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Version 1.0 of Asiva JPEG Deblocker Plug-In Released Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc. (SCGI) is announcing the release of Version 1.0 of the Asiva JPEG Deblocker Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 5.5 through CS, for Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms. All Asiva products feature 16-bit per component internal processing, and within Photoshop the plug-ins supports 8 or 16-bit, RGB or CMYK files. The Asiva JPEG Deblocker Version 1.0 plug-in retails for $49 at <http://www.asiva.com>. We should try to avoid using JPEG compressed files to perform enhancements, but create them only as an output file permutation for e-mail or WEB. However sometimes they are the only existing version to work with. The JPEG algorithm attempts to compress images in such a way that storage requirements are minimized while keeping the image perceptually undistorted as much as possible. This is accomplished by finding regions in the image that have a low amount of detail and lumping those pixels into 16 x 16 square pixel blocks that will have the same color information. The problem of JPEG blocks manifests itself and becomes quite visible when we attempt to manipulate the JPEG image based upon color information with some sort of Asiva Operation or Photoshop Filter. The Asiva JPEG Deblocker Plug-in prepares a JPEG file for subsequent image enhancement by smoothing out the blocks in low saturation high luminance areas while preserving detail in the rest of the image, so you should run this plug-in on a JPEG file before doing anything else. You may not notice any visible change after running the plug-in, but will upon performing additional color editing. __________________________ Please visit our sponsors: RadGad(sm): The Place for Useful Gifts & Gadgets.(sm) http://www.radgad.com/, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 877-5-RADGAD MacTech(r) Magazine: The journal of Macintosh technology and development http://www.mactech.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], or 805-494-9797 DevDepot(sm): Your Source for RAM, Technical & Developer Products http://www.devdepot.com, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or call 877-DEPOT-NOW To submit a posting to NetProLive, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to NetProLive, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the SUBJECT line reading "SUBSCRIBE NetProLive". To unsubscribe, the SUBJECT line should read "UNSUBSCRIBE NetProLive". MacTech, Developer Depot, RadGad, and Xplain Corporation are not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other inaccuracies in this message. News may be propagated freely, but please attribute your source as MacTech Magazine, <http://www.mactech.com>.
