Picture Arena is the next generation tool to manage, use, rework, present and browse your digital picture collection.

Navigate by speech, quickly browse directories, rework your images, create a presentation CD, a web gallery, a slideshow or a printed album.

Here are some key features of "Picture Arena":

· Browse the file system
· Quickly browse your CDs and folders full of images without leaving a trail of thumbnail files behind.
· Import
· Import images and video clips from your digital camera, file system hierarchies or keep using or convert your existing iPhoto™ albums.
· Create web galleries
· Choose between numerous professional and varied themes, create online slideshows, interactive greeting cards, searchable databases - with just a few clicks.
· Burn CDs and DVDs
· Create cross platform HTML presentations and backups on CD or DVD or specially prepared CDs containing up to 9200 pictures for viewing on DVD players with just a few clicks. It was never easier to make one's personal photo archive portable, to present, protect and share it.
· Print
· Print greeting cards, contact sheets, attractive letter paper with a very special and personal touch or standard sizes with no effort.
· Reworking and effects
· Rework your images, add unique effects, create effect recipes and reuse them. And you don't even have to modify your original files. That's especially useful, if you have a lot of files on CDs, yet need powerful image processing.
· Navigate by speech and present
· Picture Arena cares about what you have to say. Say a command and it will act accordingly. But you can also "just" do a slideshow.
· Resynchronize your files
· At last! Finally, you can work on your images independent of network and servers - wherever you want. And then bring everything back in sync with just one click.
· Tools
· Auto-rotate images from your digital camera? Powerful batch operations? Batch renaming with undo? Searching albums? Sorting images by the date they were taken? Sounds like you use Picture Arena.
· Even more reasons why you need Picture Arena
· Because of its intelligent EXIF support, for example. Or because it makes optimal use of multiprocessor systems, has a compact interface, knows exotic formats.


What's New in This Release:

· New: Translation of the interface and other parts into French by Patrick Thoennessen, Fr©d©ric Verges and Andr© Siegel.
· New: Albums can now be grouped in folders and subfolders.
· New: Picture Arena can now create directories and supports file operations like moving and copying of files via drag & drop.
· New: Multi-screen support for slideshows, improved efficiency and behaviour of the controls.
· New: If the location of files managed by Picture Arena was changed manually, any broken paths inside Picture Arena can now be "repaired" by choosing the new location.
· New: Vastly improved data security through regular background backups and a safe "backup exploration" mode in case of crashes.
· New: Support for Entourage, Eudora and Mailsmith in addition to Mail for sending photos.
· Enhancement: Support for CMYK JPEGs, including those saved with Adobe® Photoshop.
· Enhancement: The greeting card script now supports international characters via UTF-8, can store cards on the server (which is auto-detected) and allows to send plain text emails.
· Enhancement: The greeting card and database scripts are now also localized in Spanish thanks to the work of Michael Paus.
· Enhancement: Screensavers and system sleep are now automatically disabled during a playing slideshow.
· Enhancement: Zoom + / - now works the default way on OS X via "Apple +" and "Apple -".
· Enhancement: When browsing through images in view mode, the image viewed last will also be scrolled to in the browse mode on return.
· Enhancement: When an image is displayed in "size-to-fit" magnification, you can now scroll through your images with the mouse-wheel.
· Fix: The slideshow transition rendered too fast to be visible on Tiger. Fixed.
· Fix: Added a workaround for a problem where thumbnails would be displayed upside-down when Quartz 2D Extreme was enabled.
· Fix: Crash on pressing an Apple-key and the right mousebutton in empty albums.
· Fix: Conditions that could lead to a crash with Core Image filters are now handled correctly.
· Fix: The interpretation of EXIF dates was corrected so it now reflects the local time of the shoot, not GMT.
· Fix: Clicking on "Page setup" inside the printing dialog could render the current Picture Arena project window unusable.