iView Multimedia Pro review
For many digital creatives, asset management software stopped being useful when Photoshop 7 introduced the File Browser. However, there’s much more to this application than mere thumbnail browsing.
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CorelDraw 12 review
The relative success of CorelDraw upgrades is inconsistent to say the least. CorelDraw was already at version 3 before anyone took any notice; version 4 was astonishing; version 8 was a blinder; version 10 was the dog’s bollocks. All the intermediate releases, however, have come across as fillers, as if they were produced by contractual obligation. This is how version 12 feels too.
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Mirage review
Mirage offers the widest and most creative paint-based toolset for compositors and animators available.
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The TAB 2.0 review
The TAB is a curious little animation tool from the maker of Toonz – the previously Softimage-affiliated product that was used in the making of Spirited Away.
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Illustrator CS review
Illustrator CS is an old-fashioned upgrade that just gives you some new graphics and type tools to play with. It’s got eye-candy, in other words.
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Fireworks MX 2004 review
Fireworks hasn’t had the kind of radical reworking that we’ve seen with Flash MX and Flash MX Professional, but this upgrade is certainly no damp ...
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Satellite P20-S203 review
The Satellite P20 is the largest laptop we’ve ever seen, dwarfing even Apple’s 17-inch G4 PowerBook – and at 4.5kg, it’s certainly the heaviest so ...
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SketchUp 3.0 review
SketchUp made quite an impression when it was launched last year, thanks to the impressive ease of use that it brought to 3D. Since then, ...
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Paint Shop Pro 8 review
Paint Shop Pro has grown into what is probably the most versatile photo-editing and general-purpose paint package you can buy on the Windows platform. The ...
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AdvantEdge review
AdvantEdge is a redesigned and rewritten version of Ultimatte’s eponymous keying tool. It runs under a wide range of operating systems (Windows, Mac OS 9 ...
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Freehand MX review
For a number of years, Macromedia has been content with nudging up the feature list a little from one version of FreeHand to the next. ...
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Pixels 3D 4.5 review
A Mac-only high-end 3D program may seem like a strange proposition, but that’s exactly what Pixels 3D is. While the company can’t spend huge amounts ...
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Director MX review
Director has finally joined the MX range of Macromedia products, with a long-awaited upgrade, an overhaul of the user interface, and some key new features. ...
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Designer 10 review
After buying Micrografx at the end of 2001, Corel rushed out a less-than-compelling Designer 9 release – which was little more than a rebranding exercise. ...
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i-Pegs 1.0 review
2D animation tools, unlike their 3D cousins, are rare. One player in this rarefied market is i-Pegs, from French company MediaPegs. i-Pegs is the cut-down ...
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Expression 3 review
Just about every vector illustration package these days features ‘real-media’ art effects, and various stretched and repeated picture brushes. This leaves Expression, originally launched in ...
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SketchUp review
A few years ago, Adobe made a rather half-hearted entry into the 3D market with a program called Dimensions. Rather than being a full 3D ...
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ORIS Page 4.2 review
German developer CGS Publishing Technology International will be an unfamiliar name to many designers, as this is its first Mac product. It’s been around since ...
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Premiere 6.5 review
Premiere 6.5 is a mixed bag. It has some important new features that, on their own, justify the cost of the upgrade. However, there are ...
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CorelDraw Graphics Suite 11 review
After a long period of consistently failing to keep the Windows and Mac versions of CorelDraw Graphics Suite in sync, Corel now looks like it ...