Masquer – The First Real Image Blending App

ArcSoft Inc. has released its new image application on App Store last Saturday. That's Masquer, the first real image blender to boost your imagination and have endless fun.

Without adjustment on brightness, contrast, saturation and hue, Masquer lets you blend two images into one natural and creative composition smartly and automatically.

Basic Features: 

•Perfect compatible with iPhone 5

•Zoom in/out, move Base Image to compose and preview in its perfect size & position

•Zoom in/out, rotate and move Top Image

•Use lasso to outline the dead space in Top Image accurately

•It’s more convenient to brush the blending area than to erase the unwanted area

•Unlimited undo enables you to move back to any previous steps

•Output images into selectable sizes

•Output images to Camera Roll, Email or share on Facebook and Twitter

We are continuing to add:

•Add more blending effects, including blur effect

•Save works as labels for any future sessions use

•Open the latest session for discontinuous editing

•Add more than one Top Images to blend

•Support to create photomontage and stitching photo

•Share works on Pinterest and Instagram

•……

How it works: Import Base/Top Images->Creative Composing->Share & Save.

Note: User Guide is in the Option menu at top-left.

 

It’s time to share fun with family and friends, play tricks with colleagues, and create artworks for sharing and collection. Download Masquer now, please click here.

Follow us and share ideas with us on @MasquerApp at Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Pinterest. More detailed information, please visit here: http://www.masquerapp.com/.

Portrait+1.5: an effective portrait retouching tool

The best retouching always needs a careful eye, an empathetic heart, and a patient mouse. As a professional portrait retoucher, you are required to emphasize one’s natural features while removing circles and blemishes. If you want to maintain one’s personality, the first thing you need to do is to study his/her character and decide which attributes to accentuate and which to minimize before retouching.

It’s necessary to Map out a portrait retouch strategy before removing freckles once launching the software. In previous version of Portrait+, you can apply any style with one click to instantly enhance your portraits. But now, to offer a more superb service to whomever wants to express individuality, Portrait+ has upgraded its functionality to support customization. Before beginning, learn from its newest features to complete a successful retouch.

Conceal blemishes, balance skin tones and reduce wrinkles to improve the appearance of skin. A person’s skin should be appropriate to his or her age. Creating a perfect skin needs 7 steps: Remove Circles, Remove Blemishes, Foundation, Whiten Skin, Soften Skin, Remove Shine and Blush. Every step provides you a subtle enhancement.

Refine contours of the face to be smooth and flattering. Adjust the intensity to slim face, lift cheeks or enhance nose. Bulges caused by awkward smile, weight, or age should be carefully reduced or smoothed out.

Emphasize eyes to twinkle as a bright star. The eyes are the most important facial attribute to emphasize. A slight change on eye liners, eye color, eye lashes, or eye shadow will give you a refreshing appearance. Brighten eyes, enlarge eyes or shape eyebrows are also available for you.

Deepen smile and whiten teeth to attract people’s sights. Free to change your lipstick that you have never tried before. This simple yet essential step will help you discover and define a brand-new character.

Evaluate the results and save them for next use. You may get accustomed with those styles so as to neglect some details. Check them again to ensure everything is perfectly done. Save your favorite makeup as templates. You can apply them with a click next time. The quality of all retouched photos can be customized to meet your requirement.

If you want to take a free trail, please click here to get more information.

Get an Extra 3 Months Membership for Free in The Guild ofPhotographers

Learning from the website is of great convenience while there is a great deal of information on the websites which may be easy to get confused and tired. If you want to become a professional photographer, a specific training from the professionals should never be missed.

After taking lessons, it is a good choice to practice. As an old saying goes, practice makes perfect. For both amateur and professional photographers, image-processing software is effective to strive for further improvement. Therefore, ArcSoft, who always determines to bring more effective solutions to professional photographers and amateurs worldwide, now has partnered with The Guild of Photographers, to bring more excellent services to you.

 

The Guild of Photographers: an association for all individuals committed to photography

Established in 1988, The Guild ofPhotographers has grown much wider to become an association for all individuals committed to the art of photography. To help everyone get the most from his camera, The Guild of Photographers offers superb training and mentoring from some of the most established names in the world of photography, as well as a highly regarded qualification program. Some unique discounts will also be provided. 

 

For more information, please visit: http://www.photoguild.co.uk

Special Offer: Whoever joins the Guild for 12 months on their website and quotes 'ArcSoft' will get an extra 3 months membership for free.

Hooray, Are You Ready to Make a Jump to Windows 8?

Windows 8 is around the corner. It will be launched on 26^th October and may become the most popular system in every newly-purchased computer without accidents. After experiencing Windows 98, 2000 and getting familiar with Windows XP, Vista, 7, I am so exciting to embrace the huge change on my daily life.

