News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Adobe Photoshop Elements is one of the best bargains in the photo-editing market: for a fraction of the cost of Photoshop, you get a full complement of editing tools, guided tutorials for improving your photos, as well as lots of other features aimed at helping you create cards, collages, photo montages and more. With version 8, Adobe hasn’t made radical changes: they’ve added a few new tools, beefed up the Guided Edit and Quick Edit modes, and adopted some of the look of Photoshop CS4. Overall, it’s a solid—if light—upgrade to an already good product.
Rick LePage | Oct 27, 2009
Mac users could be forgiven for doubting the future of Photoshop Elements for Mac, Adobe’s low-cost image editor. In the two years since Elements 6 appeared to wide acclaim, Mac users have watched as their Windows compatriots progressed to Version 7. At the same time competition has heated up from an ever-growing crop of inexpensive image editors for the Mac, such as Acorn and Pixelmator.
Rick LePage | Sep 23, 2009
Of the five applications that make up iLife, iPhoto is the one with the broadest appeal. After all, nearly everyone has photos on their Mac, taken with their own cameras or those of friends and family members. As our libraries grow, so too do the problems with managing our pictures. With iPhoto ’08, Apple tried to simplify photo management by introducing the concept of events, letting you automatically organise photos based when they were taken.
Rick LePage | Feb 4, 2009
In mid-2006, Microsoft bought MediaPro's parent company, iView Multimedia, and the program is now marketed as Expression Media, part of Microsoft's Expression Studio line of web and graphic design applications (all of which, with the exception of Expression Media, are Windows-only). It's now also bundled into a special edition of Microsoft Office 2008.
Rick LePage | Mar 7, 2008
As I type these words, I am waiting for Apple's Developer Connection web site to ease up sufficiently for me to download the long-awaited Software Developer Kit for the iPhone (and iPod touch, just by the by). In a way, I hate developer-oriented announcements — "here's a really cool thing we're working on, and it's available now, and hoi polloi can have it in about six months". Actually, it's the six months I hate.
