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RealWorld Photos public beta released

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

After almost a year, the RealWorld Photos application, while still in beta-phase, is stable enough to be released to the general public. The application is focused on photo retouching and batch image processing. A simple user interface is built on top of a powerful core with a couple of unique functions. The end product is a tool suitable for both beginners and professional photographers.

Scripting out of control

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

I had it coming…I should have never unleashed it. The scripting interface in RealWorld Designer took a sharp turn and became a lot more than was originally planned. Do you want to rotate pictures by EXIF tags? Generate thumbnails and code for html galleries? Watermark and decorate pictures? Or… do it all in one step? Bah, why should I care? You can do it yourself using scripts.

Drawing tool presets

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

The ability to customize a tool does not seem like something worth more than a short notice, but after using it for a while, you would not want to live without it anymore. Photoshop has a similar feature, but RealWorld Designer takes it to the next level.

Mouse gestures in image editor

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Buttons are ugly. Even buttons with nice images on them can become ugly. Especially if they are small and you have to click them every few seconds. Future versions of RW tools will utilize mouse gestures to fight this problem. And once you get used to them, there is no going back.

Scripting unleashed

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

It is boring to do the same thing over and over again. Or isn’t it? … Anyway, in case of photo editing, repetition gets boring pretty quick and many editors solve this problem with a scripting subsystem. And so will RealWorld Photos.

Batch processing in RealWolrd Photos

Monday, October 1st, 2007

RealWorld Photos would not be a real photo editor without some kind of batch processing capabilities. Let’s have a look on what to expect.

RealWorld Photos - a peek into the future

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Things have been quiet since March, but the development has not stopped. We have been busy improving the raster image editor user interface control and building a brand new application focused on photo retouching. The improvements in image editing will of course make it into future versions of currently available products.

Filters with Preview

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Upcoming versions of RealWorld Designer-based applications are going to have a much needed feature: the ability to run a filter and display a preview of the outcome.