Acumen Xeon Dual 3.06GHz review
The Acumen range includes two base designs: the Acumen Xeon 3.06GHz and the Acumen Dual Xeon 3.06GHz. We looked at the latter, higher-end system, which ...
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Mystical Tint Tone and Color review
While many third-party plug-ins for Photoshop tend to be wacky or specialist, here’s one that just about everyone who works on digital photos will find ...
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QuarkXPress 6.0 review
First, the good news. Using QuarkXPress 6.0 is like pulling on a favourite sweater, or slipping into a pair of comfy shoes. Everything about it ...
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EOS-1Ds review
Canon announced the EOS-1Ds digital SLR (D-SLR) camera last September, but it only reached the UK recently. It’s remarkable on two counts. First, it has ...
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Acrobat 6.0 Professional review
When Adobe introduced Acrobat 5.0 in 2001, it was aimed at persuading the MS Office-dominated corporate market to start using Acrobat PDFs for device- and ...
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Painter 8 review
It’s fair to say that when it comes to natural-media-style artwork in the digital realm, Painter has it sewn-up. There never has been a 2D ...
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EOS-10D review
We’re used to short product lifetimes in computers, but high-end digital cameras usually hang around for a while. So when Canon replaced its EOS D60 ...
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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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Edition 5 review
Edition 5 is different. In an arena of increasingly homogenized video-editing tools, it’s great that someone is walking an entirely different path to its competition ...
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Colour Confidence Print Profiler review
Colour Confidence Print Profiler is a keenly priced bundle that creates profiles to compensate for your printer’s colour characteristics – so you have a better ...
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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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Colour Reference System review
This is the best monitor I’ve ever used. Period. Sony is pitching the 21-inch GDM-C520K (part of the Colour Reference System (CRS) system) display directly ...
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Mask Pro 3 review
No-one enjoys having to mask images. It’s time-consuming, tricky, frustrating, and sometimes – after an hour of work – you find that it just doesn’t ...
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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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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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Electron22blue IV review
Those who are serious about colour reproduction for print nearly always look to LaCie for their display needs. Granted, there are better solutions out there, ...
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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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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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DVStorm2 review
It’s been handbags at dawn between Canopus and Matrox over the last six months. The DVStorm2 was announced in September 2002, shortly after Matrox had ...
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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 ...