TabletDraw 1.8.0
License - Shareware
Publisher - MooSoftware

Drawing with a tablet has always been a struggle. Typically, drawing programs (like most software) are designed to be used with a mouse. Tablet support is usually thrown in as an afterthought, under the theory that any pointing device will obey the same principles as a mouse. The result: an experience which only superficially captures the “feel” of a pen, while ignoring the subtle nuances.
Abandoning the traditional mouse-oriented paradigm, TabletDraw is designed from the ground up for use with a drawing tablet - specifically focusing on the realism of the drawing experience. Instead of setting brush thickness based solely on pen pressure, TabletDraw uses a combination of factors including speed and pen pressure to create a realistic pen-and-paper feel.The bottom line: If you can draw on a piece of paper, you can draw with TabletDraw.



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Slideshow Magic for Mac 6.0.1
License - Shareware
Publisher - BKeeney Software Inc

Whether you are a home user looking to make a photo album to share with family and friends, or a business professional looking to make a multimedia production, Slideshow Magic is right for you. Our presentation software allows users to save their slideshow as a video in any QuickTime compatible format!
Easily add an audio track to the entire slideshow, or add smaller audio clips for each segment. Include transitions with varying durations between slides, and even insert customizable titles! Toss out your old slide projector and give your old home photos that modern appeal!

Key Features
Unlimited number of frames
Complete UTF-8 support
Cross-platform compatible file format
Compatible with all major image formats
Hundreds of visual effects
Automatic image scaling
Numerous video codecs



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As I did with Image Viewers, I'm going to try to shed some light on a topic that deeply concerns not only professionals, but also amateurs and occasional users. After a year using Adobe Photoshop for retouching, clipping and adjusting digital photographs at work (I was part of the team which is in charge of developing the website for a well known artist in Buenos Aires, among other things) I came to know that there is a whole universe beyond the boundaries of this brand.

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one…" sang J. Lennon and I subscribe to that prerogative, I say yes! I want to be a dreamer! I dream of a world that freely shares, meaning they give and receive. You know what they say… good things happen to those who know to wait, and fortunately, I saw a little bit of my dreams come true the day I knew GIMP and GIMPshop.

GIMP and GIMPshop father and son
GIMPshop is a customized version of GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) which has been adjusted in its wording, appearance and menu structure to resemble Adobe’s application look and feel. As you can imagine, this image editing tool turned to be a very popular piece of freeware. The biggest advantage of being open source is that plugins and procedures run much faster than in similar commercial products, and they are also very expensive, on the contrary, GIMP and GIMPshop plugins and add-ons are developed within the user’s community that makes use of them. This fact brings a very important added value: there is always somebody who has already solved the problem that you are dealing with right now.

Thanks to the Deweirdifyer Plugin included in GIMPshop, which has been designed to put all the different windows into a single containing window, they do not behave as independent little programs any more, they act more like a single application. This software allows users to adjust a lot of parameters to fit their needs: transparency, colour, texture, thickness, anti aliasing, an a too-long-to-be-named etcetera list.

To what comes to menus and tools in GIMPshop, I may say that they are perfectly organized in two toolbars one for image editing tools: paintbrush, pencil, lasso tool, magic wand tool, zoom, move, rotate, scale, type tool, eraser tool, blur/sharpen, and much more; and the other for history, layers and channels as well as brush types, texture and gradients.

As said above, the users interface had suffered severe changes from the original GIMP, and this fact allows the use of many of Photoshop's instructive manuals just the same in GIMPshop, many others can be adapted by GIMPshop users through minimal effort as well. Read the rest of this entry »