By Steve Baczewski
Snap Art 3 (USS$199) is Alien Skin’s (http://ww.alienskin.com) latest version of their painting and drawing effects plug-in software for Photoshop, Lightroom, and Elements. And it’s exactly what the name implies — software for quickly transforming photographic images into stylized art.
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I take photos. Lots of photos. I snap ’em with my digital camera, with my iPhone 4S, and, now, with my new iPad. My iPhoto library has approximately eight trillion images. A lot of them are duplicates, or very similar, and should be trashed. But I’m too lazy to undertake the process manually.
Enter PhotoSweeper (http://overmacs.com/photosweeper/), a photo finder for Mac OS X 10.6 and higher. It’s available at the Mac App Store for US$9.99 and works with both iPhoto and Aperture.
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By Aaron Westgate
In addition to calibrating displays, X-Rite’s (http://www.xrite.com) i1Display Pro (US$269) also calibrates projectors, measures ambient light, and corrects for glare (for displays lacking a hood). The i1Display Pro comes with X-Rite’s new i1Profiler software.
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When I first heard of X-Doria’s (http://www.x-doria.com) Defense and Defense Pro line (with pricing starting at US$14.99), I thought, “This is the screen protector for me and my iPhone.”
I’m clumsy enough that I need a screen protector on my iPhone 4S. The goal of the Defender series is to help you get it on straight the first time and make it easy to get rid of air bubbles. X-Doria’s solution is brilliant — or would be, if it worked.
The system sports an alignment grid printed on each piece of a Defense screen protection. To install you:
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Uniea’s US$54.95 Leather Caj Pad (http://macte.ch/Hf4d3) is one of the more intriguing iPad cases I’ve seen. Its foldable front looks almost identical to the Apple Smart Cover (sans the attaching magnets; you insert the iPad into the case). However, unlike the Smart Cover it also protects the back of your Apple tablet.
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