Image Pro 9: Powered Desktop Publishing ProgramWritten by Granny's Mettle
Microsoft provided software carrying two CDs--- Digital Image Suite 9 and Digital Image Pro 9. It comes with wizards that walk you through process, and tutorials that help you get started right away. The software also includes thousands of design templates for creating projects for home, business, and even kids. What makes two applications different is integration of Digital Image Library with Digital Image Suite 9. With Digital Image Library, you can quickly import photos and at same time organize them with captions, keywords, descriptions and ratings. You can sort and search library to find photos fast, and provide a backup for your photos using archive wizard. It also has Photo Story Lite that lets Windows XP users turn their photos into videos with background music and narration. This makes sharing your photo slide shows by email or on CD-ROM and VCD effortless. On other hand, Digital Image Pro 9 has new features that work quite well with improved user interface. Users would definitely find application friendly and helpful, especially with more of tools available up front and out of closet, so to speak. Digital Image Pro 9 has following features available: Smart Erase- Removes objects from a photo while filling in area with background texture. This works well with fairly consistent background surrounding. Blending Brush- Conceals flaws and blemishes without affecting texture of area. Straighten and Auto Crop- Photos can be rotated and automatically cropped when you drag a horizon line. The better to trim extra canvas.
| | Using Photoshop and IllustratorWritten by Jelaine Macaraeg
Unless you have tons of money to burn, every consumer wants to be as smart as possible when buying their goods. We want value for our money. If there’s a cheaper alternative that can deliver same results, of course we would rather have that!Same thing goes with graphic designers and professional photographers who use digital imaging applications. One particular issue that has been quite a favorite in various debates and discussions is one that involves Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. When I first heard about it, I was a little surprised. I mean, both products are from Adobe, who takes pride in being world-leader in digital imaging, design, and document technology platforms for various consumer segments, so what’s big deal? As it turns out, debate is coming from people’s notion that Adobe Illustrator is cheaper Photoshop and because they can pretty much do what other does, they can be used as a replacement for each other. The truth is, Photoshop-Illustrator comparison is another case of comparing apples with oranges. Here we actually have two different programs having similar but not exactly same functions. Photoshop is for manipulating individual color pixels within a fixed bitmap. So if you need to create, modify and produce digital files, which are “photographic” in nature where whole image is part of a "fixed" pixel structure, or a bitmap, or if you need to prepare complicated color or black and white images for further processing in page layout programs for high resolution printing, Photoshop will work for you.
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