onOne Software’s Plug-In Suite 4.5 and FocalPoint 1.1 Now Available
February 24, 2009
Updates for award-winning Photoshop plug-ins include new features, improved effects and added support for Adobe Photoshop CS4, Lightroom 2 and Apple Aperture 2.1
PhotoTools 2 Plugin Updated for Photographic Effects
February 20, 2009
Provided in both Standard and Professional Editions, PhotoTools for Mac and Windows supplies a range of imaging tools including effects, corrections and production automation.
AKVIS Artwork Tutorial – A Day at the Beach
February 19, 2009
AKVIS’s new program, Artwork, enables you to make paintings from photos. You can make it look like an oil painting or give it a comics effect. For this tutorial I chose to make an oil painting.
Corel Releases X4 Service Pack
February 16, 2009
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Retouch Pro Photo Contest, February 2009
February 12, 2009
Retouch Pro has a new contest. You are asked to convert a photo to an oil painting using a “digital palette knife technique.”
AKVIS Software has offered the prize – a copy of its new software, AKVIS Artwork 2.0. This program takes a photo and turns it into a virtual painting. You can either convert it to an oil painting or give it a comics effect.
Adobe offers Lightroom and ACR ‘release candidates’
February 11, 2009
Adobe has released ‘Release Candidates’ of Photoshop Lightroom 2.3 and Camera Raw 5.3 for immediate download from Adobe Labs. Both provide additional Raw support for the Nikon D3X and Olympus E-30 DSLRs. Adobe Photoshop Lightroomis also now available in 8 new languages. The ‘release candidate’ label means the downloads are ‘well tested’ but not yet final versions.
Adobe Lightroom
February 1, 2009
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
is more than merely a Raw converter. It’s a library for your photos, a digital darkroom for raw images, a place for compiling a gallery… It’s a working place within a comfortable environment providing anybody, from a professional to an amateur, with all the necessary tools.
There’s a lot written about Lightroom and we give here but a short review of the most essential features.
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