Convergence is a way of life in electronic gadgets. For example, still and video cameras have merged in the past 5 years. Another example, video cameras at the high-end may provide the next step up with 4000K movie images to draw upon for stills. But the real movement on the gadget highway has been from PDA […]
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My father used to say “know when you have been beaten to the punch”- and DPReview with Amadou Diallo’s update on Adobe’s Lightroom 4 has certainly done that. Note this is an update review so users are expected to be familiar with Lightroom 2 or 3 and the program’s role as a single image, non-destructive
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Photoscape keeps moving up the rankings as a photo editor the more often it gets used. Now let this reviewer admit, Photoscape initially took a big dive in estimation when no masking and no layering capabilities were to be found. In contrast Art Weaver, another free photo editor, provides both layering and selections/masks plus a
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GIF Animations have become ever more popular now that Flash animations are verboten on Apple hardware. Another reason is that many GIF animations have a “silent movies” fashionable styling . Finally in a sea of images, a few moving ones catch the eye. So the other day I was tearing through my backup disks looking
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Back in 2008 this blog identified Picnik as one of the best online image editing sites in the business. Two years later in 2010 we were no less enthusiastic about Picnik after Google bought the software and added it to Picasa. And ye Editor is not alone as other recent reviews put Picnik well above
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The Blur Gallery appears to be incomplete in the first beta of Photoshop 6. And I sincerely hope so and shall show you why here. You can find the Blur Gallery under the Filter Menu – choose anyone of Field Blur, Iris Blur or Tilt-Shift Blur – and then screen above will appear. The sidebar
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Most photo editors have good brush capabilities. Adobe Photoshop takes it to a new level and allows users to customize their brushes much like Photoshop Styles – to a surprising extent. But the best painting tool on the market has been Corel Painter with its huge set of brushes, their amazing set of properties, their
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Google is selling SketchUp Pro for $495 – Why? The program, SketchUp Pro is not strange – its a architecture and landscape design program which appears to have not only a nice range of features but also integrates well with AutoDesk DWG and other CAD files. No the novelty here is that Google is doing
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