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With the DVC-30, Panasonic has done a good job of cramming the DVX100’s main features into a smaller case – and adding a few of its own. However, it hasn’t achieved scaling the body size down to that of a consumer-camcorder – a feat achieved by ...
TourWeaver, from Shanghai-based EasyPano, lets you link several immersive spherical images via hotspots to form a guided tour – for instance you could create a tour of your house with hotspots on the doors to take you to the next room. You can link to still images, movies, sound files, and to URLs ...
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.
Minds-Eye-View's Click Away is a utility program for stitching together two circular still images taken back-to-back using a 180+ degree fisheye lens, to produce a seamless fully spherical image. This immersive viewing is useful for things like interactive Web site tours of houses, museums, tourist attractions, and car interiors.
Too good to be true? Sadly, yes. It’s a reasonably good print scanner, but its film-reading abilities aren’t a patch on a dedicated 35mm or medium format scanner. While the resolution is enough for enlarging 35mm film frames up to A3 size and beyond, there’s more to image quality than resolution.
Occasionally an upgrade ditches the ‘ooh’, ‘aah’ new features for an expansive list of seemingly minor updates that combine to leave a wide smile on your face. One such release is Video Toaster 3, the latest version of NewTek’s live production system that the company now calls VT[3], but which UK reseller Onevideo calls Video Toaster 3.
PitStop Professional is a surprisingly versatile utility that helps the accurate professional printing of PDF documents. It's a combination of manual-editing tools with a comprehensive preflight checker, automatic fixing abilities, and Enfocus’ Certified PDF Technology for embedding file history and restoration metadata.
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.
If there’s a weak link in Adobe’s plans for world domination, it’s probably GoLive.
Despite Adobe’s decision to drop version numbers and call everything CS, the splash screen reveals what we all knew anyway: this is InDesign 3.0.
Many 3D packages are like religions, and less-entrenched tools, such as Carrara Studio, have to work much harder to woo serious 3D designers.
One of the most enticing new features in Combustion 3 is the built-in editing capability. The Edit tool exists as an operator (as Combustion calls its effects nodes) and creating edits is easy). However, as an NLE, the Edit operator offers less functionality than iMovie.
We’ve all been there. There’s an image that you absolutely, positively must use in a Quark document, but the client’s sent you a 300-pixel-wide Web ...
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 ...
When Macromedia merged with Allaire, it looked as though Allaire’s server technologies might dominate the Macromedia product line. Dreamweaver in particular seemed to be concentrating ...
"This is Flash as you know and love it, taken to the next level.” That’s part of the marketing blurb accompanying the launch of Flash ...
Anark Studio 2 uses layers, inspector palettes, scenes, and timelines that will be familiar to anyone used to Director or Flash. Veteran users will notice that ...
MatchLight Digital Photography Toolkit 3.0 is a specialist system that helps photographers to match lighting conditions when compositing two images together. For instance, you may want ...
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 ...
For graphics artists fattened on a diet of Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia FreeHand, the lure of ACD Systems’ Canvas has most likely passed you by ...
