Hornil StylePix – a powerful yet easy-to-use image editor
May 20, 2013 – 08:36 | No Comment
Hornil StylePix – a powerful yet easy-to-use image editor

Designing a great image editor has always been a tricky balancing act. It’s important that the program has real power, plenty of useful functionality, and delivers more than you’d expect in every area. But at …

Browse, manage, retouch and share your photos with GTKRawGallery
May 2, 2013 – 12:07 | No Comment
Browse, manage, retouch and share your photos with GTKRawGallery

Most digital cameras will by default save photos as JPEG files, and it’s easy to see why: they’re small, can be saved and reloaded quickly, and are supported by just about every graphics package available.
Switching …

Migrate quickly, simply and securely to a new PC with three great deals from the Downloadcrew Store
April 23, 2013 – 07:23 | No Comment
Migrate quickly, simply and securely to a new PC with three great deals from the Downloadcrew Store

The time has come to move on to a new PC, but before jettisoning your old computer, you need to make sure you’re ready for the big move. That means two key things: getting your …

jAlbum 11.2 fine-tunes web album builder with useful tweaks and bug fixes
April 22, 2013 – 11:46 | No Comment
jAlbum 11.2 fine-tunes web album builder with useful tweaks and bug fixes

jAlbum AB is released a new version of its cross-platform web media album builder for Windows, Mac and Linux. jAlbum 11.2 builds on version 11’s added support for embedding video clips as well as photos …

Mark World Backup Day by protecting your PC with one of our top offers from the Downloadcrew Software Store
March 30, 2013 – 12:27 | No Comment
Mark World Backup Day by protecting your PC with one of our top offers from the Downloadcrew Software Store

Sunday March 31st is World Backup Day. It’s the day where you’re reminded of the importance of having a backup for all of your precious data and settings. Anyone who’s confronted the horror of data …

Skitch for Desktop 2.0 makes its Windows bow
March 20, 2013 – 08:19 | No Comment
Skitch for Desktop 2.0 makes its Windows bow

Evernote Corporation has unveiled Skitch for Desktop 2.0 for Windows, a brand new version of its photo annotation and sketch tool. The new version boasts a major update to its user interface, plus offers streamlined …

PhoXo: a fun, free and feature-packed photo editor
March 19, 2013 – 17:55 | One Comment
PhoXo: a fun, free and feature-packed photo editor

Launch most photo editors for the first time and they’ll try to impress you with their serious credentials: flyout toolbars, feature-packed menus and so on.
Run the free PhoXo, though, and what you’ll notice first is …

JPEGView: a very surprising image viewer
March 18, 2013 – 06:10 | No Comment
JPEGView: a very surprising image viewer

At first glance, JPEGview doesn’t appear as though it’s going to be a particularly interesting image viewer. A 798KB download suggests there can’t be too much power here. And on launch the program asks you …

JAlbum 11 adds video support to web gallery toolkit
March 14, 2013 – 10:23 | No Comment
JAlbum 11 adds video support to web gallery toolkit

Web gallery creation tool JAlbum 11.0 has been released for Windows, Mac and Linux. Version 11.0 allows users to combine video with photos for the first time using the program. Features include support for over …

Mount just about any disc image as a virtual drive with VirtualDVD
February 28, 2013 – 07:15 | No Comment
Mount just about any disc image as a virtual drive with VirtualDVD

Download an ISO disc image onto a brand new PC and you probably won’t need any third-party software to handle it. Windows 8 makes it easy to mount the image as a virtual drive, so …

Clean up old photos in a click with Retouch Pilot Lite
February 25, 2013 – 09:59 | No Comment
Clean up old photos in a click with Retouch Pilot Lite

Enhancing a regular digital photo isn’t too difficult, at least at a basic level. Even an editing newbie will quickly get used to tweaking brightness, contrast, colour balance and so on, and these image-wide adjustments …