Canva acquires the Affinity tools
New owner pledges to preserve perpetual licenses of pro design tools - and key Adobe alternatives - Affinity Designer, Photo and Publisher.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
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tyFlow 1.1 for 3ds Max adds new PRISM fracturing system
Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2024
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Winter 2023 deals for CG artists
Discover great seasonal discounts on 3D assets, apps and software, including offers still valid until the end of December.
Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Adobe's Firefly AI art toolset: everything you need to know
Now available commercially: read our updated FAQs for Adobe's new suite of generative AI tools.
Friday, July 14th, 2023
Anastasiy releases MagicPicker 9.1
Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets support for real-time colour picking.
Monday, January 16th, 2023
Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists
Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
Free: Anastasiy's Extension Manager 4.0 for Adobe apps
Get the new version of the Adobe-recommended tool for installing add-ons for Creative Cloud apps.
Wednesday, October 26th, 2022
Review: Xencelabs Pen Tablet Medium Bundle
See how the latest rival to Wacom's Intuos Pro Medium performed with a range of 2D and 3D software.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2022
Das Element uses AI to sort your VFX asset library
Neat tool turns your 'chaos folder' into an organised library of assets. Version 2.0 adds support for 3D assets.
Monday, August 1st, 2022
Anastasiy ships MagicTints 3.0
Neat one-click colour matching app for concept art and illustration work now supports targeted colour correction and batch processing.
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1
Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Adobe slashes price of Fresco
Cost of the premium features in the iOS and Windows drawing and painting app falls from $9.99/month to just $9.99/year in Fresco 3.6.
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
Adobe ships Photoshop 23.3
Update makes it possible to paste live text from Illustrator and adds multithreaded compositing, but removes the Shake Reduction filter.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022