Aperture is an image organizer. It's a professional version of iPhoto. If you take a lot of pictures, it's great at keeping it all together. The loupe is a favorite feature. It allows you to...
Having used both Adobe Lightroom and Apple Aperture, I have to say that I am more comfortable working in Aperture. It has something to do with not feeling locked into an interface structure that I...
Apple Aperture 1.5 is an image-editing and management program designed for professional photographers. Unlike Adobe Photoshop and similar applications, Aperture eschews complex image manipulation...
What do you do if you're a company that has developed a whole range of well-regarded, one-trick, photo-editing packages? Why, you sit down with your marketing manager and work out how you can...
The Dell Inspiron 5100 was given to me by an elderly lady as she got a new later model laptop. I upgraded the RAM from 256MB to 1GB which is the max imum it can take. It didn't come with a WiFi...
Silver Efex Pro efficiently produces great black-and-white effects that are fiddly to create in Photoshop alone. The plug-in ships with a set of presets to use as a starting point. Like the rest of...
Given the feature set and the price I spent for this unit ($149 at Radio Shack), I was excited about my purchase. The excitement faded the day after I bought the unit. I was going to a restaurant...
Personally, I'm in a love/hate relationship with this thing. usually love wins. I can run a gamut of programs on it at the same time doing memory-eating activities (firefox, winamp, trillian,...
With Photoshop CS3, Adobe breathes new life into its flagship image-editing program and fixes a few flaws from the previous version. For Mac users, perhaps the best news is that Photoshop now runs...
Overall its a really good piece of software and there are loads of changes e.g. Smarter filters - new features that let you to alter images without changing their original pixel data etc.However...
This was what has become typical of large software companies. The installation kit was one disk but after a long time of seeming to be installing, it asked for another disk that wasn't in the...
Having grown up with Photoshop from 4.0, Photoshop has certainly grown up with me! CS is perfect, although it takes some getting used to if you're used to 7, but once you adjust, you'll love the...
With Photoshop CS3, Adobe breathes new life into its flagship image-editing program and fixes a few flaws from the previous version. For Mac users, perhaps the best news is that Photoshop now runs...
For those of us using the Intel Mac platform, CS3 is a long awaited program. Now that we have it, let no one tell you Photoshop isn't the most difficult program you will ever use. Photoshop is...
Had problems with installation as there was not any place to activate the program....After several attempts, finally found it. The email doesnt work until the software is activated....Very...
Office 2004 Mac Microsoft's Mac suite borrows some of its PC sibling's clothes, but it also has some bright ideas of its own Entourage's Project Center makes it easy to keep track of specific...
All products are superb. e,g the Workspace feature in Photoshop is a dream, it opens preselected floating windows that relate to the type of tasks you are performing.
As a Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign user since the very start Adobe has it easy. They have made the dominant series of software for so long it is a given that they should continue their...
Adobe is famous for its range of design-related packages from the ubiquitous Adobe Photoshop to the journalist-friendly InDesign page layout software. Logically enough, Adobe has decided to make...
This is pretty nice - everything is basically the same as before for the things I use it for (Photoshop). I like how Illustrator can convert raster images to vector images. I like being able to...
Adobe CS3 Nightmare: CS3 Will Not Install on All Machines
All I can say is this program will require I reformat my hard drive in order to install it on my computer of choice. Adobe CS3 is very unreliable and finicky. I was able to install it on my old...
I am enjoying using this product overall... but I am having some major issues with using Adobe Acrobat 8. It keeps telling me to re-install the program to be able to use the features (like...
Adobe CS3 Web Premium is a tool suite for creating interactive websites and content for mobile devices. The Web Premium package helps you prototype, design, and develop rich web experiences while...
Adobe seems to have gone out of their way to infuriate their long time customers through an arcane, illogical and ultimately deceptive upgrade offer. You can spend hours on...
This is just what I was looking for. And it's comforting to know that it's legit, it's the real thing. It was great because I could track where the package was at and it was fast. Thanks so much!
In a typically bold move, Adobe has abandoned version numbers and combined its four design products - Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Golive, plus the Acrobat 6 pdf authoring application -...
In a typically bold move, Adobe has abandoned version numbers and combined its four design products - Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Golive, plus the Acrobat 6 pdf authoring application -...
Adobe is famous for its range of design-related packages from the ubiquitous Adobe Photoshop to the journalist-friendly InDesign page layout software. Logically enough, Adobe has decided to make...
Apple has another weapon in its campaign to end Mac users' reliance on anything Microsoft. Its new presentation software, Keynote, takes on the formidable foe PowerPoint and exploits some of the...
