News - 2002 Archive
Lightbox 2.0 Empowers Creative Professionals
To Find Their Files Faster Than Ever Before
24 December 2002. Conceiva (http://www.conceiva.com),
a leading developer of software and services for creative
professionals, has launched the new version of Lightbox.
Lightbox 2.0 marks the new generation of file management
and browsing tools targeted at creative consumers
and creative professionals. With its new features,
new file support and enhanced performance, graphic
designers and web designers are able to find and view
their files faster than ever before.
“We are very excited about Lightbox 2.0,"
stated Paul Schumann, CEO of Conceiva. “We have
listened to the feedback from our users and have added
more timesaving features to Lightbox to make it the
most productive professional file browser on the market
today.”
New features of Lightbox 2.0 include:
- Instant Viewer has been added to enable fast viewing
of full sized images of files. You can zoom in and
out, rotate the image, view transparency, playback
animated GIF and AVI files, get color information,
view detailed properties and more.
- Color picker has been added to allow you to capture
colors (RGB, CMYK and Web formats) in full sized
images. Full support for ICM RGB and CMYK color
profiles is included to match your favorite image
editing application (such as Adobe Photoshop). Color
snapshots can be taken to store important colors.
Color snapshots can be copied and pasted into other
applications.
- Macromedia Flash (SWF) support has been added
to enable animated, multi-page thumbnails of SWF
files to be viewed. detailed properties are also
available.
- True Type Font (TTF) support has been added to
allow viewing of TTF fonts. Detailed properties
are also available.
- Desktop, Favorites and History tree view panes
have been added for quicker navigation.
- Favorites are now localized to your application
like all other settings.
- File type overlays can be displayed on thumbnails
to better understand the file type.
- Small images can be stretched to fit the thumbnail
size. The amount zoomed is displayed as an overlay
on the thumbnail.
- Web files (HTML, ASP, etc.) are thumbnailed faster
and better quality.
- More useful details are displayed in Properties
dialog, such as transparent color and alpha channel.
Lightbox runs on Windows XP Professional, Windows
XP Home, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98SE.
A fully functional 15-day Trial version of Lightbox
2.0 can be downloaded from http://www.conceiva.com/products/lightbox/download.asp.
Contact Paul Schumann at paul.schumann@conceiva.com
for further information.
New Version of Web Authoring Software
in Japan Continues Momentum With New
Innovative Features
23 December 2002. Conceiva (http://www.conceiva.com),
a leading developer of software and services for creative
professionals, has completed development of the new
version of HomePage Seisaku-oh, one of Japan’s
leading web authoring products.
In partnership with IXLA Japan (http://www.ixla.co.jp),
Conceiva has developed HomePage Seisaku-oh 5.0 with
many new features, including dynamic content support,
better link management, improved user interface, new
photo browser, improved publishing support, over 100
professionally designed web site templates, and over
100 dynamic objects.
“HomePage Seisaku-oh is a leading web authoring
product in Japan,” stated Paul Schumann, CEO
of Conceiva. “Its focus on design rather than
coding has set it apart in the market. We are delighted
by its success. Version 5.0 provides existing users
and new customers with an extensive set of tools and
features to create world class web sites.”
Contact Paul Schumann at paul.schumann@conceiva.com
for further information.
Conceiva Launches New Web Site
19 September 2002. Conceiva (http://www.conceiva.com),
a leading developer of software and services for creative
professionals, has launched its new web site (http://www.conceiva.com).
“Our new web site provides a great platform
for taking our products and services to the world,”
stated Paul Schumann, CEO of Conceiva. “Conceiva
is a team of creative professionals and software specialists.
We build products and services with a goal to be the
most creative and productive on the market. Our web
site extends this vision.”
Contact Paul Schumann at paul.schumann@conceiva.com
for further information.
Lightbox Targets Creative Professionals
5 September 2002. Conceiva (http://www.conceiva.com),
a leading developer of software and services for creative
professionals, has launched Lightbox.
Lightbox marks the new generation of asset management
and browsing tools targeted at creative consumers
and creative professionals.
Traditionally, creative professionals use standalone
image browsers or file browsers to locate the image
files on their computer. Building a web site, designing
a brochure, or just organizing digital media files
can result in 1000’s of files in multiple folders
on a computer. The task of locating particular files
and importing them into creative software applications
such as Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia
Dreamweaver, Macromedia Flash and Microsoft FrontPage,
is often a time consuming and frustrating task.
