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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Psykopaint is all about emotional painting and artistry. As a photo artist I am fond of using Corel Painter and Photoshop with the Impressionist and Virtual Painter plugins as my palette and canvas for Photo Artistry. Psykopaint is an online photo painter in the style of say Pixlr-o-matics . This means it is a fun
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In 2008 thePhotoFinishes did a popular review of the 5 best online Photo Editors. Having just taken a tour of the best online photo editors, some of the 5 best were rediscovered 5 years later. Here are their stories in a field that is frankly over-crowded with great online photo finishing tools. How well do
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Autodesk Pixlr has emerged in the past year as one of the best online Photo Editors. What makesPixlr remarkable is 1)its actually 3 online photo editing apps and 2)it is written in Adobe Flash+Air and 3)it is amazingly fast and 4)it also one of the most feature complete of the online photo apps. It is
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There is a new version 4 of Artweaver available and this is important for a number of reasons. First, as one of the group of free PC photo editors, Artweaver like the others continues to upgrade and improve on a timely basis. Second, Artweaver is a Photoshop clone which provides basic color adjustment, masking+selection and layering
A recent trend has been the more frequent use of full page images in Web designs. One can see big images used in sliders like the Fox Sports design or Giorgio . Also see the big changing backgrounds images such as those used at Newsweek’s website. Big images give Web designers some real advantages using
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This summer, two smartphone manufacturers have issued very different but challenging visions to their competitors [and each other] of what a smartphone camera should be able to do. Hold on to your money and reins and take a look what will be coming likely this Fall. Samsung’s Galaxy NX – a full state of the
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3 free Photo Editors continue to improve greatly over the past year. They are Artweaver, Photo Filtre and Photoscape. The following slideshow summarizes their features as covered here previously. But here are some newer features that are worthy of consideration. Again, in alphabetical order. Artweaver Artweaver has improved in its 3.1 version a number of
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