Here is a sneak peak at the new snap to grid feature in the ImageNest Picture layout. The Snap to grid feature will automatically align images with users specified grid lines in the layout. Images will quickly and accurately align left, right, tip and bottom to the grid lines allowing for incredibly accurate image placement. Images Can be moved easily to any spot on the grid and can be dragged from page to page.

This feature will be a free update to all users with the release of ImageNest 3.0

After many months, we are very happy to announce that version 3.0 is in its final stages of testing and we plan to release our final version by the middle of august. Version 3.0 is a major leap forward in layout technology and contains more than ten major new features. Some of the major features include:

- Rotate in Layout: Users can now rotate in all situations. Rotate works with all layout methods and in our new manual layout mode.

- Snap to Grid: A custom size grid feature allows users to “Snap To” guidelines. The layout grid can be custom sized both vertically and horizontally in any units of measure.

- Snap to Image Edges: Snap to Image Edges automatically detects the dimensions of other images in the layout and provides guidelines and a “Snap To” alignment feature.

- Copy and paste: Copy and Paste images in the layout with Control C and Control V hotkeys.

- Ability to drag images between pages: Users can now drag images from one page to another with ease both quickly and easily.

- Image Overlap: Images can be set to overlap for collages or an image can be trimmed simply by moving it beneath another image.

- Image Editor: Our built in image editor now contains additional information about resolution and pixel dimensions.

- Manually add/delete pages: In addition to our automatic page creation users can now add or delete pages manually.

Many customers noted that several pages had dead links over the past couple of days.  We have moved our website to a new hosting service and there where a couple of delays but all links should be functioning properly now.  Thanks for you patience.

Also,  we are hard at work on the next free update which we expect sometime in June.  Our new update should be faster, more efficient and several new features have been added including:

Cut

Paste

Copy

Rotation

Manual Layout

We look forward to bringing this free update to you as soon as possible and will continue to improve our Photo Layout.

Version 2.1 contains a great new feature for aligning prints manually. Our “Snap to Guides” feature will draw horizontal and vertical guidelines to help align images to all other objects in the layout.

We are happy to release version 2.1 as a free update and with additional features not yet announced. Included in this free update (which can be accessed on the downloads page are:

Added Support for scaling to a typed in size (do not have to draw a crop box, just type in new size) Dramatically improved PDF display and editing timeDrag and Drop support added

Added Snap to Guides for Manual layout

Added control to turn off annotation titles

Fixed a color bug when creating Color Managed PDF files using ImageNest Manages Colors

Fixed a bug that showed improper cropping path on certain PDF files created with Art Pro

Fixed a problem in the Canon IPF print panel that reported page sizes incorrectly

Fixed a problem in which paper sizes that had the same dimensions but different settings (such as borderless) where defaulting to whatever choice was first.

All files can be accessed via our homepage at http://www.bluecubit.com