We are proud to announce today that we have completed our goal of spreading Guifx’s graphical love to the entire Vantage touch-panel hardware line. Available immediately – our popular Meta and Adaptation designs for Vantage’s TPT550.

Like all of the other Vantage templates, the TPT550 designs are beautifully laid out and waiting to be customized for your application. Our tried and true page layouts greatly cut down on implementation time, and we’re sure you’ll see why.

Stay tuned because our Vantage conquest has only just begun! We’ve got big plans to bring incredible new graphics to this awesome hardware platform.

Guifx, today announced a new license agreement with Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI). Guifx will now be providing a customized version of their touch-panel remote template, “Curacao,” for RTI’s soon to be released T3-V remote. The new template is designed for Integration Designer Software with easy editing in mind.

Additionally, RTI has licensed Guifx’s new Nexgen Icon Set to integrate gaming system icons into their touch-panel design software. This new agreement brings an incredible value to RTI integrators. Both the Nexgen and Aero Icon Sets will now be available to RTI’s user base as a free download from the Guifx website.

“The relationship with RTI has been beneficial for both sides,” says Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx. “Since our last licensing agreement we’ve distributed our products to a huge number of RTI users, and the graphics have been well received by both the touch-panel designers and their customers. If this new agreement shows anything, its that RTI is fully committed to bringing the best graphics to their integrator base.”

We promised more Vantage, and today we deliver! Just a week ago we eagerly announced the availability of new Template and Graphic Set products for the Vantage Controls hardware line-up. We add to that today with the release of both Adaptation and Meta for Vantage’s TPT1210.

The TPT1210 is an awesome touch-panel and a brilliant showcase for the Adaptation and Meta graphics. We really took advantage of the generous amount of space the TPT1210 has to offer. Both template’s graphics appear beautifully bright and in superior quality. We’re confident you’ll want to reach out and… well, touch them.

As always, our new templates for the TPT1210 have all the pages you would expect. Common controls like DVR, DVD, Pool, Climate and Lighting controls, are all available and laid out sensibly. View the entire set of available template pages for Meta and Adaptation.

There’s no doubt you’ve seen our catalog, check out our designs and let us know in the comments what you want to see available on Vantage hardware next.

Guifx, designers of high-definition, user-friendly, graphical user interfaces, today announced immediate availability of products for Vantage/Legrand, manufacturers of intelligent, touch panel control systems for luxury residential electronic systems. Guifx’s Graphic Set and Template products are available for select Vantage/Legrand hardware today, with the entire line of full color touch panels soon to follow.

Vantage dealers can edit Guifx templates for their projects in the InFusionTM Design Center. Downloads will install directly into the program and appear as themes within the drop down menu in the Touch Panel Designer program. The first two styles available are called Meta and Adaptation, with additional templates to follow. They can be downloaded individually for manual build-up, or dealers can purchase the complete package of prebuilt, professionally laid out designs.

“The partnership with Guifx will take our touch panel designs to the next level,” says Andrew Wale, Marketing Vice President for Vantage/Legrand. “These templates not only cut down on programming time to increase productivity, but also bring a new level of usability to our clients.”
Guifx is the largest provider of professionally designed touch panel graphics in the world, and launched the first commercially available touch panel template in 2002. They specialize in the design of the interactive and aesthetic qualities of the touch screens incorporated into many whole house installations, streamlining and integrating complicated systems into one user friendly network. Guifx also offers templates compatible with Crestron, AMX, and RTI products.

Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx adds, “It is always exciting for us to bring our products to a new manufacturer. We’re happy to have the opportunity to expand our product line and make it accessible to all the professionals at Vantage/Legrand.”

Our newest Graphic Set titled “Hyperglass” will bring the future to your touchpanel. And the future is BRIGHT with the hi-impact, 3-dimensional style of Hyperglass. Partially transparent, fully amazing, Hyperglass looks great on top of almost any color or background image.

Hyperglass can be easily customized. Use the Photoshop version of Hyperglass to modify the buttons to any color you wish. We’ve included special adjustment layers to allow easy 1-step color adjustments for both the button and surrounding chrome area on the cursor independently. Check out the video on the Hyperglass product page to see exactly how it’s done.

For more information on Hyperglass or to purchase Hyperglass, go here. For more information on Guifx Graphic Sets, read this entry.

