Computer Group Program

To Examine Digital Photography

DANBURY — At its September 5 general meeting, Danbury Area Computer Society (DACS) will feature Ixla, an Australian-based digital photography company. The meeting will take place at 7 pm at Danbury Hospital auditorium.

The meeting will have its questions and answers session followed by a brief discussion of the club current happenings. The main presentation will take place at 8 pm.

Gary Coles and Kevin Brooks, both local residents of the greater Danbury area, will demonstrate the advantages of the Ixla digital camera, as well as the different photography manipulating software the company offers.

In addition to its digital camera, Ixla has several innovative products such as Photo Easy, available in both a standard and deluxe versions. This program easily downloads photos from cameras and scanners, catalogs and manages photos, enables the sharing of photos with friends and family over the Web, retouches and enhances photos – even fixes red-eye. It also lets users warp, twist, and stretch photos for creative fun, and create exciting custom calendars, postcards, etc.

Also to be demonstrated is Web Easy, which enables a complete novice to create and publish a Web page in less than one hour. Web Easy can be used for home, business, and school. It adds images directly from a digital camera or scanner and has drag-and-drop simplicity.

Another program is the Ixla Explorer which catalogs, stores, and views photos, sounds, and video. With this program it is easy to e-mail photos to friends, family, clients, and customers. It automatically grabs photos from the Internet and features drag-and-drop simplicity. It connects to a digital camera or scanner and includes 5,000 royalty-free images.

Both speakers will also talk about the ClubIxla. The club, among its other benefits, lets users away from their office or home computers upload images to the club to be retrieved upon their return.

To find out about directions to the general meeting, and other DACS activities, please log onto DACS Web site at www.dacs.org. If you need further information about the products to be presented in September, please follow the link from the DACS Web site. DACS can also be reached at the Resource Center at 748-4330.