- 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…
- Tiger Icon Studio 3D 2.0, Being Modern — Today’s software icons are rather a piece of an art than just a «piece of information». Back in the 90s, they were of just 16×16 pixels of 16 different colors; therefore, we couldn’t expect much those days’ «icon editors» — a palette of colors and the capability to draw point-by-point were just enough. But then, the change of hardware capabilities (screen…
- VectorEye - the most hassle-free method to turn regular images into vector graphics — Whenever you need to convert a standard bitmap image into the vector format to use in a Flash movie or any of the popular vector-based applications, such as CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator, Mobile Designer, Swish, Inkskape or others, you face a dilemma of doing it manually or finding a tool to perform the conversion for you. Manual conversion may take hours or even days, so you should think well prior…
- Flash2X Flash Hunter - just save a Flash movie you found on the web and enjoy it later — Today’s Internet is full of Flash movies of all sorts. A great part of them are useless ad banners, but it’s not at all uncommon to come across real masterpieces, as well as short movies, trailers, teasers and other kinds of content that you would gladly save on your hard drive and watch later. Unfortunately, most Flash players and movies are protected from being downloaded and saved…
- SiteCraft - your ideal launch pad into the world of web design — The art of website creation is a huge discipline — and it takes years to become a real master in it. Besides, the first steps are always the hardest ones. Without knowledge, guidance and proper tools even the simplest task becomes a pain in the neck and takes hours. If you are just starting to work your way towards the pinnacle of success as a web designer, you need something that will give you a little…
- MagicTracer: Raster to Vector Converted Simple Way — Raster images are pretty to look at, but are hard to work with. One of the reasons is they are hard, time-consuming to reproduce. Normally, when you need a vector image, you simply draw it from scratch in a vector image editor. But what are you supposed to do if you’ve got the source image in your digital camera or on paper? — The hard way is to mess with tricky conversion tools built…
- Flash Slider - create dynamic Flash slideshows in minutes! — Flash-based slideshows can be used in a number of ways. A business demonstration, a portfolio, a romantic present for your significant other showing your best moments together — all this can be quickly done in Flash and hosted on a website for efficient sharing. However, you will need quite a lot of experience with Flash to create such presentations. If you really need to be able to create such…
- Realsoft 3D - a flexible and extremely powerful 3D tool with an attractive price — Although there are numerous 3D modeling and animation tools on the market, they generally tend to have a common flaw — they are either inexpensive and amateur or extremely expensive and excessively powerful for an average user. Finding the «golden mean» is a surprisingly hard task, especially if you want to have a fully-functional and modern tool and not overpay for the features you will never need…
- 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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