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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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Far be it from us to suggest you need some photo-retouching, but on the off chance you want to give your Facebook portraits a little makeover, Arcsoft has released a free app that does just that. Perfect365 is a Facebook app that delivers a few “one click” portrait fixes, plus the ability to make several [...]

NOTE: This is the second of a two-part blog post that provides a glimpse inside a research lab at Xerox where scientists and imaging specialists are developing the latest technology.  You are invited to play with technology currently being developed and provide valuable feedback directly to the research team. The first post can be found [...]

The phrase, “in less time with half the effort” is appealing not matter what you’re doing (ok, there are some exceptions). But when it’s attached to a photo editing program, we’re definitely interested. That’s what Topaz Labs has done with their update to the Photoshop plug-in dubbed Adjust 5 that focuses on advanced color and [...]

If you are you’re in luck as DxO Labs recently announced their new DxO FilmPack v3.1 software that brings to digital “all the emotional impact of silver halide photography.” This silver halide simulation software adds 25 creative renderings and an improved user interface. FilmPack actually applies the characteristic tint, grain and rendering of a traditional [...]

Even with the best image stabilization technology, your camcorder and camera videos can suffer from some stomach churning shake. Normally, there’s not much you can do about shake other than endure it but software dubbed Mercalli Easy from proDad promises to fix that. It’s a $15 program and you can download a free trial here. [...]

To bring to digital images “all the emotional impact of silver halide photography,” silver halide simulation software from DxO Labs adds 25 creative renderings and an improved user interface. DxO FilmPack applies “the characteristic tint, grain and rendering of a traditional silver halide film type to any digital image, regardless of its source,” the company says. [...]

Mac owners looking for an alternative to Photoshop Elements might want to take a look at Pixelmator, now on version 2.0. Pixelmator is your standard photo editor, with the ability to perform basic edits and fixes such as cropping, red eye removal, etc. New for Version 2.0 are drawing and retouching tools, and a Content-Aware [...]