ToonIt review
There are many filters that claim to turn real-world footage into cartoons. – but every one we’ve seen has been rubbish. ToonIt isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ve seen so far.
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Electric Rain Swift 3D 5 review
Swift 3D is a tool for creating 3D interactive Flash material for the Web and mobile devices, rendering 3D objects as vector files.
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Vision 1.0 review
Vision is a suite of tools for the creation of high-end motion graphics, aiming at artists with complex projects or who want to automate graphics creation.
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After Effects CS3 review
After Effects is the most popular of Adobe’s video tools, as its reach extends to motion-graphics artists, VFX professionals and 2D animators – and from simple Web cartoons to Hollywood blockbusters.
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Final Cut Studio 2 review
Once the underdog to video-editing applications from the likes of Adobe and Avid, Apple’s Final Cut Pro has since become the industry standard for desktop cut-&-correct work.
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Illustrator CS3 review
In the absence of an updated FreeHand, CS3 consolidates Illustrator’s lead of the vector pack. Live Color is definitely the standout tool and serves to push Illustrator ahead of cheaper alternatives.
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Photoshop CS3 review
Photoshop is the tool that unifies Digital Arts readers. Whether you work in graphic design and illustration, VFX, and 3D animation – for print, broadcast, disc, or Web – chances are you spend a significant amount of time using Photoshop.
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Xara Xtreme Pro 3.0 review
Xara Extreme Pro’s toolset pitches the software at multi-tasking creatives. It’s primarily a vector-based graphics application, though it does include a photo editor, bitmap support, and conversion tools.
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Boris Red 4 review
While we now take integration between video-editing programs and compositing tools for granted, Boris Red pioneered this by running as a plug-in for most of the major NLEs.
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SymmetryShop review
A Photoshop plug-in that creates complex repeating patterns, Artlandia’s SymmetryShop can be used for creating commercial wallpapers to seamless textures.
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Boris Blue 1.0 review
Following on from the first real-time 2D motion graphics application, Apple Motion, Boris FX has released the first truly-professional real-time 3D compositor, Boris Blue.
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CorelDraw X3 Graphics Suite review
Now in its thirteenth incarnation, Corel Graphics Suite seems confident enough to take on Adobe’s Creative Suite 2, armed with a stack of new functions and an attractive price. Its features are strong, but there’s obviously a desire not to tempt fate – the company decided against naming it CorelDraw 13.
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After Effects 7.0 review
Adobe hasn’t taken its foot off the pedal for AE’s seventh major release. High-end users working on digital intermediate (DI) and digital film projects will love the expanded colour space, with support for HDR 32-bit media.
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Fireworks 8 review
Macromedia’s upgrades to its Studio applications are stuffed full of enhancements, and Fireworks 8 is no exception. There are user-requested improvements, as well as helpful tweaks to creativity and workflow.
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Flash 8 Professional review
With this release, Flash 8 Professional gives Macromedia’s multimedia tool Director a good kicking, and ramps up its video tools. Flash 8’s video tools are based around a new video codec, On2 VP6.
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Ikivo Animator review
Ikivo Animator creates vector animations in SVG Tiny format, taking content that you've created in Photoshop and Illustrator and prepares it for distribution to mobile phones.
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Canvas X review
Since it's launch, Canvas has grown into an integrated vector graphics, image editing and multi-page layout package, though still with the emphasis on CAD import for technical drawings.
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Illustrator CS 2 review
Illustrator has always had a more technical feel to it – but the interface, as well as some of the tools in CS 2, have been improved in a way that makes working with vector images a freer and more creative process.
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Photoshop CS2 review
The new version of Photoshop is the best reason to buy Adobe Creative Suite 2, as it has the pick of the best features among the updated packages. If you’re a photographer, you’re in for a treat, but other digital creatives will find something new here too.
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Combustion 4 review
Combustion has been portrayed in many different ways by Discreet since its inception, but the company has had the most trouble trying to convince the majority of compositors that it’s a better compositing environment than After Effects.