Software

• Easily create 3D human art for web, print media and fine illustrations, film pre-visualization, populating architectural scenes, flash animations, games and more.
• New version includes Lip Synching, character morphing tools, multiple undo's, non-linear animation support (NLA), high dynamic range imaging support (HDRI), improved rendering, smart Quickguide plus many other enhancements.

• 9,500+ Professionally-designed templates
• 2,000 Quotes & Verses to use in greeting cards

Photoshop's new vector features provide even more control when compositing photographic images. You can use the vector drawing tools simply to create polygons and custom shapes, but they can also act as layer clipping paths--vector masks that hide or reveal image areas in underlying layers.

Editable layer effects such as drop shadow and glow were introduced in version 5.5; in version 6, they have been renamed layer styles. New options include satin, stroke and color, gradient, and pattern overlay. The layer styles dialogue box provides much more control--bevel and emboss has five style options, as well as adjusters for technique, depth, direction, size, soften, angle, attitude, gloss, contour, highlight mode, opacity--and that's not all of them. As the name suggests, layer styles can easily be saved and applied to other layers.

You can enter and edit text directly onto the layer and set style attributes from the new tool options bar. Photoshop 6 seems to have benefited from some of InDesign's superb typographic tools, with character and paragraph palettes providing precise control. Web imaging tools have been revamped, with layer-based slicing now available from within Photoshop itself, and a major overhaul of ImageReady introducing weighted optimization, rollover styles, and tweened animation.

If you want the best image editing software that money can buy, look no further. --Ken McMahon

• Mudbox 2009 is a premier digital sculpting and texture painting solution ideal for 3D/2D artists, fine artists, web and multimedia professionals, traditional sculptors, students
• Provides an organic brush-based 3D modeling experience that includes 2D and 3D layers to easily manage sculpting and painting iterations on multiple meshes and maps
• Mudbox 2009 interoperates well with Autodesk Maya and Autodesk 3ds Max, as well as with other 3D software applications, making it a natural choice for experienced artists

• FloorPlan 3D combines all the powerful tools that home design professionals employ and integrates them into one easy process.

• Choose plans from the 1,001 provided, or use them as a starting point for your own home or remodel
• Quickly learn how to design like a professional with step-by-step tutorials
• Add personal touches with extensive wall surface and flooring texture libraries
• Design the kitchen of your dreams with the Custom Cabinet Builder and Kitchen Showroom
• Automatic Roof Editor includes shed roofs, cathedral ceilings, and much more
• Multiple views of the same drawing let you work in 2D and see the results in 3D at the same time
• Lets you know when your design ideas have exceeded your initial budget
• Take a stroll through your finished handiwork with Virtual Reality Walkthrough technology
• Design an entire home, addition or remodel in minutes
• Discover the perfect design in the 3D Kitchen Showcase
• Interactive tutorials
• Multiple views including 2D, 3D, and advanced 3D Photorealistic Rendering
• Over 1,000 fully-editable house plans

1 Exterior & Interior Planning

• 1,001 Customizable Plans
• 3D Kitchen Showroom
• Pre-Drawn 3D Symbols

2 Personalize Your Plan

• Texture Library
• Lightworks Photorealistic Rendering
• Custom Cabinet Builder

3 Make Your Plan Reality

• Award-winning 3D Visualization Technology
• Virtual Reality Walkthrough
• Integrated Materials Estimator

System Requirements for Windows

• Windows 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP
• Pentium class PC
• 64 MB RAM
• 146 MB free hard disk space
• SVGA monitor
• CD-ROM drive
• Internet connection and browser required for online access

• 3D Modeling & Imaging - Make stunning
• Illustration - High resolution images take

• Professional landscape design software for Windows
• Create 3D presentations and movies of your proposals and design ideas
• Create plans with a hand-drawn look. No CAD experience required

• Online system disk backup and instant bare metal system restore
• Integrated compression and password protection
• Incremental disk backup and disk backup image verification

There are many new features and enhancements in version 6.5. There is now a UV texture atlas for automated complex UV map creation, continuous and discontinuous UV mapping, and light and texture baking. Bone deformations have been significantly optimized and are now up to 40 times faster. In the Motion Designer, a soft-body dynamics engine is now integrated seamlessly into the interface. There is also an integrated particle system, open GL transparency, enhanced texturing, and improved Bezier handling and general speed optimizations in Graph Editor. There is a powerful new integrated expressions system, including an expressions tree view in the Graph Editor.

Improvements to HyperVoxels include fast 2-D sprite mode and new HyperVoxels effects. The new noise-reduction tool in layout greatly improves the render quality of zero-tolerance radiosity and area-linear light shadows. This allows for much higher-quality radiosity output at lower radiosity settings, resulting in greatly reduced render times. Volumetric Antialiasing in the effects panel allows the user to disable this feature. This allows for much lower render times when utilizing volumetrics. The volumetrics tools have many improvements, including a new Cast Shadows option in the volumetric lights panel, which will cast shadows caused by the light opacity.

• -Draft, plan, layout, or design any project with engineered precision -CAD accuracy takes you step-by-step from concept to realization -Built-in tools for quick accurate drawings; pre-drawn symbols -Supports a variety of printing sizes