Stories by: Sally Wiener Grotta and Daniel Grotta

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    Adobe Premiere Elements 8 09/11/2009 15:20:00

    Premiere Elements 8 adds file organising and keywording, plus greater integration with Photoshop Elements, while making it much easier to edit and use videos in style.
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    Pinnacle Studio HD 14 04/11/2009 13:40:00

    Unlike Adobe Premiere Elements, Pinnacle is more rooted in traditional video editing methods used to produce professional-quality movies. Pinnacle offers deeper features for import, customisation, and export that will likely make it significantly more difficult for the novice to learn and use, but its free online tutorials are excellent at getting you jump-started.
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    Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 06/10/2009 15:20:00

    Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 delivers Photoshop's imaging power to consumers and hobbyist photographers in an easy, accessible tabbed interface.
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    SilverFast SE 11/09/2009 09:40:00

    Every scanner comes with software. That software allows the scanner to communicate with your computer, so you can scan your photos and documents, save them on your hard drive, e-mail or print them, and otherwise use them in your normal digital workflow. So, why should you consider spending more money to purchase SilverFast SE (US$49, free demo that adds watermarks) to replace your scanner's own software? Because it may possibly make the difference between okay scans and great ones.
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    PhaseOne Capture One 08/09/2009 13:40:00

    JPEG, TIF, RAW... file format names are the alphabet soup of digital photography and imaging.
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    ProShow Gold 11/08/2009 10:10:00

    Slideshows made from your own photographs or videos can be great tools for sharing information, marketing your company, creating family memories--or simply great fun.
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    Topaz Simplify 09/07/2009 16:00:00

    Photography is an art, but there's something stirring about natural media, such as watercolour, oil painting or charcoal line drawing.
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    Keep enlarged photos crisp with genuine fractals 04/07/2009 07:26:00

    A number of years ago, we were in New York City's Times Square, when we looked up and saw an enormous billboard with a photograph that was taken with a 3.2 megapixel camera. The picture was quite impressive--not just for its size, but for the quality — at least when viewed from more than a dozen stories below. The software used to enlarge that small 3.2 megapixel image to a Times Square billboard was Genuine Fractals (US$160, 30-free trial with watermarks).
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    Arcsoft Photostudio Darkroom 2 03/07/2009 13:20:00

    With the multitude of photos we all take, comes the need for a digital asset management program: a visual database that helps you catalogue, organise, and sort and find pictures more easily. Arcsoft Photostudio Darkroom 2, the new version of Arcsoft's photo-centric image editor, now includes a browser that tries to do the job for you.
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    Nik Color Efex Pro 3.0 11/06/2009 16:15:00

    Some special effects and filters are fun or useful; only a few become absolute necessities. Nik Software Color Efex Pro is in that latter category because it is not only one of the finest collections of Photoshop-compatible plug-in filters available, its quality and versatility make it almost indispensable.
 
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