Ever since Adobe transitioned to a profit maximizing for itself plan of annual charges for Photoshop and its suite of products, this reviewer has been looking for alternatives to Adobe’s offerings. The reasons are simple: 1)the hefty price increases based on my 4-6 year upgrade cycle; 2)Adobe’s overweaning prescription of how files and resources are […]
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In November of last year, thePhotofinishes looked at Corel Painter Lite as a possible economic version[$50 vs $300] of full Corel Painter X3. But what we discovered was a program that was so severely stripped of painting features it was really only good as a Paint program with a reasonable set of brushes and layering
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Five years ago, this blog was predicting that video would come to the SLR camera World. And just a half year later, Nikon delivered the D90 as the first DSLR that did video with interchangeable Nikon lenses. And the specs on the D90 have been so good that users can still buy a brand new
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Despite having 2 PhotoBlogs, Picsof Canada and PixofToronto [and a few defunct one], this photobug is also an avid PhotoAlbum user of such services as Flickr.com, Fotki.com and Facebook. But over the past year I have found myself migrating to the Photo Albums on Google Plus. Here are 5 reasons why and then 3
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Adobe faced 3 perilous marketing conundrums where almost all its sales options look like Lose-Lose More propositions. The first conundrum is the emergence of Freemium pricing where core app software is given away for free and money is made on add-ons, plugins, plus special editions. Freemium pricing has taken over the mobile world and will
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The screenshot above is appropriate bcause Corel Painter Lite is ripped out of Corel Painter. Corel has stripped away Painter’s Clone, Trace, AutoPlay and most of the Effect commands but has left in 15 brushes including Acrylics, Airbrush, Digital Watercolor, Impasto, chalks, pastels among others. Their are 7-10 presets for each brush and you can
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As a photographer and graphic artist, these are words I never thought I would write. After more than two decades of being a dedicated graphics power user, someone who over that time has polished and finished tens of thousands of images and video clips while desperately waiting for Mac and Apple to deliver an effective
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This is the best value PC Photo Editor, Corel Paintshop Pro X6, and here are the reasons why. The Edit Tab of PaintShop Pro is where most advanced photo finishing is done. Notice this is the best PC [not Mac, Linux, Android, nor Online] photo editor. But it gives Aperture on Mac, GIMP on Linux,
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