Stop Motion Pro 7
Chris Gavin finds lots to like in this fully featured stop-motion animation package.
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Freecom Network Storage Center - 500GB
There’s nothing fancy about Freecom’s new Network Storage Center, but it’s a good option if you just want a low-cost NAS drive that will allow you to share hard disk space with other people on your home or office network.
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LaCie Network Space 2 - 1TB
LaCie’s Network Space 2 is well priced, neatly designed and easy to use.
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Netgear Stora - 1TB
Netgear’s Stora isn’t the most elegant NAS drive, or the cheapest, but it does have some attractive features that will appeal to creatives.
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Western Digital My Book World Edition II - 2TB
The My Book World Edition II is the latest addition to Western Digital’s popular range.
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Apple Aperture 3
A lot has changed in Aperture 3, even down to the toolbar’s icons -- which illustrates how thorough the redesign has been, as there are over 200 new features.
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Premiere Pro CS4 4.1
Should you consider Premiere Pro CS4 in its own right, or as part of the CS4 Production Premium suite?
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Pixelmator 1.5
In a market dominated by Adobe Photoshop, Pixelmator does its best to stand out, with a unique interface and an ever-growing set of impressive features.
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Autodesk Maya 2010
Compared to the raft of new additions in Maya 2009, this version might seem rather light in terms of groundbreaking features in the main package itself.
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Microsoft Expression Studio 3
Expression Studio 3 adds some innovative tools for interactive design to the Microsoft suite's arsenal -- but can it match up to Adobe's Flash?
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Electric Rain Swift 3D v6
Adobe Flash has some basic tools for creating 3D animations and website elements, but Swift 3D takes it to the next level with a whole host of features.
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QuarkXpress 8.1
QuarkXPress 8 was a fairly thorough restructuring of the venerable DTP application. The 8.1 update, is mainly concerned with sorting out the workflow.
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Snap Art 2 Photoshop plug-in
Some photographs would really look better as paintings. But for those who are not artistically inclined with a brush and palette, there's Alien Skin's Snap Art 2.
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Apple Compressor 3.5
Version 3.5 of Apple's media encoding tool Compressor expands its single-task focus into other areas, as well as making it easier to use.
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Apple Color 1.5
With support for Red and other formats at up to 4K and new ProRes flavors, improved workflows, the new Color 1.5 is indeed a bird of a different colour.
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Apple Final Cut Pro 7
While there are a few extremely sexy new features in Final Cut Pro 7, the main focus of this new version seems to be enhancing stability, speed, and productivity.
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Comic Life 1.5
Comic Life isn’t for creating comics so much as assembling them. There are no drawing tools – but there are features for adding comic frames, lettering and styles.
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GridIron Flow
When was the last time you bought a piece of software that changed the way you work? GridIron Flow is a rare example of a groundbreaking technology that fulfils a genuine need within the creative community.
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Adobe Acrobat.com suite
Adobe's Acrobat.com isn't a design tool, but being from the creative app giant and offering office-type tools that most creatives will need for the (boring) business part of their jobs, we knew you'd be interested.
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Adobe Flash Catalyst beta
Flash Catalyst aims to make building a Web application as easy as it is to design one in Illustrator and Photoshop, allowing non-techie designers to take part.