Zoner Software, the innovative graphics software company, has released the latest version of Zoner Photo Studio, the photo management, editing, and sharing software for Windows.

Brno, Czech Republic -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/13/2010 -- The new version brings above all a significant increase in speed for all operations thanks to multi-core optimizations, an improved catalog, easier work with two monitors, and easier photo sharing. "Every new feature found in the program is inspired by suggestions from our global community," said Managing Director, Pavel Minar. Zoner Photo Studio is the world's first photo manager to provide official support for 10-bit color output per channel. This support enables users with compatible graphics cards and displays to view images at 10 bits per color channel, for a total of 30 bits of color sent to the monitor.

The latest version of Zoner Photo Studio has brought a complete implementation of transparency in the Editor, including the new Eraser tool. Also new is the Healing Brush, and several other tools have new features and options, or optimized algorithms.

One highly requested new addition was the postcard maker, which is highly configurable and can use any combination of pictures. Advanced users will definitely appreciate the HDR tool's new ability to work with pictures taken without a tripod, which it derives from our new multi-exposures technology. This same technology can be used for removing noise or moving objects from a picture.

Web photo sharing is becoming more and more popular. Zoner Photo Studio 13 brings a new feature in this area: uploaders for Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa Web Albums. "We try to make the whole process as easy as possible for our users, from taking pictures, to managing them, to editing them, to sharing them. You just select the picture to share, use the function for the network you want, and your photos are uploaded straight to," said Sales and Marketing Director, Jaroslav Kucek.

Availability
For the full list of commercial versions, visit http://www.zoner.com. Zoner Photo Studio has become significantly more affordable in version 13. The basic single-user license for the PRO Edition costs just 69.99 USD, and a three-seat license is 99.99 USD. Besides commercial versions, there is also a free version, Zoner Photo Studio Free, available for download from http://free.zoner.com.

Zoner Photo Studio 13 is available as a free 30-day trial at http://www.zoner.com.

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Zoner Software launches the Zoner Software EDU Donation Project which is a non-commercial project tailor-made for several types of educational institutions. Participating institutions can get 20 free EDU licenses and further licenses can be received up to 75% off list price.

Brno, Czech Republic -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/28/2010 -- The innovative graphics software company Zoner Software has announced the launch of its Zoner Software EDU Donation Project. Within this project, Zoner Software is providing any educational institution upon request with up to 20 free licences of its handy photo-editing software Zoner Photo Studio 12—suitable for education, and easy to learn and use.

Zoner Software EDU Donation Project is a non-commercial project tailor-made for public and private elementary and secondary schools, universities, and other institutions such as photography schools, colleges, photography institutes, and art schools. Participating institutions desiring extra licenses beyond the 20 free EDU licenses can receive up to 75% off list price. This promotion is valid until June 30th, 2010. As a part of the company's business and marketing activities, and brand-building activities abroad, this promotion may accept non-Czech and non-Slovak educational institutions only.

"Zoner Software is responding to schools' need to use graphics software at far more than just one workstation. We're doing this by offering multi-seat license solutions that are cost effective and user friendly. The Zoner Software EDU Donation Project provides educational institutions with an outstanding photo management tool, Zoner Photo Studio, already used in schools widely and to great acclaim in our home country, the Czech Republic. We hope to see it achieve similar acclaim abroad for its intuitive user interface and wide range of editing features, and for delivering what today's teachers and students expect from a photo program," said Managing Director Pavel Minar.

For more information on this project, see http://www.edu.zoner.com.

About Zoner Photo Studio
Zoner Photo Studio is comprehensive software for work with digital photographs. It accompanies users throughout the whole photo processing cycle, including acquiring, editing, touchups, creating effects, and organizing, archiving, publishing, and sharing their work. Zoner Photo Studio was the first comprehensive digital photo processing software to include support for GPS and for creating 3D pictures.

Contact:
Katerina Fisova
Zoner Software EDU Team
katerina.fisova@zoner.com

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