Raw & JPEG 2000 plug-ins review
Adobe’s bundle of two Photoshop plug-ins is aimed at people who need to preserve as much image quality as possible in pictures shot by digital ...
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CanoScan 5000F USB review
Crisp colour scans that accurately represent the originals help lift the CanoScan 5000F USB above many competing models. In our print and on-screen tests, this ...
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LiveChannel Pro 2.0 review
It has a few rough edges, but LiveChannel Pro is a superb piece of software. The program currently only runs on Mac OS X, but ...
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W2200 review
Canon announced this A3+ format inkjet printer last October, but it has only just started shipping. It's a high-quality model at a premium price, intended ...
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Mystical Lighting review
Tweaking lighting and shading in a photo is a common enough task in Photoshop. But more extreme editing – such as adding rays of light ...
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DVX100 review
When the DVX100 was announced in April 2002, it was heralded as the greatest leap forward since Canon’s XL1. Launched under the banner of DV ...
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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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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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ImageModeler 3.5 review
ImageModeler 3.5 extracts 3D information from multiple photographs of the same object, and creates accurate 3D polygon mesh models with a photorealistic texture. These can ...
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Camedia 5050 Zoom review
Olympus has been using the same basic form for its high-end compact digital cameras since the 2.1mp C2000Z of 1999. The C5050Z represents a major ...
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Sigma SD9 review
Capturing razor-sharp and colour-accurate photos can be a challenge, even with today’s multimillion-pixel digital cameras. But Foveon, an image-sensor company, promises to change all that with ...
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MojoWorld 2.0 review
Pandromeda's MojoWorld is a virtual planet/terrain generator developed largely by Dr Kenton Musgrave, whose involvement in fractal-geometry landscape generation goes back to pioneering work he ...
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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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FinePix F401 Zoom review
The FinePix F401 Zoom combines all the features you’d expect from FujiFilm and, after putting it through its paces, we can safely say that this ...
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Cinema 4D 8 review
The idea behind the latest release of Cinema 4D is that its pricing should grow to reflect the user’s needs, providing a basic package to ...
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onViz review
onViz is intended to create interactive multimedia applications with online connectivity and QuickTime multimedia support. Although this is a Mac-only product, you can create self-contained ...
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ImageZoom 2.0 Professional review
ImageZoom 2.0 from Swedish developer Scalado is a Java or Flash Web-site image-authoring system that can quickly set up a ‘slideshow’ sequence of linked images ...
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Softimage|XSI 3.0 review
The Softimage name is legendary in 3D. It’s been around since the beginning, and has been popular among film-effects studios for years. Now with prices ...
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ChromaFlex review
The Chromatte system from Reflecmedia is designed to make it easier for everyone to own their own chroma-keying facility – and the company has just ...
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LiveStage Pro 4.0 review
LiveStage Professional (LSP) is a media-integration tool for adding polish to content prepared in other packages. Users may want to customize movie presentations by adding ...