Layers has the ability to capture each window, each palette, each menu, each menu and status bar icon, each icon on the Desktop, and including the Dock and the Desktop background for each of the connected displays which would be saved as a separate, editable layer in the resultant Photoshop image file. Capture a snapshot at the press of a keyboard shortcut and further customizing it using Inspector.

WebShot

In Layers 1.1 one can simply capture complete webpages from Safari, Firefox, Webkit, Camino or even Opera. The resultant image is exactly similar to what one sees on the browser with every pixel being same.

Inspector

When a user wants to easily customize the capture made by him then, Layer Inspector helps in customizing the capture according to their needs.

Fine tuning

In the Inspector feature of the software, there are some options available to modify the resulting image. One could easily toggle between outline and table view according to their needs.

Multidisplay

Once there are multiple displays which are attached then one can be able to select every one of them separately or any combination of them.

Layer groups

PSD layers are usually grouped by window nature: Desktop (with Finder icons), Dock, Main Menu and Applications, overlays, pop-ups, floating windows, and others.

The new addition in Layers 1.1: enable/disable groups to make best use of PSD compatibility (i.e. Photoshop Elements)

Status bar menu

A user can access a multipurpose menu by using the icon in the status bar. From it one can capture the whole screen or just the front most window. They can in addition open the inspector or even quit the application.

Image formats

The latest addition in Layers 1.1 is that one can easily save their capture as layered PSD image, composite PNG/TIFF or Bunch of Images.

Preferences

The user has to open the preferences window (Shift-⌥-,) to modify Layers. Allocate the preferred hotkey combinations; manage your license, etc. Also in Layers 1.1 one can choose default image kind and format.

In many of the existing apps the technical solution provided is to copy from the browser the web page URL one is at present visiting. Having that URL in place, the capture application exemplifies another browser —generally WebKit, in the Mac world— within the app itself, fetch again the page contents from the internet, and lastly renders an image from the output of that internal browser. A user doesn’t get an image from Safari or Firefox web page, but all in all different version of the same web address.

Layers approach is essentially diverse. Layers is basically a screenshot app, and the app leverages that aptitude to capture the web page directly from the screen, using the representation already in place at the browser. That is, the image generated is precisely, pixel-wise, as one sees it in the screen at the time of the capture.

Layer’s solution is comparable to easy image stitching, the method used to produce panorama images from diverse shots. Layers captures a number of images from the screen with the parts of the webpage and then sew them jointly to obtain the ultimate result.

Layers WebShot is quick since it doesn’t reload the page and the capture and stitching process is very quick. It is in addition precise because it captures the image right from the browser itself. If the page renders different in every browser, one can find those differences in the shots.

The official list of browsers which is compatible with Layers are:

* Safari 3 and 4, Firefox 3.0 and 3.5+, Google Chrome, WebKit r4185 or better, Opera 9.5+ and 10, Camino 2.0 and Flock 2.5

The off-screen basics are not captured in any manner, since there’s just not much data to capture. This preference generally appears in the Inspector window just as a reference for your information. Switching it on/off just affects what’s displayed in the window list.

Filter the screen essentials to show/hide desktop items including wallpaper or Finder icons. It is very useful, if a person has got their desktop full of icons.

This option just affects the resultant captured representation if there’s something chosen in the window list. The resultant image will have proportions attuned to the windows bounds if the switch is on. And If it’s off, the image would have the complete display(s) dimensions.

When it is turned on, the window-like elements i.e. not icons or status bar items would be captured with its shadow. This means, the equivalent PSD layer has the window correctly and its shadow. If you switch it off, the resultant image will have just the element shadow.

If the screen item has an opacity below one in all or part of it which is usually, the shadow zone, or in the case of HUD windows, like Twitterrific, all of its content, with this button you can select if Layers will respect the opacity settings, or would it capture all the window contents and frame completely opaque.

Final Thoughts

In all it is a very useful application and its features are simple and easy to use. Layers has the tremendous ability to capture each window, each palette, each menu, each menu and status bar icon, each icon on the Desktop. It can also capture the Dock and the Desktop background for each of the connected displays which would be saved as a separate, editable layer in the resultant Photoshop image file.

