Adobe Photoshop Express – Review

Adobe Photoshop has been the de facto photography/image editing program for many years. However, for many people, Photoshop is either too expensive, too great of a learning curve, too overwhelming, or any combination of the above. Sometimes, all a photo needs to go from good to great is a little tweaking. Adobe heard the cries, and has developed Adobe Photoshop Express, an app that lets users edit and share images quickly and easily.

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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Learn by Video
Review

Like many Photoshop users I upgrade to the current version when the need for the newest features becomes too tempting to ignore. The latest version of Adobe Photoshop is CS5. A bevy of extraordinary new improvements such as Content-Aware Fill, Camera Raw 6, Brushes, Puppet Warp, Refine Edge Dialog, amongst others, make this application a creative and more efficient way to process workflow.

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O'Reilly Photoshop CS5 HDRI Webcast

Photoshop CS5 HDR Pro and O’Reilly HDRI and PS CS5 Webcast – Review

As digital photography has rapidly increased in popularity in recent years, so have advanced photographic techniques such as High Dynamic Range Imaging, commonly known as HDR. Digital cameras are limited in the range of light intensity they can handle in a given scene. Situations with both very bright and dark areas will exceed the dynamic range capability of the camera sensor.

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Review: Photoshop CS5 Extended Part 1

Last June I presented my first look at Photoshop CS5, and I was very impressed with the new features. Back then I felt it was definitely worth the upgrade.  After many more weeks of using the software it is time to reevaluate and see if my opinion is the same or has changed.

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Review – FotoMagico 3.5

FotoMagico makes quick work of creating a slideshow, complete with music if you desire. Photos, music, and movies are shown in the right-hand sidebar; just drag and drop the media onto the storyboard. FotoMagico can take over from here, and add transitions and zooms to your photos. Another option is to create an Instant Slideshow, which gives the user a little more control over the output. The short movie below is an example of adding pictures and music to the storyboard and letting FotoMagico do its thing.

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Review – Photo to Movie

Have you ever created a slideshow of your favorite photos, but wished it could have a little more pizazz? Would you like more control of the motion, transitions, even the music in the slideshow? Let me show you Photo to Movie.

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Image Doctor 2
Review


Adobe Photoshop is a standard for image editing. It has a lot of great tools for making a good picture great, or even a lousy picture a lot better. However, there are times when the tools in Photoshop are not enough, or are not fast enough. Image Doctor 2 by Allen Skin Software aims to help with those times when you need more than Photoshop can offer.

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