Color Management and Gdpicture Pro Imaging Activex Sdk Software for Windows

Color Style Studio (paint color schemes)
$69.95 - XVEL Software

If you're a professional involved with painting, decorating or color design, you need Color Style Studio!

Color Style Studio enables you to select color schemes using photos of real objects such as house interior or exterior and more! Choose colors from California Paints, PPG, Colortrend, NCS, RAL, Sikkens, Symphony and 80 other available sets (more then 45000 various colors).

Select a photo of your client?s house and let your clients choose their preferred paint colors. Then sit back and watch their amazement while you show them their house instantly repainted in their chosen color scheme!
Have your clients choose other colors and watch as you "repaint" the house over and over again, quickly and easily. And moreover, if you do not have time to make client's house shots, just pick similar object from Color Style Studio's
big collection of ready interior and exterior photos.

Increase your revenue and gain an advantage over your competition providing unique visual color reception service!

Attract more clients with your ability to restore forgotten tints. Color Style Studio is so powerful it can search for every possible custom color within real color collections.

Flaunt your creativity using a special mode that shows random compositions of tints applied to an object, one at a time. While in this mode, you're able to find rich and original color solutions that others can't.

Use the built-in calculator and stop wasting your time manually calculating the costs of paint and materials.

Color Style Studio facilitates the tedious process of matching and selecting color by enabling you to apply different color combinations to the object in your photo. No more wondering which composition is the "best house color scheme". You'll close more sales when you show your customers how their house will look before you open the first paint can.

Color Style Studio is like an interesting and exciting game that focuses on color rather than color management.

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CBN Selector
$9.99 - CBN Systems

Use CBN Selector to re-color your images. For example, you can see what your home interiors and exteriors might look like any virtually any color. Try countless designer created schemes and harmonies, apply colors cross-referenced to paint chips, or even create your own custom colors. Then, apply your color selections to your digital image. Recolor, specify, manipulate, visualize, color pick, harmonize, and design your colors with CBN Selector color management tools.

CBN Selector maintains amazing photo-realism of your digital image even while re-coloring - preserving textures, subtle shadows and lighting. Try this premium color application for color visualization, management, communication, conversion, and specification.

CBN Selector releases your creative potential by giving you an extremely powerful, but easy-to-use, graphics program. In your own photos, visualize colors in the complete spectrum of the digital environment (tens of millions of colors). CBN Selector is fantastic for specifiers, manufacturers, and resellers, allow them to easily help their customers "see what it will look like". CBN Selector helps ensure you will love the color that ends up on your walls and have fun doing it. Your imagination is the only limit!

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CalibrationAider (For Java)
$0 - Imaging Associates International

CalibrationAider helps realize the full potential of your CRT or LCD computer monitor. Use CalibrationAider to create a consistant, reproduceable viewing environment with an optimal viewing angle, screen resolution, and maximized range of colors. CalibrationAider displays built-in test-patterns and allows you to import your own images. CalibrationAider includes a complete user guide and tutorial that describes how to use test-patterns to calibrate your LCD or CRT monitor and introduces concepts important to digital image processing and color management in general. CalibrationAider is ideal for digital photographers who need to set up a color-managed workflow, or home users who want to display digital photos to best effect. It may also be useful to carry a copy on CalibrationAider on a USB Flashdrive so it is at hand to test that expensive new LCD Monitor before purchase!

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CalibrationAider (For Mac)
$0 - Imaging Associates International

CalibrationAider helps realize the full potential of your CRT or LCD computer monitor. Use CalibrationAider to create a consistant, reproduceable viewing environment with an optimal viewing angle, screen resolution, and maximized range of colors. CalibrationAider displays built-in test-patterns and allows you to import your own images. CalibrationAider includes a complete user guide and tutorial that describes how to use test-patterns to calibrate your LCD or CRT monitor and introduces concepts important to digital image processing and color management in general. CalibrationAider is ideal for digital photographers who need to set up a color-managed workflow, or home users who want to display digital photos to best effect. It may also be useful to carry a copy on CalibrationAider on a USB Flashdrive so it is at hand to test that expensive new LCD Monitor before purchase!

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CalibrationAider (For Windows)
$0 - Imaging Associates International

CalibrationAider helps realize the full potential of your CRT or LCD computer monitor. Use CalibrationAider to create a consistant, reproduceable viewing environment with an optimal viewing angle, screen resolution, and maximized range of colors. CalibrationAider displays built-in test-patterns and allows you to import your own images. CalibrationAider includes a complete user guide and tutorial that describes how to use test-patterns to calibrate your LCD or CRT monitor and introduces concepts important to digital image processing and color management in general. CalibrationAider is ideal for digital photographers who need to set up a color-managed workflow, or home users who want to display digital photos to best effect. It may also be useful to carry a copy on CalibrationAider on a USB Flashdrive so it is at hand to test that expensive new LCD Monitor before purchase!

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GdPicture Pro Imaging ActiveX SDK
$169 - GdPicture

GdPicture Pro OCX is a high quality Imaging ActiveX component to view, create, acquire, edit and print bitmap and vectorial image. It supports many image formats like tif, jpeg, jfif, png, pdf, ico, wmf, gif, exif, bmp, dib, fax, emf, pnm, pcx. Images can be cropped, converted, acquired from twain devices, rotated, combined, colors can be reduced, filters and effects can be applied. Watermarked text, lines, circles, curves can be added...

GdPicture Pro OCX can be used from any Windows development environment that can call ActiveX component including Visual Basic, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, PHP, ASP, IIS, MS Word, Access, Windev, Excel, .NET environment like C#, VB.NET, REALbasic and many others.

* Image processing library containing over 600 functions.
* ROYALTY FREE distribution
* Easy to use.
* Frequents and FREE UPDATES.
* Many sample codes.

Major feartures:

- Support lzw, ccitt3, ccitt4, rle and Jpeg compression
- Support for 1bit, 4bits, 8bits, 16bits, 24bits, 32bits, 48bits and 64bits color depth
- Image and PDF viewer
- Multipage Tiff reading and writing
- Draw barcode (25i, EAN13, 3 of 9)
- Draw shapes: lines, ellips, round, bezier, curves...
- Load and Save image to FTP or HTTP server
- Import / Export from Clipboard, HBitmap, IPicture, Stream, Bytes array
- TWAIN support
- Pallets colors conversion, color reduction
- Auto Border removal
- Rotations and flips
- Watermark
- Text processing
- Create Thumbnails
- Skew / de-skew image
- Read / Write EXIF tags, Thumbnail tags, GPS and extra Tags.
- Print image with advanced capabilities
- Merging Images
- Resizing with 8 diferent interpolation modes
- Change brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma
- Lot of filters and effects (emboss, blur, edge enhance...)
- Personalized filters
- Area processing
- Capture the contents or section of any window
- Anti-aliasing and smoothing
- HSL, CMYK, CMY, ICM2, RGB and sRGB64 color management
- PDF Creation

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