This interface of Windows is designed to be used with touchscreens as well as with a mouse and keyboard, and requires programs to be written specially for it. Your laptop and PCs can still run programs written for older versions of Windows, but it doesn't work on Windows tablets. And to improve the user experience, it’s better to install Windows 8 compatible software to keep you working smoothly.

And today, I’m glad to know that ArcSoft, the expert in multimedia imaging technologies and applications, has upgraded the latest software to perfectly meet the technical requirement of Windows 8. Aiming at providing the most effective solutions to the users worldwide, ArcSoft will always make progress to meet your demands. This time, some popular software including Totalmedia Theatre 5, Panorama Maker 6 and other 12 products have been upgraded to Windows 8 version. You can download the latest version and activate it with activation purchased previously. If you haven’t purchased any product before, don’t worry. You can share the activity page on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ to get a $10 coupon and purchase any product you like on that page.

Now, what are you waiting for? Click your mouse and make a jump to Windows 8!

Get your $10 coupon in activity page: http://www.arcsoft.com/topics/windows8.html

ArcSoft Partners with BullGuard to Give You Exclusive Deals

No matter if it is music or movies, everyone loves entertainment. And ArcSoft will always bring the best experience to you. Nevertheless, your digital life can’t be perfect without security. Data loss caused by virus attacks is a disaster to all. Therefore, ArcSoft has partnered with Internet security provider BullGuard, to offer you exclusive deals on software products.

BullGuard Internet Security: the Best Protection for Your Computer

BullGuard is specialized in preventing viruses, hackers, as well as the fast spreading internet worms from reaching your computer.

Based on the State-of-the-art Behavioral Detection technology added to several other layers of protection, BullGuard Internet Security catches 65% more malware than traditional antivirus engines. Aside from this, it provides 5GB backup to protect all your most valued files and photos.

As user-friendly software, BullGuard’s security suite combines the best computer security components into one single outstanding product and offers the most thoughtful protection. Its parental control will keep your kids safe from online threats. Furthermore, your subscription contains a 3-PC license and free upgrades.

Computer security is too important to be confusing. That’s why BullGuard makes it simple.

Click here to find out more: www.bullguard.com

BUY NOW: BullGuard Internet Security – 50% OFF! (Offer ENDS 31^st August.)

Please note: this offer only opens to ArcSoft members. If you’re not using ArcSoft but interested in our products, please visit our website to take a free trial.

Portrait+: Easy-operated Retoucher

Batch processing is the major advantage of Portrait+ which enables you to improve productivity. As a user-friendly software, Portrait+ is quite easy for you to operate. With only four steps, hundreds of photos can be retouched with desired effects. Now, please let me give you a demonstration.

Step One: Click "Select Photos" to import portrait photos.

Step Two: Follow the instructions on the right to adjust the key points for precise enhancement, adjust the key points for each individual face in a photo, and then switch to another photo in the photo bin.

Step Three: Click "Select Styles" to preview and apply the styles you like for selected photos.

Step Four: Click "Export Photos" to get multiple results of applied styles for selected photos. Click "Exported Photos" button to see all the results.

Free trial: http://www.arcsoft.com/portraitplus/

Now, please enjoy some photos.

 

Portrait+, auto retoucher for portraits.

Buried in the repetitive work of portraits retouching, have you ever wished to be saved from inefficiency and low productivity? Have you ever hoped to earn more money and expand your business? Hooray, photographers, here comes the rescue - ArcSoft Portrait+.

Portrait+ is a style-based auto retoucher for portrait photos. And it is especially designed for professional photo studios, portrait studios and photo labs to resolve the most time-consuming problem during the photo optimization.

This application supports JPG/TIFF formats. The maximum supported resolution is 8000*8000 and the minimum is 480*480. Its operation is quite easy. With only four steps, a portrait is automatically retouched. Neither training nor professional skill is required.

With a single click, a large amount of photos are quickly imported. You have no need to choose them one by one. After that, portraits can be retouched quickly and automatically with your desired effects. And at last all the photos can be batch exported in a minute. Due to the batch process function, it is possible for Portrait+ to deal with hundreds of photos at one time and save more time for you.

Based on world’s leading facial detection technology, Portrait+ puts simple but powerful tools at your fingertips. Therefore, it is able to detect up to 20 faces in one photo. Furthermore, it can precisely pinpoint your facial features including nose, mouth, ears, eyes and eyebrows. The whole process is completely automatic, which largely enhance your productivity. But if necessary, users can manually adjust those key feature points for optimization.

As a user-friendly software, Portrait+ is professional in simplifying the complicated process of retouching portrait photos. It provides up to 20 pre-set cleanse and makeup styles, such as Cleanse light, Cleanse & White Skin, Makeup – Breeze. All of these pre-set styles enable you to achieve natural-looking results with the stunning enhancement tool. At the same time, multiple results could be exported from a single photo with different styles for comparison.

If you want more information, please visit: http://www.arcsoft.com/portraitplus/