User’s Manual to Vextractor

• Create a raster image of your choice by simply scanning a hard-copy drawing with your scanner.
• Use Vextractor to convert the specific raster file created to vector format.
• User can then easily import the saved vector file to vector graphics application software like AutoCAD, Corel Draw etc.
• Editing of the vector file can be done as per the user’s choice using this AutoCAD or Corel Draw.

Key Features

• Vextractor supports almost all raster graphic file formats available in the market, including GIF, JPEG, TIFF/GEOTIFF, BMP, TGA, PCX, WBMP< PPM, PGM and many more.
• Vextractor also supports a wide range of vector formats including: AutoCAD DXB and DXF, Windows Metafiles EMF and WMF, MapInfo MID/MIF, ASCII XYZ text format, Adobe Illustrator, Encapsulated Postscript, ILDA Data Transfer format and many more.
• Vextractor has added several graphics element for design drawing. These include arcs, circles, orthogonal lines and many more. The software allows users to create a uniform grid which can be used for keeping elements of the vectorized object.
• There is a Built-In Graphics Vector Graphics Editor available to users in Vextractor. This has several advanced features to it which allows users to add corrections to the vectors created.
• Another unique feature in Vextractor is Cartographic Information Recognition. To provide effective use of this user provides with coordinate binding system with an additional option, which allows saving of data binding coefficients to GeoTIFF and world-files of ESRI ArcInfo system.
• With Vextractor user can set their own coordinates for the vector images and also the desirable size of the selected image.
• Vextractor has several addition features added to it. Some of them include an original three-window interface, TWAIN32-compatible devices.

The Verdict

Vextractor is powerful software for vector format transformations. User just needs to select the raster image and click the button and the transformation is done in your desired way. It’s just that easy. Try it for yourself.

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1. AWStats Xtended Info

AWStats Xtended Info inserts the awstats_misc_tracker.js in every page which the WordPress serves and thereby allows you to track the additional items that includes the screen size, Flash, PDF and Java support.

For more fine control, you can choose which type of pages will include the script from the AWStats X options page. AWStats Xtended Info plugin will be handy for those who use AWStats and WordPress.

Plugin info: http://www.michael-gerard.com/creations/wp-awstats-x

2. Backlinks inbound links counter

This plugin can display the number of inbound links to a blog. It would count all the links. The backlinks draws a beautiful graph that displays how your number of inbound links would develop over time using the MSN Search API along with the nuSOAP in order to count the backlinks.

Plugin info: http://gdymov.com/inbound-links-backlinks-wordpress-plugin/

3. Bluetrait Event Viewer (BTEV)

The Bluetrait Event Viewer (BTEV) monitors the events that occur in the wordpress install. The BTEV tracks the events like password_reset, delete_user, wp_login, lostpassword_post, profile_update etc by default. The installation of BTEV is very easy.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bluetrait-event-viewer/

4. Bsuite

The BSuite is a set of tools that helps in surface interest and relevant posts. It helps your users to navigate your content and helps the authors in developing and publishing the content.

The main features of Bsuite are it is cache-friendly stats tracking and also search word highlighting. There are widgets to show some of the popular posts and the recently commented posts. It can either insert a list of similar items for the present page or post it. It offers the necessary tools that are required to make it easy for the readers to link, share and embed the content. It adds a number of short codes. These codes makes it easier to build and manage the content. It also makes the search results in ranked order, displaying pages and posts. The bsuite adds excerpt, tag and category inputs to the page editor. It includes a generic tag importer that imports the tags from the post content.

Plugin info: http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/11613/

5. CountPosts

The Count Posts is a simple plugin which provides a template function to count the posts. It also filters based on category and over time in days. The function can return or provide the result. This plugin is easy to use.

Plugin info:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/countposts-v-10-wordpress-plugin/

6. DownloadCounter

The DownloadCounter counts the number of times a file has been downloaded and some misc statistics. It automatically generates the link and the code that you need to put in your website. Managing your files is possible and statistics can be viewed at the administration page.

