Come version fourteen, you have to suspect that there's not too much else you can add to a program to fundamentally alter the way it works, and the way you interface with it. That proves to ...

Digital Workshop's Opus series has for many years incorporated a range of interactive tools to embellish applications and databases of all shapes and complexities. Each upgrade has been carefully developed in response to user enquiries (for ...

Not so long ago, a decent video camera cost the best part of a grand. Now you can pick one up for a fraction of that price, and moreover even cheap normal cameras and some mobile ...

Corel continues its mixed Roman/Arabic nomenclature with version X4 of the CorelDraw suite. The new release contains the vector drawing program itself, plus Corel Photo-Paint X4 for photo editing, Corel PowerTrace X4 for tracing bitmaps in ...

It perhaps goes without saying that the digital photography revolution has brought us a booming demand for storage space. But there's another alternative to adding ever-larger hard drives to your system, and that's to employ image-centric ...

This sounds like an inspired idea. You take your TomTom GPS navigation system and, when you're on those long hauls down the motorway and you need to keep the kids quiet in the back, you convert ...

There's not a dramatic difference between Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11 and 11.5, as testified by the fact that this new version is available as a free upgrade for those who own the earlier one. That upgrade ...

This image editing package is a cut-down version of its more complex big brother, Painter X. Think of it as a far more budget-priced and user friendly program, with much the same remit: to allow you ...

There's no escaping it. The greeting card industry has convinced us all that no notable occasion - ranging from Christmas, Easter and weddings to Father's Day, Mother's Day and Valentine's Day - can pass without a ...

Painting programs that support natural media - which can simulate painting with watercolours and oils or drawing with charcoal and crayons - are not thick on the ground. Those that cost around £20 are translucently thin. ...

Light's quite an important thing. If there weren't any light, the world would be one giant game of blind man's buff. And musical chairs would be unthinkably dangerous. Without light, photography would be unquestionably dull: "This ...

Even the keenest home video enthusiast is unlikely to pull £500 from a pocket for a copy of Adobe's premium video editor, Premiere Pro CS3, so it was a good idea for the company to introduce ...

In an era where company after company seems to be cutting corners, Serif surely deserves a mighty pat on the back. Its Home Creativity Suite 2008 pack not only comes in a sturdy box, but it ...

Sony's Vegas Movie Studio Platinum Edition offers an uncomfortable glimpse into the latest tactics from software publishers to get you to register your software. The main Movie Studio Platinum 8 application, one of the very best ...

Apple's iLife suite comes free with each new Mac sold, but is also available as a standalone package. The new version, designated iLife '08, has been heavily revamped, with major rewrites to the core applications iPhoto ...

Without giving a history lesson, but for the benefit of those whose life has more exciting things in it than tracking the evolution of software companies, Paint Shop Pro was acquired by Corel a few years ...

Hidden within the depths of Microsoft's assorted Web entities, with an eye firmly on the success that Google has enjoyed with a similar set-up, is the online presence of Microsoft Live Labs. This is where a ...

Thanks to the arrival of the computer, the days when architects and manufacturers spent hours painstakingly drawing floorplans and exploded diagrams by hand are virtually gone. However, computer-aided design packages have often been prohibitively expensive, thus ...

If God made the human race in his own image, the question is, did he use Photoshop to air-brush out any rough edges? Or was he - or indeed she - more of a shareware sort ...

A recently-released Mac tool that's moving into its new PC home, Roxio Crunch is an application designed to take video files and shrink them down to an iPod or mobile phone-friendly size. Assuming, given the drop-down ...