Photo editing software

Skylum Software Luminar 3.1.0 with Accent AI 2.0 photo editing software review

By / May 7, 2019 / Reviews / / 4 Comments

REVIEW – Recently, I had the opportunity to review Skylum Software’s Luminar Flex photo editing plugin which offered much of their full Luminar product’s AI-based (Artificial Intelligence) editing available in Photoshop or other supported software.  Skylum has been in the lab and has released Luminar 3.1.0 with their new Accent AI 2.0 logic for one-touch …

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Landscape Pro Studio Max 3 photo editing software review

By / April 21, 2019 / Reviews / / 2 Comments

REVIEW – When taking outdoor pictures, you are generally limited to several conditions such as the weather, the lighting, and even the environment itself. You might have your camera and tripod ready but the conditions can become unfavorable. Sometimes, it’s like mother nature just isn’t co-operating when you want to take those landscape pictures. With …

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Skylum Software AI-powered Luminar Flex one-touch photo editing software review

By / April 15, 2019 / Reviews / , / 2 Comments

REVIEW – Cameras today are amazing. Phone cameras, point-and-shoots, mirrorless, and full-on DSLRs all produce pretty jaw-dropping images, right out of the camera, all on automatic.  You can certainly tweak them in-camera by changing ISO, aperture, shutter speed, and white balance, but that definitely requires a deeper knowledge of photography and the specifics of your …

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Skylum AirMagic drone image editing software review

By / March 7, 2019 / Reviews / , , / 15 Comments

REVIEW – Drones.  Love them or hate them, they’re everywhere.  If you have one, you probably like taking photos, but they don’t always look awesome, since you are at the mercy of Mother Nature and her available lighting at the time of your flight.  If you’re gifted at Photoshop, or some other image editing software, …

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Wondershare Fotophire Image Editing Software review

By / August 29, 2018 / Reviews / / Leave a Comment

REVIEW – Photo editing can be drudgery unless you were raised as a graphic designer using Photohsop (like me). Even then, it can be tedious. Today we’re checking out the Wondershare Fotophire Image Editing Software, which combines a whole bunch of image editing features in one package. It’s simple to use, automates a bunch of …

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Updated type experience coming to Adobe InDesign CC and Illustrator CC

By / August 10, 2018 / News / , / Leave a Comment

NEWS – Anyone who has used the latest Adobe Creative Cloud versions of InDesign or Illustrator has probably noticed that font selection is a little unwieldy. I use InDesign every day and whenever I’m looking for a specific sort of typeface to use, like a nice handwritten font, I find myself squinting at the tiny …

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PortraitPro 17 Studio Max photo editing software review

By / January 15, 2019 / Reviews / , / 7 Comments

What is it? PortraitPro 17 Studio Max is a very intuitive and easy to use photo editing software that allows even the most novice of users to quickly learn and edit photos for a truly professional look. It provides a set of tools that is able to fix just about every defect in a photo, …

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PhotoLemur v2.2 Spectre photo software review

By / January 16, 2018 / Reviews / , , / 5 Comments

Back in May, I reviewed the first version of PhotoLemur, a Mac app that lets you computationally enhance photos for better colors, light, skies, and faces.  Well, here in this holiday time of year, the elves have been busily applying their digital hammers and saws to the code and have offered a significant upgrade. I …

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Photolemur photo editing software review

By / January 10, 2018 / Reviews / , , / 3 Comments

We are in the middle of a popular photo explosion, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past decade. Not since the introduction of the Brownie camera in 1900 has there been such interest in photography by the general public. For $1 (about $30 in today’s money), normal everyday people could make …

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Google is giving away its Nik Photoshop plugins for free

By / March 29, 2016 / News / , , / Leave a Comment

A few years ago Google purchased Nik, a German company that developed the Snapseed photo app. Along with Snapseed, Nik also developed several photo editing plugins: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro, and Dfine. These plugins work with popular editing programs like Photoshop, Lightroom, and Aperture. This …

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Astropad turns your iPad into a graphics tablet for your Mac

By / February 22, 2015 / News / , , , / Leave a Comment

If you have a Mac, an iPad and also use Photoshop, you’re going to be very interested in Astropad. Astropad is a new Mac and iPad application that turns your iPad into a professional graphics tablet for your Mac and Photoshop. When you install Astropad on your Mac and the iOS app on your iPad, …

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Turn your keyboard into a photo-editing cheat sheet

By / June 7, 2014 / News / , , / Leave a Comment

If you do a lot of photo editing, you may already know all the keyboard shortcuts to make your task easier.  But if you’re a novice, or a not-so-novice who just can’t remember all those shortcuts, these Keyboard Shortcut Skins for Apple keyboards will help you speed up the process of editing your photos.  Skins …

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Filter Forge 4.0 Photoshop plugin review

By / November 21, 2013 / Reviews / , , / Leave a Comment

I owe Julie a long overdue review. OK, OK, two long overdue reviews and one that I can probably still call “on time” at this point. I am going to start with my review of something from one of my favorite product categories — Photoshop plugins. I really can’t seem to get enough of these …

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Alien Skin Snap Art 3 Photoshop Plugin Review

By / September 6, 2012 / Reviews / , / 3 Comments

Well, it has been a long time since I have written a review for Julie. I fear I may have forgotten how it is done! Shabria, at Alien Skin, asked Julie if she would be interested in reviewing Snap Art 3 — their latest version of the Photoshop plugin that converts photographs into drawings and …

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