Similar to this, there is also an ImageCounter that generates an image with the help of another one that the user selected to be used as the background. In the administration panel, the counter can be fully customized. That is, the font, font size, text position, background image, font angle, font color etc. It supports the GD and TTF fonts based on your server’s configuration.

Plugin info: http://n0id.hexium.net/wp-plugins/

7. Dschini Bot Checker
This plugin released for the Wordpress synchronizes your local bots database with the Dschini BotService via SOAP. The requirements for this plugin would be Wordpress and PHP 5.
After the installation, the Dschini Bot Checker will be there in the Options where you can define the bots to track. You can select between “High Popular” bots like the Googlebot and “Medium”- and “Low” Popular Bots. Each time your options are updated, the Dschini BotService refreshes your bot database simultaneously watching the existing trackings too. The Bot Checker Management Panel checks the bots and gives informations about the pages that the bot visited.
Plugin info: http://manfred.dschini.org/dschini-botchecker-plugin/

8. Feed Statistics
The Feed Statistics is a plugin meant for the Wordpress blogs that tracks the statistics for your RSS/Atom feeds. This includes the number of subscribers, which feed readers they use, which posts they view and which links they click on.
This plugin has a “Feed” section in the Wordpress administration panel which further has four subdivisions such as Feed (Options), Feed Readers, Post Views and Clickthroughs.

Plugin info: http://www.chrisfinke.com/wordpress/plugins/feed-statistics/

9. FeedBurner SiteStats Enabler
The FeedBurner Sitestats Enabler is the first plugin that issue to the public. It is a simple plugin that allows you to switch easily to the Sitestats FeedBurner on your site without the need to change a single line of your theme. The FeedBurner offers a statistics service not just for feeds but for the pages of the sites too.
Once you install the FeedBurner Sitestats Enabler, all got to do is enter the name of the site under your FeedBurner feed. The plugin is equipped to localization in different languages and is found in the zip-file and the Italian language, the file-catalog for translating to other languages.

Plugin info: http://www.wordpressmania.it/feedburner_sitestats_plugin/

10. FeedBurner StandardStats

The FeedBurner StandardStats Wordpress plugin is very easy to install compared to the StandardStats from FeedBurner. The FB StandardStats makes installing the FeedBurner’s stats code very simple. There are no files to edit. All you need to do is, put in your user ID. The plugin will take care of the rest. This plugin can also be used to show the FeedFlare links on each blog post.

Plugin info: http://bloggerdesign.com/133/fb-standardstats/

11. FeedStats

Here you can customize the options like the amount of days that is supposed to be saved in the statistics, minimum level of WordPress-user who is given the permission to see the statistics, time of a stay/visit, visitors online time, IP that is supposed not to be saved, statistics can be shown on the dashboard etc.

The Plugin is available in english language and also have the german and traditional chinese translation in language-file.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedstats-de/

12.FirStats

The FireStats is a web statistics system. It is free for non-commercial usage and costs 25$ per installation for commercial usage.
This plugin features- protect the privacy of your users, real time statistics, recent referrers, search engine keywords, recent popular pages, browser and OS trees, IP to country, that is, know where your visitors are browsing from, multiple users support with the ability to have a control on which sites each user can access, designed to work on all browsers, compacts old data to improve performance and reduces the database size etc.

Plugin info: http://firestats.cc/
13. GoStats web counter

GoStats offers a free hit counter that is easy to use. It keeps track of your website stats for your blog. Once you start with it, you can view your stats. This can easily be done by accessing your GoStats account and clicking on “my sites” and “stats”. You can also receive weekly emails from GoStats about your hits.

Plugin info: http://counterblog.gostats.com/how-to-place-a-gostats-hit-counter-onto-your-blog

14. Lightstats
The Lightstats shows information in images. It also generates a few bar and pie graph images showing the statistics about the posts, comments and categories. It is compatible with PHP 4 / PHP 5 and Wordpress 2.

