"SILKYPIX Developer Studio 3.0 is awarded as the best RAW converter for digital images!"

Nowadays consumer digital cameras are very popular because of their ease of use. Unfortunately, consumer digital compact cameras have limited functionality that reduce the quality of the image and therefore produce inferior results.
These shortcomings could be: unnatural jagged edges, unnatural colours, over saturation, over sharpening, pixilation and excessive colour noise from high ISO photos.

In order to achieve better quality images, RAW photography has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years. Many enthusiastic (semi) professional photographers are demanding the best quality from their cherished images. As a consequence, photographing in RAW format bypasses standard factory camera settings and enables you to creatively explore the full potential of your camera.

Digital SLR cameras and high-end compact cameras offer the possibility to use RAW image formats, which is the native data received directly from the sensor. The SLR camera is a Single Lens Reflex camera. For further explanation, open document link located to the left at the beginning of the article entitled, "SLR camera."
Regular Consumer digital compact cameras tend not give the user access to the RAW data, as this is normally processed within the digital camera to produce an image in the more readily accessible format of JPG.

SILKYPIX is specifically developed for enthusiastic photographers and professional users. The software offers a professional colour management engine, including ICC profiles along side comprehensive development functions such as white balancing, contrast, sharpness, saturation, lens correction, image perspective and trimming (cropping), outputting and printing. The extended Adobe RGB colourspace is also supported.

A great logo design is critical to catching the attention of the world around you - Create and enhance your look with Logo Design Studio

Logo Design Studio offers the greatest range of designer tools to help you quickly and easily create an identity from your own library of uniquely branded logos and graphic images. By modifying or importing images, shapes, graphic objects and text, each professionally designed logo included in the software is able to produce thousands of unique results all in a matter of minutes! If your identity evolves or completely changes at any time, simply recreate a new company logo design at no additional cost.

The unmatched features of Logo Design Studio include:
>> Over 2500 logo design objects
>> Professionally designed high quality artwork
>> Over 500 industry based logo templates
>> Slogan and tagline resource library
>> Special effects such as Shadows, Blurs, Embossing & Frames

Don't be limited to a single logo design concept from an overpriced design firm. Get easy recognition of your name, image, symbol, icon or trademark using the flexible tools of Logo Design Studio, the #1 selling logo design software (based on NPD Techworld reporting from May 2005 - Present).

Creative Logo Design with Logo Design Studio - The #1 selling logo design software

Mandala Painter 3 is the only professional Mandala drawing program for Mandala artists, designers and for everyone who just likes creating kaleidoscopic images. Due to it's very simple yet powerful mirroring tools the drawing becomes entertaining and easy. Mandala Painter's user interface was designed as simple as possible keeping it's creative aims. Creating such images was never easier before.

Main features:
:: Automated rotated drawing and workflow designed specially for Mandala painting
:: User can create custom multipliers: spirals, tiling, etc.
:: Photoshop like Layer based painting.
:: Supports opening the following file formats: Windows Bitmap, Jpeg, Photoshop Psd, Tiff, Gif, Truevision Targa, Pcx, PhotoCD, Paint Shop Pro Psp, Png
:: Supports saving the following file formats: Mandala (Mandala Painter layered format), Windows Bitmap (with alpha), Jpeg, PNG
:: Rich Symbol library collected for Mandala decoration: Petals, Leaves, Spheres, etc.
:: Mandala export directly to Adobe Photoshop
:: Upload Mandalas to online gallery
:: Clipboard connectivity with other painting applications
:: Modern, customizable user interface with dozens of skins
:: More than one hour high quality world music included with integrated music player
:: Localized user interface: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian

Xara Xtreme is simply the best graphics software for all your drawing and day to day photo needs, ideal for both print and the web. If you're looking for drawing software then Xtreme is a perfect solution for everything from simple logos to astonishingly detailed illustrations. If you're working with photos then Xtreme will match your ambitions from simple one click auto-enhance of your photo through to awesome photo compositions. If you are looking for software for creating web graphics then Xtreme can help you produce all the graphics you'll need for your site, from eye catching Flash animations to smart and sharp navigation buttons. Whatever graphics you need and whatever your skill level, the famously friendly user interface and fast processing of Xara Xtreme will make it an absolute pleasure to be creative. And at a price that won't break the bank!

