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Note: All prices in British Pounds
OPUSalbums helpline
UK 0845 8386 286
US (408) 627 4077
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Photographers who use many outside bureaux to print albums now have the alternative of printing their own.
Rochester, 28 February 2008
 Opusalbums.com, an Incartek venture, signed an agreement at Focus on Imaging 2008, with PXL Soft of India to be a licensed distributor of the popular photo album software, dg Foto Art. Dg Foto Art is the base package licensed by many photo book services. With Opusalbums the same software platform can be used by photographers and book producers who wish to print their own.
Daniel Roberts, director of Incartek, said "Home printed albums have the advantages of immediacy and flexibility. If you don't like a page you can change it. If it becomes out of date, you can revise it. But many people also like the book form. Now there is a seamless file compatibility between home printed and bureau printed albums. This could be a real boon for wedding photographers. They can produce a proof album or an art album using Opusalbums.com's PhotoArt or Print&Bind, whilst continuing to use an online book service such as Cewe, Photoinsight or Memory Collectons for coffee table book."
Bhaskar Dewal, European sales manager for PXL Soft Said "dg Foto Art has been very successful in the major bureaux. These companies generally offer a free download dedicated to their service. With the Essentia version of our dg Foto Art we have a version that can be used by many professional an amateur photographers on their home and studio PC's to print locally. With its position in the print-your-own album market, OPUSalbums.com is an ideal partner to make this a success.
OPUSalbums.com is a specialist web-based business in print-your-own albums, digital scrapbooks, professional photo and creative papers. We supply the complete kits - paper, covers, binding and the software to support customers from hobbyists to professional photographers and the trade. It is an Incartek venture.
PXL Soft is a based in India, and is a leading developer of innovative digital photographic software products. Founded in 2004, it operates from a 7000 sq ft state-of-the art facility in central Mumbai and, in conjunction with its partner Cewe, Europe’s largest photographic processing company, its dg Foto Art product received the ‘Star of PhotoKina’ at the Cologne exhibition in 2006.
Dg Foto Art – Essentia, is a Fast & Easy software tool to create Digital Albums. It can compose stunning Albums in minutes with ease using blend of easy-to-use tools, ready-to-use Templates and huge library of added décor. Being stand-alone Dg Foto Art – Essentia is independent of any third party tools or plug-ins.
- Stand-alone Software
- Easy Drag & Drop for faster Album Creation
- Create your own Album Page Size
- 250 Ready-to-use Templates along with Library of Décor
- Lasso, Auto Feather and other Enhancement tools
- Work on Multiple Pages Simultaneously
- Slide Show Generator for Proofing
- Very Easy to Use & Learn
- Available in multiple languages
- Pentium IV, 1.50 GHz Processor
- Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP with SP2, 32Bit
- 512 MB RAM (1GB Recommended)
- 20 GB hard disk drive
- VGA card
- CD-Rom drive
| EXCLUSIVE FEATURES |
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Universal Graphic Format support:
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Essentia supports all standard file formats like JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TARGA. |
Used Photo Indication:
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This feature helps mark photos distinctly with a red outline. This is a very useful feature for tracking usage of photos. |
Story Board:
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It enables viewing of the innumerable thumbnails of the created Template pages. It gives a vivid idea about the templates already designed and also helps maintain the story line of the album. |
Unique Color Picker Tool:
This tool enables selection of any color from the screen. The selected color can be applied to backgrounds, outlines, shadows, shapes and text.
Instant Reordering of created template pages:
Instant Reordering can be made by moving the thumbnail of Template pages with the page numbers automatically assigned after reordering thereby saving time.
Work on Multiple Pages Simultaneously:
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Essentia gives you the exact feel of the album that will be printed. |
Replicate Photo Properties:
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Photos can be replicated over any other photos repeatedly. This feature is very useful for application of favorite Tones, Masks or Filters to multiple photos. |
Smallest Project size:
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Essentia saves a lot of hard disk space. This also enables your projects to open and save very quickly. |
Auto Save:
Current pages are automatically saved and thumbnails are updated in the story board, the moment a new page is opened. Also at regular intervals the work is saved thus there is no risk of losing important data.
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| COMPOSE FEATURES |
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250 Ready-to-use Templates:
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A pool of ready-to-design templates of various sizes are designed and made available for different occasions. |
Customizable Template Page Size
Templates can be customized to individual requirements be it in centimeters, inches, pixels or print resolution too.
Multiple Alignment Options
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This feature helps align multiple pictures at equal spacing automatically and quickly. |
Flip Templates
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Flip templates with a click of a button. A very useful feature while arranging your template pages in an album. |
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Huge Library of Clipart, Borders, Masks, Textures and Filters:
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A huge library of ready -to-use features is provided for giving exclusive looks to your Album pages. |
Instant SEPIA and Black & White Tones
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Images or Templates can be given 7 ready-to-use tones including B&W and SEPIA. Tones can be applied on any photo at the click of a button. |
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| EDIT FEATURES |
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Lasso Tool with Auto Feather
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Lasso Tool helps remove unwanted portions of a photo for replacing the background. A Feather is also applied automatically around the edges of the cutout portion. |
Cropping Photos
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Images can be cut short and cropped instantly with great ease, be it within a Frame or otherwise |
Text Editing
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Templates can be added with text using any True Type fonts. Drop Shadows, Outline, Textures,and Thickness can also be applied. |
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Photo Enhancement
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Images can be color-correction on selected portions of a photo. Multiple selections can be made and manipulated independently.