Plugin info: http://laitsas.com/category/plugins/

15. Live

The Live can track every single activity that would take place on your blog. You can see and scan via your blog activity in real time. This plugin shows who your visitors are, where they come from, which pages they are browsing through etc. There is also a graph that tells you about the traffic your blog is getting over a span of time.

Plugin info: http://www.headzoo.com/live

16. Open Web Analytics

The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a set of PHP and HTTP APIs that the application developers can use for integrating the web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for some popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

Plugin info: http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

17. Posts/Comments Time

In this plugin a chart is generated to display the number of posts and comments. To install the plugin, all you need to do is, extract the zip file and copy the subfolder “pocoti” to your plugins directory. Then set write the permission for the server for this directory and finally activate the plugin and go to options panel where you can choose among the various options such as colors, titles, size.

To display the graph, include an image referencing the chart URL. You can include the chart into blog entries or the template files. The files are generated when a new post or comment is made and hence it is always up to date. The graph is generated by the JpGraph Library.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/postscomments-time/

18. Search Phrases
This plugin helps in finding the last search on the blog. For this there is an option in the left sidebar under “Latest search terms to see ‘. There is an option of Advanced Usage where you can change the behavior of the plugin in the admin panel in Options – Search Phrases.

Plugin info: http://gluehwein.junkies.ws/2006/10/16/plugin-search-phrases-anzeige-der-letzten-suchbegriffe/#english
19. Social Traffic Monitor

Social Traffic Monitor is a plugin that monitors your blog traffic for the activities that come from the social news or bookmarking sites. When there is a click on a link to your blog on one of the major bookmarking sites such as Digg, Netscape, Reddit, StumbleUpon etc, this plugin starts logging on the visits to that page. This data can then be shown in the form of a graph of visitors per hour.

Plugin info: http://www.chrisfinke.com/wordpress/plugins/social-traffic/

20.Ultimate Google Analytics

This plugin adds the Google Analytics JavaScript to every page on your web blog without any changes to your template. It can also add tracking to the outbound links, downloads from your own site and mailto: links. It is highly configurable. It basically starts with a simple configuration screen and hides the advanced configuration in an Advanced Configuration mode. The simple configuration screen will be enough but if you are interested in tweaking and tuning this plugin, use the advanced settings.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ultimate-google-analytics/

21.Word Count

Just as the name suggests, the Word Count plugin helps in counting the total number of words in all the posts or the number of words in a single post.

22.WordPress.com Stats

Installing this stats plugin is very easy. All you got to do is put your API Key and the remaining is automatic. Once it starts running, it will start collecting information on your pageviews, posts and pages that are popular, where your traffic is from, what people click on when they leave. It will also adds a link to the dashboard which would let you see all your stats on a single page.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

23. WP-SlimStat

Wp-SlimStat helps you in seeing the detailed stats of your wordpress blog. It also filters the details and stats using the filter form inside the Details panel. It can also import wp-shortstat tables and data and is fully localizable. It has improved browser and platform detection. It displays the hits, visitors and unique IPs too.

Plugin info: http://www.duechiacchiere.it/wp-slimstat/

24. WP-Stats

This plugin displays your WordPress blog statistics. It ranges from the general total statistics to top 10 statistics.

Plugin info: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-stats/

After the internal test performed, Firefox 3.6 is at least 20% faster than version 3.5. There have been several improvements to speed up work with e-mail, load photos and social networking, among other tasks. The browser also gained in stability, ensures Mozilla.

In the list of new features are custom themes, called Personas, an updater plug-ins, better performance with JavaScript, and small touches, like the Awesome bar to highlight your favorite sites.

The Firefox 3.6 is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux in over 70 languages, including Portuguese from Brazil.

Download Firefox 3.6 – Link

Every Design Blogger surfs hundreds of blogs and inspirational resources over the internet in a day. It is natural intuition that he would not remember the blogs until there’s something unique about the design or something interesting in that page. He might want to bookmark it, e-mail it, take a screen capture, subscribe to the feeds and lot other ways. There are lot of advanced plugins out there But, listed here 15 Chrome Plugins that you need the most at the beginning stages.

