Product reviews

Daz Carrara 7 Pro

Carrara 7, which is available in Express, Standard and Pro editions, aims to offer a fully featured 3D suite at an affordable price. We’ve looked at the Pro version here.

Topaz Adjust

Topaz Adjust offers a quick way to make images more dynamic, by manipulating their exposure, contrast and saturation using its swift workflow and more complete preset system.

Digital Anarchy ToonIt Photo

ToonIt Photo replicates a hand-drawn style well that almost all plug-ins do very badly indeed: comics – covering techniques from outlined to full graphic novel-style art.

Akvis Sketch 8.5

Akvis’ Sketch is the only plug-in we’ve seen that produces decent pencil drawing from images, though it’s let down by a wonky workflow and some bad bugs.

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Blogs

Who Tweets? A Twitter Census

February 16, 2009

American Twitter users are predominately young, poor, blog-centric, social-network-happy urbanites who like to read the news on their mobile devices, according to the The Pew Internet and American Life Project. The PIAP released a report Thursday called "Twitter and Status Updating" that discusses who uses Twitter or similar services, and how that choice impacts their daily life.

Digital Arts | Ian Paul | Read more...

How to change how iPhoto 09 resizes the Add New Faces box

February 16, 2009

iPhoto '09's new Faces feature works well, but sometimes misses faces in photos. If that happens to you, you can find the missing faces by clicking the Name button, then clicking the Add Missing Face button. When you do, iPhoto places a box around the face, which you the drag to resize to cover the entire face of the person of interest.

Digital Arts | Rob Griffiths | Read more...

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Featured news

Behind the scenes on the Ting Tings' new promo

All eyes are on the Ting Tings for their new promo; they turned to director Ben Ib, who we last saw creating a sultry, 40s-themed video for Kylie.

JVC details ProHD shoulder-mounted camcorder for Final Cut Pro

JVC has announced the GY-HM700, a new shoulder-supported compact camcorder that offers video capture in format natively supported by Apple Final Cut Pro.

Behind the scenes on the abstract graphical short Parks on Fire

Parks on Fire is the latest conceptual short from filmmaker and motion graphics artist Scott Pagano. We sat down with him to find out more about the creative process behind it.

Golden Square lets the wolf out for Eristoff Vodka

Luke Scott’s spot for Eristoff Vodka uses monochromatic cinematography to tell a tale of man and wolf, and features VFX work by Golden Square.

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Feature articles

Project: Rushes stakes out Demons for ITV1

Rushes’ title sequence, logo and ad-break bumpers for ITV1 show Demons take viewers on a gothic-inspired trip across London.

Group Test: Photoshop CS4 plug-ins

Ramp up Photoshop CS4’s creative power using specialized plug-ins – whether you’re after convincing lens effects or larger images, there’s one here for you.

Project: Unearthing Coke’s hidden formula

Bent Image Lab successfully merged stop-motion with CG, and the huge with the small, to create a sensational spot with real depth.

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Tutorials

Design amazing mosaic effects in Illustrator and Photoshop

Create a cool look using Illustrator’s Symbols and Global Colors.

How to create amazing animated characters in Illustrator and Flash

Create an animated character by harnessing the power of Illustrator and the flexibility of Flash.

3D text and paint effects in Photoshop

Make your message heard with stunning Photoshop painting and compositing techniques from Alex Beltechi.

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