Brushes: TwistedBrush has over 1500 diffferent brushes included. These range from very simple color dots to realistic representations of natural artist tools to very wild brushes. Here is a very small sampling of some of the brushes that are available. For a complete listing of brushes visit the ArtSet swatches: h**p://www.pixarra.com/artsets.html

Filters: Over 50 filters can be used to quickly alter and adjust your image. The includes basic photographic filters that adjust brightness and contrast or equalize the colors, artist filters that allow you to mimic a oil painting with a click of the mouse, blurring filters, noise filters, noise generation filters, distorting filters, sharpening filters etc.

Masks: With masks part of an image can be protected from changes. This works just like traditional artist masks or friskets. There are numerous ways to create and edit masks, they can be painted on with masking brushes, added to with special masking tools for rectangles and ellipses, the masking magic wand can be used to mask area of similar color or you can even convert and existing image to a mask.

ArtSets: An ArtSet is a collection of up to 60 brush presets. A brush preset can be everything about a brush, including color, size and of course the type of brush and effect. With ArtSets similar brushes can be grouped together for ease of use. A large number of ArtSets are included with TwistedBrush, but anyone can create there own.

Scripting: A macro system to record most actions within TwistedBrush and later play them back. This could be an entire picture from start to finish or a common action that needs to be repeated. Scripts can be saved to file and shared with others. It's a great learning tools to record a script and share it with somepne so they can see how you created an image.

Undo/Redo: Yes there are multiple levels of undo and redo. Up to 50 levels in fact, memory permitting.

File Formats: Most standard image formats are supported. This Include, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, PSD, BMP, PCD, WMF and EMF.

Sketchbook Paradigm: In TwistedBrush you can have an unlimited number of sketchbooks each with up to 100 pages. Pages in a book will default to the same size or they can all be different sizes.

Drawing Tablet Support: Using the universal Wintab tablet driver system most all drawing tablets are supported and allows for pressure sensitive assignment to brush size, density, opacity and to any of the nearly 200 brush effects!

Brush Effects System: There are nearly 200 different brush effects that numerous brush effect envelopes that further modify the effect over time. A very small sampling of the effects include, scatter, jitter, orbit, burst 25, spike, tangle, lineto, radial, spin, spiral1, blend multiply, mask, mask paint, erase mode, draw gate, filter, scrumble 2, mirror page, kaleidoscope, 3D top left, matrix 3, circle 32, opacity, blend trace, color trace, hue rnd, etc.

Photo Editing: Image scaling with advanced algorithms such as bicubic, B-Spline, and lanczos3. Cropping, rotating and other basic image manipulations. The photographic filters you'd expect to find, masking, layers etc.
And so much more .....

FaceFilter Studio's enhanced product features make digital
photo repair simple and convenient for professionals and
home users alike. Unwanted facial expressions, blemishes
and wrinkles are things of the past.With FaceFilter Studio,
problem photos become perfect photos in 4 simple steps.


Using Reallusion's 3-D muscle-based photo morphing technology,
FaceFilter enables anyone to enhance expressions, remove
common skin blemishes, smooth wrinkles, sharpen and improve
facial structure, correct color balance and more.

FaceFilter Studio also serves as an excellent addition or
supplement to your existing photo editing software, maximizing
your ability to create perfect photos. Now photos you
wouldn't have given a second thought can have a second chance.

A powerful and easy-to-use application designed to create, edit, convert, capture, search, extract, and print images.

With Paint Express, you can:

* Create icons, cursors, and bitmaps from existing images or from scratch
* Create multi-format icons and cursors in just few clicks
* Modify images (To edit and enhance the images, Paint Express offers a variety of drawing tools: semi-transparent brush, color replacement tool, shapes with different filling including gradient, rotation, flip, etc.; image filters: smooth, blur, sharpen, shadow, grayscale; and image adjustment effects for: brightness, contrast, opacity.)
* Capture any image from the screen easily
* Convert images from one type to another in just a few seconds
* Increase/decrease images' color depth with ease
* Search and find icons, cursors, and bitmaps on your computer (Paint Express allows to run several simultaneous searches. You can filter and/or sort the search results based on image type, width, height, color depth, etc.)
* Extract icons, cursors, and bitmaps from the resources in .EXE, .DLL, and .OCX files
* Resize images
* Print images

Every hero's journey begins with a single step. ZBrush 3 is the next step; the next step in the creation process;
* Rapid Start:
Dive right into creating with an interface designed to give you the basics, make you comfortable, and get you ready for the next step.

* Mesh extraction:
Add to existing geometry, quickly make a jacket, hat, gloves, etc. for your hero character's journey.

* Transpose:
Quickly and easily position, pose or deform your model. Turn your default static model into something dynamic and beautiful.

* Real-Time Shadows:
As you sculpt, real-time shadows provide you with visual feedback, without the need for rendering.

* Subtools:
Split your model into several components, work on each component as if it's a separate mesh, only bringing them together at the end of your design process.

* Layers:
Work with your model at numerous and varied stages of its evolution. Give your character features in one layer, or turn them off to refine your character's underlying features.

* Tweak, magnify, pinch, flatten, and morph.
A quiver of brushes lets you abuse and refine your model to your imagination's satisfaction. Furthermore, Z3 lets you customize your brushes to create even more variations on a theme.

VSO PhotoDVD is the best DVD Photo Slideshow Software to create DVD's from your photos. Watch your pictures on any home DVD player. Share your digital pictures on a DVD with friends or family. VSO PhotoDVD animates your images to make a video DVD Slide show. You can add optional soundtracks and comments to your pictures using DVD subtitles. The result is attractive and vibrant. The product is very easy to use and burn with any DVD writer.

Key Features:
Support picture formats: JPG, GIF, BMP, ANI, PCX, EMF, WMF, and more...
Support native RAW format : Canon RAW .CR2, Nikon .NEF, .DNG, Minolta and more...
Supported audio formats for background music: MP3, WMA, OGG, MPC, WAV, APE
Awesome pan and zoom effects
Fullscreen (4:3) and Widescreen (16:9) output
DVD output on DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW media (Single or Double Layer)
Specify a focus point for each picture (highlighted by zoom techniques)
Basic picture editing (rotation, black and white or color, etc.)
Up to three subtitles tracks (for different languages)
Up to three audio tracks for different background music
Supports both PAL and NTSC formats
Fast and highgrade MPEG2 encoder
Universal DVD burning engine included
Multilingual support
Optimized for Windows XP and Windows Vista

Changes in PhotoDVD - 2.3.1.0 :