When you purchase a digital camera, you will receive software to look at your photos. Reviewed here are two software packages based on the concept that you may want more than what you have. Both are strong contenders for providing that bit of extra buttons and bells you might have been wanting, but were unaware that such options existed.

FILTERiT is a plug-in for Adobe Illustrator that expands the capabilities of twisting, turning, altering, or (artistically) messing up an object or text beyond what is already available in the program.

WebPainter 3.0.5 from Totally Hip Software is primarily an animation program, it's true, but look more closely: each editable frame consists of 32 separate layers -- something special must be going on here!

Photo Objects (Vol I & II) is a new kind of clip-art. Here, you have a collection of actual photos, at typically 600x600 dpi placed on transparent backgrounds that can be used in any kind of media such as a school paper or web sites.

Art Nouveau is a reproduction of the entire M.P. Verneuit's Étude de la Plante and contains all 391 plates (310 pages of text) of plants in nature and the plant's design motives which are done in Art Nouveau.

PhotoFactory combines three powerful, fun-to-use photo-editing software packages (Kai's Power Show, Kai's Photo Soap 2, SuperGoo) you can use to edit, liquefy, twist, stretch, and just plain funkify your photos. PhotoFactory even lets you create slick presentations complete with sound, animation and a bunch of other easy-to-use, cool special effects!

You don't have to play around with [e-Picture Pro] for very long before realizing why it has received so much praise. Its tools are at once familiar to users of Photoshop and Flash, somehow bridging the gap between the two. That's not to say users can hop right in and complete their first animation in a matter of moments, but rather that there's an immediate level of comfort one doesn't usually have with new software.

If you do any kind of desktop publishing/layout using EPS images, you know that a PostScript printer is a must. Now no self-respecting DTPer is going to run a full print job on an ink jet printer, but with StyleScript, your little Hewlett-Packard or Epson becomes a fine comping machine.

This collection of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator is sure to increase your playtime. This is not only because FILTERiT provides an extensive collection (82) of new ways to alter, distort, and/or tweak your work

This collection of plug-ins for Adobe Illustrator is sure to increase your playtime. This is not only because FILTERiT provides an extensive collection (82) of new ways to alter, distort, and/or tweak your work

The Keyspan Digital Media Remote is a powerful infrared remote which allows you to control multimedia applications on your computer in the same convenient way that you now control your home TV.

FontAgent helps you organize, manage & repair your fonts, optimizing your font library to cut down on font-related crashes & lock-ups.