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With the layout tools built into iPhoto and Aperture, Apple has made it easy to assemble your favorite snapshots in a professionally bound photo book. But Apple isn't the only […]

As a photographer, you tend to run through the same mind-numbing tasks over and over again: editing, resizing, saving, and so on--it's a glamorous life. Adobe Photoshop does offer some […]

Epson's latest six-color photo printer, the Stylus Photo 900, gives you a lot of bang for your buck, with the same excellent photo-quality printing and semiarchival inks as the rest […]

For years, photographers have created color and special effects with filters that attach to the end of a camera lens. Now Nik Multimedia's Color Efex Pro Complete Collection offers Adobe […]

If you're a video professional who uses Adobe After Effects, at one time or another you've probably longed for the power of a high-end compositing system such as Discreet's Inferno […]

Equilibrium's DeBabelizer was once the most essential utility-- hands-down--for anyone who worked with digital images. Soon after the company released version 3, it abandoned the Mac, but now DeBabelizer is […]

Trail cameras are a wonderful tool, but in the heat of the moment, there is no substitute for trail-craft--using your five senses to unravel the dues left by whatever game [...]

"Good artists copy. Great artists steal," said Pablo Picasso. Although borrow- ing ideas and motifs from other works is common practice in any creative endeavor, Picasso probably never imagined a […]

Score card Expression 1.0 4 diamonds (Very good) Fractal Design Corp. List price: $449* Hits: Well-designed drawing tools; cool-looking "natural" media tools. Misses: Too expensive; lack of plug-in support. *Users […]

Score card ElectricImage Animation System 2.7.5 4 diamonds (Very good) Electric Image Inc. List price: $7,495* Hits: Fastest Mac renderer available; multiprocessing support; multiple-camera support; excellent animation controls; volumetric lights; […]

Score card CorelDraw 6.0 3 diamonds (Good) Corel Corp. List price: $595* Hits: Good assortment of drawing tools; some well-designed special effects; great clip art; value-packed bundle with CorelDream 3D […]

Score card Detailer 1.0 4 diamonds (Very good) Fractal Design Corp. List price: $449* Hits: Good performance for real-time 3-D painting; can paint directly on objects or into 2-D projections; […]

The mantra of most Photoshop users is 'More RAM' -- especially when they use Photoshop to edit large and complex images. Many Photoshop operations can be agonizingly slow on very […]

Suitcase 3.0 Three of Five Mice theFONDler 4.0 Two and 1/2 of Five Mice Font Box Professional Edition 1.7.1 Three of Five Mice Trio of tools tries to tame troublesome […]

Good news for Canvas users who've waited for Deneba Software to ship the long-promised Version 5.0: This release has the potential to put Canvas on equal footing with Adobe Illustrator […]

Does the Macintosh platform need another high-end illustration package? Corel Corp. thinks so. Waiting in the wings is a Macintosh version of CorelDraw 6.0, the company's venerable PC graphics package, […]

Score card: Director 5.0 Macromedia Inc. Estimated street price: $850* Overall value: 4 (Very good) With its fifth version, Macromedia has added many evolutionary features to its flagship multimedia authoring […]

Score card: Illustrator 6.0 Adobe Systems Inc. List price: $595* Overall value: 4 (Very good) With Illustrator 6, Adobe has expanded its powerhouse design tool and more or less caught […]

Natural-media program from Fractal can now create both vector and bit-mapped art. Score card: Painter 4.0 Fractal Design Corp. List price: $549* Overall value 4 (Very good) Fractal has added […]

Score card: After Effects 3.0 Adobe Systems Inc. List price: $995* Overall value: 5 (Excellent) With Version 3, Adobe has successfully turned After Effects into a must-have video-editing program for […]

Score card: AX-1200 Scantouch Nikon Inc. List price: $1,720* Overall value: 4 (Very good) This 30-bit flatbed scanner is a very good choice for business users who need to create […]

Score Card: Painter Fractal Design Corp. Version tested: 3.0 List price: $499* Overall value: 4 Like its predecessors, Painter 3 provides tools to create images that don't look like they […]

Score Card: Cumulus PowerPro Canto Software Inc. Version tested: 2.0 List price: $1,495* Overall value 4 With blistering speed and powerful networking features, Cumulus PowerPro is not only an impressive […]

......................... Score Card: Kai's Power Tools HSC Software Version tested: 2.0 List price: $199* Overall value 5 This upgrade to Kai Krause's 33 Adobe Photoshop-compatible plug- ins provides not only […]

......................... Score Card: Passport Producer Pro Passport Designs Inc. Version tested: 1.0 List price: $1,495* Overall value 4 Producer Pro, a significant enhancement to Producer, corrects many interface annoyances and […]

Both upgrades let users create solid 3-D graphics from fonts Score Card: 3-D type programs Two recently upgraded programs create big-time 3-D graphics and logos from fonts. Both are inexpensive […]

Urban and suburban deer herds are expanding across the nation. Even if these city-limits deer are off-limits to pursue, you can use them to educate yourself on the behaviors and [...]

We hunters have skewed priorities. We spend countless hours and disposable income fretting over our rifles. We measure in grains and micrometers to get MOA groups or a few hundred [...]

IT WAS ONE OF THOSE boneheaded moves I kick myself black-and-blue over. I was still-hunting an edge where loggers had thinned a forested slope. It was late in the afternoon [...]

THE BEST wild fish or game meal is usually a simple one: meat, fire, and maybe a Little salt and pepper. Put the fillets on the grill, flesh side down to start, and cook until the meat just starts to char. When he was a boy, the state fish and game agency was working to recover elk populations from the ravages of market-hunting. Gary left more 6x6 racks behind than I will ever hang on my walls, but for him, the meat was always the real trophy. [Extracted from the article]

Deer season was under way in north-central Pennsylvania. A small plane buzzed over the Sproul State Forest, the head of a wildlife biologist pressed against the window. But this Penn [...]

Revolutionary Program Combines Painting with 3-D No matter how much graphics experience you have, odds are you've never seen anything quite like ZBrush 1.1. Part 3-D modeler and renderer, part […]

Versatile Printers Wear Many Hats, Show Improved Quality and Speed MACWORLD'S BUYING ADVICE: These are all good MFPs, and they performed as expected relative to their prices. The Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet […]

Innovative but Pricey Display Lets You Draw Directly on Your Screen You might be a graphic artist who is fed up with the mouse and who has never quite gotten […]

Latest Models Deliver Higher Speed, Better Image Quality at Reasonable Prices Color laser printers used to be big, slow, complicated beasts that were difficult to set up and often slow […]