Seeing is believing - Putting photo editing products through their paces
Posted by Kathleen Maher on August 6th 2009 | Permalink
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Roxio Photoshow is easy and fun. There’s something nice about having just a few options and getting something done quickly. Luckily, the templates, styles, and music, are pleasant and not too childish or silly as is so often the case in similar programs.Remember this: nothing is easy on a computer unless you stay within your boundaries. You like the Mac, stay there, you like Windows, stay there. Things might work out okay if you stay in your own backyard but then again they might not. What was a simple test of free online software can turn into a maddening exercise in…
CyberLink MediaShow—they love GPUs
Posted by Jon Peddie on September 22nd 2009 | Permalink
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CyberLink has been at the forefront of GPU exploitation for photos, and their latest effort is MediaShow. YAPP—yet another photo program, but this time it’s got more. If you’re like me, you have several photo programs, some you wanted, some that were forced on you. I currently have: Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Photo Gallery, Picasa 3, Roxio 2010 PhotoSuite 12, and now CyberLink MediaShow; there may…
The Insight drive—simple and sweet
Posted by Kathleen Maher on September 22nd 2009 | Permalink
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Verbatim has been building its storage business with products that are easy to use and give customers a little something extra. Their latest product, the InSight drive, adds a small, 32x128, always on LCD display that includes the drive’s name and the amount of storage left on the drive. It’s a little thing, but in situations where there are a number of drives being handed around with video files, audio files, pictures, and backup data, it’s helpful to be able to see the name. If you change the name of the drive, the Verbatim drive updates after a safe removal, but…
Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone
Posted by Kathleen Maher on October 15th 2009 | Permalink
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Adobe has released a new photo program for the iPhone and it’s designed to complement the company’s online strategy introduced with Photoshop.com. Photoshop.com Mobile for iPhone lets users quickly edit images including crop, rotate, and flip, and they can adjust exposure, saturation, tint and add effects and borders and it’s easy to upload photos directly to the online version of Photoshop.com. Photoshop.com has shown steady improvement. It’s reasonably fast and it integrates with online sharing sites including Flickr and Facebook, making it easier to publish photos. This app for mobile devices will make it easy to upload images taken with the…
Aperture surprises: Apple slips in new release when fans were losing hope
Posted by Kathleen Maher on February 16th 2010 | Permalink
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Aperture 3 is here and Apple has made it a lot more flexible and friendly. In fact, Apple has reversed the waterfall and pulled the popular Faces and Places feature in iPhoto up to Aperture. Features like photo books, which have existed in both products, have become easier to use in Aperture but there are also more options. Aperture, if you don’t remember, is a photo management tool introduced for professional photographers. It was brought forth sometime before Adobe introduced Lightroom and it caused a sensation. It handled some of the most common tasks performed by professional photographers—and in so doing…
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