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Macworld
December 2002
Macworld Staff |
Boris Red 2.5 Compositing and animation app adds rotoscoping and painting to your video-editing program   |
Macworld
November 2004
Ben Long |
After Effects 6.5 Professional Animation presets are a long-overdue addition for easing workflow and creating uniform animations and looks. Adobe has sweetened the feature by including 250 animated text presets. While canned content often looks tacky, these professionally designed effects are of very high quality. |
Macworld
July 26, 2007
Jeff Foster |
After Effects CS3 Professional Adobe's new software for motion-graphics and animation production offers many innovative and creative new tools will keep you coming back for more. |
Macworld
April 17, 2006
Ben Long |
Adobe After Effects 7 Professional This latest update from Adobe is an extremely complex program, but the new interface does an excellent job of organizing and presenting the overwhelming number of controls. |
Macworld
June 27, 2007
Peter Kirn |
Motion 3 3-D, paint and motion-tracking features add new depth to graphics tool. |
Macworld
July 2002
Ben Long |
Compositing and Rotoscoping Software Provides Amazing Tools, Innovative Interface Although Combustion, Discreet's low-end compositing and rotoscoping system for video and film, is an entry-level product, it's an incredibly powerful tool built around the same technology as the company's higher-end packages. |
Macworld
May 2002
Ben Long |
Update Shows that If It Ain't Broke, You Should Fix It Anyway It's surprising to see how much Adobe managed to fix, tweak, and add to the program, producing After Effects 5.5 -- an important upgrade that also adds OS X compatibility and a slew of workflow improvements... |
PC Magazine
October 1, 2003 |
Adobe's Video-Editing Power Play Video editing on the PC is finally hitting its stride. It's no wonder that Adobe, whose Photoshop line is synonymous with image editing, is trying to stake a similar claim with video. |
Macworld
August 2001
Jim Heid |
After Effects 5.0 Video-effects powerhouse gains 3-D, painting, and Flash support... |
Macworld
November 2000
Kelly Lunsford |
Web Animation Tools Web-Banner-Design Programs Pit Price against Function... |
Macworld
May 18, 2005
Ben Long |
Shake 3.5 Compositing program provides fine control, difficult learning curve |
PC Magazine
April 26, 2007
Galen Fott |
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Photoshop once again shows us why it's the single most important tool in the field of computer graphics. |
Macworld
April 23, 2007
Greg Miller |
Photoshop CS3 Extended New tools target architecture, engineering, science, and medicine. |
Macworld
September 2000
Galen Fott |
Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Reigning Drawing Program Offers Revolutionary Flexibility and Conjures Live Effects to Die For |
Macworld
May 2001
Galen Fott |
eZ-Motion 1.0 Web animation tool is easy to use, easy on your wallet... |
Macworld
February 2001
Galen Fott |
Combustion 1.0 Powerful but Expensive 3-D-Compositing Tool Fires Up the Mac... |
Macworld
June 22, 2005
Ben Long |
Illustrator CS2 Adobe's Illustrator CS2 may have its little annoyances, but it's a great program. The new Live Paint and Live Trace features and new filter capabilities are well worth the upgrade. |
Macworld
October 26, 2005
Ben Long |
Shake 4 Shake 3.5 users will definitely want to upgrade for the new 3-D features and the stabilization and time-remapping tools. For new users, Shake 4 may be overkill -- such as if your compositing work consists mostly of motion-graphics-type chores. |
PC Magazine
December 8, 2003 |
Indispensable Software at an Irresistible Price Adobe Creative Suite gives you new versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and GoLive. You also get Acrobat 6.0 Professional and the company's new file-management utility, Version Cue. |
PC World
May 2005
Alan Stafford & Diego Aguirre |
Adobe's Creative Evolution Creative Suite 2 offers numerous improvements, especially to Photoshop. However, other software that comes with the suite seems experimental. |
PC World
August 2003
Alan Stafford |
Corel's Stellar Painter 8 Makes Art Easy Software allows realistic on-screen brushstrokes and provides a wealth of creative options. |
Macworld
April 27, 2007
Ben Long |
Illustrator CS3 A few new features make a huge difference. |
Macworld
July 2002
Martin Gittins |
Adobe's Interactive Web Animation Tool Adds Scripting Power but Fails to Catch Flash Thanks to the addition of full-featured scripting tools, OS X compatibility, and a long list of impressive enhancements, version 2.0 of LiveMotion is at last a mature program -- even if it's still playing catch-up to Flash. |
PC Magazine
September 2, 2003
Luisa Simone |
Clean Up Your Image Adobe Photoshop is still the gold standard for image correction and enhancement. But it is difficult to justify buying a $600 software package to edit photographs captured with a $300 camera; hence the demand for midlevel image-editing programs. Here's a review of several of these. |
PC Magazine
November 6, 2008
Galen Fott |
Adobe Photoshop CS4 If you thought the king of image editors couldn't get any more powerful, think again. Find out about the amazing new features. |
