Web Image Guru Suite, version 5.5

Release Date - August 2, 2004

Copyright VIMAS Technologies, 1995-2004

System requirements:

An Intel Pentium® processor running Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP; 64 MB of RAM; a color monitor (1024 x 768 resolution, millions of colors recommended);

Starting from version 5.5 the word Suite was added to the product name. Now Web Image Guru Suite is a set of three image processing applications:

- The Web Image Guru Plug-in is a powerful tool for optimization of image color and tonal balance, sharpness, noise level, geometry, bit depth, and file size. The word Web in its name means that optimized images always saved in one of the commonly used file formats: JPEG, GIF, or PNG, that become popular due to the Internet, but now used in a variety of other fields.

- The Image Guider is a simple image browser that may be used for image organizing and for launching of Web Image Guru in normal or batch mode.

- The Filter Studio is an Adobe Photoshop plug-in that make it possible to use all Web Image Guru filters without saving of the processed image to file. It is useful for image retouching and editing. It may be used in Adobe Photoshop actions or Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 scripts as a part of complicated image processing algorithms.

The main features of Web Image Guru Suite are:

- High quality color reduction algorithm.

- Advanced shadow/highlight and color correction algorithms.

- Supporting for PNG8 images with alpha transparency (Palette Alpha).

- Simple to use, yet effective weighting optimization for JPEG, GIF, and PNG8 compression.

- Rich set of filters for noise reduction.

- Powerful JPEG compression algorithm.

- Rich set of live shape effects.

- Advanced crop functionality.

- Ability to generate several images from single original with just few mouse clicks.

- More easy to use, but still powerful shape handling.

- Internal browser preview of images in existing HTML files in specified places.

- Effective and attractive user interface.

Using of Web Image Guru Suite:

Web Image Guru and Filter Studio plug-ins may be used as Adobe Photoshop plug-in modules.

They are compatible with Adobe PhotoShop 3.05 - 7.0, CS and other products that support Adobe PhotoShop 3.05 type plug-ins. Filter type plug-ins are available.

Web Image Guru may also be used as a standalone application fro Windows Explorer or Image Guider.

#### How to Install:

To install Web Image Guru Suite on your computer just run WebImageGuru5.exe file and follow onscreen instructions. Plug-ins setup will be done automatically for Adobe Photoshop.

You may setup Web Image Guru for other host applications manually.
Web Image Guru will install Adobe Photoshop plug-in file WebGuruFilter.8bf and FilterStudio.8bf to Adobe Plug-ins subfolder (usually C:\Program Files\VIMAS\Web Image Guru 5\Adobe Plug-ins).
You should copy these files to Photoshop’s plugin folder (for example C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop 7.0\Plug-Ins\Filters).
After restarting Photoshop software will be available as menu item Filter -> Vimas -> Web Image Guru 5.
The same approach may be used for other applications also.

#### How to Run:

You can run Web Image Guru plug-in from our simple image browser - Image Guider. Select Start > Programs > Vimas > Web Image Guru 5 > Image Guider menu item. In Image Guider select the image by clicking on it, and run Web Image Guru from File > Web Export menu item.

You can also run Web Image Guru plug-in as standalone application directly from Windows Explorer by right mouse clicking on the one of supported image formats (bmp, jpg, png, tif, gif, pcx, tga) and selecting Web Image Guru 5 menu item.

Filter Studio plug-in may be used from external graphics applications that supports Adobe Photoshop plug-ins only.

##### Trial Period:

The trial period of fully functional Web Image Guru Suite is 14 days.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact us info@vimas.com.

With best regards,

VIMAS Technologies Team

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