Nik Silver Efex Pro Mini Review – TWIP

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Nik Software is working hard to create a string of plug-ins for Aperture and Photoshop. Their stable has grown again to include their newest product, Silver Efex Pro. This plug-in will give you complete control over black and white images in a way that neither Aperture or Photoshop can.

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2: First Look

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.0 freed photographers to work in RAW without laboring in Photoshop, but its major drawback was that it limited you to global fixes. Not anymore. The biggest improvement in Lightroom 2 ($299/$99 as an upgrade from 1) is the local adjustment brush for working on one area of your […]

Avid Media Composer 3.0 Mac – First Look

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I start putting 3.0 through it’s paces and at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, it is ROCKING. No latency, no glitchiness, (my word, Colbert) picture quality is noticeably and substantially better and the playhead is slicing through multi-layer, real-time effects and title comps like “butta”. I’ve got reels with 20 audio tracks, […]

Luxology Modo 302 Review

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I think I just found my new favorite 3D application. I’ve been a long-time user of 3ds max, Lightwave and several other 3D tools, and I will have to say that modo 302 blows them all out of the water (literally).

Modo 302, is easy to use, very intuitive and the […]

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended Review

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With its incorporation of Flash-based media handling and new integration with Acrobat.com, the Acrobat platform fully embraces the internet age – at last.

Adobe Acrobat made its public debut back in 1991 and the PDF (Portable Document Format) it introduced was intended to become the universal format for design-rich, cross-platform electronic […]

Nik Software Viveza Review

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One of the most challenging aspects of digital imaging is making corrections to specific parts of the photo. It could be a color saturation issue, or maybe the tone is off on a particular area of the shot. In Photoshop, this means making a mask and doing your correction work. Depending on […]

iClone 2.5 Studio Review

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You’re not Pixar , and you won’t be any time soon. If, however, you’re curious about creating your own 3D animations, from simple seconds-long clips to full blown machinima films, iClone 2.5 is definitely worth looking into.

iClone, from Reallusion is designed with one main purpose in mind: to make it easy […]

Wacom Intuos3 Review

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In the end, its hard not to recommend the Intuos3 6×11 tablet for photographers, designers, or artists. Like most Wacom products that have preceded it, the Intuos3 is exceptionally well-made and easy to use. The 6×11 size is arguably “perfect” for most users because it provides an ample active area and an […]

Toast 9 Titanium – Creative Mac Review

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At the end of the day, you really can’t go wrong with Toast 9 Titanium. Toast itself is a great DVD burning package that gives you an exceptional amount of options for any and all of your burning needs, and the addition of all the extra programs makes this a $79 […]

CorelDraw Graphic Suite X4 Review

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I have always found Corel Draw to be invaluable as a drawing program and for almost all my desktop publishing needs; in fact, I used it more for DTP than drawing. I did however, while searching for a more affordable alternative, switch to another product and therefore did not upgrade past […]