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Xenofex 2 is an updated range of Photoshop-compatible plug-ins from Alien Skin, the developer of Eye Candy 4000, one of the most popular filter collections and a personal favourite of ours. This was mainly down to its interface, which is thankfully shared by the new Xenofex collection.

FreeHand has had a long, distinguished career since its launch 15 years ago, but time has caught up with it. While Macromedia concentrated development on its Web-oriented MX applications, FreeHand was put on the back burner and fell seriously behind its main rivals CorelDRAW (see issue 60, p54) and Adobe Illustrator (see issue 51, p88). So, is this latest release evidence of further decline, or has FreeHand finally risen to the challenge?

Adobe Photoshop is so dominant when it comes to print and Web-based bitmap-editing that, in many ways, it has come to define the whole field...

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As futuristic technology concepts go, 3D screens have been right up there with the teleporter as an aspirational idea that could change the way we see the world, yet the idea still resides in the realm of the science fiction.

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Many of the Photo-Paint 10 functions for tweaking images are designed to work with a selected area of the image or a mask, as well as the whole image. This means you can concentrate the effect of a fi

Better sound for your laptop from Creative, plus the little white lies about its heritage exposed.

A blemish can be anything from a speck of dust to physical tears on an original photo you have scanned. A digital camera image shouldnt be so afflicted, but you may want to get rid of something you di

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