Jade is an easy-to-use image enhancement and batch processing tool that automatically and almost instantly corrects digital images. After using it, there's no mystery why versio 1.2 is a staff pick on Apple's download website. Jade is a tool you're going to want to have and will use

Expression Media is a DAM, or Digital Access Management program. That is, if you have two hundred or two hundred thousand images, you can use Expression Media to help organize, find, and manage your images. It can be used by the professional photographer or the amateur. If you do not have Photoshop or a similar image editing program, you can do rudimentary adjustments and alterations with Expression. Similarly, you can create contact sheets and web galleries. As you shall read, Expression has some great strengths and some surprising weaknesses.

PowerPoint has some very strong attributes and features. It's a good program with strong interactive ties with the rest of the Office suite. If you have Office, there is less of a driving need to get Keynote. If you are in a situation where you have to use PowerPoint, you will be able to create strong presentations. However, if you own both Keynote and PowerPoint, and you have the option of choice, I'd go for Keynote.

This combination standalone application and plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS and Photoshop Elements streamlines and automates separating and extracting portions of digital images from their backgrounds including tricky objects like hair, latticework and branches

Bling! It is specifically-purposed image enhancement program that gives you the power to easily create professional-looking image layouts of items or products for publishing on the Web or on online auction sites like eBay and Craigslist

Now MacIntel native, and with even more Photoshop CS-style features, with version 6 Photoshop Elements is a better value than ever.If there's another graphics program that comes even close to offering as much raw image-editing power and versatility for 90 bucks, I can't imagine what it would be

I don't know about you, but I'm terrible at keeping horizons level in landscape shots or in pictures where one is usually intent on foreground objects and forgets to level the camera. Happily, Photoshop Elements 6 can fix this often shot-ruining flaw quite easily

After more than two years, Adobe has finally released a new version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac. With Version 6, Mac users get a lot more editing firepower. And fortunately, O'Reilly's has promply followed suit releasing "Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual for the Mac" - a resource you don't want to be without if you want to get the best out of Elements 6

Photoshop Elements 6 allows you to combine separate shots into horizontal or vertical panoramas using Elements 6's enhanced Photomerge Panorama feature based on Adobe's proprietary Photomerge to stitch together multiple photos panned across a scene into a single seamless panorama - automatically

Font management programs have been around almost as long as the Mac has been around. In the early days, fonts were part of the system, and it was difficult to do anything with them. Then Apple introduced the Font/DA Mover, letting you finally having access to the fonts in your system and the ability to easily add new fonts. Nowadays, Apple provides Font Book, which makes it easy to add fonts into your system. But neither of these are font management programs. Over the years, there have been a number of font management programs, and FontAgent Pro has continued to be a solid, dependable program to control your fonts. Despite the fact that not all of my wishes from my review of FontAgent Pro version 3 were implemented in this release, this new version does continue Insider Software's tradition of great software.

Smasher is a strange, little, valuable program that helps repair and/or replace (by removal) font caches, folders, and troublesome fonts. The simple fact of computers is that there are a number of functions in your computer that demand your fonts are in tip-top shape, your font caches are in tip-top shape, and access to all of your fonts are tip top. So what do you do if things are not so tip top? You smash things up.

Most bitmap graphics applications can convert colored or grayscale images to black & white, but none in my experience does it slicker than Photoshop Elements 6, a pre-release beta of which has kindly been supplied to me by Adobe.