The most recent Image Editing & Management articles from Personal Computer World

Review: Apple Aperture 2

Ken McMahon — 2008-02-25T00:00:00.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Monday 25 February 2008 at 00:00:00

An impressive update to Apple’s advanced photo-editing application

Unlike Photoshop and other image-editing applications, Apple’s Aperture is primarily a photo-management application aimed at helping professional photographers sort, compare, file and print photos....

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Review: Enoetic Photology imaging software

Will Stapley — 2007-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Will Stapley, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 19 December 2007 at 00:00:00

A quick way to search your digital photo library

If you’ve got a large but disorganised digital photo library on you PC, Photology aims to help you quickly hunt down specific photos using a variety of search criteria....

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Review: Anthropics Portrait Professional 6 image-editing software

Paul Monckton — 2007-08-22T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Monckton, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 22 August 2007 at 00:00:00

High-quality retouching at an ultra-low price

Photo retouching is a time-consuming and highly skilled process that usually requires years of practice and considerable proficiency with applications such as Adobe Photoshop....

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Review: Magix Xtreme Photo Video Graphic Suite

Jonathan Parkyn — 2007-07-19T00:00:00.000Z

Jonathan Parkyn, Personal Computer World, Thursday 19 July 2007 at 00:00:00

A multimedia suite that goes for the bigger picture

Magix is best known as the seller of budget applications such as Magix Movies on CD and DVD or Magix Audio Cleaning Lab....

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Review: Effective Studios Site Studio 6 design software

Tim Smith — 2007-05-22T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 22 May 2007 at 00:00:00

An easy to use website creator for the Soho market

Not every company or organisation requires a website with the very latest Web 2.0 bells and whistles. With this in mind, Site Studio 6, from Effective Studios offers a more...

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Review: Serif Albumplus X2 image management software

Karl Foster — 2007-05-17T00:00:00.000Z

Karl Foster, Personal Computer World, Thursday 17 May 2007 at 00:00:00

User-friendliness and diverse photo-sharing options from this Vista-certified application

There’s a wealth of entry level image-management suites available, both as free downloads and commercial products, but that hasn’t stopped Serif pitching in with Albumplus X2....

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Review: Roxio Copy and Convert 3 media tool

Paul Lester — 2007-05-16T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 16 May 2007 at 00:00:00

A quick and easy way to create and manage your audio and video

Roxio’s Copy and Convert is effectively a cut-down version of its impressive Easy Media Creator suite, focusing specifically at format conversion and video and audio burning....

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Review: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom photo editor

Ken McMahon — 2007-04-12T00:00:00.000Z

Ken McMahon, Personal Computer World, Thursday 12 April 2007 at 00:00:00

A high-end image editor and organiser for adding the finishing touches to your photos

When Adobe announced the public beta of Photoshop Lightroom just over a year ago, there was speculation that the company was anxious to make up ground lost to Apple’s Aperture...

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Review: Magix Photos on CD & DVD 6 Deluxe multimedia authoring

Paul Lester — 2007-04-11T00:00:00.000Z

Paul Lester, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 11 April 2007 at 00:00:00

A decent collection of tools for creating, burning and managing your media

Photos on CD & DVD is something of a misleading title for this Magix multimedia suite. The Deluxe version we have on test is actually a powerful collection of tools...

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Review: Adobe Illustrator CS3 vector graphics software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-04-04T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 4 April 2007 at 00:00:00

The veteran drawing program still has a few new tricks up its sleeve

Adobe’s take-over of Macromedia was particularly beneficial for Illustrator. For starters, it meant that Adobe was able to jettison Macromedia’s Freehand, leaving Illustrator as the unchallenged king of the professional...

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Review: Reallusion Facefilter Studio 2 image-editing software

Karl Foster — 2007-04-02T00:00:00.000Z

Karl Foster, Personal Computer World, Monday 2 April 2007 at 00:00:00

If you’re in the mood to mess with someone’s face, here’s software that makes it a cinch

Photoshop artists spend many hours removing skin flaws from fashionable faces, encouraging the belief that the beautiful people don’t suffer from wrinkles, warts or weeping sores....

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Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 web design software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-03-28T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 28 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Adobe attempts to make Dreamweaver more appealing for non-programmers

When Adobe bought Dreamweaver – along with Flash and the rest of the Macromedia product line – it seemed fairly obvious that Adobe’s own Golive HTML editor was ready for...

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 overview

Cliff Joseph — 2007-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 27 March 2007 at 00:00:00

The latest version of Creative Suite has arrived

Well, Apple is going to be relieved about this. Mac sales are so dependent on Photoshop that sales of Apple’s Mac Pro machines have been suffering because of the long...

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Review: Adobe Photoshop CS3 image editing suite

Cliff Joseph — 2007-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Tuesday 27 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Get the credit card ready for the latest version of Photoshop

The first thing to mention about the new version of Photoshop is that there are actually two of them - Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop CS3 Extended....

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Review: Corel Painter X image-editing software

Cliff Joseph — 2007-02-14T00:00:00.000Z

Cliff Joseph, Personal Computer World, Wednesday 14 February 2007 at 00:00:00

Versatile but complex painting package

Painter is an amazing piece of computer graphics software and provides a vast range of tools for simulating the appearance of natural painting materials, such as watercolours and oil paints....

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