Web Image Guru - the new software  for Web designers and digital photographers that allows to effectively optimize Internet-bound graphics and to link PC, digital camera, scanner, your favorite graphics editing package and Internet. Web Image Guru enables high quality image processing and optimization while greatly boosting the productivity through triple batch processing, smart thumbnail generator and Image Explorer.

Key Features of Web Image Guru:

• Superior quality Web oriented image optimization - JPEG / GIF/PNG-8 / PNG-24;
• Seamless integration of the images into Web pages - Compound image / Shapes;
• Efficient and friendly user interface;
• Unique set of thumbnail creation controls - Thumbnailing;
• Powerful batch processing, not restricted by simple file conversion - Triple Batch;
• Efficient image adjustment and filtering algorithms - Filters;
• Automatic generation of Web pages with images or thumbnail web pages;
• Integrated Image Explorer for fast image browsing and preview;
• Fine adjustments of color palletes for Web export;
• Ability to easily preview images in different formats, computer platforms.

All these features have unique specialties, unavailable in other graphics products. Due to this fact Web Image Guru can be a good addition even for the users of the popular Web image optimization products like Adobe Image Ready, Image Styler or Macromedia Fireworks. Web Image Guru can operate as a stand alone product or a plug in to other graphics editing packages. It includes fully functional Image Explorer and Image Navigator applications for fast image browsing, slide shows and zoomed image previews.

Together with our free software Image Navigator, Web Image Guru is the ideal tool that easily connects a digital camera, scanner, PC, your favorite image editing tool and World Wide Web. With Web Image Guru you can quickly make your images web-ready by using our superior JPEG compression and Color reduction algorithms. You can optimize an image for a specific place in your Web page, and
moreover you can compress different image parts of any shape with most suitable algorithm (JPEG, GIF, or PNG). As a result the images will occupy a less size and Web pages will be loaded faster and you won't lose visitors to your site because the download time of your pages is too long.

Web Image Guru can be run as Adobe PhotoShop plug-in module or as a standalone application.
Web Image Guru is compatible with Adobe PhotoShop 3.05 - 5.0 and other products which support Adobe
PhotoShop 3.05 type plug-ins. Web Image Guru is available as Export and Filter type plug-ins.

With Web Image Guru you will receive:

1. High quality Web oriented image optimization.
   - Superior Web oriented JPEG compression that allows to significantly speed up the Web pages while preserving quality of the images.
   You can compress images in JPEG better than with any other compression system on the market. Compare JPEG compression results.
   - Original, compression oriented color reduction algorithms that allow generating GIF and PNG8 files from true color images with smaller
   size (in some cases several times smaller) and better quality compared to other products (see examples)
   - Unique set of tools for manual palette editing gives you unbeatable control of your Web site graphics.
   - Full support of Web Safe Colors .
   - Powerful algorithms for decreasing the size of PNG-24 images.
2. Seamless integration of the images into Web pages.
   - New Compound images technology that eliminates the necessity of image slicing. This approach allows saving up to 50-60% of the
   image size compared with image slicing.
   - Unique ability of merging of the image with the specified background on the specified HTML page.
   -  Useful set of tools for changing the shape of the image and applying different effects to it.
3. Efficient yet attractive user interface.
   - Ability to export an image in one of the most suitable Web formats (JPEG, GIF and PNG). You can easily preview and compare the results in different formats, tune format specific options and select optimal format for your image.
   - Super easy ability to preview the images for different platforms (MAC/PC), color modes (True color/256 colors) and Web browsers.
   - Run as Photoshop Export or Filter Plug-in and as standalone application.
   - As a whole, Web Image Guru provides an efficient interface, which has been highly optimized to Web designers needs.
4. Unique Smart thumbnail generation features for instant creation of perfect proportional thumbnails.
5. . Powerful batch processing not restricted by simple file conversion.
   - Powerful Triple batch processing mode that allows to quickly process multiple images.
   - As a source for Batch processing you can use TWAIN compatible digital cameras or scanners or custom sources.
   - Web image catalogs can be generated as result of batch processing.
6. Ultimate set of filters for preprocessing of the images with unique level of control.
7. Image Navigator application for easy browsing of your image archives. Image Navigator is used to run Web Image Guru in the standalone version.
8. Ability to integrate Web Image Guru with third party applications, such as HTML Editors, E-commerce systems or Database applications. In this case Web Image Guru can serve as powerful image processing and optimization engine for your application.

The market addressed by the Web Image Guru is Internet users, Web designers and users of digital photography.
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The mission of Web Image Guru is fast communication of images and other visual information to large audiences through optimized colors, superior compression, integrated user functions and broad compatibility.
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Web Image Guru allows Web designers to incorporate high quality images in their Web pages at minimum bandwidth requirements. The smaller the bandwidths the faster Web page can be downloaded into the browser thus saving transmission time and cost for the client.

Compatibility:
You can use Web Image Guru with Adobe PhotoShop, Image Ready, Image Styler, PaintShopPro, Macromedia Firework, Microsoft PhotoDraw, other image editing packages supporting plug ins or as a stand alone application.

System Requirements:

Required: 486 or faster processor, Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, 12 MB RAM, 10 MB available hard disk space, 256-color display adapter.

Recommended:
Pentium ® processor, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT or higher, 32 MB RAM or more, 20 MB available hard disk space or more, 24-bit display adapter at 1024x768 resolution. Some system requirements may vary depending on the size of the images processed. Available memory should be at least four times the uncompressed image size. Multi level undo is limited by the available hard disk space.

Average Download Times
(Your download time may vary)
* 56K Modem - 7 minutes, 7 seconds.
* ISDN - 2 minutes, 58 seconds.
* T1 - 15 seconds.