photoshop

Tablets: still hard to swallow?

Crave Installing Photoshop and taking this Compaq on the road as a sketchbook is the one truly ingenious use we can think of for it. We've always been strangely attracted to Tablet PCs -- perhaps from some dim memory of our childhood Etch-a-Sketch.

Tags: tablet, compaq, handwriting, tablet pcs

15 March 2005, 13:51

Crave Talk: Google phone -- the path of a good rumour

Crave Is this just a case of mobile phone fanboys having a copy of Photoshop CS2 and too much time on their hands? If Web rumours are anything to go by, Apple isn't the only multinational company getting into mobile phones.

Tags: google, products, samsung, mobile phone

6 March 2007, 10:53

Seven days of Vista -- day 1: Let there be new applications

Crave Paint Usually cast as the trampy cousin of Photoshop, Paint has been given a spruce-up. In the beginning, Lord Gates created all Windows and saw that they were bad. Windows 3.0 was rubbish so he said something along the lines of "Let there be 3.1...

Tags: microsoft, updated, solitaire, outlook express

23 January 2007, 11:21

Hands-on with the Wacom Bamboo tablet

Crave This active area has a slightly 'toothy' paper feel, so it's not glossy-smooth and feels more like paper when you're drawing on it.For those of us after cheaper drawing thrills than Photoshop or Illustrator, Firedoodle is a Firefox extension that...

Tags: wacom, paper, hand, pad

10 March 2008, 10:16

Mock OS X: Five ways to make your PC more like a Mac

Crave You can use virtual desktops to group together applications in particular batches, such as a home workspace with personal email, IM and music, a work workspace with work email and Excel, and an art space with Photoshop and Comic Life for Windows...

26 November 2007, 8:52

Crave Talk: How flash will destroy optical and magnetic storage

Crave There's also the advantage that expensive software -- we're talking industrial CAD stuff for example, not just Photoshop -- can be better protected against piracy when distributed on flash. As flash encroaches on more of optical media's territory...

21 January 2008, 10:53

Testing Windows Vista SP1

Crave However, when reading those same files from an external drive or writing them to the external drive, performance was the same as before or worse.In our image-processing test using Adobe Photoshop CS3, Vista SP1's performance was moderately quicker...

19 March 2008, 12:12

Motorola Razr V3im: Music makes me touch my phone

Crave We're happy to say that the mysterious new Motorola iTunes phone is no longer a mystery, thanks to Carphone Warehouse who sent it to us yesterday. Three days ago we were puzzled by the Motorola V3im's sudden appearance on the O2 Web site, not...

Tags: motorola, itunes, carphone warehouse, dedicated

5 May 2006, 15:54

Terratec Cinergy XS: Desktop TV

Crave Thanks to this little USB Freeview receiver, we've now got Trisha, Neighbours and This Morning on our desktop when it should be Word, PhotoShop and Outlook. If, like us, you find work an annoying distraction from doing much cooler stuff, then you...

Tags: terratec, media center, receiver, aerial

10 November 2005, 10:08

Special Feature: Bluff it as a fashion photographer

Crave We explain how to direct a model, and how to turn a good photograph into an exceptional one using the latest post-production tools like Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and Apple Aperture. Besides the shallowness and prodigious drug consumption, have you...

Tags: cover, fashion, photograph, adobe lightroom

10 November 2006, 15:47

Nikon D80: Gold! Always believe in your dSLR

Crave We'd rather download the original images to our computers and work on them in Photoshop, but maybe these features will be useful when you're travelling. The 70s was the kitschy decade that taste forgot, but in the 80s it all got so much worse.

Tags: nikon, eye, lens, inches

10 August 2006, 9:15

Hands-on with Sony Vaio CR20, TZ20 and AR50 laptops

Crave Like all the new Vaios, the CR series is geared up for use with all your media, and comes pre-loaded with Adobe Photoshop Elements to boot. When it's not producing proprietary media formats and expensive games consoles, Sony is crafting tasty laptops.

14 September 2007, 12:11

Crave Talk: Five things Apple made up

Crave With a Mac you can add more memory, and that's about it, meaning when Photoshop needs more power, you have to buy a whole new cheese grater. Put simply, these ads are everywhere, and are designed to remind us how cool Macs are, and how lame and...

Tags: apple, upgrade, pcs, ad

15 May 2007, 11:56