Brand-new, full fledged, computer-aided design (CAD) applications for the Mac don’t come down the pike every day, despite the Mac’s obvious superiority as a design tool. (Well, obvious to everyone but the legions of bent-backed drafting...

HyperDither is a REALbasic application that implements the "Atkinson" dithering routine as a drag-and-drop Mac OS X application.

Adds the following filters to Photoshop 3 onwards:  Antimatter Carve Chrome Cutout Drop Shadow Fire Fur Glass Glow HSB Noise Inner Bevel Jiggle Motion Trail Outer Bevel Perspective Shadow Smoke Squint Star Swirl Water...

If you’d gone up to a digital video pro last year and said, “In 12 months you’ll be using your Mac to paint on any frame of a hill-screen, video resolution movie, with a full range of sophisticated paint and spline-based tools, and...

There’s an expanding market for entry-level photo editing tools such as Connectix PhotoMate (see Reviews, Jun/97, p72) and Adobe PhotoDeluxe. Most try to look like baby brothers of Adobe’s main man, Photoshop. Not Kai’s Photo...

Painter was originally designed for creating fine art on the computer with tools that replicate artists’ real-world tools. Although Painter 5 adds Adobe Photoshop-like tools for image manipulation, color correction, and special effects,...

Specular International’s Infini-D produces photo-realistic ray tracings and excellent Phong renderings that can incorporate reflection and fog effects. And the product includes many procedural textures. Infini-D’s animator is the easiest...

Animo is the first software package to seamlessly integrate 2D and 3D animation. It enables artists to combine the time-honored methods of traditional animation with modern computer technologies for greater speed, richer images, smoother movement...

Cumulus 3.0 stores information about your media files — graphics, movies, and sounds, for example — in a database catalog structured much like your Macintosh desktop: You have catalogs, categories, records, and status, which are...

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Adobe Dimensions turns your 2-D art into 3-D without the price or learning curve of a 3-D graphics package. As with its previous version you can use it to add 3-D effects artwork created in standard drawing packages. And with its latest release,...