Learn to think like a painter in Transforming a Photo into a Painting with Photoshop and render images from photographs that look like they were created with oils or acrylics, using the latest digital artist's tools. Author and artist John Derry introduces the process of interpreting a photograph into a painted work of art. He begins by explaining his system of visual vocabularies, which describe how to replace the elements of an image with expressive painterly qualities, and also shares the custom brush sets and actions he uses to achieve these results in Photoshop. The course also covers working with filters, layers, effects, and more to add further detail and texture. Exercise files are included with the course.

Digital Photo Pro proudly denotes itself as �The Guide to Advanced Technology and Creativity� pertaining to the world of digital photography. The issues of this magazine are packed with invaluable information, shooting tips and techniques, product reviews, business advice, and relevant industry news. The feature stories and articles explore unique topics of interest, such as mobile lighting, software evolution, creating digital archives, and transitioning from stills to video. Digital Photo Pro also delves into the profiles of several renowned photographers in every publication, including inspiring images and how they came to creation. The content of this magazine branches out from the mainstream tricks of the trade and looks beyond the brand names that have become conventions of the business. A subscription to Digital Photo Pro will bring you a wealth of knowledge and will result in a refinement of your skills.

With an easy-to-use interface and a powerful photo recovery engine that can recover even the most highly-fragmented photos, Adroit takes photo recovery to a whole new level. Adroit Photo Recovery is an easy-to-use application whcih can recover deleted photos from internal and external hard drives, USB sticks, memory cards, digital cameras, and disk images in three easy steps.

Simply point and click the drive or memory card to recover from and Adroit takes care of the rest. During recovery thumbnails of recovered photos stream through the screen. When recovery is complete Adroit groups the photos for easy navigation. Thumbnails and full preview of recovered images are also available.

AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker is a Flash album creator, Flash to Slideshow Maker to create elegant flash photo slideshow for share on Website, Blog, Myspace and more. It can easily make animated photo slide show with SWF file as the output format.AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker is the ideal tool to create slide show widget which you can share your memorial moments with your family or friends on your own homepage, post on your Blog or upload to your own website. It can burn slideshow on CD or DVD disc playable on computer and save original photos on CD/DVD disc.

Zoner Photo Studio also provides effects from fun (e.g. oil painting and posterization) to highly professional (e.g. framing and text-in-image). Supported file formats: BMI, BMP, CR2, CRW, DIB, GIF, ICO, JPE, JPEG, JPG, MAC, MDM, MRW, NEF, ORF, PCD, PCX, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAW, RLE, TGA, THM, TIF, WPF, EMF, WMF, ZBR, ZCL, ZMF, ZMP. When DirectX support is installed on a computer, Zoner Photo Studio 8 can also display the following multimedia formats: ASF, AVI, M1V, MOV, MPE, MPEG, MPG, QT, WMV, AIF, AIFF, AU, MID, MIDI, MP3, MP3, MPA, RMI, SND, WAV, and WMA. The Deluxe version includes a backup CD, 3D glasses, and Zoner Draw 5 for free! To pick up your purchase immediately, download and install the trial version and unlock using your license code. To pick up your purchase after receiving your CD roughly a week from now, install from that CD, then unlock using your license code.

Zoner Photo Studio also provides effects from fun (e.g. oil painting and posterization) to highly professional (e.g. framing and text-in-image). Supported file formats: BMI, BMP, CR2, CRW, DIB, GIF, ICO, JPE, JPEG, JPG, MAC, MDM, MRW, NEF, ORF, PCD, PCX, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAW, RLE, TGA, THM, TIF, WPF, EMF, WMF, ZBR, ZCL, ZMF, ZMP. When DirectX support is installed on a computer, Zoner Photo Studio 8 can also display the following multimedia formats: ASF, AVI, M1V, MOV, MPE, MPEG, MPG, QT, WMV, AIF, AIFF, AU, MID, MIDI, MP3, MP3, MPA, RMI, SND, WAV, and WMA. The Deluxe version includes a backup CD, 3D glasses, and Zoner Draw 5 for free! To pick up your purchase immediately, download and install the trial version and unlock using your license code. To pick up your purchase after receiving your CD roughly a week from now, install from that CD, then unlock using your license code.

Lightning-fast and easy to use, ACDSee Photo Manager has everything you need to organize your photos, perfect your shots, and share your memories with friends and family. With ACDSee Photo Manager you can quickly and easily browse and find photos, and fix red-eye, lighting and more with easy-to-use editing tools.