Your Digital Life

Corel is adding several new features to its Pinnacle Studio for iPad video editing app. What will you get? New fast-and slow-motion creative effects, updated title styles, faster performance and greater stability. The Studio app costs $12.99 in the apps store and the feature upgrade will be free to current Studio app owners. Using the app you [...]

As our virtual photo collections pile up, it’s getting increasingly more complicated to find, view and share the ones we want (unless, of course, you’re hyper-organized). ArcSoft’s Photo+ software helps you tame your photo collection: it’s a photo viewer that quickly and easily lets you see what photos are in a given folder by dragging [...]

Looking for a quick, easy, fun and inexpensive way to take your images to another level? Check out  PhotoFunia, literally an online photo fun house with hundreds of one-click photo templates that can do everything from place your image on the side of a city building to snuggling up close with your favorite celebrity. You [...]

In Hollywood it’s all about the look.  While today’s hottest celebs spend thousands of dollars and endless hours on perfecting that look, you can mimic all of them in seconds at InStyle.com. Using a head shot of yourself you can try on the newest celebrity hairstyles from short cuts and bangs to long party styles [...]

I’m sure you’ll agree that photo mosaics — on large photo comprised of dozens or hundreds of smaller ones — usually produce a very cool effect. You’ll probably also agree that the notion of creating one of your own seems a bit daunting. A site dubbed PicArtia can help you turn the trick in a three-step [...]

While smartphones are great for taking photos, it’s a lot harder to do any editing on their small screens. To address this problem researchers at the Adobe Imagination Lab have teamed with the University of Michigan to develop something called PixelTone – an app that would allow you to speak image editing commands to the computer [...]

Publishing and image software developer Serif recently updated their popular photo editing software program dubbed PhotoPlus X6 opening the $89 title to a broader range of photo enthusiasts.  The new version now allows photographers of any level to quickly and easily produce some truly unique and original image creations with a just a few clicks. Compatible [...]

There’s loads of image editing apps out there that allow you to instantly turn your images into some fairly interesting looking works of art and the latest that has crossed out paths is dubbed PicLab for iOS. The app lets you easily add typography, masks and other effects to your photos and share them across [...]

Digital photography has opened the door to all kinds of creative possibilities, even for those who don’t think they’re particularly creative or all that tech savvy. One such possibility is your own personalized coloring book. That is – a coloring book that uses your own photos as the subject. Kids love coloring books (as the [...]

Elizabeth Kartchner walks you through a few tricks to give your photos a ‘dreamy’ effect in Adobe Photoshop. Check it out!