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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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.
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Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 review
Beyond being available for the Mac once more, the last version of Premiere Pro was low on new features – so more than any other CS4 product, it’s due an upgrade.
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Adobe Soundbooth CS4 review
Like its predecessor, Adobe’s audio-editing application Soundbooth CS4 is a compromise. Although it includes more advanced features than the original Soundbooth, it eschews...
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Sony Vaio AW11 review
Unless you’re a contestant on The World’s Strongest Man, it would be hard to accurately describe the Vaio AW11 as a laptop -- as it has an 18.1-inch screen and weighs just under 4kg.
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Nikon Coolpix P6000 review
The 13.5 million-pixel Nikon Coolpix P6000 is pitched unashamedly at the high end, but it’s a market that has been dominated by arch-rival Canon's G9 and forthcoming G10.
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Dell Precision M2400 review
Small and light are often relative terms with laptops aimed at creative pros, but Dell’s new Precision M2400 can be described as both in all seriousness.
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Autodesk Maya 2009 review
Maya celebrates its tenth anniversary with the 2009 release, an event marked by enhancements across the board. Although some of these have popped up in other Autodesk tools before now.
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Autodesk Mudbox 2009 review
The key reason to upgrade to the 2009 version of Autodesk's modelling software is to take advantage of the new texture-painting toolset.
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Adobe Photoshop CS4 review
Adobe runs a predictable product development life cycle – every 18 months or so we can expect to hear about new versions of its primary products. Photoshop CS4 has arrived right on schedule.