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 digital images is DXO [...]

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 convenience [...]

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 [...]

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.