Review: CINEMA 4D R11, Part 1: The Core from MAXON

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CINEMA 4D R11 – Part 1: The Core is the first of a multi-part series covering MAXON’s new CINEMA 4D Release 11’s offerings. Because this product has so many items available for the user, that I could not do it justice in a single write-up, and so I will break […]

5 Cool New Features in Photoshop CS4

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In Photoshop CS4, Adobe isn’t a huge leap forward, but there’s enough to warrant some eye-openers. Here are five cool features Photoshop CS4 has to offer.

5. The New Adjustments Panel

4. Finally… Tabbing!

3. 3D editing made easy

2. Playing Around with Depth of Field

1. Context-sensitive Scaling

Photoshop CS4 […]

Wacom for Digital Art at Whistling Woods International

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The faculty in the first term uses Cintiq 21UX (an interactive pen display) for teaching process. When students want to learn and get attention, it is really tough to teach them art while standing around faculties and observing the process. With Cintiq 21UX, connected to the projector, they can sit in […]

Resistance 2 artists use ZBrush and Maya

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“This was such a huge item,” explains Sharit. “What we basically started with was the rough models. We’d seen some black and white forms, some silhouettes of the creatures. These were really very rough models, set up on a very rough rig. This was passed onto animation to get an idea […]

Mindjet Player Offers Portable Visual Collaboration Maps

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What’s interesting about MindManager is that its maps are not static. The visual diagram includes actionable data, live hyperlinks, along with collaboration tools such as word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and e-mail. The idea is to keep users within MindManager so they don’t have to leave to access other services.

For example, MindManager […]

4 Quick Ways to Boost Lightroom 2 Performance

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Given some comments I’ve read with in my Lightroom 2 review “Adobe Lightroom 2.0 – First Impressions That Impress” and across the web I thought it would be a good idea to share some Lightroom 2 optimization tips I’ve recently found. Hopefully this information and the respective web sites this information […]

Vue 7 Infinite and Vue 7 xStream Now Shipping!

What’s New in Vue 7 xStream and Vue 7 Infinite?

With over 100 new features and technology enhancements, the new features of Vue 7 would be too long to list here! (Plus, we wouldn’t want to spoil you the read

Just to give a taste of what’s in the box, here are […]

Review: ScreenFlow

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The coolest thing about ScreenFlow is it lets you record your screen, and combine it with your Mac’s built-in iSight camera and microphone. Your screen capture is placed on one layer, and your iChat window is placed in another layer.

So you get a picture-in-picture effect, where viewers can see […]

Maya Unlimited 2009, 3ds Max 2009, ACID Pro 7, and More!

Maya Unlimited 2009, 3ds Max 2009, ACID Pro 7, and More!

Google Reaches Scanning Milestone With Adobe’s PDF

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Google late yesterday revealed that it has successfully implemented OCR (optical character recognition) technology to scan and convert a picture in a document created by Adobe’s PDF format into words. This renders these files searchable via the Web.

Google Product Manager Evin Levey noted in a blog post that prior […]