Shapiro Consulting Group, Inc. (SCGI) is announcing the release of version 2.2 of the Asiva® Sharpen+Soften, Correct+Apply Color, Shift+Gain and Selection Plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop® 5.5 through CS, for Apple Macintosh® and Microsoft® Windows platforms. A bundled version 2.2 of these 4 plug-ins has also been released for immediate sale.

All Asiva® products feature 16-bit per component internal processing and are based upon Asiva's patented curve-based processing technology. Within Photoshop, the plug-ins support 8 or 16-bit, RGB or CMYK files.

All version 2.2 plug-ins now utilize the HSI color space for curve-based selection, instead of HSV. The Intensity component and corresponding Asiva® curve has twice the bandwidth of the previously used Value component, making luminance-based correction far more accurate than ever before.

Additionally, Asiva® Sharpen+Soften and Shift+Gain now support the YUV color space, used widely in digital video applications. This color space provides certain advantages over RGB/CMYK or HSI for color corrections or other digital image enhancements.

Asiva® Sharpen+Soften plug-in retails for $69, Correct+Apply Color for $49, Shift+Gain for $69, and Selection for $39. The Asiva® Plug-in Bundle, containing all 4 of these plug-ins, retails for $199. All mentioned products can be purchased and downloaded at www.asiva.com.

Trial versions can be downloaded online at www.asiva.com for Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.