Disk-imaging software can be put to many varied uses, and products like Drive Image prove particularly useful in our labs when upgrading to a new hard disk or for swiftly refreshing a test system.

When Symantecs Norton Ghost 2002 was released last year, it offered few improvements, with support for Windows XP the only significant addition. Not so with Drive Image 2002.

Without support for differential backups and with a light feature set, Norton Ghost feels cheap, nasty and dated.

True Image provides a simple but effective disaster-recovery system, with useful data backup facilities.

Another minor revision, but the addition of privacy functions further extends its impressively wide focus

Non-destructive image processing and creative filters feature in this comprehensive upgrade to the market leader.

For those who don’t own version 9, a few improvements should put this at the top of your shopping list.

Released already in the U.S. and due out here shortly, PowerQuest has announced Version 7 of its Drive Image software. Some significant changes have been made with the latest version including plenty of sensible features for offsite data storage and time and space saving.

An excellent release that reworks Photoshop’s core colour-correction capabilities, making them even more powerful

New image editing tools and a more powerful library mode makes Lightroom 2 compelling. It's also compatible with Vista 64-bit.

High-performance digital cameras are appearing thick and fast at the moment. Take the innocent-looking Fuji MX-2700 (reviewed issue 21) and the Sony CyberShot DSC-55E (reviewed issue 22, p95): both are slim and sexy, yet boast resolutions of over two megapixel and features by the truckload.

It sets out to create photo-realistic 3D models from 2D photos and illustrations, with the barest of tool sets and minimum user input.

The same excellent software under a new interface, but worth the price only if you didn’t buy it last year.

Efficient photo management and sharing, but let down by some surprisingly underpowered editing.

Webcams have been around for some time and they are now emerging as a truly accessible and useful device.

If you had asked me a few weeks ago what the advantages of eight megapixels (MP) were over five, I would have said very few. However, that was before I discovered the fun factor in being able to play with an image that is up to 115cm by just over 86cm (72dpi).

Easily one of the cheapest 60GB hard drive cameras, but its image quality is cheap too.

Released already in the U.S. and due out here shortly, PowerQuest has announced Version 7 of its Drive Image software.

With advanced packages such as the latest Photoshop (to be reviewed next month) Adobe is the leading software developer when it comes to traditional graphic design...

Image projection is more affordable now than ever. With prices dropping and quality increasing...