What`s new in Xara Xtreme Pro 4:
We're pleased to make available an early release of the new Xara Xtreme 4 and Xara Xtreme Pro 4 available to TalkGraphics forum users. This is a late Beta release. If you find problems please report them here, but please try and reproduce from scratch any problems and provide detailed step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce any issues.

We have not officially launched the product yet - that will happen next week.

Both Xtreme and Pro are being updated, and have a similar set of new features.

Headline New Features
An integrated, ultra-fast, non-destructive photo tool.
The world’s fastest, highest quality vector 3D extrude tool
Major text tool improvements, including real-time text flow around shapes
A new HTML 'website creation' feature. Build complete multi-page websites, with the world’s most advanced WYSIWYG page layout controls
New super-high quality vector and photo rendering
(Xtreme Pro only): Support for multi-core processors. This provides an average of 40% speed gain on a dual-core computer when rendering large or zoomed in images. The world's fastest graphics software is now even faster.

ArtRage 2.5 is a fun and easy to use painting tool for Windows and Mac OSX that lets you play with realistic paints on your computer. You can create your own paintings from nothing, load in photos and recreate them with oil paints, pencils, felt pens, or any of the other tools ArtRage has to offer. You can experiment with metallic paint for gold leafing, sprinkle shiny glitter, fill in large areas with the paint roller, and generally paint, smudge, and smear your way to your very own masterpiece.

Producing vector illustrations is quick and easy using the comprehensive drawing tools, but many of the advanced features which Xara pioneered - such as transparency and real-time anti-aliasing - can be applied to both vector and bitmap images. Rather than falling into the bloatware trap that is common with graphics products, Xara has concentrated on creating the world's best implementation of the essential toolset that designers really need, in order to ensure that working with Xara X can be both highly creative and very productive. As well as all the drawing tools you would expect, Xara X offers options such as automated shadows, bevels and contours, pressure sensitive brush stroking, multi-stage graduated fills and feathering.

Xara Xtreme can produce compact, highly optimized graphics, making it an ideal choice for creating web graphics, and with this in mind we have added a tools to aid in creating graphics for the web, such as a NavBar tool, image slicing capability and Dreamweaver integration. As the name suggests Pro includes additional features most likely to be used by professional designers.

Professional features :
• Xara3D 6 included
• PDF/X export
• RAW photo import
• XPS support
• Color separation support
• PANTONE® color support
Levels XPE plug-in
• Multi-page documents
• Short cut key configuration

ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle glitter, and more. You can paint with gold leaf, silver foil, and other metallic colors. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings. For the professional user, ArtRage also offers multiple Layers for painting, and layered PSD document import and export so you can easily use it alongside your existing tools.

Painting Tools
Each of the tools in ArtRage is designed to work like its real world counterpart (minus the smell of paint thinners, and that piece of glitter you just can’t get out of the carpet).Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in the real world. Many of the tools can be adjusted to give different effects. You can paint with thinned oils, use wet or dry markers, soften your pencil and control the hardness of the crayon, and much more.

Stencils and Rulers
Stencils and rulers let you make precise shapes and lines while still painting freehand.Place down as many stencils as you like, then paint over them and the paint will only touch the canvas through the holes.Lay down rulers and have the brush stick to their edges to create straight lines or smooth curves with any of the ArtRage tools.

Transform ideas into professional results with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4! With this comprehensive graphics suite, you can confidently tackle a wide variety of projects - from logo creation and Web graphics, to multi-page marketing brochures, or eye-catching signs.

CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite X4 lets you tackle creative graphics and design projects with confidence. Precision tools, market-leading file compatibility and high-quality content help you turn your creative ideas into professional results: from distinctive logos and signs, to striking marketing materials and eye-catching web graphics.
Plus, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 comes packed with additional applications and services to help meet your graphics needs. The suite truly offers the ultimate combination of superior design capabilities, speed, and ease of use for an affordable price.

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4 provides all of the graphics tools you need to:
• Illustrate. CorelDRAW® X4 is an intuitive vector illustration and page layout application. Whether you're a professional designer or someone who just wants professional results, CorelDRAW X4 gets you there fast.
* Powerful yet intuitive illustration tools let you quickly and easily create your designs
* Market-leading file compatibility with over 100 import/export filters, providing greater flexibility