Adobe announced the upgrade to its best-selling collection of design software in April, with a view to begin shipping throughout the US in May and to UK customers by the end of June. This review is ...

A long time ago, when Windows were for cleaning not double-clicking, and lasers were something only referred to in episodes of Star Trek or very expensive Apple dealerships, a small American company by the name of ...

No matter what your home cinema set-up, you'll never obtain a truly cinematic experience. How would you possibly get popcorn that over-priced outside of the theatre foyer? And you'd need to set up some sort of ...

There has never been any dispute about which is the best of the photo manipulation packages available for professionals - Adobe Photoshop is the acknowledged king. But professionals and amateurs have been warming to Jasc's Paint ...

Microsoft's Digital Image Suite 10 finds the company once again attempting to take cash off people looking to get their digital camera and PC working in some kind of unison. While last year's version was certainly ...

British software developer Xara is well-known for its cheap, easy-to-use Web graphics software for home and business, such as WebStyle and MenuMaker. But its eponymous flagship product, Xara, is unusual in its universal appeal to everyone ...

VideoWave is one of the big three home video editing suites, and in terms of units sold claims to be the biggest. Roxio's latest version, VideoWave 7 Professional, includes three ways of creating videos: using the ...

Mention photo editing software down the pub and most of those 'in the know' will tell you how good they are with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. These are both fine programs, but there's another less ...

The original Illuminatus Opus was welcomed for its easy-to-use interface, its comparatively low cost compared to its rivals and a broad range of features that included 'triggers' for pre-loaded files and mouse moves, collision detection, rollover ...

It's slightly scary to realise CorelDraw has reached version 12, particularly if you can remember version 1. Not that there's much resemblance between the original CorelDraw and this latest, three-module graphics suite. The vector graphics application, ...

Studio is Pinnacle's home video editing software, sold on its own or bundled with a number of different products, sometimes with digital and analogue video editing hardware (see our earlier review here). It's all about making ...

Ulead's original DVD Workshop was a program we quite warmed to. Its objective, of helping you put together a DVD with relative ease, was easily managed. And, save for the occasional bit of clunkiness here and ...

The latest buzz area of computing, dictated down from Bill Gates' ivory towers, is media. More specifically in Microsoft's case, Windows XP Media Center, a version of the operating system that's designed to marry up functions ...

Not much time has elapsed between the launch of Adobe's first Photoshop Album and this, its second. Bypassing even the annual update route, here there's been a nine month gap, although arguably problems with the first ...

PhotoImpact is rarely spoken of in the same breath as Adobe Photoshop or Jasc's Paint Shop Pro. However, there's good reason to push PhotoImpact XL, the latest version of Ulead's product, well up there with the ...

While Avid will probably remain the system of choice for film and TV companies needing heavy-duty editing and fast turnarounds, Final Cut Pro has a rapidly expanding fan base among Apple-using filmmakers who are searching for ...

There are two good reasons why PagePlus has made it as far as this, its eighth incarnation. Reason one; it's far cheaper than some of its competitors (PageMaker, InDesign, etc.). And secondly, it's far easier to ...

Corel's Painter is probably the best-selling natural media painting software in the world. Used for everything from pre-visualisations in the movie industry to advertisement realisations and 'serious' artwork, it's the digital equivalent of a box of ...

Picture the scene. It's late at night and you're hunched over your keyboard, trying your amateur hand at movie producing. Smoke drifts lazily from a lit but untouched, half-ashen cigarette as you lovingly tinker with the ...

As with an increasing number of products from Ulead, there's much to admire about the company's new video editing solution, VideoStudio 7. From the colourful, friendly opening through to the layout of the main working screen, ...