Recent Digital photography reviews

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Photoscape review

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

If you need a down-and-dirty photo editor, Photoscape (free) is certainly priced right. But don't think you're going to get an equivalent of Adobe Photoshop ($200) or even a Serif PhotoPlus X5 or Xara Photo & Graphic Designer (both $90). Photoscape is basic, but interesting in its own right if you look beyond the editing tools and play with some of the hidden gems this free program offers.
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ArcSoft Perfect365 review

Friday, November 11, 2011

First, the important stuff: Billy Joel loves you just the way you are. Both Aaron Neville and Linda Rondstadt don't know much, but they know they love you. You don't need cosmetic surgery or a dramatic makeover, because you're beautiful, and Christina Aguilera would back me up on that.

You see, beauty comes from within, even if all those Photoshopped and air-brushed magazine covers conspire to suggest otherwise. However, if you never like the way you look in any photo, or if you're just curious to see what you'd look like with a few digital enhancements, ArcSoft's free Perfect365 app serves up that functionality in a very fun and addictive way.

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Portrait Professional 10 review

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

An automated photo-retouching program that actually works? That’s right
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Photoshop Elements 10 review

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Over the years, Photoshop Elements has evolved from a de-featured version of its Photoshop CS cousin into a full-featured product on its own. In the brand new version 10, new features abound in the Editor as well as the Organizer, with a focus on enhanced creativity, mobile interconnectivity, problem solving, and simplicity.
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Ashampoo Photo Converter review

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Ashampoo Photo Converter acts as a tool to perform bulk operations on large numbers of image files at once. The program accepts BMP, JPEG, PSD and TIFF files as input, can manipulate the images in a number of ways, then export the finished images to any of eighteen file types.
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Acorn 3 review

Thursday, May 12, 2011

After decades of Photoshop’s domination of the image editing market, it’s been surprising to see that, over the last couple of years, a lot of small companies have decided to make image editing programs, and have done a surprisingly good job! Joining affordable image editing applicaitons like Pixelmator, Flare, and Adobe's own Photoshop Elements 9, is Flying Meat Software’s Acorn, which just received an update to version 3.0.
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Ashampoo Photo Commander 9 review

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

In the seven months since I last reviewed Ashampoo Photo Commander, the product has gone through a major revision, adding a boatload of new features as well as some user interface changes and less prominent tweaks to the way the program used to work.
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Windows Live Photo Gallery review

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Windows Live Photo Gallery offers a nice array of consumer-level tools for photo organising, editing and sharing.
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Autodesk Mudbox 2011 review

Saturday, November 27, 2010

This upgrade has some cutting-edge features, finds Mike de la Flor.
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Kodak EasyShare review

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Almost as easy to use as its name implies, the Kodak EasyShare software (free) provides consumer-level tools for organizing, sorting, editing, and using your photos in a variety of ways. Though it is designed specifically to work with Kodak cameras and printers (and is supplied with most Kodak hardware), anyone can download it at no cost and use it with any camera or printer.
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