Serif PhotoPlus X3 is dubbed a ‘professional digital image editing solution' but one look at the price and the features it offers confirms that this is a piece of software set up for enthusiastic home users. ...

Despite its title you only have to take a look at the price tag to twig that Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus isn't really going to cut it playing among the big boys such as ...

If you're a design expert who's used to employing computer-aided design software to draft the latest architectural or mechanical plans to tight deadlines and exact specifications, then you'll be interested to know that the latest version ...

The latest version of Pinnacle's home video editing program again comes in three editions: Standard, Plus and Ultimate. Long time users will appreciate many of the small interface changes which make capturing, editing and producing home ...

Corel Painter is the leading natural media painting program for Windows and over the years its feature-set has expanded with each new version. Its range of brushes, markers and other drawing tools makes very good use ...

Ever since man, or indeed woman, could pick up a bit of charcoal and sketch stick animals on the inside of their cave, drawing has been a fond pursuit for those lucky enough to have artistic ...

The idea of a screen capture tool isn't new. There are plenty available and Windows itself can grab a complete screen with a quick press of the PrtScrn key. To be different, Techsmith's Jing has to ...

DivX is a video codec offering a high level of compression with good visual quality. It uses a version of lossy MPEG 4 compression, so there's some loss of quality when compared with uncompressed video, but ...

It's hard to remember what life was like before Adobe Photoshop revolutionised digital photography editing and the latest addition to the Photoshop family will undoubtedly be greeted with as much celebration as its predecessors. Targeted at ...

The big daddy video editing package in the Adobe range, Premiere Pro, is a costly beast, with the latest version bestowed with a price tag in excess of £1,000. But just as it does with its ...

If you're involved in training people to do things under Windows, whether it's using common applications, browsing the Web or changing Windows' settings, one of the most effective ways of teaching is using a video to ...

The video editing software market is pretty much split into two categories. There's the real high-end, professional editing software like Adobe Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro and then you have your dumbed-down home editing suites ...

Long one of the most under-appreciated video editing applications on the market, Sony's Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum is an exhaustive, comprehensive suite of applications that hopefully will reap the level of sales its continual critical ...

As if we needed more proof that effects that were once the sole domain of experts and whizz-kids are now actively in the hands of less experienced users, Morpheus Photo Animation Suite is a powerful yet ...

Roxio's Creator suite has been many people's digital media creation and authoring tool of choice for some time now, and is regularly updated to stay in touch with new developments. The 2009 edition has undergone a ...

One of a steadily-increasing stream of applications set up to tackle this particular task, Magix Movies2Go 3 exists so that you can take your media and crunch it down to a format and size that your ...

With yet another version of the trusty Adobe Photoshop Elements to add to the library, you could be forgiven for thinking that the sole purpose of this release - so relatively close to the launch of ...

The plethora of alternative video and audio formats, and the equal plethora of devices that support differing selections of them, can make the digital multimedia revolution a bit of a headache. Fortunately, meeting the avalanche of ...

A week, as they say, is a long time in politics and a year is an eternity in the software business. There was a time when WinDVD was the PC DVD player of choice, but since ...

Adobe Director is a multimedia design tool for creating all kinds of online media and standalone applications. It can be used for creating applets, games and e-learning programmes in Shockwave, though these can include Flash and ...