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Monday, February 14, 2011

CHAPTER 4: SPECIALIZED APPLICATION SOFTWARE

THE TOP 5 IMAGES EDITING APPLICATIONS CURRENTLY OUT IN THE MARKET

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1)  Photoshop
Not surprisingly, Photoshop is the winner by a landslide, garnering over half of all the total votes. Photoshop is what comes to mind when image editing is involved there’s very little that can be said about it that hasn’t been said already.
With an insurmountable amount of features that help you manipulate and enhance photos as well as create web graphics, all while helping you manage your workflow and image editing environment – Photoshop comes in at numero uno as the best image editing software currently in the market.


2)  GIMP
GIMP – which stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program – is a feature-packed and powerful open source image editor that can be used in all major operating systems (Linux, Mac, and Windows). It has a customizable interface so that you can easily set the view and behavior of GIMP.
It has a huge set of retouching tools that will allow you to perform advanced image retouching and manipulation. The GIMP outputs your work in many common formats like JPG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and even PSD (Photoshop’s native file format).
 
3)  Fireworks
Fireworks is Adobe’s image editing software for the web designers. It excels in several areas over its big brother Photoshop, namely in high-fidelity prototyping of sites and a workspace environment that’s optimized for web designers. It is also a raster and vector hybrid, being able to work with raster-based images and vector-based graphics better and more symbiotically than Photoshop.
Fireworks is a popular tool of choice for many web designers and was once voted as one of the top tools for web designers.
 

4) Inkscape


Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor much like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, and Xara X. Its default file format is web standards compliant Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) under W3C’s specifications. Want to learn more about what Inkscape has to offer? Check out this list of articles and presentations about Inkscape.

  1. Pixelmator is a fast and powerful image editing software for the Mac operating system. With its intuitive and beautiful Graphical User Interface (GUI), support for layers to organize your document, a large assortment of painting tools, and simple-to-use photo correction tools. Pixelmator is an excellent pick for Mac users who don’t quite need the features (and price tag) of Photoshop.   



2011 BEST AUDIO EDITING SOFTWARE

1) Magix music maker

With this application, users can arrange, edit, build and mix tracks with intuitive, easy-to-use tools that provide a precise, professional audio editing experience. With an expansive set of resources, including built-in help resources, tutorials and online knowledge bases and forums, users receive detailed instruction and tutorial to guide them from the initial import to the eventual export. The set of tools, features and applications makes embellishing, editing and even creating new tracks from scratch an enjoyable experience that is built to accompany to users familiar with audio editing and production software and those trying it for the first time.



2) WavePad

WavePad Sound Editor receives great marks, maintaining simplicity of use without sacrificing its potential for editing, modifying and ultimately, transforming tracks into rich and complex songs. For these reasons and more, this sound editor is among the best audio editing software



3) Dexter Audio Editor

Dexster Audio Editor software, from Softdiv Software, may not offer as many editing tools as Magix Music Maker, but it makes up for it in ease of use. Anyone can use this product to pull audio from video files, convert formats, record from the internet, add effects, filter or burn CDs.



4) GoldWave Digital Audio Editor

GoldWave is a great audio editing software package. With an easy to use interface and quick results, this is a great choice for people interested in basic audio editing. It did not rank better because the graphics were not as impressive as the top-rated and it lacked a few key features.



5) Blaze Media Pro

Blaze Media Pro is a multimedia product that can just as easily function as a video editing and media management program as it can anaudio editing software program. The program alone has its fair share of merits,  but with its additional video and multimedia abilities, many of the missing audio editing features are made up for.



Video editing software, also known as Non Linear Editing (NLE), is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. NLE systems replace traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analogue video tape-to-tape machines.
NLE software is typically based on a timeline interface paradigm where sections of moving image video recordings, known as clips, are laid out in sequence and played back. The NLE offers a range of tools for trimming, splicing, cutting and arranging clips across the timeline. 
As digital NLE systems have advanced their toolset their role has expanded and most consumer and professional NLE systems alike now include a host of features for colour manipulation, titling and visual effects, as well as tools for editing and mixing audio in conjunction with the image

Once a project is complete the NLE system can then be used to export to movie in a variety of formats in context which may range from broadcast TAPE formats to compressed formats for the internet, DVD and mobile devices.


2011 5 BEST VIDEO EDITING SOFTWARE


1) Cyberlink PowerDirector
CyberLink PowerDirector 9 is unsurpassed among video editing software applications. It is distinguished from other products by its superior processing speed, which it attains by fully exploiting the hardware capabilities of contemporary computers. It is largely for that reason that CyberLink PowerDirector has received theTopTenREVIEWS Gold Award for video editing software.



2) Corel VideoStudio Pro X3
Corel implemented a number of improvements and additions to the newest version of Corel VideoStudio Pro X3.  They sat down with a cross-section of users of the previous version and came up with a list of changes that had the user in mind.  The result is a faster product with a lot of new features you're going to come to know and love.



3) Adobe Premiere Elements
Adobe Premiere Elements 9 video editing software has numerous improved options to enhance your ability to make sophisticated videos. Upgraded functionality allows you to fix imperfections in the audio track as well as the video. Many automated features are available so that the program can be easily used by newcomers to the world of video editing software, but they can be overridden and enhanced to satisfy the creativity requirements of more advanced users.





4) MAGIX Movie Edit Pro
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 17 Plus provides full editing capabilities for 2D video as well. High-definition video is fully supported, and the program’s new AVCHD import assistant makes importing and editing files easier than was previously possible. The assistance includes a preview monitor that simplifies scene selection and can save a lot of time.




5) VideoPad
Learning to use VideoPad requires very little effort. Indeed, it’s intuitive enough that we were performing some basic functions before even taking a look at the user manual. Drag and drop technology is at the heart of the simplicity. All of the most fundamental processes, including moving clips from the media list to the video and audio tracks or rearranging split clips, can be accomplished in this manner.


 

Evolution Robotics Now Accepting Pre-Orders for Mint

Since receiving an award at CES 2010, the Evolution Mint Floor Cleaner slipped into obscurity. Now, those who were impressed with it then can start taking the first step in acquiring this new floor general. 

During CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010 Last January, editors from Popular Mechanics picked the Evolution Mint among the thousands of products on display in awarding Popular Mechanics' Editor's Choice award for best new product. 

The  Evolution Mint is similar to the iRobot Scooba, sister product of the highly successful Roomba. While the iRobot Roomba is classified as a robotic vacuum cleaner, both the Scooba and the Mint clean floors similar to floor mops. That is, they make use of cleaning fluids. In the case of the Mint, the fluid is applied through Proctor and Gamble's revolutionary cleaning wipe, the Swiffer.

                                           Mint Floor Cleaner

                                            Mint Scooba



 

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