Looking to barge into the market currently dominated by the likes of Aperture, Lightroom and ACDSee is Corel’s new AfterShot Pro software for photo management and editing.
Adobe has shown off a public preview of its snazzy new web motion and interaction design tool, Adobe Edge.
Available in Adobe Labs, the software lets users create animated content using web standards like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, and is being billed as the first professional-grade HTML5 editing tool on the market.
Previously only available as a Photoshop plug-in for Mac and Windows – and as a spiffing iPhone app – Athentech’s award-winning Perfectly Clear imaging software is now available for the Apple iPad.
Reviewed back in January this year, the high end photo management tool ACDSee has long been our tool of choice for organising our photo collections, and a fairly substantial free update has just been released.
We’ve been using the cloud-based Google Docs for some time and have appreciated its ability to let us create, share, and collaborate on documents online.
Google have now announced a series of fairly substantial updates to the service,k including Google Wave-esque, real-time, character-by-character editing for multiple users, as-you-type spell check and a commenting system.
We’re typing this using CreaWriter, a free Windows text editor designed to “increase your productivity and creativity” by decluttering your screen and covering up your endless flashing widgets, Twitter feeds and IM distractions.
Opening up to fill your screen with a suitably soothing sunset image, the minimalist interface aims to serve up a distraction free environment, with only the orangey sunset hues and the sound of gently trickling water for company.
If your wallet won’t stretch to the outlandish sums demanded for top-line image editors like Photoshop, or your editing needs are more basic, it might be worth taking a peek at the lightweight StylePix editor.
Small enough to slap on a netbook or thumb drive, StylePix image packs a fair bit of image-editing power or most everyday tasks and comes with a price that’s sure to please: free. Oh, yes!
If you’re not mindful of re-mortgaging your house to get the latest copy of Adobe Photoshop, then the freebie Paint.Net application may be worth taking a look at.
The Windows-only image editor has recently been updated and now packs even more features, with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of handy tools for editing and tweaking your work.
If you’re getting mighty miffed by having to do battle with basic Notepad application that ships with Windows whenever you’re looking to do some serious text/code editing, then, EditPlus for Windows could be worth a look.
It’s been our numero uno choice for writing stories for this website for some years now, replacing the bloat of Windows Word while still offering enough tools and features to keep things moving along speedily.
The program offers a tabbed, multiple document interface with window splitting and spell checking, plus find and replace and case conversion.
Although it lacks some of the smartypants features seen in fully featured writing programs like Word (there’s no grammar checker to be seen, for example), we found the lack of distracting glitz and gizmos helped us concentrate on the writing.
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