We reviewed Adobe Photoshop Speedup a while ago. The program gave users a choice to disable certain elements during the startup of Adobe Photoshop to speedup the startup of the image editor significantly. The greatest point of criticism at the time of the review was the incompability of the program with the latest Adobe Photoshop [...]
View Photoshop PSD thumbnails in Vista and Windows 7 Explorer
Windows Vista introduced a new imaging stack, called Windows Imaging Component (WIC), and uses it in Windows Explorer to create thumbnails for most image file formats. 3rd parties can write their own WIC codec to support proprietary image formats such as Nikon NEF or Canon CR2 raw files and Windows Explorer is able to show [...]
Adobe Photoshop Speedup
Adobe Photoshop, among with other products created by Adobe including the notorious Adobe Reader, are known to start slowly. This is one of the main reasons why computer users install and use alternative products which might not offer the full feature set but make up for that in speed and performance. The price of the [...]
Adobe Photoshop PSD Plugin For Paint.net
Paint.net is my image editor of choice. It is free, starts up fast and provides access to all the features and options needed to edit images effectively before posting them on websites. I have always associated Paint.net with a slow and resource hungry .net application but it turned out to be quite the opposite which [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 12th, 2009
- Comments: 14
Tired of Photoshop and GIMP? Try Paint.net
I’ve been searching for a Photoshop replacement for a while, and the obvious choice was GIMP, although I never really liked it much. I am 100% sure that GIMP is an awesome application, but to me it just doesn’t feel right.
So instead, I gave Paint.net another go, an application which I have tried before, but [...]
Get Free Photoshop Tutorials with Vunky Search
Whether you are a novice or an intermediate user in the world of Photoshop, everyone can use tutorials. Even if a person is comfortable with the software, tutorials are a great way of introducing oneself to new styles and concepts and pretty much be amazed by what you can create with Photoshop.
If you’re looking for [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 5th, 2009
- Comments: 11
Get Graphic with The GIMP
I almost hesitate to offer up any sort of review for the Linux version of Photoshop. Why? I’ve been using it for so long it almost seems unfair to “review” something so familiar. But then I have to step back and remember that not everyone has given The Gimp a go and most probably don’t [...]

