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Photo Manager Pro iOS App Review

Photo Manager Pro from Linkus is a universal iOS app for organizing and storing photos on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. Learn about the Pros and cons of this app and see if it might be something you can use.

Get Inspired with Gliftex

Gliftex is a random image genrator for Windows which allows you to easily produce designs for Web page backgrounds, desktop wallpaper, textiles, CD labels, scrapbooking, craft projects, and much more.

Wacom Intuos5 Graphics Tablet

Wacom's newest professional pen tablet, the Intuos5, features a new soft-touch black matte finish, multi-touch capability, a wireless connection option, and improvements to software. Learn about the pros and cons and features of this graphics tablet to see if it is right for your needs.

Wacom Inkling Review

Wacom Inkling is a digital ball-point pen which allows you to create digital sketches while working on standard paper or in a sketchbook. A wireless sensor records your sketches and allows you to transfer them to a computer for further refinement. Learn about how the Wacom Inkling works in this review.

Wacom Bamboo Graphics Tablets

Review of the Wacom Bamboo line of consumer-level graphics tablets including the Bamboo Connect, Bamboo Capture, and Bamboo Create.

Photoshop Elements 10 Review

Photoshop Elements 10 is the latest version of Adobe's photo-editing software for photo hobbyists. Photoshop Elements includes a full-featured photo editor, an integrated photo organizer, project layout templates, artwork and themes, and a number of sharing options. Learn about the new features in version 10 including visual searches, text on a path, and more.

Review of HDR Darkroom Pro

This review takes a look at HDR Darkroom Pro, a High Dynamic range app for Mac OS X.

Review of Photo Effect Studio

A review of Photo Effect Studio, an inexpensive creative photo editor for Mac OS X users.

Corel PaintShop Pro X4

PaintShop Pro photo editor from Corel offers a great deal of flexibility, and features that rival much pricier photo editors. It's affordable without being overly simplistic or limiting. Read this review and rating of Corel PaintShop Pro X4.

Corel Painter 12

Expert review of Corel Painter 12 creative art studio software for Windows and Macintosh.

Snapseed for iOS Review

Snapseed from Nik Software is an impressive photo editing app for iOS, which quickly topped the iTunes App Store sales charts after its release. Snapseed provides a number of useful image adjustments and high-quality photography effects.

FX Photo Studio Pro Review

FX Photo Studio Pro is a fun application for Apple Mac OS X users who want to add creative effects to their digital photos. This review looks at how effective a tool FX Photo Studio Pro is for adding artistic effects to digital photos.

FX Photo Studio HD Review

FX Photo Studio HD is an iPad app for applying hundreds of special effects and useful adjustments to your photos. FX Photo Studio HD provides 187 effects and adjustments as well as common photo editing tools such as crop, rotate, and flip.

PiRAWnha Raw Image Processor App for iPad

PiRAWnha is a raw image processing app for the iPad. It can open raw camera files and apply various adjustments and then save the processed photos to a number of common image file formats.

PhotoRaw Raw Image Processing App for iOS

PhotoRaw is a simple yet effective raw image viewer and converter for iOS. PhotoRAW is a universal iOS app which allows you to view and develop raw camera files by adjusting exposure, brightness and contrast, then export the processed file.

Artify iOS App Review

Artify from Kodama Studios is a simple and easy-to-use iPad app for applying impressionist painting effects to your photos. Learn more about Artify in this hands-on app review.

ArtRage for iPad Review

ArtRage offers a number of painting and drawing tools with adjustable settings, and flexible canvas options for creating art work. The user interface is well-designed and does not get in the way of creativity.

Cinq Photo - Free Photo Sync App for iOS

Cinq Photo is a free app that lets you access photos stored on your computer(s) from your iOS devices, and also automatically transfers photos from your device(s) to your computer. Cinq Photo is a universal iOS app, so it works with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. It requires a small server program (which is also free) running on your Mac or Windows computer.

Adobe Nav Photoshop Navigator for iPad

Adobe Nav is an iPad app which directly communicates with Photoshop over a WiFi connection. With Adobe Nav, you can use the touch screen of your iPad to select tools and documents in Photoshop while it is running on your computer.

Adobe Color Lava iPad App Review

Adobe Color Lava is an iPad app for interactively mixing colors and creating color schemes. Color Lava can directly connect to Photoshop via WiFi to change the foreground color, and can transmit color schemes directly to the Photoshop swatches palette.

Adobe Eazel Painting App for iPad

Adobe Eazel is an iPad painting app that allows you to connect directly to Photoshop over WiFi and send your paintings to Photoshop at four times the resolution . It offers a watercolor-like painting experience with a unique user interface which is navigated by gesturing with all five fingers.

Adobe Photoshop Express App Review

Photoshop Express is Adobe's free app for editing photos on your iPad, iPhone, or iPad touch. PS Express offers a small set of fun and useful photo editing tools with an easy-to-understand user interface. It also works with built-in cameras on the iPhone and iPod touch, and the Photoshop.com online photo service.

Adobe Ideas Drawing App for iOS

Adobe Ideas is a vector-based digital sketchbook app for iOS offering a simple user interface designed for quickly sketching out ideas and concepts.

Procreate for iPad Painting App

Procreate is a new digital painting app specifically designed for the iPad. Procreate offers exceptional performance, an elegant user interface, layers support, and the ability to import and create your own custom brushes--a feature not available in any other iOS art apps to date.

ArtStudio Art App Review

ArtStudio is an intuitive, yet advanced, art app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. It offers a large number of brushes and tools, plentiful options, layers support, filters and effects, and a well-designed user interface.

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