Read on, as we introduce design bloggers to a pack of Chrome Plugins for enhancing productivity.

Work Faster & Stay Organised

Evernote Web Clipper - Download

Use the Evernote Web Clipper extension to effortlessly set aside all the appealing material you spot whilst surfing the cyberspace. No additional bookmarks, tabs, or open windows. Evernote sets aside the content of your clip along with a link back to the original page. One can easily clip text, images, and links into your Evernote account.

Google Mail Checker - Download

As the name suggests, this comes across as a handy software that displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can, in addition, click the button to access your inbox directly.

Xmarks for Chrome Beta - Download

Xmarks synchronizes across multiple computers, and across web browsers including: Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer. Once you have installed the add-on, click on the notice to set up Xmarks and begin backing up and synchronizing your bookmarks.

Greasemetal - Download

Greasemetal is a user-script runtime for Google Chrome. The runtime hosts user-scripts (tiny javascript files that alter the web pages being displayed) to be executed on Google Chrome, similar to what Greasemonkey does for Mozilla Firefox, or Greasekit does for Safari.

LastPass - Download

Lastpass is an online password supervisor and form-filler that aids in making web browsing easier and more protected. Log on to your preferred sites with a single click, fill up forms in seconds; end pulling out your wallet to find your credit card number, safely and securely share logins and notes with friends and allow others to share with you.

Smoothscroll - Download

This extension adds smooth scrolling behavior to Google Chrome/Chromium. It, in addition, features auto update and Smooth Scroll. To install the extension straightforwardly, open the file by means of your Chrome browser.

Session Saver - Download

A session manager that allows users to save and supervise several sessions. It saves all tab URLs for all chrome windows which is extremely useful for bloggers who browse through a number of websites at the same time.

Aviary Screen Capture - Download

Take a screenshot of whichever webpage and edit it straight into your browser with Aviary.com applications.  It will execute a screen capture of the noticeable part of any webpage and then open the capture instantly in a fundamental image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), amend (crop, rotate and resize) and get the precise pixel colors of the image.

Discover & Promote New Content

RSS Subscription Extension - Download

This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page a blogger is reading and upon discovering one will present an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe.

StumbleUpon - Download

StumbleUpon assists a user to find out great websites that interests him. Just click the Stumble button and witness the most excellent websites. This feature has managed to leave Chrome users elated. Many agree that they have finally been offered the best ever tool to surf and bookmark the web. Such applause comes even at a time when some of the known and experienced features aren’t yet available in Chrome. However, it is being promised that the features would gain in performance in the comi8ng days. .

Chromium Delicious Plugin - Download

The Chromium Delicious Plugin features of this plugin are that it saves bookmarks unlike other plugins it can automatically add a description to the bookmark. One needs to select the text on the website and then click on “Save Bookmark” link.

Brizzly - Download

Brizzly is a reader for Twitter and Facebook. It makes things easier while you are browsing and updating experience, while adding a few ingenious extras. If you are looking at much simplified browsing, Brizzly is the place to be. In fact, it promises more than a user expects. Right from enabling video viewing from YouTube and Vimeo, or browsing through pictures from Brizzly, Twitpic or Flickr, it has all that one wants. Further, it also helps hide a user’s updates making it useful to keep one away from unwanted or not so significant updates, even if t is for a short period of time. You also have the unmute option anytime.

Google Chrome Backup - Download

Google Chrome backup is a diminutive tool to create, backup, restore and manage Google Chrome profiles. The most recent version in addition supports Chromium, which customized version of Google Chrome, for convenient use.

Stay Alert & Secure

AdSweep - Download

AdSweep is a diminutive add-on that aims to conceal advertising from the web pages a user visit like Adblock. AdSweep is intended for standard-compliant web browsers for example Opera, Google Chrome, Chromium, Mozilla Firefox 3.1+ or Apple Safari. Further, it also boasts of the flexibility that lets a user to go about regular styling to fix web sites, even on a per-site basis.

