Visual Defects in Images
What do you do with images that show scratches, dust, spots, pimples, wrinkles, or even the dreaded ex. Get Alien Skin’s Image Doctor 2.0. This Photoshop plug-in provides a set of five cool filters that clean up visual defects in digital images.

If a painted image tells your story better than digital pixels, Alien Skin’s Snap Art 2.0 is just the tool to convert photos to an image with that hand crafted look. Students, teachers, marketing and web designers can experience a variety of painting styles, with just a click of the mouse using Snap Art 2.0.

Do digital images capture the essence of your story, or do you pine for the days of film? For a story set in the 1970s, the look of KodachromeTM may help carry the story. For a gritty detective tale, Kodak Tri-XTM could set the mood. One tool that simulates film in [...]

Improving Digital Images
You have a digital camera, you’re snapping lots of pictures, but you’re not happy with the results. Someone took your Kodachrome away. O.k., lets be honest. You donated your Kodachrome and the remaining film after getting hooked on shooting digital. Yet, now you want that film look back without losing the [...]

Enhancing Image Sharpness
Adobe’s Photoshop CS4 is a sophisticated software program to enhance, and improve photographic images. It’s always interesting to come across various plug-ins that improve an already excellent product.
Alien Skin provides a Photo Bundle offering a range of plug-ins:

Blow Up
Bokeh
Exposure
Image Doctor
Snap Art

Parallels Desktop To Be AutoDesk’s Preferred Mac Visualization Software
AutoDesk and Parallels have partnered together to provide AutoDesk software to Macs. AutoDesk is a leader in 2D and 3D design, engineering and entertainment software. Parallels offers leading virtualization and automation software.
“Autodesk will now support use of AutoCAD software, AutoCAD LT software, Autodesk Inventor Professional software, [...]

Reading Outloud
Stuck in traffic, on a plane, or waiting for a meeting and you’re behind reviewing work, or keeping up on favorite blogs? Are you a visually  or reading impaired  individual? Want to take along that document, but not all 20 pages? Consider using iSpeech to download text, and read with your ears.

Put in the Dishwasher!
You don’t even want to know how many millions of bacteria can be found crawling around on keyboards, or what variety.  Yet SealShield offers a unique keyboard and mice.  Suspect the flu is starting to float around the office, or at home, just plop your keyboard and mice in the dishwasher.

Smooth Sailing for Macs
I am a Mac user, so I expect software to download easily and work seamlessly. Macs rarely stumble. Therefore, I expected Parallels 4.0 to work smoothly on my MacBook Pro. This utility software did not disappoint me.
I viewed Parallels tutorial video, which was very informative. In detail, [...]

Uses Photoshop to Revolutionize Web Design
To build sophisticated web sites, graphic artists can wrestle with HTML/XTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, PHP or Javascript, learn their tricky nuances, and then construct creative websites that must operate across different computer platforms and numerous web browsers. Basically, an artist’s energy must flow with an artistic glow, but make sure [...]