Lightroom pulls further ahead of Aperture

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The past couple of years at this time (see entries for 2007, 2008), independent research company InfoTrends has surveyed professional photographers* about their choices of raw image-processing tools. It’s interesting to check in on how the competition between Adobe Photoshop Lightroom & Apple Aperture is going.

Among photographic pros […]

Camtasia for Mac Review – Macworld

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Despite the rough edges, Camtasia for Mac is a very promising first release. The editing interface is very well thought out, and the addition of built-in objects, transitions, and actions makes it simple to create nice looking productions. If your needs are relatively simple, and you’d like an easy-to-use application, Camtasia is […]

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Poser 8 On Sale For $119!

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Drawtweet for your Wacom Bamboo

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Sometimes it is difficult to express thoughts and ideas in just 140 characters. With the new Bamboo Mini Drawtweet, users can make a quick doodle or sketch and share it through the social networking and micro-blogging site Twitter.

Drawtweet provides easy and simple drawing features to master the Bamboo digital pen. […]

Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2010 Student Now Shipping!

Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation 2010 Student Now Shipping!

The world of 3D is changing every day. Prepare your students with the new Autodesk Education Suite for Entertainment Creation, featuring flexible learning resources and tools used by top creative professionals. With special pricing for educators, it’s easy to get started with 3D.

Includes full […]

Coloring with Adobe Kuler

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Kuler is a Web-based application that allows users to browse, create, and share color themes through the Kuler Web site, the Kuler desktop application (direct download link; requires Adobe AIR), or a Kuler widget for Mac OS X’s Dashboard (available for download from the Links page on the Kuler site). Of […]

Pretty Space Pictures with the free Photoshop FITS plug-in

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Once the images are on the ground, scientists can look at them in the FITS (“Flexible Image Transport System”) file format, a standard protocol used among astronomers. For analysis, most scientists use the data in this form—as grey-scale images representing light at different wavelengths.

To create an image suitable for public […]

How to Use Adobe Acrobat for Online Document Reviews

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Online document reviews have become a part of life for web workers creating technical documentation because they because are more economical and faster than having to fax, scan, or ship review documents around by FedEx. PDFs offer a bandwidth-friendly format for sending large documents back and forth amongst a geographically […]

Creating 3-D Characters and Images in Pixologic’s ZBrush

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I’ve always perceived 3-D graphics and animation as the art form most difficult to learn and create. Past experiences dabbling with such programs rarely lasted more than a few minutes—I would open the program, feel intimidated, and quickly close it down.

This perception has been changed by ZBrush.

The software, […]