Browse Photography Reviews

Browse Photography Reviews

Review: Google Picasa 3.5 photo organizer
When it comes to organizing, editing, and sharing photos, most Mac users know iPhoto. But Google offers Picasa, a free photo editing and sharing app that rivals iPhoto ‘09.
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.
SneakPeek Photo enhances Quick Look previews
SneakPeek Photo enhances OS X's Quick Look feature by providing lots of information about images while previewing them.
iPhoto2Twitter lets you share iPhoto images via Twitter
If you use iPhoto and Twitter, iPhoto2Twitter may be the perfect match for you.
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: PercepTool 1.5.5
PercepTool plug-in for Photoshop CS3 and CS4 attempts to mimic your visual cortex in order to make an image look the way your brain thinks it should. In one fell swoop, this plug-in alters the brightness, edges, and contrast of your images.
Cameras 1.0.1
Mac OS X lets you choose what happens when you connect a digital camera. Cameras, an outstanding OS X add-on, improves on this feature by letting you choose a different setting for each camera, as well as for each memory-card reader, iPhone, and other photo device. It also provides a useful option for automatically downloading images from any photo device to your hard drive.
Cooliris helps showcase photos and videos
Cooliris is a super-handy browser plug-in that lets you scope out images and video content in a unique way, displaying everything in a full-screen, horizontally expanded, interactive 3-D “wall” view.
PulpMotion creates professional multimedia presentations
Aquafadas’s PulpMotion produces professional multimedia presentations that are anything but ordinary.
Shape Collage turns a collection of photos into creative collages
Shape Collage turns a collection of photos into a collage of practically any shape, whether you’re going for a traditional design or something totally out there.
iLovePhotos uses face detection to sort photos
You’ve probably heard about the Faces feature in iPhoto ‘09 that makes it quick and easy to find all photos of a particular someone in your iPhoto library. But if you don’t have iPhoto ‘09, iLovePhotos can give you a similar result for free.
ViewIt helps sort your camera's photos
With ViewIt, you can simply drop your camera’s photos onto the ViewIt window, view and mark what’s good with just a key press, and copy only those images to your Mac.
PhotoPresenter helps make creative slideshows
Rife as Mac OS X already is with slide-show capabilities, PhotoPresenter builds onto those and puts many more options and styles at your fingertips.
Klix recovers deleted photos and movies from memory cards
Whether you’ve deleted photos, reformatted your media card, or had a card go bad, Klix recovers photos and movie files despite the vacuous state your media card appears to be in.
Photo Wrangler makes it easy to quickly scan through a folder of photos
Photo Wrangler makes it easy to quickly scan through a folder of photos and sort them into separate folders.
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: iPhoto ’09
Of the five applications that make up iLife, iPhoto is the one with the broadest appeal. As our libraries grow, so too do the problems with managing our pictures. With iPhoto ’08, Apple tried to simplify photo management by introducing the concept of events, letting you automatically organize photos based when they were taken. With iPhoto ’09, Apple has added the who and the where components to this equation—helping you provide more context to your photos.
Picturesque 2.0.3
While you can use Photoshop or any of a number of other image editors to prepare images for your blog or Web site, few (if any) can perform the most-popular editing tasks with the ease of use or speed of Picturesque.
Big Mean Folder Machine 1.5.1
If you spend lots of time organize large numbers of files, Big Mean Folder Machine can make your computing life easier.
Review: Photoshop Lightroom 2.0
With Photoshop Lightroom 2.0, Adobe has smartly upgraded an already-strong product. But what’s most impressive about the update is how smoothly it works with you to organize and edit your photos; by focusing on improving the little things, Adobe has made an already good program even more usable.
Review: Photoshop Elements 6
Users who want to learn image editing and start creating fun projects with their photos will enjoy Photoshop Elements 6. The much-anticipated image-editing program will also appeal to users of the previous version, who will discover a significant number of new features that make upgrading worthwhile.
Review: Aperture 2.0.1
The latest version of Apple's photo management tool features some much-needed upgrades, such as better performance and added tools for editing RAW files from your camera. Find out if Aperture 2 is worth its price.
Review: Microsoft Expression Media 1.0
This long-forgotten media management program joins the Microsoft Office 2008 lineup as an alternative to iPhoto, Aperture, and Adobe Lightroom.
Fluid Mask 3
Fluid Mask 3.0.2 is a very effective tool for separating objects from their backgrounds. It offers a variety of useful features for tackling almost any difficult image, from wispy hair to complex foliage. Online video tutorials and live training sessions help ease the learning curve.
Painter Essentials 4
If you’re the least bit creative, Painter Essentials 4 could be the most fun you’ve had in front of a computer in years (though you’ll want to spring for a graphics tablet). It’s affordable and the new interface makes it an absolute joy to use.
Painter X
If you’re an artist, using Painter X is natural and intuitive. For the aspiring artist, Painter is a great way to learn—the digital advantage being that every canvas, brush, and tube of paint is free.
Snap Art
Snap Art offers a painless way for consumers and professionals to create natural-media art from photographs. Its ease of use and variety of customizable effects make it an efficient alternative to Photoshop’s native brushes and actions.
TurboSketch Studio
Before purchasing a photorealistic plug-in like TurboSketch Studio, play with SketchUp to see if the basic rendering options that come with the program are sufficient for your needs. If you require more high-powered lighting and surface effects to use in presentations, TurboSketch provides them ably—but slowly.
SketchUp Pro 6
If you’re interested in using Google’s SketchUp as a 3-D modeler, start with the free version. If you get comfortable with the program’s 3-D drawing environment, and you need to export your models to formats not supported by the free version, then consider the Pro version.