Type of Article: MacTech Reviews

By David Creamer

PhotoCopy (US$95) from Digital Film Tools (http://www.digitalfilmtools.com) is an interesting, one-trick wonder plug-in that is easy to use. Essentially, it adjusts an image’s brightness, color, tone, detail, grain, and texture to match either a built-in preset or another loaded image.

By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum

Logo Design Studio Pro (http://www.macwareinc.com/products/LDSPro/overview.html) is a great program for those of us who have very little design skills.  In fact, its name only scratches the surface of what this handy little program can do.

By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum

They say time is money, and, well, it is. When you bill your time, it is money — and when you fail to bill properly it’s money down the drain. For others, there may not be a one-to-one translation between time and money, but knowing where your time is going and what you are doing is important.    

Productivity experts always say: know where you time is going. Office Time lets you do that and much more.

By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum

While your Mac may not have a secret black box that records every crash, the logs that are typically accessible via the Console app comes darn close to recording anything and everything that goes wrong in your Mac.  

The problem is being able to read it. Even advanced technicians have trouble parsing the voluminous amounts of data locked in those logs. Mere mortals rarely have a ghost of a chance understanding it. Log Leech from Creastoric Software (http://creastoric.com) bridges that gap and makes us look like heroes.

By Sean Duggan

Topaz Labs (http://www.topazlabs.com) recently released Lens Effects (US$79.99), a plug-in that offers the ability to add a wide variety of lens-type effects to your photos. This includes bokeh effects (shallow depth of field, blurry backgrounds); tilt-shift or creative blur (think Lensbaby); toy camera-like color and focus deficiencies; graduated neutral-density filters; or modifications like fixing geometric distortion, adding grain, or simple vignettes.