PrintMaster Gold 4: Create a Project in Three Simple Steps: Pick: Browse through hundreds of finished designs crafted by professional artists, and select your choice. Personalize: Customize your project by filling in the information boxes....

Fractal Design Painter is one product that always seems to bring a smile to designers’ faces. Few programs approach its level of sophistication and utility, and fewer still go about their tasks so competently. Painter is packed with...

One of Macromedia FreeHand 5.5's advantages over Adobe Illustrator 6.0 is that it offers an extentsive system of style sheets, while Illustrator forces you to apply attributes manually and modify objects individually. If you use Illustrator 6.0,...

If you can imagine it, you can create it -- fast with xRes 3. Macromedia xRes and Shockwave power your creativity with the next generation of image design tools. Take your work to the limit with an incredible array of creative tools, cutting-edge...

KPT Convolver is a plug-in extension to Adobe Photoshop that takes advantage of the custom convolution kernel. With its powerful filter-generating engine, KPT Convolver gives the user instant access to blurs, sharpens, embosses, tinting, color,...

In the QuickDraw-graphics arena, not even MacDraw Pro's solid talents can match the features, accuracy, and depth of Canvas 3,0. This version of Deneba's jack-of-all-trades drawing program includes an impressive collection of new tools that...

Don't let the version number fool you: Adobe Illustrator 6.0 is not a dramatic upgrade. In fact, it may be the least substantial full upgrade in Illustrator history. The core program remains virtually unchanged since version 5.5, with...

How many image editors does it take to brighten Adobe’s light bulb? Counting the new Photoshop Elements software, there are now seven (including Windows apps) — though Elements replaces the amiable Photoshop LE. No need to get...

In this era of ever-expanding, feature-crammed graphics applications — HSC Software’s Live Picture, Adobe Photoshop, and Macromedia FreeHand, to name a few — it’s refreshing to come across a program that does one thing and...

Version 2.0 of Alien Skin's Black Box offers four all-new special effects, a preview window, and user-defined settings. Applying motion blurs and swirls, or bevel, cutout, and glass effects to selections — including those within Photoshop...

iView is primarily designed to catalogue and playback image files. iView goes beyond the Mac's simple scrapbook utility and allows you to view and organise several types of images on all your disks.

Those accustomed to MacDraw or MacDraft should have little trouble making the transition to Cricket Software's Cricket Draw. The program offers familiar tools such as line, rectangle, and oval, and the methods for drawing, moving, and resizing...

The Graphics Magician is composed of two parts: the Picture Painter and the Animator. The program also has a picture editor that can be used with other programs; a shape editor, which allows a user to flip and rotate shapes; and a path editor,...

Fauve Software's xRes is a cross between HSC Software’s Live Picture and Adobe Photoshop — but slightly less expensive and less reliable. Like Live Picture, xRes speeds up image editing by applying edits and effects to just the...