- As Simple As Photoshop — The phrase above is not just a slogan. First, it is the name of the program I’d like to tell you about and second, the declaration of this program’s possibilities. You may think that Adobe Photoshop, which is an industrial standard for image processing, is rather hard to learn. Who said «I know it from cover to cover»? OK, this article is not for you. If you think so, you may need somebody…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.0. Go in Pieces! — Puzzles are universal things. A 3-year old child loves playing her big colorful 3-piece puzzle, a 30-year old woman spends hours and days with a 3-thousand piece puzzle of a Scottish castle. A big colorful puzzle is a great present. However, a «personalized» (i.e. unique) puzzle is also stylish. Just imagine giving your girlfriend the cool puzzle, which, when solved, becomes a memory photo with you and her in some romantic…
- Cross+A 6.15, Puzzle Cracker! — How many times you were irritated by an «unsolvable» crossword or other word puzzle? Even if you are very, VERY erudite and very, VERY balanced — your mood would be slightly affected when you are struck with something too overcomplicated. You just tried to take a rest and relax you brain; instead, you have broken the mood and gotten the feeling of «dumb me» or «dumb puzzle». To the contrary, you can…
- AV Bros. Page Curl Pro 2.2, Very Special — In a short, Page Curl Pro by AV Bros. is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that allows creating realistically looking «page bends» — curling and folding. It has many options, pretty interface, and works fast with any host application that supports Photoshop plugins. In not-so-short, Page Curl Pro has gone beyond the boundaries of just a «curl this image» thing. In a handy dialog with instant preview, you can…
- AV Bros. Puzzle Pro 2.2, I'm Fallen Into Pieces — There is common multipurpose design technique that allows making some obvious things less trivial: An effect of Puzzle. Puzzles are commonly drawn as images «cut» into several fancy-form pieces. In the real world, puzzles are very popular among both children and adults. In terms of computer design, a puzzle image is rather a «symbol», but very commonly used. Still, how can you create a realistic-looking and yet not…
- DVD to PSP / iPod video converter — As portable devices are getting increasingly popular and their multimedia potential grows, more and more people want to be able to watch movies on their iPods and PSP consoles. Unfortunately, these devices restrict your ability to upload arbitrary video content to that available from Sony and Apple stores. If you are looking for an easy way to grab your favorite DVD movies and quickly convert them into native iPod and Apple formats with great…
- MemoryShow Pro 1.1, Brilliant Effect of Easy Idea — Half an hour ago, I thought there’s nothing better for browsing photos than the good old dumb viewers, which just take and show your photos one-by-one (by a key press or automatically — doesn’t matter here). Half an hour ago, I downloaded and installed MemoryShow Pro. Now, guess, what have I been doing since that moment? Most of all, it was like a slow pleasant meditation; I have reviewed an entire…
- AutoWallpaper - a kaleidoscope of wallpapers with stunning visual effects — If you are a proud owner of a shop or a multi-monitor system, you may eventually want to use your monitors to decorate your display case or workplace. A single panoramic screensaver or synchronized switching of several wallpapers would be ideal for a vivid demonstration, but setting it up using standard OS means is quite problematic, if not impossible. If you would like to breathe new life…
- Personal Photoshop Coach. As Simple As Photoshop — “A picture is worth a thousand words”, the saying goes, and applies far beyond the folklore: According to various studies, over 70% of information finds its path to our brain through the eye. That suggests that the quickest way to get along with complex applications, especially those like Photoshop, would be through watching a lot of examples with live illustrations and audible explanations and trying to repeat those after…
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