WinZip Mac Edition 4.0.2504 (Mac OS X) | 13.4 MB

Experience the power of WinZip–on your Mac! WinZip Mac 4 makes it easy to zip and protect your files, and new sharing options let you seamlessly connect to cloud services. WinZip for Mac is a simple, clean and intuitive archiving application that enables you to take advantage of the WinZip power as you archive, decompress or encrypt your files from your Mac.

FxFactory Pro includes filters, generators and transitions for Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7, Motion, Premiere Pro and After Effects. FxFactory - first extensible package of visual effects for Final Cut Studio. Unlimited capacity: download additional plug-ins in FxMarket. 

Expand what you can do with your digital photos! With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life 3 gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even create how-to guides! This latest version of plasq’s award winning photo comic creation software is funner, easier and better for kids and ... big kids! Comic Life 3 adds powerful new features without losing its legendary ease of use that has made it so popular with everyone.

Ashampoo Snap 8.0.7 Multilingual | 53 MB

Ashampoo Snap 8 is the smartest way to capture screenshots, add notes and annotations and share them with your friends. With Ashampoo Snap 8 you capture images and videos right from your screen in seconds, capture rectangular regions, use free form capture for maximum flexibility, use timers for interval capturing.

Ashampoo Photo Card 2.0.3 Multilingual | 213 MB

Ashampoo Photo Card 2 is the intuitive and straightforward solution to turn your photos into stunning greeting cards complete with borders and texts in a few clicks. Show someone you care and send your own custom-made greeting card.

This is the first class in the 3-part 'Building Character' series on creating a unique character! Join artist Jesse LeDoux — former Art Director of Sub Pop Records and character designer for Disney, Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network — as he designs and sketches a character based on 3 personal attributes. This 28-minute class will open your mind to endless possibilities as you'll explore Jesse's style and watch him create a character.

Anyone can learn how to draw. Success comes down to three things:
Shape: By focusing on the shapes of the objects (and more importantly the shapes between the objects) you can view subjects with a whole new outlook and focus.

Visually presenting a story can be a creative, collaborative, and fun experience.

Linear line illustration (LLI), or continuous line drawing, is an adaptable and fun style to work in, resulting in clean, clear designs that are suitable for print or animation. In this course Von takes you through the process of creating a linear line illustration using Adobe Illustrator. While showing how to build an LLI digitally, he explains the aesthetic rules, the tricks to getting more depth out of it, and tips for adding color, motion, and a sense of life to your drawings. Members will also be offered a challenge to get their feet wet.

Digital Film Tools PhotoCopy 2.0v5 for Photoshop, AE, Premiere and Avid | 81.5 MB

Software that creates a photographic reproduction of a printed or graphic work made with a process in which a new image is formed by the action of proprietary image analysis, color, texture and light. Whether it's still or moving images, the key attributes are copied from one image and applied to another.  

Digital Film Tools Rays 2.0v6 for Photoshop, AE, Premiere and Resolve | 38 MB

Digital Film Tools: Rays - Create stunning and realistic light ray effects quickly and easily. Known as volumetric lighting in computer graphics or crepuscular rays in atmospheric optics, this dramatic effect adds polish and style. Since the rays are only added to highlight areas, they have the effect of passing through objects and add a third dimensional quality. Add shafts of light streaming through clouds, rays filtering through a forest canopy, beams of light on a foggy night or rays shooting out from text. Rays adds a striking and dramatic quality to any image.

Digital Film Tools Composite Suite Pro 2.0v5 for Adobe & OFX | 69 MB

Composite Suite Pro features a well rounded collection of visual effects plug-ins that were previously only available in-house at a Hollywood based feature film effects facility. Tested in the rigors of everyday production, Composite Suite Pro provides all that is needed to combine multiple images by utilizing compositing tricks and techniques, color correction, blur, grain, matte manipulation, lens distortion, lighting effects and edge blending. Eradicate the most common effects problems or employ specialized compositing tools for combining imagery such as fire, smoke and explosions. Cutout or isolate objects using a proprietary matte generator or pick from a variety of color correctors and natural lighting effects to spice up your images.

Digital Film Tools Film Stocks 2.0v7 for Photoshop, AE, Premiere and Resolve | 41.1 MB

Film Stocks is a unique filter that simulates 288 different color and black and white still photographic film stocks, motion picture films stocks and historical photographic processes. Using our experience in creating special effects for hundreds of feature films as well as expertise in film scanning and recording techniques, we have laboriously researched and analyzed different film stocks to come up with a set of interesting analog photographic, motion picture and vintage looks. Make any digital image look interesting by applying some of our film magic.

Digital Film Tools reFine 2.0v6 for Photoshop, Lightroom, AE, Premiere and Resolve | 39 MB

Digital Film Tools: reFine presents a new technique for performing selective sharpening, detail enhancement, edge aware smoothing, cartoon and pencil effects. Using high-quality edge preserving filtering of still and moving images, there are considerable speedups and memory savings over existing methods. reFine's approach decomposes the image into three detail layers: Coarse, medium and fine. Each of the detail layers can be manipulated separately in various ways, for instance, sharpening or smoothing. Add to that sophisticated, but easy to use masking and you have quick isolation of image features for selective filtering.

Digital Film Tools zMatte 4.0v5 for Adobe, Avid, Sony Vegas | 25.8 MB

Digital Film Tools: zMatte is a full-featured keyer that is the result of our experience in creating hundreds of successful blue and green screen composites. Using proprietary matte extraction techniques, zMatte quickly and simply creates mattes with minimal parameters even if you are dealing with fine hair detail, smoke, or reflections. It is easy to use, yet provides the needed tools when faced with good, bad, or ugly shots - tools such as multiple matte creation, automatic spill suppression, sophisticated matte and edge manipulation, and color correction.

Digital Film Tools Tiffen Dfx 4.0v8 CE Bundles | 137 MB

Tiffen Dfx - Simulating 2,000+ popular award-winning Tiffen glass filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting color correction, plus natural light and photographic effects, the Tiffen Dfx digital filter suite is the definitive set of digital optical filters for professional photographers, top motion picture filmmakers, video editors, and visual effects artists around the world.

Understanding and nurturing our creativity is the first step in breaking out of our ruts. The Inspired Eye, Vol.I, is the first of a two-part discussion about the nature of inspiration and the creative process as it relates to photographers.

This installment of Start with a Theme shows how to set up a video blog using WordPress and three different free themes that result in three different looks for your site.