What Fell Between the Cracks?
Here are a few items Santa may have neglected to bring. It’s about time you consider giving yourself a gift. Yes, finally there’s a solution for that dreaded “zoom creep.” […]
Category Archives: cool tools
Gifts for Readers
You can’t go wrong if you give the book-lover on your list one of the titles on our Best Books list. But if you don’t know which books the person […]
Cheers to Fractalius!
Here’s a toast to the Photoshop plug-in Fractalius—which has just been updated to version 1.85. If you want to explore hidden fractal textures and unusual graphic strokes, this plug-in is […]
Yesterday
It seems like only yesterday we reviewed Corel PaintShop Pro X4 (actually it was March 29th)…and now we’ve got X5 Ultimate to contend with. Right off the bat I can tell you […]
Shoot First, Shoot Fast
Here on the Wild West Coast there’s plenty of action, but to capture it you’ve got to be fast. Make that quick on the draw. There’s simply too much competition […]
What Global Warming?
As a veteran Photoshop user, it’s not every day that I come across a third-party special effect that’s truly unusual. Even rarer, a FREE one. But this morning I stumbled […]
Hey, keep the noise down!
I’m talking about the noise in my photos whenever I crank up the ISO beyond 800. Man, it gets so noisy I can hardly see the subject. Recently I was shooting […]
When is a photo a painting?
We recently reviewed an excellent application for converting photos to sketches, AKVIS Sketch. Now we’ve discovered GMX-PhotoPainter 2.0 for turning your image into a full-blown painting: watercolor, oil, crayon, etc. I […]
Summer Stock
Here are a few cool must-haves for the hot days ahead. (We’ll be adding to this list so add a bookmark.) SEAGATE Backup Plus Portable 1TB Drive This sleek, pocket-sized […]
Four of Our Favorite Things
Here are 4 handy utilities worth their weight in gold. If you want to keep your ship sailing smoothly this summer, you can’t beat these gems: GoodSync; AKVIS Sketch; Sorenson […]
