VIMAS Technologies - What is NEW in Web Image Guru?

Web Image Guru Studio 5.5.6 changes are:

Improved Shadow/ Highlight correction algorithm.
Fixed a bug with proper updating of GIF and PNG8 images.
Fixed a bug with loading 32-bit images in Targa (.tga) file format.

Web Image Guru Studio 5.5.5 changes are:

New decoders for JPEG, PNG, and TIFF file formats.
Some minor bugs were fixed.
A bug with R slider in Adjust filter was fixed.

Web Image Guru Studio 5.5 new features are:

Filter Studio Plug-In .
Image Adviser.

Web Image Guru 5.0 new features are:

New improved user interface.
Powerful image enhancements with new adjust, blur, median, and sharpen filters.
It is possible to generate several different files from one input image.
C GIF and PNG8 formats support external palettes and Alpha Dithering.
improved manual palette editing with right mouse button supporting, Palette Alpha is may be manually edited now also.
Enhanced resizing and cropping functionality.

Additional improvements in Web Image Guru 5.1 are:

improved shadow/highlight and color adjustment filter;
individual preset controls for all filters and shape effects;
improved Image Guider;

Web Image Guru 4.0 features are:
* New improved user interface.
* New more powerful JPEG compression engine.
* Significantly enhanced color reduction algorithms.
* Lossy GIF compression.
* Regions weighting supported in file optimization.
* Wireless bitmaps (WBMP) supported.
* Internal support for Netscape Navigator 6 (Mozilla preview mode).
* Better integration with Windows Explorer.

Now with version 3.0 you can get:
* Better and more intuitive user interface.
* Enhanced JPEG / GIF/PNG-8 / PNG-24 algorithms.
* Built-in Internet Explorer preview for immediate displaying of image optimization results directly in a target Web Page.
* New Shapes effects: Emboss, Shadow, Glow and enhaced Feather effect.
* Color Channel and Region selection for applying filters to required image parts only.
* Ability to easy organize frequently used image optimization parameters with Web Image Guru Settings.
* Ability to save Source and Destination Plug-ins parameters with Web Image Guru Batch processing Settings.
* Palette alpha mode in PNG8 format.
* Possibility to optimize images from clipboard.

With version 2.1 You can:
* Resample (resize), rotate and flip the original image before optimizing it.
* Apply a new 2D edge shape effect to your image.

Two Dimensional (2D) Edge effects allow you to create different edges of the image to make it really look distinctive.
Effect parameters are:

Softness - smooths the elements of the edge effect.
Noisiness - makes the elements of the edge more or less random.
Dot size - defines the size of the edge element.
Width - defines the width of the edge.
You can select different Patterns to create the Edge effect

* Adjust a program window size to optimize it for your screen resolution.
* Select between two different variants of a transparency presentation.
* Sort colors in the palette table with different sorting modes.
* Trim an image to discard 100% transparent area and to leave only meaningful (opaque and semitransparent) areas in the optimized image.

Web Image Guru, version 2.0 has:
* More user-friendly JPEG controls that lead to the best optimization results on the market.
* JPEG compression parameters Compression, Color and Sharpen define the compressed image quality and the size.

The compression parameter defines the compression level of the image. The value of 0 results in the least compression level for the image and better quality. The value of 255 results in the biggest compression level for the image and the lowest quality. Compression parameter defines the compression ratio for Luminance component of the image and initial value for Chrominance component compression. The real Chrominance component compression value is defined by combination of the Compression and Color parameters.
The color parameter is used to control the color component (Chrominance) compression ratio. The value 0 means that the Chrominance component is compressed with the same level as defined by the Compression parameter. Negative values improve color quality resulting bigger file size. Positive values compress color component more resulting smaller file size.

* Improved shape positioning.
* Simplified image preview in Web browsers.
* Better integration with Adobe Image Styler.
* Run Adobe Image Styler.
* Web Image Guru will be available from menu File-Preview In-Web Image Guru.

Note, that to use Web Image Guru optimization features you should select in ImageStyler Export settings (menu File-Export Settings) PNG-TrueColor format. It is better to check Transparency and uncheck Make Page options.
If in Export settings selected Entire Composition or Trimmed Composition mode then single image will be optimized with Web Image Guru.
If in Export settings selected AutoSlice or AutoLayout mode then Web Image Guru will be run in batch mode and will optimize every slice in most suitable format. Note, that new HTML file with slicing information must be created. Web Image Guru will ask you about HTML file name and location after compressing first image.
Note, that it is only the way to create sliced image that consists of slices in different image formats.