Web of Trust - Download

Web of Trust is an exclusive community-based secure surfing tool that uses a spontaneous traffic-light style rating system to assist Internet users stay protected as they search, browse, and shop online. With so many software applications and add-ons for the browsers bloggers can promptly create blogs safely, creatively and with least wastage. Going by WoT recommendations can assure you of the confidence while shopping online shops and downloading unknown sites. So, from now on, it is blogging in the most trouble-free manner all the way!!!

What is the difference between a Spielberg and jack dunno director? Effects! In order to hook your audience you need eye catching effects that leave them dumbstruck and gasping for more. In today’s world you don’t need to hire Al Pacino or Kate Winslet, you need a good motion plugin to set your viewers heart on a journey of a lifetime. Here are a set of  Motion Graphics Plugins that will just do that!

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1. 3D Serpentine

Adobe After Effects is a sophisticated video finishing tool and it guarantees a master piece. Like all master pieces, it requires hardwork. If you want to make things easy add 3D Serpentine addon package. The 3D Serpentine addon package adds complex path animations for objects, create convoluted motion patterns as well as add sophisticated attributed to enhance motion path like twists, scaling etc.

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2. Boris Fx

Boris is the industry standard for video editing tool; in fact it is an advanced tool. FX packs a great punch as Adobe After effects plugin with realistic lighting, advanced keying and color correction, compositing, DVE and vector paint. It also provides OpenGL live rendering as well as 16 bit color output completely dependent on the system.

3. Continuum Complete

This is a complete package filled with NLE and BCC visual effect filters compatible with a wide range of video finishing softwares including Adobe After Effects. It lets you create effects from the practical or inspired directly in your native host interface with easy work flow. The package includes almost 200 filters include advanced keying, matting, compositing, image processing, distortion, temporal effects and motion tracking. Moreover you can add filters to suit your needs for animation of graphical elements or video at any speed, acceleration, or position you want.

4. Final Effects Complete

Final Effects delivers a gamut of effects plug-ins for leading nonlinear editing and compositing solutions like graceful blurs and edges to radical warps and particle generators, FEC etc without the need to learn or install additional software. The addon packs coagulates with your native environment hence you can easily wield its complete potential to compliment your creative pursuits.

5. Boris RED

Boris RED will leave you red faced! It is a addon pack with a 3D compositing, titling, and effects application can surmount a performance over twenty NLE’s. It integrates the 2D as well 3D editing platform to deliver a 2D and 3D compositing, titling, paint, rotoscoping, a full suite of tools to create and extrude vector objects, 3D creation and animation, as well as DVE technology. Boris RED can leave your audience RED faced with its ease of use and sheer raw video editing power.

6. Freeform AE

Freeform AE is a compilation of Adobe AfterEffects Plugins since 1996. It has reduced the complications involved in AfterEffects regarding 3D motion. It augments 3D functionality of AfterEffects as well as making it accessible to naive users. It gives users greater control over 3D effects as well adds a lot of different presets in the genre. It also increaes the perfomance of your AfterEffects by adding a powerful 3D rendering engine that can give your real time preview.

7. FxFactory Pro

FxFactory Pro is a game changing software in a literal sense too. Created by Noise Industries, the FxFactory empowers hundreds of filters in leading suits like the AfterEffects, Final Cut etc. It also tweaks your graphics card to enhance rendering and other functionalities. It offers a free filter and commercial filter sets to suit the needs of hobbyists as well as professionals. It offers over 150 unmatched award winning reputed plugins and performance enhancers.

8. Sapphire

Sapphire is a creative plugin suit from Genarts, a secret ingredient behind many Oscar Winning Films. It provides the perfect equilibrium between creative control and efficiency. It is packed with over 200 state-of-the-art image processing and synthesis effects which includes Glows, EdgeRays, LensFlare, Lightning, FilmEffect, Warps and Textures. Apart from that, it also features superior image quality.

9. Trapcode Particular 2.0

Words cannot Trap the power of the Trapcode Particular 2.0. It provide realistic natural effects, lighting control for shaded particles, 3D camera integration, custom shapes, depth of field, and physics controls such as air resistance, gravity and turbulence. To catch Trapcode in action, go and watch Spiderman or Angels and Demons.