Lightbox overcomes these problems with a revolutionary
new technique for file browsing. Rather than being
a standalone image browser, Lightbox is a fully featured
digital media file browser that attaches itself to
creative software applications. A single click provides
access to the digital media files on a computer without
leaving the creative software application.
Lightbox displays more information about files than
any other competitor standalone image or file browser,
making file selection much more precise. A new innovation
included is its ability to create animated thumbnails.
Rather than create static, single page thumbnails
for digital media files, Lightbox creates multi-page
thumbnails for digital media files that contain more
than one frame – for example, animated GIF files,
AVI files, multi-page TIFF files, and more. This gives
creative professionals the ability to see more of
the file than ever before – not just the first
frame.
“Lightbox provides a significant productivity
edge over its competitors,” stated Paul Schumann,
CEO of Conceiva. “It has been purpose-built
for creative professionals to provide fast access
to digital media files. I am confident that it will
increase productivity for all users of creative software
applications.”
Key features of Lightbox include:
- Support for over 150 file formats used by today’s
creative professionals, including over 60 image
file formats (PSD, JPG, TIFF, EPS, BMP, GIF, PNG,
etc.), web file formats (HTML, ASP, CSS, etc.),
video file formats (AVI, MPEG, WMV, etc.), audio
file formats (WAV, MP3, RMI, etc.) and document
file formats (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, RTF, PDF,
etc.).
- Auto generation of thumbnail for supported files.
- View thumbnails in multiple, user defined sizes.
- Animated thumbnails enable better viewing of
multi-page images (e.g. TIF), animated images (e.g.
animated GIF) and streaming media files (e.g. AVI).
- Attach Lightbox to your preferred creative software
application to provide fast, one-click access to
files.
- Drag and drop files into attached software applications.
- Fast navigation between folders using Favorites,
History, full mouse support and keyboard support.
- Fully compatible with all creative professional
tools, such as Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator,
Macromedia DreamWeaver, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia
Director, Microsoft FrontPage, Adobe InDesign, Corel
Draw and more.
Lightbox runs on Windows XP Professional, Windows
XP Home, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows 98SE.
A fully functional 15-day Trial version of Lightbox
can be downloaded from http://www.conceiva.com/products/lightbox/download.asp.
Contact Paul Schumann at paul.schumann@conceiva.com
for further information.
Conceiva Completes New Version of Leading
Web Authoring Software in Japan
3 June 2002. Conceiva (http://www.conceiva.com),
a leading developer of software and services for creative
professionals, has completed development of the new
version of HomePage Seisaku-oh, one of Japan’s
leading web authoring products.
Working closely in conjunction with its Japanese
partner, IXLA Japan (http://www.ixla.co.jp),
Conceiva has enhanced HomePage Seisaku-oh 4.0 with
new features, including streaming media support, rich
text support, one click web hosting, auto import of
existing HTML web sites and over 100 professionally
designed web site templates.
“We are excited by the new version of HomePage
Seisaku-oh,” stated Paul Schumann, CEO of Conceiva.
“Our development team has worked on this product
for the past 6 months. HomePage Seisaku-oh is currently
the number 2 selling web authoring product in Japan.
This new version will help make it the clear leader
in web authoring products.”
Contact Paul Schumann at paul.schumann@conceiva.com
for further information.
Conceiva Completes Technology Handover For IXLA Limited
19 March 2002. Conceiva (http://www.conceiva.com),
a leading developer of software and services for creative
professionals, has completed the technology handover
of the products, services and intellectual property
of IXLA Limited's software division to its new owner,
V Communications, Inc.
With its intimate knowledge of IXLA's software products
and technology base, Conceiva was chosen by IXLA (http://www.ixla.com)
to transfer IXLA's web authoring and digital asset
management products to V Communications, Inc. (http://www.v-com.com).
“The transfer of IXLA's products, services
and technology is now complete," stated Paul
Schumann, CEO of Conceiva. “The handover included
documenting the technology base, re-branding the products
to the V Communication brand, migrating IXLA's web
site, and training V Communication sales, marketing
and technical staff on the new product lineup."
"We wish V Communications every success with
their new product line up."
Contact Paul Schumann at paul.schumann@conceiva.com
for further information.
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