Expression Blend review
Blend, formerly known as Sparkle, allows designers to develop user interfaces for applications and ships as standalone or part of Microsoft's Expression Studio.
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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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Electric Rain Swift 3D 5 review
Swift 3D is a tool for creating 3D interactive Flash material for the Web and mobile devices, rendering 3D objects as vector files.
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Vertus Fluid Mask 3.0 review
Fluid Mask automates the creation of cut-outs, an area where it faces strong competition from the likes of Mask Pro 4.1 and Primatte 3 for Photoshop.
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Strata 3D[in] review
Strata, on the other hand, is well known for 3D content creation and three of the latest plug-ins dovetail neatly with the Photoshop Extended's new 3D capabilities.
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Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0 review
Parallels Desktop for Mac 3.0 virtualization software lets you run Windows XP and Vista on an Intel-based Mac, and deepens your ability to run Mac and Windows OS side by side.
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Vision 1.0 review
Vision is a suite of tools for the creation of high-end motion graphics, aiming at artists with complex projects or who want to automate graphics creation.
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Adobe GoLive 9 review
GoLive appears to be living on borrowed time. Adobe’s own literature and Web site seems to suggest migrating to Dreamweaver is a good idea, so we're keen to see what would be served up in the latest version.
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NewTek SpeedEdit 1.2 review
SpeedEdit may be a relative new kid on the non-linear editing block, but it’s a streetwise kid who knows that today’s video editors have multiple video formats to deal with.
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HV20 review
The HV20 records 1920-x-1080-pixel interlaced (1080i) HDV video (or standard DV) footage to MiniDV tapes. It offers a 24p mode to simulate the look of film...
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After Effects CS3 review
After Effects is the most popular of Adobe’s video tools, as its reach extends to motion-graphics artists, VFX professionals and 2D animators – and from simple Web cartoons to Hollywood blockbusters.
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Fireworks CS3 review
With Fireworks CS3, Adobe has subtly repositioned the application into a Web site planning and mock-up tool, making it a near-essential purchase for anyone working in Web design.
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Dreamweaver CS3 review
Dreamweaver is almost as ubiquitous in the Web-design arena as Photoshop is in the world of print. Unusually for a Web tool, its huge range of tools caters for designers and developers alike.
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Flash CS3 review
There’s no doubt that there are some cool new things to be found in Flash CS3. The revised CS3-style interface is a huge improvement on the old version...
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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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MJ-12 8550i review
The MJ-12 8550i has all of the options you’d expect from a 3D workstation: two Xeon processors with a choice of dual- or quad-core chips, and a wide selection of graphics cards and drives.
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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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Coda review
Although Web designers have long enjoyed all-in-one solutions, hand coders have been lacking such a tool. Coda aims to deal with this problem, offering ‘one-window Web development’.
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Tourweaver 2 review
Tourweaver 2.0 is a virtual tour authoring application from Easypano of Shanghai. It’s designed to link panorama and other images for viewing on Web sites in a Java-based window.
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World exclusive: Apple's 8-core Mac Pro review
Apple's brand-new 8-core Mac Pro is the first to offer Intel's 3GHz quad-core chips, but what's really impressive about it may surprise you.