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Article | 20/06/2012 Hands-on with Ikea's Uppleva Smart TV furniture combo

Back in April, Ikea announced it was going to produce furniture in its Uppleva range that included a built-in smart TV, speakers and even DVD or Blu-r...

Article | 28/09/2010 Eizo ColorEdge CG303W LCD monitor

This 30in Eizo ColorEdge CG303W monitor has a high-quality IPS panel with a resolution of 2560x1600. While you can now get this resolution over 27-inc...

Article | 21/07/2010 Adobe to add iPad app-creation tools to InDesign

Adobe has announced the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/digitalpublishing/">Digital Publishing Solution</a>, the first stage in a new set ...

Article | 11/06/2010 Adobe InDesign CS5

With InDesign CS4, Adobe tried to turn graphic designers into all-singing, all-dancing creators of interactive projects - turning print layouts into b...

Article | 2/06/2010 Wacom Cintiq 21UX graphics tablet

Despite costing more than many workstations and being about as portable, the Wacom Cintiq 21UX is so much more than a sketchpad. It's an easel and a f...

Article | 8/03/2010 Digital Anarchy Beauty Box

We've all had to deal with footage where someone has skimped on a decent make-up artist and you've been asked to give some poor unfortunate a Max Fact...

Article | 15/02/2010 Datacolor Spyder3Studio SR

Let's not pretend that colour management is fascinating – still, it's not as dull as having to repeatedly colour-correct your work trying to get your ...

Article | 12/01/2010 Framestore goes to Where the Wild Things Are

One of the highlights of Spoke Jonze's film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are is the emotional depth of the Wild Things' performance

Article | 24/11/2009 Red Giant Mojo

Red Giant's Magic Bullet Suite is one of the most popular colour-correction tools on the market, combining sophisticated tools in the Colorista plug-i...

Article | 3/08/2009 GridIron Flow

When was the last time you bought a piece of software that changed the way you work? Launches of innovative tools that make a fundamental improvement ...

Article | 21/05/2009 DigiEffects Freeform AE

Digieffects' latest plug-in, Freeform AE, aims to bolster After Effect’s 3D toolset, allowing you to warp layers in 3D in a way that’s just not possib...

Article | 13/05/2009 Filter Forge

Filter Forge is — by quite a margin — the most powerful plug-in we’ve looked at here. That’s because it’s a tool for creating plug-ins, bo...

Article | 13/05/2009 Eizo FlexScan S2242W

With everyone watching their budget at the moment, including creative professionals who need a high-quality screen, the arrival of the Eizo FlexScan S...

Article | 7/05/2009 Digital Anarchy 3D Invigorator for Photoshop

There are many ways to add 3D elements to your digital artwork or illustrations, but none have been completely satisfying for the tasks that most arti...

Article | 23/04/2009 Luxology ImageSynth 2

ImageSynth 2 generates seamless textures from lower-resolution images.