10. Warp

Warp is compilation of 3 powerful plugins to give you ultimate control over graphic motion. It lets you control shadows, reflections and corner point warps. It also gives shadow tool that renders realistic shadows for text or subjects shot on greenscreen. The Reflection tool creates perfect mirror-like reflections. The advanced Corner Pin tool consists of the features for working with warped images, importing tracking data from Mocha for After Effects, and adding secondary transforms and motion blur. All of these effects add a new dimension to pictures- Reality!

Zotero is a free Firefox extension which is easy to use and will help you in collecting, managing and citing your resource sources. These items could be anything from articles, documents and books to web pages, films, artwork, bills, sound recordings, bills statutes or cases, among many others. You can attach notes through the Notes tab; web pages as a snap shot or link and any types of files to the items.

Since Zotero runs within Firebox, it is really simple to create new items from the information you get on the internet. Users of Zotero can create interest or collaborative groups. Resource sources and materials can be managed collaboratively using shared group libraries, both online and through Zotero client.This free tool serves students and teachers well and it is also meant for anyone who keeps track of information on the web.

MashLogic is an extension of Firefox, which enriches the webpage with information and media that you care about. You can personalize web pages with links to sources that you prefer. It is easy to use and respectful of your privacy. With MashLogic user can choose his sources on the web but by downloading the consumer version of MashLogic as a plugin for the IE or Firefox browser, it lets readers outline topics of interest so that they can get web-surfing to their needs.

MashLogic lets users choose and highlight sources and order them based on the priorities. Users have to download a Firefox plugin in order to use it, but there is no toolbar. MashLogic makes browsing and research much easier.

RSVP Reader is a utility that stands for Rapid Serial Visual Presentation, which lets people, read text on the web much faster. It presents the selected text one word at a time at a pace you choose. If you are a person who reads online a lot and use Firefox as the browser, you could use this application to make reading on the computer much faster.

Cons

• ZeboPhoto has a very easy-to-use, functional file browser. This browser gives easy access to all images and text data on user’s computer. Navigation of disks on computer is very easy using a column browser which is similar to OS X finder.
• ZeboPhoto has a unique preview feature provided in the resizable browser window. User can view preview of images effectively in single click using this preview feature on the software.
• Another feature in ZeboPhoto is File Visibility Option. It provides several visibility controls that allows users to view hidden files in your computer; users can also hide/unhide their own files.
• ZeboPhoto has incredible slideshow capabilities. User can access slideshows directly from the image browser by simply double clicking on the folder or images while the slideshow option is selected. There are several additional options that can be used while performing the slideshow including, zooming in or out of an image, rotation mirroring, quick navigation, file deletion and many more.
• ZeboPhoto offers several graphic effects that can be used efficiently by users. It includes more than 40 incredible effects that turn your images into amazing art!! The effect includes several features like, blur, blow, brightness, blurred zoom, CMY, color map, exposure, contrast file deletion, reflect, replace color, sepia, sharpen, un-focus and many more features. Image sizing, cropping, sizing and rotation can be performed effectively using this software.
• Another unique feature is the resizable Catalog View. This feature allows users to quickly preview large folders of images and then view a slideshow with a single click on the picture that starts the show.
• Screen Capture is also possible in ZeboPhoto. Screen Captures can be performed and saved to TIFF, PDF and JPEG formats.
• Print Layout window is another unique feature in ZeboPhoto. With this users select from 27 different layouts which can be used to print your images.
• ZeboPhoto has also a movie player/maker attached to it. With this we can create movies from the available images.
• A Word Processor is also included in ZeboPhoto. This is very useful in saving your text clippings quickly in the styled text format as per user’s requirement.

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Cros

• File->Save option is not available in the unregistered version. Save As and Export options are available but a watermark will be made on the bottom side of your image. Also reminder box when you start the application is another awkward thing in the unregistered version.
• The Print Layout window only prints first 15 times when ZeboPhoto is launched.
• Make File Invisible/Visible option is also disables in unregistered version.

