Type of Article: MacTech Reviews

Snap Art 3 turns your image into works of art

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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Software makes it easy to sweep out that photo library

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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Defense for the iPhone is a great idea — if it worked

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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