Macworld
July 2003
Ben Long |
ZBrush 1.5 Package lets 2-D artists break in to the third dimension |
Macworld
February 2004
Ben Long |
Adobe Illustrator CS New version focuses on typography, gets cool 3-D features |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2012
Grotta & Grotta |
Preview: Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Touch Apps for Android A new product suite for tablets is just the start of Adobe's move from desktops to clouds. |
Macworld
April 2002
Ben Long |
All-in-One Graphics App Has Important New Features Canvas brings together drawing, painting, page-layout, business-presentation, and Web-design applications in one package. The latest version, Canvas 8, has an improved tool set, new scripting features, and important interface improvements, and it's Carbonized for OS X... |
Macworld
September 2004
Ben Long |
Combustion 3 Discreet's Combustion has already earned a loyal following, thanks to the compositing software's unusual interface and powerful features. Version 3 features new effects and editing capabilities. |
Macworld
May 8, 2007
Cyndy Cashman |
Fireworks CS3 New CS3 family member makes designing Web sites easier than ever. |
Macworld
March 2002
Ben Long |
Illustrator 10 Adobe's upgrade is very good -- despite some letdowns... |
Macworld
April 19, 2007
Jim Heid |
Photoshop CS3 Photoshop CS3 is the best, most full-featured image-editing program available for photographers and designers. |
PC Magazine
May 4, 2007
Galen Fott |
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Since it bought the competition, Adobe could have grown complacent with Illustrator CS3. It hasn't: The new Illustrator is the best one yet... Adobe Flash CS3 Professional... Adobe Fireworks CS3... etc. |
Macworld
November 2000
Ben Long |
Commotion 3.0 Top-of-the-Line Rotoscoping Tool Adds Powerful Compositing Features... |
PC Magazine
April 12, 2010
Matthew Murray |
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended With this newest version of the world's most popular image editor, Adobe proves yet again why nothing compares with Photoshop. |
Macworld
January 31, 2007
Sean Wagstaff |
Maya Complete 8.5 This is a powerful, 3-D modeling, texturing, and rendering application, with all of the tools needed to do nearly every type of animation imaginable, from simulations of real-world physics to character animation with a wide spectrum of emotive expressions. |
Macworld
March 2002
Simon Danaher |
Corel Graphics Suite 10 Bundle for pros and enthusiasts provides great value... |
Macworld
June 20, 2005
Jim Heid |
Adobe Photoshop CS2 Adobe's Photoshop CS2 is packed with innovations that make it the most significant Photoshop upgrade in quite a while. If you're serious about digital imaging, you need it. |
PC World
August 1, 2000
Alan Stafford |
A Pixel's Worth a Thousand Words Inexpensive image editors promise to deliver Photoshop-like power at a much lower price. We zoom in on the best of the batch. |
Macworld
January 2001
Bruce Fraser |
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 Upgraded Standard Puts Pixel Power and Vector Precision in a Slick, Flexible Package... |
Macworld
August 2002
Bruce Fraser & Ben Long |
Image Editor Emerges for Mac OS X, Provides Handy New Features for Every User Adobe Photoshop has a depth and maturity that few other applications can match, and its latest iteration, Photoshop 7, not only offers Mac OS X support but also makes the program even more helpful for OS 9 and OS X users alike. |
Macworld
May 2003
Andrew Shalat |
Expression 3 Illustration program combines vectors, rasters, and something that has been missing -- fun |
PC Magazine
January 18, 2006
Galen Fott |
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3 is an excellent choice for budget-minded professionals and business users who need powerful graphics tools at an affordable price... CorelXARA Xtreme... |
Macworld
February 2004
Jackie Dove |
Adobe Photoshop CS At the core of Adobe's Creative Suite strategy is the unity, integration, and simultaneous release of its major design applications. Photoshop CS (version 8) is a broad and deep upgrade to the company's anchor image editor. |
PC World
May 2002
Alan Stafford |
Adobe Photoshop 7: Get Ready to Paint Latest release gets new painting tools, but isn't a critical upgrade unless your operating system is new... |
PC Magazine
March 16, 2005
Ben Z. Gottesman |
Make Your Photos Great! Fortunately, digital photography's marriage of the camera and the PC has made it easier than ever to get our pictures to match our memories, or even to improve upon them. |
Macworld
December 2004
Sean Wagstaff |
Maya Complete 6 This isn't a radical upgrade. But for people who need an all-purpose visual-effects app, Maya Complete 6 packs a bunch of new features and improved usability, and it's still less expensive than most of its competitors. |
Macworld
October 2004
Galen Fott |
Toon Boom Studio 2.5 With so much animation power readily available at such a reasonable price, independent artists have the means to create the next 'toon boom with OS X compatible Toon Boom Studio 2.5 |
Macworld
December 2002
Galen Fott |
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 User-friendly image editor marries your digital camera to your Mac |
