Adobe Photoshop CS3 has become clearly the best bitmap photo editor, wresting the last vestiges of better features from Corel, Ulead and others. And Photoshop continues to forge huge leads in HDR/32 bit image processing, photo retouching, panoramas + photomerge, plus first steps towards 3D and video integration. It also retains a wide lead in […]
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Can you believe that Apple Inc, the self-appointed Deans of Great GUI Design – have still come up lame on basic GUI operations . This is even true with Apple’s new Leopard. True with Spaces, Apple finally sees the Linux Light and brings a capability that every design program worth its salt (think diversely of
One of the key marketing success factors for Adobe has been the uniformly high quality of Adobe’s written documentation coupled with the huge number of books and websites that are available for graphic designers or photo-editors looking for some creative ideas or operational help on key products like Illustrator or Photoshop. Look at the numbers:
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I saw one of these Lensbabies in down at THEx (Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, Ontario) and I nearly disgraced myself laughing out loud (murfle.. muffle.. lol). It looks like a dinky-toy not a lens. I chuckled for the rest of the day. However, I got my come-uppance at the Junction Gallery Festival along Dundas
The screenshot says it all. At a time when Corel has greater competition in the mid range bitmap photo editing space – Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture, Gimp, plus a flock of other programs – Corel could not afford to release anything but a real winner update to its PaintShop Pro line. PSP
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With the exceptions of Gimp (Photo editing), Blender (3D graphics), and OpenXL(3D library), there are not a lot of prominent graphics software from the Open Source camp. BlueMarine from Italy seems to be wanting to change that with its challenge to Adobe’s LightRoom and Apple’s Aperture photo editing workflow software. I have dropped by and
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Well I finally relented and upgraded to Adobe CS3 Premium Suite – and after paying all the taxes I was relieved to see my account down nearly $800 for the upgrade. So I have been working frantically with almost all of Premium Suite such that I have some notable First Impression evaluations. Note again these
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In a previous posting I have cited how much Adobe and Photoshop dominate the 2D photo editing world. Now the same dominance does not extend to animations (despite Flash), 3D graphics, and video editing although Adobe is a major player in all three arenas especially with new 3D offerings in Photoshop Extended. However there is
Adobe is currently dominating photo editing top end software. With the release of Lightroom and Photoshop CS3 that dominance is likely to increase – see our upcoming reviews on the main website. Lightroom covers the basic editing of a photo image in the whole (no layering, masking or partial photo selection is allowed for in
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Adobe PR had a lot of fanfare over what would appear to be a small item: Adobe Premier Pro, the top of the line video editor tool from Adobe, would be available on the Mac. What ? I thought all Adobe software ran on the Mac. One of the attractions of the Macromedia buyout by
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