AKVIS News 2005

November 29, 2005
AKVIS Coloriage v.2.0: for Mac and Win
The new version of the award-winning photo colorization plugin AKVIS Coloriage is available for download. New to the version: Undo/Redo buttons, Mac support and Color library translated into 8 languages.
The users who tried the previous version of the plug-in and have their version expired, now have an opportunity to test the software again.
Registered users can upgrade to V.2.0 for free. Just download the software and install it.

November 3, 2005
AKVIS Stamp v.3.0: for Mac and Win
We have released a new version of the healing/cloning tool AKVIS Stamp. New to the version is the Undo/Redo feature and the introduction of the Eraser tool in the Edit mode.
Now the program runs on Windows and Mac (starting with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger).
The users who tried the previous version of the plug-in and have their version expired, now have an opportunity to test the software again.
Registered users can upgrade Stamp to V.3.0 for free. Just download the software and install it.

October 24, 2005
AKVIS Coloriage awarded "Best of 2005 Soft"!
We are proud to announce that our software AKVIS Coloriage has been awarded the "Best of Soft 2005" prize of PC Magazine/RE..
The PC Magazine staff appreciated the originality of this software for automated colorization of black and white photos.
Click here to read more about the program.

September 5, 2005
AKVIS Chameleon v.3.0: 16 bits/Channel
We are glad to announce the new version of the photo collage creation software. Chameleon V.3 supports 16 bits per channel and allows processing images in color modes RGB, CMYK, Lab and Grayscale.
The users who tried the previous version of the plug-in and have their version expired, now have an opportunity to test the software again. Registered users can upgrade Chameleon to V.3.0 for free. Just download the software and install it.

August 22, 2005
New version of AKVIS Enhancer (V.2.1)
We have released the new version of the details-enhancement software. See the Changes list for details.
Registered users can upgrade the software for free. Before installing the new version of Enhancer, remove the old one, please.

August 17, 2005
Changes in the License policy
We are happy to announce changes in the license policy. The interrogation of the users (the raffle in June) showed that many customers need to activate the program on two computers - a desktop and a laptop.
We decided to increase the number of activations for one license. Now one license key allows activating the software on two computers.
Those who have registered an AKVIS software before will also be able to activate the program on one more computer. To activate software follow the step by step instruction.

July 28, 2005
New version of AKVIS Chameleon (v.2.3)
We release a new version of AKVIS Chameleon, a photo collage creation plug-in. Registered users can upgrade the software for free. Before installing the new version, remove the old one, please.
Read more about AKVIS Chameleon at: akvis.com/en/chameleon/.

July 21, 2005
New version of AKVIS Coloriage (v.1.3)
New to version 1.3 are additional options of the Erase and the Pencil tools and an improved Installation Wizard supporting 8 languages. See the Changes list for detail.
You should remove the old version before installing Coloriage v.1.3.

July 12, 2005
AKVIS Stamp v.2.0
We have released a new version of AKVIS Stamp. New to the version: support of 16 bits per channel.
Registered users can upgrade the plugin for Free. Just download AKVIS Stamp in the Downloads section and install it.
Note: you should uninstall the old version of the plug-in, and then install Stamp v. 2.0.

June 28, 2005
AKVIS Coloriage v.1.2
The new version of the photo colorization plug-in AKVIS Coloriage is equipped with an expanded Color Library and is now compatible with a variety of image processing software.
Learn more about AKVIS Coloriage.
See Examples of how to use it.

June 22, 2005
AKVIS Retoucher v.2.0
The new version of the photo restoration plug-in has been released.
AKVIS Retoucher 2.0. supports 16 bits/channel. Today most digital cameras allow taking photos in the loss-free Raw format that uses 16 bits. The support of the 16 bits channel gives you power over photo correction without losses in the image quality.
Registered users can upgrade the plugin for Free.

May 19, 2005
AKVIS Coloriage: the Color Library has been expanded
The list of color groups in the Color Library has been expanded. Now it also contains colors of metals, water, bricks. Download AKVIS Coloriage in the Downloads section.

May 6, 2005
AKVIS Coloriage - Colorization made easy!
AKVIS releases an amazing plug-in for automatic colorization of black and white photos. Now you can easily manipulate colors on B&W and color images. See the program description and examples for detail.

May 5, 2005
AKVIS plugins with the identity signature
New versions of AKVIS software are available at the "DOWNLOAD" section. Now they are compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and contain the company certified identity signature.
The identity signature is recommended by Microsoft (Service Pack 2 of Windows XP). Code Signing Digital IDs for Microsoft Authenticode protect software against impersonation and tampering. Authenticode uses digital signature technology to assure users of the origin and integrity of software.

April 14, 2005
Enhancer v.2.0 for Mac: Installation bug fixed
We found and fixed an installation bug in Enhancer v. 2.0 for Mac. If you had problems with installation, please, download the file again from Download.

March 30, 2005
AKVIS Enhancer v.2.0
We have developed a new version of Enhancer. Registered users can upgrade the plugin for Free. See the "changes" list in the Download section.

February 26, 2005
AKVIS Chameleon v. 2.1: image processing speed improved by many times
We are glad to announce that thanks to the advanced photo processing algorithm we managed to increase the processing speed of the Windows version of AKVIS Chameleon by 20 times! The image processing speed of the Mac version increased by 6 times. Memory consumption reduced by 30 percent. For more details see the "changes" list.
Registered users can upgrade the software for Free.
To upgrade AKVIS Chameleon plug-in you need to download the new version and install it.

February 15, 2005
Activation wizard translated
We have translated the Activation wizard and error messages into all interface languages. You can download the new version in the Downloads section.

February 1, 2005
Home License
We changed the name of the license for personal use. Now it is called "Home License".