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Drop Shadow
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Images can be given different look with instant shadows. Shadow distance, opacity and softness can also be added at click of buttons.
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Instant Outlines
Add instant outlines to photos in the Template pages.
Set any Photo as Background instantly
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Essentia allows to place images as background which helps give it a different look and feel. |
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Unique Slide Show
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Self running files (EXE) containing slides of the Template pages are made with ease. This file being small in size can be easily sent as e-mail for customer’s approval before printing. |
Export Multiple Pages simultaneously
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Multiple pages can be exported simultaneously thus saving time. One can even select or deselect the pages to be exported with the help of thumbnail. |
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The best customer support
Fantastic tools - so easy!
My clients think I'm a genius
The Demo Disk
The Demo disk program shows all the editing features of the full program. The following are the differences:
you cannnot export the designed pages in any universal graphical format like jpg, gif, tiff, bmp, tga, png, etc.
You get a limited set of templates in the demo version of Dg Foto Art.
You cannot use the PXL Mailer of Dg Foto Art - Gold in the demo version of Dg Foto Art - Gold
Printing is disabled.
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![Just wanted to let you know that since we have started using your fantastic album designer program, dg Foto Art, my customers have been amazed at the original, creative and beautiful ways their albums are now designed. New customers who see them albums can't believe how beautiful they are.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=Just+wanted+to+let+you+know+that+since+we+have+started+using+your+fantastic+album+designer+program%2C+dg+Foto+Art%2C+my+customers+have+been+amazed+at+the+original%2C+creative+and+beautiful+ways+their+albums+are+now+designed.+New+customers+who+see+them+albums+can%27t+believe+how+beautiful+they+are.&author.text=Alan+S.+Brooker&title.text=Photography+Inc.&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&stage.width.max=420&pid=1204797231989)
![Other photographer's albums are all dull compared to what I present customers using dg Foto Art - that the pictures in my album just come alive. As an artist and photographer, your album design program offers me everything I had ever hoped for in the new world of digital photography.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=Other+photographer%27s+albums+are+all+dull+compared+to+what+I+present+customers+using+dg+Foto+Art+-+that+the+pictures+in+my+album+just+come+alive.+As+an+artist+and+photographer%2C+your+album+design+program+offers+me+everything+I+had+ever+hoped+for+in+the+new+world+of+digital+photography.&author.text=B+Allen&title.text=Wedding+photographer&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&stage.width.max=420&pid=1204797231989)
![Besides having a great program, I want to thank your team for giving absolutely the best customer support I have ever received. If I ever have a question, there is always somebody to talk with when I call. You have gone the extra mile in customer service.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=Besides+having+a+great+program%2C+I+want+to+thank+your+team+for+giving+absolutely+the+best+customer+support+I+have+ever+received.+If+I+ever+have+a+question%2C+there+is+always+somebody+to+talk+with+when+I+call.+You+have+gone+the+extra+mile+in+customer+service.&author.text=Tina+Brown&title.text=Technical+support%2C+Photographic+Designs&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&stage.width.max=420&pid=1204797231989)
![I have started using dg Foto Art in the last 3 weeks and as a competent Photoshop user have found it much more favourable in its ease of use and simplicity but with fantastic creative tools that make digital wedding albums so easy to create.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=I+have+started+using+dg+Foto+Art+in+the+last+3+weeks+and+as+a+competent+Photoshop+user+have+found+it+much+more+favourable+in+its+ease+of+use+and+simplicity+but+with+fantastic+creative+tools+that+make+digital+wedding+albums+so+easy+to+create.&author.text=Hayley&title.text=Masom+Photography&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&stage.width.max=420&pid=1204797231989)
![I too have been using this Dg Foto Art since Focus '05, and have designed a number of multi-photo pages for clients. The program is easy to use , lost of options, room to design and save your own layouts, customise page sizes, export to various formats. My clients think I'm a genius.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=I+too+have+been+using+this+Dg+Foto+Art+since+Focus+%2705%2C+and+have+designed+a+number+of+multi-photo+pages+for+clients.+The+program+is+easy+to+use+%2C+lost+of+options%2C+room+to+design+and+save+your+own+layouts%2C+customise+page+sizes%2C+export+to+various+formats.+My+clients+think+I%27m+a+genius.&author.text=Stepen+A&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&stage.width.max=420&pid=1204797231989)
![I use it for making wedding albums for clients and it is fantastic. Worth every penny. What would take a day in Photoshop can be done in less than an hour.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=I+use+it+for+making+wedding+albums+for+clients+and+it+is+fantastic.+Worth+every+penny.+What+would+take+a+day+in+Photoshop+can+be+done+in+less+than+an+hour.&author.text=Gary&title.text=Event+Photography&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&stage.width.max=420&pid=1204797231989)
![Other photographer's albums are all dull compared to what I present customers using dg Foto Art - that the pictures in my album just come alive. As an artist and photographer, your album design program offers me everything I had ever hoped for in the new world of digital photography.](/account/images/quote.img?version=1"e.text=Other+photographer%27s+albums+are+all+dull+compared+to+what+I+present+customers+using+dg+Foto+Art+-+that+the+pictures+in+my+album+just+come+alive.+As+an+artist+and+photographer%2C+your+album+design+program+offers+me+everything+I+had+ever+hoped+for+in+the+new+world+of+digital+photography.&author.text=B+Allen%2C+Wedding+Photographer&begin.fill.color=AA9898"e.fill.color=474747&begin.font.size=150"e.font.size=18"e.text.wrappingwidth=149&stage.width.max=149&pid=1210976350093)