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Daily iPad App: Photogene

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 4th, 2011)

Unlike many, I didn't buy the iPhone 4S for Siri. It's nice to have a voice assistant, but what I really wanted was the camera. I shoot a lot of photos throughout the day using my iPhone and have been looking for a good image editor to complement its camera. Now with PhotoStream, I am no longer ...

Pixelmator releases ... an iPhone game called Flapcraft

by Mike Schramm (Aug 25th, 2011)

I am a big fan of Pixelmator, the excellent image editor for the Mac, and was surprised to see that team's latest project: an iOS game called called Flapcraft, which hit the App Store today. Not surprisingly, the team used Pixelmator to create the game's look. What a clever way to show off your ...

Pixelmator 2.0 announced, coming to Mac App Store later this summer

by Steven Sande (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Today, the Pixelmator team provided a peek at the next version of their namesake image editing tool. With the code name of Chameleon, Pixelmator 2.0 is a major upgrade that is expected to ship later in the summer of 2011. Anyone who has already purchased the app via the Mac App Store for US$29 ...

FX Photo Studio now for Mac OS X

by Mel Martin (May 16th, 2011)

I took a look at FX Photo Studio on the iPad earlier this year and gave it a positive review. Now the app has migrated to the Mac App Store, so that users who want to work on a desktop or laptop Mac can modify, adjust and remake their images using similar tools to the iOS versions. I've been ...

Plasq brings Comic Life to the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 4th, 2011)

Comic Life, the popular Mac application that takes your photos and lets you turn them into a comic book, is now available on the iPad. The iPad version launched late last week and includes several features of its desktop counterpart, including templates, balloon controls and social network ...

Free Photoshop Express 1.5 for iOS adds Retina Display support and more

by Mel Martin (Jan 25th, 2011)

Adobe has updated Photoshop Express for iOS 4.2 devices, and it now supports the Retina Display for better quality images. The app is faster and more responsive and adds background uploads and multitasking support. The app provides a limited subset of Photoshop functions, like crop, straighten, ...

Comic Life 2 for Mac delivers more thought-balloon fun

by Michael Rose (Dec 10th, 2010)

From time to time, I'm asked to name my favorite Mac app -- as if such a designation was even possible (I love you all equally, kids, don't worry). If you pushed me and narrowed the question a bit to, "Is there a Mac app that you keep coming back to when you have to create something cool in a very ...

Skitch leaps out of beta, 1.0 available now

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 7th, 2010)

Since it debuted in beta form at Macworld Expo in 2007, Skitch has become a favorite Mac utility for many, many people. It's great at grabbing screenshots, adding annotations and notes, and sharing them on Skitch.com, Flickr, Mobile.me or even your own server. We've waited three years for a 1.0 ...

Adobe's Premiere Elements now available for Mac

by Dave Caolo (Sep 21st, 2010)

Adobe has released Premiere Elements for the Mac. Premiere Elements is Adobe's consumer-level image and video editing software, and this is the first time a Mac version has been released. This release -- version 9 -- offers some pretty cool features, like optimized editing of HD video and those ...

Using iWork as an image editor

by Sang Tang (Sep 19th, 2009)

I recently noted the image-editing functionality of Preview.app, which can act as a "good enough" image editor for many that don't have access to Photoshop. While it's difficult to argue with the free price tag, Preview is not without its limitations. Fortunately, many of these limitations are ...

Making the most of Preview.app for image editing

by Sang Tang (Sep 17th, 2009)

Inspired by Bear Grylls's (of Discovery's Man vs. Wild) "make the most out of your situation" scenarios, I present you with a tutorial for making the most out of Preview.app. While not as powerful as graphics editing powerhouse Adobe Photoshop, Preview can oftentimes get you from Point A to Point B ...

Photogene is a photo genius for your iPhone

by Mel Martin (Jun 13th, 2009)

In my recent review of AutoStitch I mentioned Photogene [App Store] which is kind of like a miniature Photoshop for the digital pictures you take on your iPhone. It has a boatload of functions, which will let you fix and enhance your digital images without having to offload them to another image ...

A Splash of color from Colorsplash

by Mel Martin (Feb 17th, 2009)

I'm continually amazed at the high end functionality being displayed by various photo apps for the iPhone/iPod touch. We've seen panorama creators, and image sharpeners, just to name two. A good example is ColorSplash [App Store link] a $1.99US app that brings some of the sophisticated controls ...

Pixelmator hits 1.0

by Nik Fletcher (Sep 25th, 2007)

Long-fabled image editor Pixelmator (arguably one of the hottest, and most discussed Mac applications of the year) has finally left beta testing, and version 1 is available to download and buy. Compatibility with layered Photoshop PSD files (and over 100 other file formats too), Core Image-driven ...

Quickly edit photos with Picturesque

by Dave Caolo (Apr 24th, 2007)

Acqualia has released a new utility for quick-and-dirty image editing called Picturesque. It allows you to add those snazzy reflections that are all the rage these days, as well as crop, curve, glow effects and borders. It could be quite handy for when you want to quickly edit an image for the web, ...