Note from the designer: This is my first entry in our blog. It’s a pretty big deal for me. I designed Hyperglass and I’m really proud of it. I sincerely hope you like it too. As a designer you really never know how your work will be received. Well, I put it out there for you and if you’re so inclined, I (and I’m sure quite a few others here at Guifx) would love to hear what you think. For better or worse.

We’ve updated the Aero Icon Set this morning with several brilliant new icons we had common requests for. Aero now sports a total of 185 icons of superior resolution and quality for use on your touch-panel designs.

If you purchased Aero in the past today’s update is totally free. Access your Orders & Downloads through the My Account section in our store and download the update. Today’s Aero update is also free to users of RTI’s Integration Designer software. Thanks to our licensing agreement with RTI, eligible customers can download the update immediately.

Thanks to you, Aero has been a huge success since its launch. This update is proof that your requests for new icons do not go unnoticed! Drop us a message in the comments about what icons you would like to see added in the future.

Early this morning, we updated our store front to announce the forthcoming release of new graphic products for Vantage Controls.

On May 1st, we will begin to roll out new Template and Graphic Set products for use with Vantage Controls’ InFusion Design Center software. Vantage templates deliver the seamless user experience you’ve come to expect from Guifx. Visit the official announcement page for the full details and a small teaser.

Vantage and Guifx will be working closely together to bring the best possible user experience to our customers. Expect much more from both camps as we get closer to May 1st.

This morning, we released 3 products in an all new category called Background Sets. Guifx Background Sets, are a collection of hi-res images that were meticulously chosen to kick your ordinary looking touch-panel designs into a whole new dimension.

Our new Background Set products are named Celestial, Digital, and Natural. Check them all out – we’re confident you’ll be as excited as we are to bring them to you.

Each Background Set contains 8 images of impeccable quality. Our images are served in the highly compatible JPEG format, at a whopping 1550×1120 pixels. We went out of our way to bring you images with a wide variety of colors and truck-loads of contrast. Our goal with Background Sets is to make your touch-panels POP!

Like all other Guifx products, Background Set purchases are subject to free updates whenever the product is revised. So what are you waiting for? Check them out now.

Have an idea for a background set you’d like to see? Drop us a line in the comments and let your voice ring out!

We are always updating our software to meet the needs of our beloved touch panel designers. Today we’d like to introduce you to our latest software endeavor, CoPilot.

CoPilot is a software suite that encompasses all the touch-panel design solutions we’ve pioneered and improved on since 2002. Inside CoPilot you’ll find new versions of the tools you’ve grown familiar with and more.

Logo Tools version 2.0 boasts several user interface improvements. As always, it is the preferred tool to dynamically transform any collection of logos into beautifully styled interface buttons.

Koloroo is now baked right into CoPilot. Interactively browse over 100 million color schemes using our award winning Color Brain Technology.

Image Resizer (formerly Icon Tools), has been improved to quickly batch resize, or thumbnail, any collection of images to a size appropriate for any project. The output image size can be previewed in real-time using either fixed width or percentage inputs.

Background Maker is a completely new product that can be used to quickly crop and resize any digital image to the correct size required to be the background image on a touch panel. An interactive masking area and built-in presets of standard touch-panel resolutions help eliminate what could take hours of trial and error in expensive, more complex image editing software.

One of the best features of CoPilot is automatic updates. We’ve eliminated the need to manually check for software and Network Logo updates. Every time you load CoPilot it’ll check that you’re running the latest version and update itself. Simple, eh?

For more details including software descriptions and video tutorials, check out CoPilot here.

Guifx and RTI are at it again. If you weren’t already aware, our Aero Icon Set was licensed by RTI for their Integration Designer software. The only problem has been that Aero gets updated on a different schedule than Integration Designer releases. Solution? We’re making free updates available immediately right here on our web site with a downloadable patch.

The free Aero RTI Bitmap Library overwrites the version included with Integration Designer titled Universal Source Icons 2. It currently includes many additional icons and even more updates are around the corner.

The update requires that Integration Designer is currently installed and includes icons in the standard 72×72, 112×112, and 152×152 pixel resolutions.

NOTE: The RTI Bitmap Library version of Aero works exclusively with RTI’s Integration Designer software.