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Affinity Photo Now on Windows

by Bob Raikes

Serif of the UK has made Affinity Photo available on Windows as well as updating the Mac version. The software, which costs $50 to purchase, was chosen as Apple’s ‘App of the Year’ 2015, …

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RealD Uses Cloud to Bring TrueImage to Cinema

by Tom Allen

Brian Hawkins, also from RealD, is the inventor of the TrueImage software. First used during post-production of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’, this software is designed to eliminate artefacts. Filmmakers can use high …

Stealing Expressions

by Tom Allen

Computer scientists in Germany and California have developed a way to capture and map facial expressions from one user to another. When one person frowns, for instance, that expression is transferred to a live …

Xara Boosts Designer to Pro X11

by Bob Raikes

The Xara Designer programme has a long history and was originally developed in the UK for the Acorn Archimedes in the 1980s, although it was acquired by a German publisher, Magix Ag in 2015. …

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Computer Graphics Continue Steady Growth

by Tom Allen

Since it was established in the 1970s, the computer graphics market has been a growth industry. Recessions have come and gone, but new features and applications – UltraHD, the move to mobile – have …

The Computer Graphics market will exceed $235 billion by 2018

by Milos Pavlovic

Industry enjoying 6.3% growth for next few years, says JPR The computer graphics industry has been a growth industry since it was established in the late 1970s. It has weathered the storms of recessions …

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Digital Anarchy Speeds Digital Makeup Application

by Tom Allen

Digital Anarchy is an after-effects company, with software that digitally ‘touches up’ peoples’ faces in photographs. The company also has a version for video, Beauty Box Video, with real-time skin retouching and digital makeup …

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AMD Bypasses OS to Improve VR Latency

by Tom Allen

Virtual Reality was a major talking point at this year’s Game Developers’ Conference, and AMD wasn’t letting the action pass it by. After all, a dedicated GPU will still be necessary to drive the …

Xara Designer Goes to Pro X10

by Bob Raikes

Xara has released a new version of its all-in-one graphic design package, Designer Pro X10. Since 1994, when Xara first launched its vector graphics design tool, this piece of software has rivalled products from …

Tags:Graphics Software| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 22 - Issue 08

Computer Graphics Drive Display Applications

by Phillip Wright

French designer Benoît Dereau has produced a striking example of the capabilities of computer graphics (CG). His Unreal Paris video (embedded below) created using Unreal Engine 4 illustrates for me the manner in which advances in computer graphics drive display applications …

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