The Verdict

ZeboPhoto is very affordable image viewing software that provides easy access to pictures with its image browser. Its unique features are really impressive and are really upto mark. ZeboPhoto is must try software by all; do try it today itself!!!

Pixelmator uses Apple’s Core Image feature and is world’s  first GPU powered image editing software. The key factor here is that it has an open-source core. It’s developed on ImageMagick which is a cross-platform library of image manipulation tools. It supports almost any image formats that are available in the market. It even has the ability to open PSD files. Unlike Photoshop, Pixelmator is made specially for Mac platform. This makes it have many features that a Mac user always lookup for. Some of them are integration with iLife Media Browser, iSight Camera and more. A built-in photo browser is integrated to this software that can look through the pictures in iPhoto. Another key feature in this is Automator Integration. With this you can perform many tasks with your pictures effectively. Although Photoshop has most of these Automator actions it does not perform it in such accurately and quickly as Pixelmator.

Pixelmator like most of other image-editing software supports layer-based editing. That is, stacking up of multiple items on top of one another and adjusting the transparency of various items separately. Another key feature in Pixelmator is the use of Mac’s iSight to immediately add a new layer to image from iSight.  Pixelmator allows capturing still-frames from built-in Mac camera. Another exciting feature is that it offers onscreen notification for each task performed and offers real-time reflection for changes informed in advance.

Pixelmator lack some key features too. One key factor here is the lack of those much familiar keyboard short cuts we use in Photoshop. Pixelmator lacks it completely which make editing rather difficult. For eg, we cannot use the “shift” button to restrain proportion but need to manually click the restrain key to perform the task. Everything need to be clicked at the interface which makes it rather slow.  Also Pixelmator does not offer any real power over managing text in interface. This make it difficult to perform text manipulation in this software which was much easier in Photoshop by selecting the layer and changing the setting needed.

Though Pixelmator may never replace a much efficient software like Photoshop but when you need to quickly edit a photo Pixelmator outcasts any other bigger software.

PhotoPlus 6 is a basic photo editing program, a program suited for beginners which can be ascribed to its very user friendly and self explanatory layout. This program allows you to edit photos, apply effects to photos, add text, and more with a simple click. We will here give you a full in depth review of the software.

Lets Start!

Well, even though this software is free, you have to register which is a easy 5 step process which will culminate to Serif (the developers) sending you an authentication code (which sometimes might take some time). This process is redundant process, attributing to its poor user interface as well as delay in the registration process.

Interface

On running PhotoPlus 6, it will show a window of opportunities (Literally). As soon as it runs, it opens up a traditional photoshop interface asking you whether you want to start a new work, import a file or edit an existing one. PhotoPlus 6 is also compatible with Animation, so there is an option for that too (In fact they want to highlight the feature).

Features

This is the succulent part, a place to vaunt on PhotoPlus 6. PhotoPlus 6 includes a number of options which range from creating a new picture, opening saved work, creating an animation, import your photos, and viewing samples as discussed before. To add cream to that layer, PhotoPlus 6 offers several photo editing tools. This list includes the cropping tool, adjust the color tool, brightness tool, and the resizing tool. These tools are organized in a user friendly manner i.e on the left hand side and the top down menus fashion

Effects

For a serious photo editing, we need to look at Effects offered by PhotoPlus 6. PhotoPlus, like many other softwares offers tools like distortion, blur, edge, and rendering. It also provides popular effects used photo editing like the black and white effect and the sepia tone effect without having going through the trouble of adjusting color using the advanced features.

Text Effects

The Text tool is not a fancy one, but will do a decent job.You can add text by clicking the icon in the toolbar and clicking the photo. A text box will open and you can type your text and change the options at the top of the text editor. If you’re looking to create fancy text, this program isn’t what you are looking for.

Overall, Photo plus 6 makes a great learning software for users who want to learn photo editing. It is a free software and apart from the annoying registration process, you can say this software is as good as the real stuff.