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Avenza Releases Geographic Imager 6.2 for Adobe Photoshop

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Toronto, ON, October 21, 2020 – Avenza Systems Inc., producers of the Avenza Maps® app for mobile devices and geospatial plugins for Adobe Creative Cloud®, including MAPublisher® for Adobe Illustrator®, is pleased to announce the release of Geographic Imager® 6.2. This latest version is powered by Adobe’s new Unified Extensibility Platform (UXP), which provides tremendous performance and user interface improvements to the Geographic Imager plugin for Adobe Photoshop.

“Geographic Imager has become a product many organizations trust and depend on to quickly edit and process spatial imagery,” said Ted Florence, President of Avenza Systems. “With increased performance and even more opportunities to develop new tools and experiences with UXP, the possibilities are endless.”

Powering the Geospatial Imagery Editing Process

Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop® delivers an all-encompassing solution to import, edit, and export geospatial images such as aerial and satellite imagery. Work with digital elevation models, GeoTIFFs, and other popular GIS image formats while using Adobe Photoshop® features such as transparencies, filters, cropping and image adjustments; all while maintaining georeferencing and support for hundreds of coordinate systems and projections.

New features of the Geographic Imager 6.2 plugin for Adobe Photoshop® include:

  • Compatibility: Fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop® 2021 on both Windows and Mac, powered by Adobe’s new Unified Extensibility Platform (UXP)
  • Exporting: Vector map data is now able to export to many industry geospatial formats
  • Advanced Importing: Ability to remove backgrounds from images during import

 

Geographic Imager is immediately available and free of charge to all current Geographic Imager Maintenance Program members and starts at US$319 for non-maintenance upgrades. New fixed licenses start at US$699. Geographic Imager Basic Edition licenses start at US$99. Academic, floating and volume license pricing is also available.
For more information, visit www.avenza.com/geographic-imager.

More about Avenza Systems Inc.

Avenza Systems Inc. is an award-winning, privately held corporation that provides cartographers and GIS professionals with powerful software tools to make better maps. In addition to desktop mapping software, Avenza offers the mobile Avenza Maps app to sell, purchase, distribute, and use maps on iOS and Android devices. For more information, visit www.avenza.com.

For further information contact: 416-487-5116 – info@avenza.com – www.avenza.com

Introducing the Updated Geographic Imager Plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Built on UXP

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Editing geospatial imagery like aerial photos or images taken from satellites is usually a difficult task and requires a certain level of technical knowledge. However, the Geographic Imager plugin for Adobe Photoshop makes GIS accessible to a growing group of graphics professionals who can quickly and easily edit geospatial images. Cartographers, design-focused users and image editors can combine the geospatial editing tools of Geographic Imager with the Adobe Photoshop design environment.

With the Geographic Imager plugin for Adobe Photoshop, you gain access to all the tools and spatial information related to the image quickly and easily through a seamlessly integrated panel. Easily and quickly import various data formats, transform coordinate systems, and crop, mosaic or tile images. Save images to several industry-standard geospatial formats or export as web tiles to use in web applications.

The latest Geographic Imager plugin release provides tremendous performance and user interface improvements as it was built on Adobe’s Unified Extensibility Platform (UXP) in Photoshop. This platform offers more flexibility and opens up opportunities to develop new tools.

Geographic Imager features include:

  • Extensive geospatial image support
  • True spatial-awareness by georeferencing images
  • Extensive support for thousands of geographic and projected coordinate systems, maintaining accurate map projections during image editing
  • Mosaic individual images to create a seamless image
  • Tile an image into multiple images by tile size or count and automatically save them using sequential naming
  • Import digital elevation models (DEM) and create shaded relief maps using the Terrain Shader tool
  • Save spatial images to many industry-standard formats, including GeoTIFF
  • Export to web tiles to generate images that are compatible with Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, MapBox and more
  • Ability to use Geographic Imager tools with Adobe Photoshop scripting

 

 

How to get Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop

Geographic Imager for Adobe Photoshop is now available in the Adobe Marketplace for both Mac and Windows. Alternatively, you can try Geographic Imager by registering for a free trial.

Users ready to purchase can use the code AVENZAMAX10 at checkout on www.avenza.com for a 10% discount.

For additional information about the Geographic Imager plugin for Adobe Photoshop, please refer to the following resources:

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