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Digital Domain Inc has announced Qimage v2006.200. New features include:

• 3D thumbnail grid: A more robust look and feel is immediately evident as you use the new thumbnail browser. The new granite textured slates and shadow effects add depth and take the monotony out of searching for photos.
• Instaview: Ever been searching through a batch of thumbnails and find yourself squinting or moving closer to your monitor in order to determine which shot shows everyone in a group photo with their eyes open? Have you ever wanted to just point to a file in the queue and get an instant preview? The new Instaview feature allows you to simply press and hold your middle mouse button, mouse scroll wheel, or enter key to get an instant (larger) preview. Since the preview is nearly instantaneous, you may find yourself using this feature even more than the existing “spacebar to view full screen” function.
• Send via E-mail: The “Send via E-mail” function from the thumbnail grid has been improved and simplified so that you can simply select thumbnails and pick a resolution to send e-mail copies to friends/family.
• {Q-E} e-mail prefix: Qimage no longer adds the {Q-E} file prefix when creating e-mail/web copies. Instead, a scratch “{Q}e-mail” folder will be created under the current folder to store the (resulting) images.
• Print Proofs: You can now use the “File”, “Print Proofs” feature to print watermarked proofs that allow clients to review photos without giving them a way to duplicate them.
• Cutouts: While older versions would only allow fading to white using shades of gray for transparency, v2006.200 offers a simple way to choose the “fade to” color so that you can fade to black, red, green, orange, or any color you like.
• Folder browser: The folder browser has been improved so that the current folder displays in the middle of the window as opposed to the bottom so that you need to do less scrolling to find your folders.
• Copy: The “Copy Images” function from the thumbnail grid has been improved so that you can simply type a file name to create a copy of an image with a different name in the same folder.

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