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Contact: Max SmirnoffCompany: Bolide Software TeamTitle: CEOE-mail: press@bolidesoft.com
SEE THE DIFFERENCE: A NEW IMAGE COMPARISON TOOL THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU
Digital cameras once changed the way we perceive photography and organize our photoalbums. The affordability of flash media resulted in numerous memory cards beingbrought from any trip and, consequently, the necessity to sort hundreds or thousandsof images manually. Nonetheless, keeping all the images may not be a great idea dueto their number and size. A couple of nice shots from a series of several dozensimilar ones may well suffice for keeping you precious memories. But how do you pickout several shots of your safari rides made on different days from different anglesfrom a huge photo archive? If you don t want to think about meticulous file-by-filecategorization of your photo album, you may want to use a tool that will do this jobfor you the brand-new Image Comparer 3.0!
September X, 2007: Bolide Software Team is glad to announce the release of ImageComparer 3.0, an image comparison application intended for a wide scope of users from amateur camera owners to professional photographers, graphic designers andwebmasters working with large image archives containing thousands of items.
The third version of Image Comparer has been written completely from scratch tooffer users a unique mix of features and performance improvements that were notavailable in the previous version. Initially intended for detection of duplicateimages, Image Comparer is by no means limited to this function only. Based on aunique proprietary image comparison algorithm, the program searches for similarimages and compares their content using a similarity threshold specified in theprogram settings. This enables users to search for both exact duplicates andslightly modified images. This may come extremely handy for photographers makingseveral images in the burst mode in numerous sessions. Using Image Comparer, theycan detect these groups of shots and select the ones that best relate to thereference shot. Webmasters of large traffic-intensive sites will also find thesefeatures useful, as the program will help them detect duplicate images, free thenecessary disk space and organize the site folders for easier and more efficientmaintenance. Unlike other applications of the similar type, Image Comparer makes nodistinction between files of different formats, cross comparing files of thefollowing formats: RAW, JPEG, J2K, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA and other.
The program also features flexible grouping tools that allow users to easily selectgroups of detected similar images and work with them independently. For thispurpose, Image Comparer supports galleries sets of images which can be comparedagainst one another. Also, users can compare images within galleries to improvefinal comparison accuracy. The result of each comparison is the similarity ratio foreach pair of compared items and a Top 10 list of similar images for each item.
The comparison algorithm that underlies the functionality of Image Comparer isincredibly fast. It takes the program mere minutes to scan large image archives andidentify duplicate images and show the user a report on the disk space occupied bythem. Duplicates can then be deleted with a single mouse click. Alternatively, theuser can specify exactly which images should be deleted, moved or copied to anotherlocation. The improved comparison algorithm also supports sorting and grouping byquality, so as to enable users to pick out the images with the best quality andcopy/move them to a separate folder.
In a nutshell, Image Compare is a handy image comparison program that will become awelcome addition to the toolkit of anyone dealing with images and digitalphotography. With Image Comparer 3.0, you will see the real difference!
Pricing and Availability
Image Comparer 3.0 is available for as low as $29.95. Further information on ImageComparer 3.0, FAQ s, as well as its free downloadable 30-day trial version isavailable from: http://www.bolidesoft.com/imag ecomparer.html. Note that the trialversion identifies duplicates, but does not allow to move, delete or relocate them.
The products can be purchased from SWREG or ShareIT, the official distributors ofImage Comparer 3.0. Major credit cards, PayPal, fax, mail and phone orderssupported.
About Bolide Software Team
Bolide Software team is a small group of developers specializing in multimediaapplications, system tools and useful utilities for Windows. Despite being a smallcompany, the team has strong programming skills, solid development experience andthe desire to create products that their customers will truly enjoy.
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