Photoshop CC 2014 review
Photoshop CC 2014's new tools are largely focussed on the practical rather than the creative, but it's still an impressive upgrade.
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AMD FirePro W8100 vs Nvidia Quadro K5000 review
AMD W8100 or Nvidia K5000, which is is the best pro graphics card? We test and benchmark them both to find out.
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Promise Pegasus2 review: the world's first Thunderbolt 2 RAID storage
The Pegasus2 from Promise is the first Thunderbolt 2 peripheral to make its way into our test lab. The different versions offer between four and eight drives, up to 32TB of storage and cost from £1,040.
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Hexels 1.2 review: free software for creating a unique style of artwork
Hexels is a simple app for Mac and Windows for creating pixel art out of hexagons – and is a great fun way to produce something very different.
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SmithMicro Poser 10 & Poser Pro 2014 review
The character design, posing and rendering application gets new features including Bullet Physics, subdivision surfaces and a real-time Comic Book Preview mode.
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Vue Infinite 2014 review
New tools include more accurate real-world lighting, post-render effects and the ability to make its interface work like your favourite 3D suite.
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Wacom Cintiq Companion hands-on review
After our foray into the joys of the Android-based Cintiq Companion Hybrid tablet, we went to try out the Windows 8-driven Cintiq Companion.
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Autodesk Mudbox 2014 review
Mudbox is one of the best digital sculpting and 2D/3D painting solutions on the market today, but it is difficult to recommend the 2014 upgrade.
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Cinema 4D R15 review
CG artist and art director Jean Pichot gives us a (very) in-depth review at the latest version of the popular 3D suite.
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Boston Venom 2401-7T review: the first workstation with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 V2 chips
We check out the most powerful workstation we've ever seen – and the first to feature Intel Ivy Bridge-based Xeon E5 processors.
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Manga Studio 5 EX review
Is this pricey pro edition worth an upgrade from the affordable starter edition of Manga Studio 5, despite only having two additional features?
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The Foundry Mari 2.0 review
If you need to paint highly complex textures at high resolutions, Mari is an expensive but essential app for 3D artists.
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Vue 11.5 Infinite review
The biggest name in 3D landscape creation is updated to allow you to create even more beautiful renderings of nature.
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DAZ Studio Pro 4.6 review
At one time DAZ3D offered the standard version of DAZ Studio for free and charged for the Pro version. In these tough times it’s good to see that you can still get something for nothing, because now the Pro version is free as well.
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3ds Max 2014 review
With the viewport enhancement, lots of small feature fixes and tweaks, and some new bigger features aimed at those creating arch-viz more than anything else, this is a solid, if not spectacular, upgrade for 3ds Max.
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Photoshop CC review – a second opinion
Lesa Snider takes another look at Adobe's flagship creative tool as it moves to being available by subscription only.
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Creative Cloud review
Should you upgrade to get your hands on Photoshop CC, Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, After Effects CC, Premiere Pro CC, Dreamweaver CC, Flash Pro CC, Edge CC et al?
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Photoshop CC review
The end of software in a box is marked by a respectable upgrade in Photoshop's capabilities.
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The Foundry Modo 701 review
Duncan Evans discovers that Modo has come a long way since it was just a modeller created by Luxology – but not so far since 601.
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Autodesk Maya 2014 review
Does the top CG package deliver killer new features or just incremental improvements?