Freeway Pro 4 review
Given that the last full version of Freeway was released six years ago, you can’t accuse Softpress of issuing upgrades on a whim. Freeway 4 is certainly a significant upgrade.
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Paint Shop Pro X review
Paint Shop Pro has been around for years, but this is the first major version to be released after its acquisition by Corel. While often seen as a poor man’s Photoshop, there’s enough here to satisfy people who infrequently edit images, such as 3D modellers and animators, and video editors and compositors. At £99, it’s also a lot less expensive.
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Stitcher 5 review
Stitcher 5 is a panorama assembly program that can blend multiple overlapping conventional photographs to produce a seamless ultra-wide image. It can work with anything from just two or three originals to ultra-wide panoramas up to seamless 360 degree views.
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3D Software Object Modeller Pro review
This 2D-to-3D software is an updated and upgraded version of Canon’s Software Object Modeller. It was originally developed in the UK at Canon’s Research Centre.
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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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Dreamweaver 8 review
Part of Macromedia’s Studio suite of Web site building tools, Dreamweaver 8 sees some major breakthroughs in the update to the world-leading Web development product.
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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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Xtivity 1.1 review
Plenty of multimedia-authoring applications these days offer the ability to export your projects to the SWF Flash file format. The difference here lies in the process.
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Hexagon review
Hexagon, the latest release from Eovia, is a dedicated 3D polygon modeller. The company already has a handful of 3D programs in the form of Carrara and Amapi. Eovia offers yet more 3D products on its Web site – you can buy DAZ and Pandromeda products, including MojoWorld and Bryce, at Eovia online.
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GoLive CS 2 review
Web designers already familiar with GoLive’s features will be happy to hear that Adobe has made efforts to improve the functionality and performance of GoLive in its CS 2 version.
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Panoweaver 4.0 review
Shanghai-based EasyPano offers major competition to the iPix when it comes to panorama creation software. The program stitches fisheye lens photographs into seamless spherical panoramas. These are viewed in Web sites or presentations.
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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.
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Acrobat 7.0 Professional review
Despite a low-key launch, the latest version of Adobe Acrobat has some solidly useful new features for creating and editing PDF exchangeable documents for use in professional Web, printing, and publishing cycles.
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Toon Boom Studio 2.5 review
Digitized 2D cell animation is a tricky thing to get right. The toolset required seems similar to those in any other drawing application, but in reality they need to be a lot more specialized. Toon Boom Studio 2.5 offers a decent and robust toolset together with a clearly set-out workflow for 2D animation.
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Instant PDF 3.0 review
Instant PDF 3.0 is intended to ensure that PDF documents will output correctly in a professional production cycle. For print, its core function is to run pre-flight checks for items that cannot be printed (such as RGB colours, too-low resolutions, JavaScripts, and multimedia clips).
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ZBrush 2 review
It has been said that 3D graphics technology is stuck in a rut. It’s practically inconceivable to imagine a 3D program taking some other form. There have been a few minor diversions off the 3D motorway but never has there been one so tangential as ZBrush from Pixologic.
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ScanMaker i700 review
The new Microtek flatbed scanner offers the high resolution and ICE dust-busting of its top i900 model but in a much more compact body that gets rid of the original dual ‘plates’ in favour of a conventional glass bed and illuminated hood.
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Squeeze 4 review
The latest version of Sorenson’s Squeeze Compression Suite takes a slight departure, looks-wise, from its predecessors. Although it retains the simplistic and intuitive workflow the interface is more akin to higher-end video solutions with dark windows sporting orange and white highlights.
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Continuum Complete 3.0 review
Continnum 3.0 is a massive set of video plug-ins. The collection runs with Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, or After Effects, and there’s a Continuum AVX version for Avid Xpress. Over 40 plug-ins have been brought into the mix since version 2.0, which brings the total number of plug-ins to around 150.