Released on = December 1, 2005, 9:53 am

Press Release Author = AKVIS LLC

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Plug-in for quick colorizing of B&W photos and replacing
colors on color photos.

Press Release Body = AKVIS Coloriage 2.0: Add color to your memories!

November 29, 2005 - With the release of AKVIS Coloriage V.2.0 for Mac and
Win, AKVIS LLC presents the cutting edge technology of automatic B&W photo
colorization. Since its first appearance in May 2005, the software has already won
the \"Best of Soft 2005\" prize of PC Magazine/RE.

AKVIS Coloriage adds color to black and white photos with the same ease with
which a child paints images in a coloring book (\"coloriage\" means a coloring book in
French). The colorizing technique is easy: you take the Pencil tool, select a color
and draw a rough outline within the area to be colorized; the program recognizes the
borders of the area and paints in the new color keeping the tone transitions. No
layers manipulation, no manual painting!

The list of the tool\'s uses is practically endless. Home users can apply it to
colorize old B&W photos from the family archives, for example, to make a present to
the grandma by adding color to her early days\' photos. Professional designers can
use AKVIS Coloriage to try different color schemes for interior and exterior design,
as the program allows changing the color of objects with a mouse click. Anime and
manga enthusiasts can apply the program to add color to hand sketch drawings.

The software does not only colorize B&W photos, the available Keep-Color tool makes
it possible to replace colors only in defined areas of the picture, while the areas
masked with the Keep-Color tool remain unchanged. Thus, you can recolor clothes on
your color photo or change the color of the hair, eyes, etc on a portrait. Selective
desaturation and selective colorization of a color photo is made easy. Examples of
colorization and color replacement are available at:
http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/examples-add-color.php

The new version is available for both Windows and Macintosh users. New
to the version are the Undo/Redo buttons and translation of Color
Library into English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and
Japanese. Color Library with its subtle tones for skin, hair, grass, sky and other
natural elements ensures flexibility in the choice of colors.

Operating as a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Corel
Photo-Paint, AKVIS Coloriage requires no complicated techniques or special knowledge
to achieve beautiful results, whether the task is delicate colorization of heirloom
photographs or trying new color schemes on a photo of your house. Visit
http://akvis.com/en/coloriage-tutorial/index.php to see this intuitive software make
a simple black-and-white photo bloom with color.
You can also find there AKVIS software for old photo restoration (scratch, stains
and dust removal, etc).

AKVIS LLC offers a 10-day fully-functional trial of AKVIS Coloriage 2.0 and
registration costs USD $97.00 for a home license and USD $246.00 for a business
license. Home users can enjoy the full line of AKVIS digital imaging processing
software in the AKVIS Alchemy bundle (Retoucher, Chameleon, Stamp, Enhancer and
Coloriage) for USD $250.00, a savings of $121.00 over purchasing each separately.
These details are available at http://akvis.com/en/discounts.php#all.

Web Site = http://akvis.com/en/coloriage/index.php

Contact Details = Address: Russian Federation, Perm, Malkova, 20-36, Perm
Russian Federation

Phone Number: 7-342-2379328
Email: submit@akvis.com