Graphic design
CorelDraw Graphics Suite X4
By David Karlins | Published: 12:00, 29 January 2008
Applications
Corel Painter 12.2 review
Monday, September 24, 2012
The world of digital painting tends to be split between those in the Photoshop camp and those who prefer real natural media effects and use Painter. With version 12 Corel continued the evolution of the produce that started when the company acquired it, adding yet more features, but trying to rope it all in and tidy up the interface.
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Applications
Find My Font Pro review
Friday, May 25, 2012
It's after dinner hour and you're still at work searching for the font your boss requested. You want to strangle the person who suggested the Boss keep a scrapbook of designs they like. How long can it take to match a font to this magazine clip? Find My Font Pro is here to help. How much it can help depends on your sample quality and the rarity of the font.
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Personal Tech
Daminion Standalone review
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Back in the days of traditional film photography, it was easy to see when you had many photos: Shelves full of albums (or shoeboxes bursting with prints) were visible. Today, you could have hundreds of thousands of photos in your collection, and they would take up next to no physical space. Organizing all of those photos, however, is still a massive undertaking. Daminion Standalone is a free application that tries to help you tag and sort your photos in ways that make sense.
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Applications
Paint.NET review
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Originally commissioned by Microsoft as a replacement to Paint, Paint.NET (free) has come very far indeed. With tools to manipulate photographs and draw and paint pixels, Paint.NET bridges the gap between Photoshop- and Illustrator-type software. Now you can eliminate red eye, fix the contrast, change the sky to green, paint a fake mustache on your brother-in-law, and convert the image to look like an oil painting, in one easy-to-use program.
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Applications
Blender review
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Blender (free) is pretty daunting to someone who's never used 3D modeling or animation software. For me, using Blender 2.60a was somewhat like having to know exactly how my car works before I can drive it: a no-brainer for some people, but it's not for everyone.
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