Nemetschek Vectorworks 2009 review
Vectorworks has evolved over the years from a lean and mean drafting application to a very powerful high-end CAD application with many more features.
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Digital Anarchy 3D Invigorator for Photoshop review
3D Invigorator for Photoshop enables you to quickly create a mix of 3D text and vector shapes, set-up lighting and apply materials to surfaces – and render with impressive results.
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Story Planner Pro 3.1 review
Story Planner Pro can depict the action for a animation or video sequence in a series of panels, each with a sketch area and room for scene info, dialogue, notes and music or effects.
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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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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 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.
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Adobe Illustrator CS4 review
The latest version of Illustrator adds a feature that users have wanted for years: multiple artboards. This isn’t the only trick up Adobe’s sleeve, but in many ways it’s the most profound.
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Media Composer 3.0 review
As part of Avid’s new strategy, the latest version of Media Composer arrives at around half the price of its predecessor, and includes a whole lot more in the box, too.
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Adobe Director 11 review
Director has been notable by its absence in the successive Master Collections, so it’s refreshing to see this old stalwart of the multimedia-authoring brigade decked out in Adobe’s new livery.
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Konica Minolta Magicolor 8650DN review
The Magicolor 8650 is an A3 colour laser printer with exceptionally high-grade output that would make an ideal proofer for many design studios.
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Microsoft Expression Design 2 review
Expression Design 2 is Microsoft’s vector graphics tool for creating components for the WPF workflow. Design 2 scores over its predecessor in a number of ways.
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EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: QuarkXPress 8
Can QuarkXPress 8, the latest incarnation of the former world DTP champion, land a sucker punch against InDesign and see Quark retake some of its former DTP ground?
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Phantasm CS Designer/Studio review
Phantasm CS adds Photoshop-style adjustment tools and functionality to Illustrator’s, including standard gradients, meshes, filters and effects.
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CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4 review
The Graphics Suite X4 bundle combines vector artwork design, page layout and image editing in a single package that costs around a third of Adobe’s equivalent package.
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Autodesk Combustion 2008 review
Combustion has been idling in the Autodesk back room, but is now back for 2008, with some workflow improvements and the addition of the Colour Warper tool
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SymmetryShop 2 review
SymmetryShop is a niche tools and seems pricey – but if you regularly create patterns for textiles or fashion, it can make a huge difference to your work.
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Microsoft Expression Design review
Expression Design is a vector graphics creation tool, suited to producing content for Microsoft’s Web tools Expression Blend and Silverlight.
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Sony Vegas Pro 8 review
Vegas 8 doesn’t look that different to the previous iteration when first loaded, but Sony has been doing some major renovation under the hood.
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Toon Boom Studio 4.0 review
Toon Boom Studio offers many advanced features for animation, particularly among the vector-drawing tools used to create the scenes.
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Boris Blue 2.0 review
Boris Blue is aimed at artists creating high-end motion graphics. It has strong competition but Blue has a few unique tricks that are of great interest.