive autoplay CD-ROM, DVD and internet streaming video. |
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| # Sound Forge : DVD2000 is complete videotape, CD-ROM, DVD, and Internet video delivery solution.It combines frame accurate dual stream MPEG-2 video editing and a complete DVD authoring solution. DVD2000 encodes directly in the DVD format and can edit or immediately author this video. |
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* You can Record Sound and then edit it.
* You can superimpose the sound files on Video presentation and Animation.
* You can compress the sound files.
* You can give Special Effects to the sound files. |
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| APPLICATIONS OF SOUND FORGE |
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| Sound forge is used by various professionals from the Music and Sound Industry such as Musicians, Sound Editors, Multimedia designers, Game designers, Studio engineers etc. |
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| # Avid Xpress DV : A powerful tool for professional digital Video Editing Designed for video professionals. Thanks to its elegant interface and superb editing tools, you can work with complete efficiency, control, and flexibility to produce broadcast-quality movies for video, film, multimedia, and the Web. Expandable and Open Use AVX, AAF, MXF (Coming soon), and OMF to work seamlessly with other systems. Output files in Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, Flash and MPEG formats. |
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| SALIENT FEATURES OF AVID XPRESS DV |
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* Digitizes video & sound, hence eliminates transfer losses.
* Edits video & multimedia movies in AVI, MPEG etc.
* Creates titles and graphics.
* Superimposes titles and graphics, animation on video and film.
* Adds transition and special effects.
* Uses digital filtering for special effects in video & audio tracks.
* Modifies movies with other applications.
* Exports projects to video tapes. |
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| # Apple Final Cut 4 : Final Cut Pro 4 is a non-linear video editing application for video editing programmers. Learn how to capture footage from your DV camera, make a rough cut, then add transitions, effects, and text to finish your project. |
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| SALIENT FEATURES OF APPLE FINAL CUT 4 |
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* Digitizes video & sound, hence eliminates transfer losses.
* Edits video & multimedia movies in AVI, MPEG etc.
* Creates titles and graphics.
* Superimposes titles and graphics, animation on video and film.
* Adds transition and special effects.
* Uses digital filtering for special effects in video & audio tracks.
* Modifies movies with other applications.
* Exports projects to video tapes.
* It can work on Mac-OS also. |
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| APPLICATIONS OF APPLE FINAL CUT 4 |
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* Dual stream real time effects and titling creation provides broadcast quality results.
* Output to broadcast quality videotape, interactive autoplay CD-ROM, DVD and internet treaming video. |
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| # 3D Character Studio : Character Studio 3 is the latest release of the powerful extension to 3D Max, the world's best-selling professional 3D animation and modelling solution. Character Studio 3 provides more ways to build and refine characters than any other product, including groundbreaking new tools for creating crowds. Now you can quickly animate a school of fish, a swarm of bees, or collection of humanoid characters. |
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* Can quickly animate a school of fish, a swarm of bees, etc.
* Can retain total control over how each individual of a crowd interacts with its fellow creatures, the terrain, any dangers or opportunities in the environment.
* Physique is an incredibly fast skinning system, allowing you to create flesh around the biped bones amazingly quickly.
* Provides a uniquely rich palette of tools for motion capture, free-form animation and footstep animation.
* Provides a high quality, cost-effective way to populate your 3D Max worlds with characters that walk, run, jump, and move with incredible personality.
* Inverse Kinematic pivot points for smooth, natural hand and foot movements.
* An interactive skinning system Powerful new Motion Flow Editor features for accelerating non linear animations. |
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| APPLICATIONS OF APPLE FINAL CUT 4 |
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* Character Animation
* Advertising Cartoon films.
* Training Program's for Corporate presentations.
* Morphing.
* Titling.
* Sound addition.
* Character animation.
* Special effects in films. Source : compufield.com |