Let me start with this, I am not a big fan of Office, and have been looking for a replacement ever since I moved to a Mac. The following review is for Page and Number only. I have no complains on...
Pages is much better than Word. Numbers is more intuitive than Excel. Keynote absolutely buries Powerpoint. That said, there are some features you might find in MS Office that you cannot find in...
Reviews from around the Web Powered by alaTest pocket-lint.co.uk Editors' rating: 70 Summary: Not one to opt for if you are looking for a word processor Read full review pcmag.com...
Apple-artists-designed templates are not good enough to make up the awful drawbacks. The user interface is too original for the long-time Word user like me: inserting and aligning images, adding...
The relationship between Apple and Microsoft has been pretty stormy over the years. These days, though, the two companies are actually pretty chummy, and Microsoft has received a big thumbs-up from...
Let me start with this, I am not a big fan of Office, and have been looking for a replacement ever since I moved to a Mac. The following review is for Page and Number only. I have no complains on...
Pages is much better than Word. Numbers is more intuitive than Excel. Keynote absolutely buries Powerpoint. That said, there are some features you might find in MS Office that you cannot find in...
Apple has created a new version of iWork, and they provide no upgrade pricing, effectively sticking it to customers and vendors. If you buy this product, you will be stuck with the old version and...
Apple's iWork exemplifies the ease-of-use, simplicity, and graphics handling abilities that people have come to expect from Apple. As a long-time Windows user, my frustration with Windows'...
I bought this program thinking it would save a lot of time. Yes, it does once you've manually set up your state & local withholdings. But be prepared to shell out money each year to keep it...
For my 4 person practice its more than adequate. Support is a little shabby but the human you eventually speak to could not be nicer. Fax in the registration right away to get the 60-day free...
Found this more difficult to use than the simple Quicken payroll I used on my PC. Switched to Checkmark b/c Quicken does not work on Mac. I preferred the print outs more in Quickpay. I found some...
Allows extra laptop install and moves to new computers
Since this is a fairly expensive product, I wondered if I would need to buy a separate copy for my laptop, or buy a new copy if I replaced my main desktop PC. After some digging, things look good...
After using illustrator for a few weeks i finally started learning some really cool features with the pathfinder tool to make those perfect vector shapes. (I'm still learning) But now my software...
Hardly ANY instructions come with this. I installed it...NOW WHAT?!?!? How am I supposed to know what to do with this?!?!? Should I simply guess?!?!? And there are NO online tutorials for this....
An improved working environment and ground-breaking colour handling make Illustrator fresher than ever. At almost 20 years old, Illustrator is the veteran of the core CS3 applications and at one...
I found CS3 to be a really worthy upgrade. It runs faster than CS2 on same machines - even including older G4/G5 Macs. For Intel Macs, the speed gain is even more significant. The Bridge interface...
With Photoshop CS3, Adobe breathes new life into its flagship image-editing program and fixes a few flaws from the previous version. For Mac users, perhaps the best news is that Photoshop now runs...
I have not upgraded yet from CS2 to CS3 and was just checking out the pricing on amazon and read the reviewer who said Adobe would not let him install his Photoshop software on two computers at the...
When Adobe acquired Macromedia, most observers correctly predicted that Adobe GoLive would be replaced in the Creative Suite lineup by Dreamweaver , and that Adobe Illustrator would similarly...
Quark XPress holds a warm place in the heart of many journalists and layout artists. It's been around for well over ten years (a lifetime in computing terms) and has built up an army of satisfied...
You can't tell from the outside that Apple's new two-socket, eight-core Mac Pro, based on Intel's new Nehalem Xeon CPU, is much changed from the two-socket, quad-core Mac Pro that preceded it. The...
I use Final Cut Studio 2 nearly every day. I like that it doesn't crash much and that it is fairly inexpensive. Seems to handle HD quite well. Final Cut has a couple problems- snap to doesn't work...
Final Cut Studio 2 is an inigma. On th one hand it has MASSIVE strengths and on the other it has MASSIVE weaknessess. If you are eperianced on other pro editing applications like Pro Tools or Avid...
PAGEMAKER IS ONE OF THE EASIEST PROGRAMS TO USE. UNTIL THIS PROGRAM, I ONLY USED WORD FOR TEXT DOCUMENTS, AND OTHER VARIOUS PROGRAMS FOR GRAPHICS. IN PAGEMAKER, YOU CAN USE GRAPHICS WITH AND...
InDesign"s next-generation DTP application is central to Adobe"s vision for the future of publishing, but in terms of immediate user benefits it promises more than it delivers. The Quark-killer...
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