Saturday, December 24, 2011

Karizma Album, Karizma Album Software, Karizma Album Designing Software


Karizma is well know Brand for Photo Industry in india and international, Karizma is revolutionary software for photographer and album designer. This was the first software who has shifted traditional album designing to Digital Album. In 2004 Monarch Technology has launch this software for Print Labs in india but it has spread to all over the world and successfully using lacs of user throughout the world.  

Karizma Software was benefited to photo industry with innovative digital album, High quality in designing with easy and fast which has reduce the delivery time for albums. This software has widely benefited to Photo Print Labs / Digital Print House and Photographers.


How this Karizma Business Solution Works for Print Labs
Karizma appoints Print Labs to distribute there software to photographer and Album Designer with a free of Cost. They (Photographer) design the album and export into encrypted format which file they can open and convert to Photo Lab from where they had taken the software. So print lab can be benefited with assured business from the photographer.


How this Benefits to Photographers
With easy and fast creation of album pages, photographer has to just drag and drop the photographs from thousands of available templates on the karizma software. They can design with any custom size to predefined size given by print labs. Karizma Software has inbuilt photo editing and enhancement feature so they need not require any third party software to edit


Features of Karizma Designer Software





Album Creation Mode




  • Manual with Blank pages: This option lets you define blank album pages Ideal for people who want to have complete control over their designs
  • Auto with Template Mode: Select the type of template arrange the photos and the software will design the album within few minutes.
  • Manual with Import Mode: Import already created Album pages designed in Karizma Designer 5.0 and start designing on those imported pages.
  • Auto with Import Mode: Import already created Album pages designed in Karizma Designer 5.0. and arrange the photos and the software will design the album within few minutes
Story Board 
KARIZMA Designer gives you a unique Story Board which displays thumbnail images of the template pages that you have created for a project. This Story Board gives you a clear idea about the template designs already used in the project and also helps to maintain the story line of the Album.


Photo Editing
KARIZMA Designer gives you a range of onboard Photo editing tools like Blur, Softness, Opacity and Feather. You can perform colour correction on the photos and apply preset tones including Black and White and SEPIA tone on a click of a button. You can modify the preset tones and save the tones for later usage.


Create your own Titles
With KARIZMA Designer you can create your own text or can also select from the available library of Titles. Moreover you can further enhance the text by applying colour or gradient, shadows, outlines etc. You can even apply a shadow direction from the preset.


Ready Shapes


KARIZMA Designer provides various ready to use shapes like rectangle, ellipse, rounded rectangle and lines to add creativity to your pages. You can further apply outline with colours and fill these shapes with colour, texture or gradient. You can also apply opacity and shadow effects to these shapes to make your template pages more decorative.


Photo Enhancement
KARIZMA Designer provides a unique Image Edit tool which allows you to perform Image Enhancement and Lasso cutting on the photograph. This Image Enhancement tool allows you to enhance a certain portion of the photograph and make that portion stand out from the rest of the photo. The Lasso cutting tool can be used to knock off unwanted portions of a photo.

Crop/Resize/Rotation of Photos
Photos can be easily cropped, resized or rotated during the album creation mode.


Dual Mode


KARIZMA Designer gives you an option of working on two adjacent pages simultaneously. This feature is very useful for giving finishing touches and to match the theme of the adjacent pages especially when these pages are used in premium photo albums. 


Replicate Properties


Properties of one photo can be replicated over another photo with ease. These properties include applying masks, frames, tones, shadows and almost all the special effects on the photos.


Decor Library and Rich Text Styling


Karizma Designer provides a huge library of decors like Frames, Masks, Clipart, Titles and more for giving exclusive look to the album pages. Ready Titles can also be inserted to the album pages. You can even add your own text and apply special effects to the Titles and Texts.


Template Creation
With more than 1700 templates, you can even design your own templates and share it across fellow Karizma Designer users and fellow photographers.




PhotoPas


Passport photos combinations can be created using PhotoPas. Different sizes, styles and ready-to-use templates are available for creating passport combinations. A Single combination can also have different size of passport photos. Editing of passport photos can be done individually or in group using editing features like cropping, alignments, size variations, color and contrast balance and many more.


Chroma Knock Off


Using the Chroma settings, the Chroma background can be easily knocked off, this helps in removing single colourbackgrounds without any efforts.


Auto Assistance / Add Guidelines
Karizma designer provides exclusive auto assistance and add guideline functionality. The guideline functionality helps in placing the photos accurately to the horizontal and vertical scales.


Swapping of Photographs


With the swapping feature you can swap any two photos retaining the positions and their properties at the time of creating albums. Flip templates changes the positions of photos on the template, from left to right and vice -versa.


Album Type


You can select from pre-defined album types ranging from Auto-stick, Décor Individual and Décor Split. Moreover, custom Album specifications like page size, safe area margin, DPI and number of pages can be defined.


X-Rotation & Y-Rotation

Photos can easily be transformed with the X & Y rotation feature.


Ordering


KARIZMA Designer allows you to simultaneously export multiple album pages as flat images. These flat files can only be printed at the lab from where the KARIZMA Designer is procured.


Karizma Viewer


KARIZMA Designer comes with a unique application KARIZMA Viewer, which provides a means for previewing the actual pixels before printing.

Managing Photos


As a professional photographer, you have thousands of photos captured and copied on the PC. With Karizma Viewer , your photos can be organised and managed effectively, making it much more easier to access. It supports image file formats like RAW, JPEG, TIFF, TGA and BMP. Photos can be sorted by File Name, File Type, Date and Size. Photos can be rotated as well. 


Batch Process


Photos can also be renamed or converted to other file formats, individually or in a batch. 


Editing Photos


Colours can be adjusted using input-output level and gamma levels. The color correction by histogram helps in precise color correction by adjusting color balance values or by curves. The photos can be color corrected by adjusting individual RGB Values, Input-Output levels, Gamma Values. Tones like shadows, mid-tones and highlights can be adjusted using the stepless slider.


Enhancimg Photos


Karizma Enhancement helps to enhance and gives special effects to the photos. The enhancement acts as a highlighter for selected part or complete photo. Special effects and enhancements can be provided to your photos using the Lasso, and Touch-up tool. 


Creating and Viewing Slide Show


Slide-shows can be generated with the created album pages. This slide show helps you in getting your job approved without your physical presence, thus saving time and increase productivity. 


Ordering Album


Designed Albums can be ordered by saving the order files on a CD/DVD or on any removable storage device and can be sent for printing.


Lasso Tool
The lasso tool allows you to knock off unwanted portion of the photo. This feature is extremely useful when you wish to replace the background of the original photo with another background.


Auto Feather 
After performing the Lasso cutting on the photos, a feather is applied automatically along the cutout borders. You can later on change the depth of feather by options provided in the Image Edit Mode.


Colour Picker
Colour picker tool is provided to pick up a sample colour from the entire screen area and apply it to various objects like page background, photo outlines, shadows etc.


Real Time Drop Shadow
Drop shadows can be applied on photos. One can also apply opacity, softness, depth, colour and direction to the shadows without any effort.


Apply photo as background automatically
Any photo available in the gallery can be easily applied as Background with the help of available onboard buttons.



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