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 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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Edius 5 review
Edius aims to be the plucky little video editor that could. Going up against three major competitors, Edius 5 aims to outperform its rivals and offer a faster and more flexible workflow.
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Daz 3D Bridge for Photoshop review
3D Bridge for Photoshop is designed to provide a smooth workflow between true 3D work in Daz Studio and layered 2D art in Photoshop.
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Xara Xtreme Pro 4.0 review
Xara Xtreme is a fast alternative to the likes of CorelDraw. With version 4.0, it has made the leap to Windows Vista. It further improves on the previous version by expanding its photo compositing, DTP and Web offerings, and adding more live effects.
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Microsoft Expression Blend 2 review
Microsoft’s Blend is the heart of Expression Studio, the company’s suite of tools that allow designers to create rich Internet applications and user interfaces with Microsoft.NET technologies.
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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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FxFactory Pro 2 review
FxFactory Pro 2 is a collection of filters, generators and transitions for Apple’s Final Cut Pro, Motion and Final Cut Express, offering 122 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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Wacom Cintiq12WX review
The new Cintiq 12WX is a smaller, less expensive version of the Cintiq 21UX. The 21UX has a 24-bit, 1,600-x-1,200 pixels screen and an impressive 21.3-inch drawing area.
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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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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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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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SketchUp Pro 6 review
Though available in a free version for illustrators and artists, most 3D artists will prefer the £315 Pro version of 3D sketching tool SketchUp, primarily...
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StoryBoard Artist 4 review
Storyboard Artist is aimed at creatives who wants to map out motion media from short animations to feature films. It has lots to offer but suffers from a messy interface.
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Painter X review
Painter’s top new features as touted by Corel are RealBristle painting and Divine Proportion - though there's much here that should appeal to illustrators and artists.
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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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Antics 2 review
A previsualization tool for the film and TV industries, Antics 2’s workflow places a new focus on the timeline, and boasts a vastly improved user interface.
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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.