Browse Graphics and 3-D Reviews

Browse Graphics and 3-D Reviews

Review: iScrapbook 2.1
Scrapbooking program offers high-quality design, easy layouts, and a seemingly unlimited supply of inspiration.
SneakPeek Pro enhances previews of graphics and publishing files
SneakPeek Pro enhances Mac OS X's Quick Look feature by adding support for a number of graphics and publishing files. It also provides much more information about those files within Quick Look previews.
Review: Acorn 2.1 image editing software
Acorn 2.1 is a great app for digital photography hobbyists, bloggers, or anyone who needs a decent amount of flexibility in editing images but doesn't require the power of a full image editor.
Review: Adobe Photoshop Elements 8
Adobe's low-cost image editor features some interesting new tools and lots of small changes that add up to top-notch program.
Review: Toon Boom Studio 5
Toon Boom Studio 5's stop-motion feature, annotation layers, and export functions make this not just a fun program to use, but one rich in sophisticated features.
Review: Poser 8 3-D modeling software
Smith Micro’s release of Poser 8 marks a major overhaul of this figure creation program.
Review: Home & Landscape Design Studio for Mac 14.1
Punch! Software’s Home & Landscape Design Studio for Mac 14.1—at about $150—is an excellent value for what it does well: Create quick and impressive 3-D views of your dream home or landscape design that showcase your vision for your property.
Review: Snap Art 2
Some photographs would really look better as paintings. But for those who are not artistically inclined with a brush and palette, there’s Alien Skin’s Snap Art 2. This Photoshop plug-in is a one-click wonder that instantly transforms a mundane (or even great) photo into a unique work of art.
Review: ColorMunki 1.1
The ColorMunki product line achieves very good color management at a reasonable price. Both the hardware and software are easy to use and the digitizing features of the Design and Photo software make it an indispensable tool for those who need to match colors to paints, fabrics, and other physical objects.
Review: Color 1.5
Color has reached a very workable threshold where most projects, most of the time, can be round tripped successfully between Final Cut Pro 7 and Color 1.5. Still graphics, speed effects, multicam clips, and other common elements no longer translate incorrectly between Final Cut and Color, a very noteworthy improvement.
Review: Motion 4
in Motion 4, Apple continues to enhance the realism of motion graphics with new rendering capabilities to simulate shadows, reflections, and depth of field.
Flickery makes uploading photos to Flickr easy
Many otherwise-happy Flickr users dislike the Web site's image uploader. Flickery offers a desktop-app alternative with a Mac-like interface and a good set of features.
Sumo Paint: Photoshop-like Web-based image editor
For image editing, Sumo Paint offers many Photoshop standbys. And best of all, this Web-based application is free.
Review: GroBoto 2.3
At first glance, GroBoto 2.3.3 looks like it might be just another 3-D modeler—until you launch it. Then you discover an entirely different process for creating 3-D models and scenes that actually forces you to think creatively and organically.
Prosopagnosia connects contacts to iPhoto's Faces
This program aim taps into iPhoto's Faces feature so you can attach images to Address Book entries.
Review: Vectorworks 2009
Vectorworks 2009 is a world-class CAD program at a price that, while expensive, still provides a great value, especially when compared to alternatives.
Review: Portraiture 2.0 Photoshop plug-in
Portraiture 2.0 is a Photoshop plug-in that makes professional-quality portrait retouching a simple job for anyone with a copy of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.Portraiture 2.0 will add that last bit of professional oomph to your images.
Review: EazyDraw 3.0
EazyDraw 3.0 gives non-professionals a painless way to create illustrations, logos, floor plans, technical diagrams, flowcharts, maps, and Web graphics that can be copied and pasted into other applications.
Review: Painter 11
In this newest version of Painter, users will see a marked increase in speed along with 40 new Natural-Media brushes, more intuitive brush customization, resizable Colors and Mixer palettes, PNG support, and a ton of other time-saving features.
Layers 1.0.3
If screenshots are important for your work, Layers is an innovative and unique solution for producing exactly the shots you want.
Funtastic Photos 1.0.3
Funtastic Photos is a low-cost but feature-rich program for editing and enhancing your images. And as its name implies, it's fun, too.
Review: Fireworks CS4
Adobe Fireworks CS4 includes new features and enhancements that make this a significant upgrade. The new interface is makes it easier to use most tools and controls as well as switch among various Creative Suite products.
Review: Illustrator CS4
Adobe Illustrator CS4 is a time-proven production drawing tool with a clean, efficient interface, and well- thought-out tools that work seamlessly with the rest of the Adobe creative suite. The addition of multi-page capabilities and Blob Brushes make it must-have upgrade.
Review: Flash CS4 Professional
Graphic designers and illustrators will find in Flash CS4 Professional the environment and interface they have longed for—one that provides access to complex animation generation without recourse to defining keyframes and writing ActionScript.
Review: After Effects CS4
After Effects CS4 represents one of the most significant and useful upgrades to Adobe's flagship motion graphics software in recent history. The new version’s interface now integrates more seamlessly than ever into the rest of the CS4 suite.
Review: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and CS4 Extended
All of the changes in Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Extended CS4 add up to a friendlier, more accessible interface. The changes may take some getting used to, but in the end, you’ll come to appreciate the more streamlined and uncluttered experience.
Simple Comic 1.6.1
A simple program for reading comic books saved in PDF, CBR, and CBZ formats.
Scribbles 1.2.1
Sometimes you just need make a little art without the complications of Illustrator or the mess of Crayolas. Atebites’ Scribbles1.2.1 allows both kids and adults to do just that.
Plopp 1.2.5
Impara’s Plopp is a drawing tool for kids that not only makes 3-D easy, but it makes it fun, too.
iP2F 1.0.3
This iPhoto plug-in for Flickr lets you set titles, tags and image descriptions for photos, assign them to photo sets or to Flickr pools, and quickly scale an entire batch of images to speed the upload process.