Sunday, March 21, 2004

JPEG 2000 Photoshop Plug-In from ColorUtilities - $16

Catalog
One good "anonymous" review. Cheap, free to try.

Mark/Space: Outsourcing Mac Synchronization

Mark/Space
Interesting development. Apple, Palm and various phone companies have basically outsourced sync functionality to this small company. Good all around I hope.

Saturday, March 20, 2004

Algo Vision LuraTech: JPEG2000,datacompression,imagecompression,documentcompression

Algo Vision LuraTech: JPEG2000,datacompression,imagecompression,documentcompression
IE only I think - well known name in jpeg2000 industry.

Morgan Multimedia Kakadu derived JPEG2000 plug-in for Mozilla and IE

Morgan Multimedia - Home of the MM MJPEG video codec.
The other sources I've found are just Active-X plugins. I found one problem with Mac/PC JPEG2000 images, some Photoshop plugins produce ICC embedded items that Quicktime and Mac plugins can't read.

SI Photo: Recommended Sports Illustrated settings for Canon 10D

SI Photo
Note the advice on sensor dust. Interesting links to photoshop color setup.

ACDSee 1.6 for Mac: OS X software for digital picture viewing on Macintosh.

ACDSee 1.6 for Mac: OS X software for digital picture viewing on Macintosh.: "ACDSee 1.6 for Mac is a fast image viewing and management tool compatible with Mac OS X software. It lets you view, browse and organize your digital pictures and multimedia files extremely fast and comes with TWAIN image acquisition support for scanners."
Sports Illustrated's favorite image viewer. I'll try it out.

Friday, March 19, 2004

Free & Impressive Fnord (Kakadu) Photoshop JPEG 2000 (jp2) plug-in

j2k
I tried the LEAP plug-in, I couldn't read the JPEG 2000 files on my Mac. Fnord software in San Francisco puts out this free Photoshop plug-in for Mac and PC. Last updated 1/03. Written by Brendan Bolles .

The Fnord plug-in uses Kakadu 3.2. QuickTime/Mac and Yahoo Messenger use the same development kit, created by Dr. David Taubman at the University of New South Wales. The common SDK source for this plug-in and QuickTime may be responsible for the Mac compatibility.

I used it with Photoshop Elements 2.0/PC to compress a 10MB PNG map scan to a very readable 200K JP2 file. Unlike the LEAP plug-in the Fnord file was readable by Quicktime/Mac. In both cases I included the Adobe sRGB ICC file, but Quicktime choked on the LEAP generated jp2 file.