By Michael Garmahis on June 7, 2010
RawTherapee is a Windows/Linux free opensource Raw image converter. RawTherapee features non-destructive editing with all the internal processing done in 16 bits/channel. Besides numerous RAW files from digital camers, RawTherapee also opens and outputs JPEG, (8 and 16bit) TIFF and PNG images. The main questions for RawTherapee: the quality of Raw conversion and how it [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on April 9, 2010
Photoshop CS5 new features look fantastic. Photoshop CS5 productivity and creativity enhancements will greatly speed up designers and photographers workflow as well as bring in new creative features to express your genius. Photoshop CS5 will include several groundbreaking new features such as new automated patching tools, new warping tool, highly improved edge detection in masking, [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on March 30, 2010
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is one of the best and easiest to use free panoramic photo stitchers. In a number of tests made by panoramic photography community, Microsoft ICE is 4-6 times faster that panoramic photo market leaders such as Hugin and Autopano Giga without compromise in quality. Microsoft ICE takes a set of overlapping [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on March 18, 2010
Illustrator free alternatives are great apps for editing and creating vector images. Some of these Adobe Illustrator alternatives have advanced features suitable for professional work with vector files while other is very simple tools to quickly create vector logo, diagram, illustration. The main advantage of the vector software in this review: it’s free unlike not [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on March 9, 2010
Topaz ReMask is an extraction tool on steroids which works easily and fast. Topaz ReMask can save you tons of time and efforts. With Topaz ReMask you can painlessly extract objects, change backgrounds, refine selections including complicated objects such as hair, fog, fur. You can use Topaz ReMask to create masks or just to separate [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on March 4, 2010
Most of the Photoshop features used by 90% of people can be found in free Photoshop alternatives. Believe me or not most users do not need to pay the huge price of Photoshop for basic editing needs like editing web images to be posted on Facebook or Flickr. Photoshop as a product is intended to [...]
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By Michael Garmahis on November 3, 2009
Topaz Detail is a new Photoshop plugin from Topaz Labs. As it name says Topaz Detail aims at increasing or decreasing level of details in the image. It also provides tone control based on color and crisp black and white conversions. It could be also described as Clarify slider in ACR/Lightroom on steroids but [...]
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