Filter Forge review
Filter Forge is – by quite a margin – the most powerful plug-in we’ve looked at here. That’s because it’s a tool for creating plug-ins, both generative texture-creation tools and effects filters.
Reviews
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OnOne Genuine Fractals 6 review
Genuine Fractals 6 is available in two versions. Both feature the same scaling engine, but the Standard Edition supports RGB images only.
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Luxology ImageSynth 2 review
ImageSynth 2 generates seamless textures from lower-resolution images, ao it allows the user take one or more small images of grass and ferns and turn it into a much larger texture.
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Auto FX Photo/Graphic Edges 7.0 Platinum Edition review
The clumsily named Photo/Graphic Edges 7.0 Platinum Edition (PGE 7.0) – is a powerful but heavily flawed plug-in for adding borders and frames to images.
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Imagenomic Portraiture 2 review
Portraiture is a plug-in that automates skin smoothing and blemish removal – and it’s one that most digital artists will want to get their hands on.
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Nik Silver Efex Pro review
Silver Efex Pro efficiently produces great black-and-white effects that are fiddly to create in Photoshop alone. It ships with a set of presets to use as a starting point.
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Akvis Sketch 8.5 review
Akvis’ Sketch is the only plug-in we’ve seen that produces decent pencil drawing from images, though it’s let down by a wonky workflow and some bad bugs.
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Digital Anarchy ToonIt Photo review
ToonIt Photo replicates a hand-drawn style well that almost all plug-ins do very badly indeed: comics – covering techniques from outlined to full graphic novel-style art.
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Topaz Adjust review
Topaz Adjust offers a quick way to make images more dynamic, by manipulating their exposure, contrast and saturation using its swift workflow and more complete preset system.
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Imagine WS114 review
Our review model of CAD2’s Imagine WS114 workstation sees the debut of nVidia’s Quadro FX 4800 graphics card, which boasts a whopping 1.5GB of graphics RAM.
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Manga Studio 4 review
Manga Studio 4 is the best drawing software for professional comic artists, and offers illustrators some top notch tools for creating character-driven artwork.
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Panasonic Lumix G1 review
The G1 swaps the reflex mirror and optical viewfinder of a true digital SLR for full-time live view using an electronic finder, yet crucially retains the Four-Thirds size sensor.
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E-on Software Vue 7 Infinite/xStream review
The latest version of Vue doesn’t add any new types of elements to its collection of tools – so its new features are largely refinements and enhancements.
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iClone Pro 3 review
For the release of iClone 3, Reallusion has added a Pro version to the home user-focused 3D tool for quickly putting together 3D scenes for pre-visualization.
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Adobe Fireworks CS4 review
For years something of a poor man’s Photoshop aimed at web designers, Fireworks finally came of age 18 months ago. With Fireworks CS4, Adobe has taken things further.
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Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 review
Dreamweaver has become associated with website creation in the same way that Photoshop is identified with image editing. However, despite some tantalizing treats, there are few reasons to upgrade.
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Toon Boom Animate review
In terms of both features and price, the new Animate sits between Toon Boom Studio and the more expensive Toon Boom Digital Pro. There are some anomalies, however.
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Adobe Flash CS4 review
There are some things in life that you look forward to with trepidation, and if you’re a regular Flash user, the CS4 version is certainly one of those.
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Apple LED Cinema Display review
Apple's stylish LED Cinema Display looks like a great monitor for professional print, Web, video and animation creatives, but it's just not up to the job.
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Adobe InDesign CS4 review
Current InDesign users will want the CS4 version for Smart Guides and Live Preflighting; other new additions make it worth the upgrade price, too.