photoshop

Turbo-charge your photos: Phoenix, Flickr, JPEGCrops and Qtpfsgui

Crave Part of a suite of avian-themed graphics programs, it's an online image editor that packs many of the powerful features of Photoshop, such as layers and masks. It's official: photographs are the new memories.

29 October 2008, 13:27

Sony Vaio AW: Introducing the 18.4-inch Blu-ray photo laptop

Crave Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is bundled in for all your image-management needs. Sony is seriously bringing it today: it's announced an 18-inch laptop, the Vaio AW. It features an 18.4-inch display with Adobe RGB colour management, which means your...

Tags: colour, ratio, adobe, inch

11 September 2008, 10:09

Optimus Pultius: Mini-OLED keyboard for big spenders

Crave you can attach the Pultius to your keyboard -- Maximus or otherwise -- and you'll be able to launch certain applications quickly or use some Photoshop shortcuts without memorising the key combinations.

Tags: keyboard, oled, optimus, maximus

23 July 2008, 9:29

Online image editors for blogging: Reviewed and rated

Crave Formerly Fauxto, Splashup looks very much like Photoshop. Image-editing behemoths such as Photoshop are clearly overpowered for this kind of grunt-work, especially when opening such programs involves launching it and then heading off for a three...

14 May 2008, 9:16

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

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

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

Flickr and Picnik: Online photo editing made even easier

Crave Paint.NET and Gimp continue to be mentioned as viable online -- and free -- alternatives to Photoshop. It's all go at Flickr at the moment. Having just tweaked their maps and launched a new uploader application for beta testing, the popular photo...

Tags: flickr, editing, account, resizing

10 December 2007, 10:44

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

Open-source software rated: Ten alternatives you need

Crave It's been in production for 12 years and is compatible with most of the commonly used image formats such as JPG, TIFF, PNG, BMP and GIF, as well as most Adobe Photoshop and PaintShop Pro files. You should care because the vast majority of common...

19 November 2007, 8:00

Crave Podcast 56: Is Photoshop evil?

Crave We've hit the studio for the 56th time to bring you another stonking episode of the Crave Podcast. In The Trial this week, camera expert Rich T claims Photoshopped images undermine the art and integrity of photography -- an opinion not shared by...

Tags: crave podcast, asus eee pc, crave, art

26 October 2007, 10:00

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

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