The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
image editing
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0
Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Adobe unveils new Photoshop and Character Animator tools
See previews of a neat update to Content-Aware Fill and Character Animator's new keyframe system.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2019 Build 66
Release extends digital painting app's animation tools, updating the Exposure Sheet and Frame Painter.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 21.5
Inexpensive image-editing software gets better graphics tablet support, improved lens correction filter.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.7.1 and Affinity Designer 1.7.1
Updated: mainly bugfixes this time, but there is also some very cool integration with new page layout tool Affinity Publisher.
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018's best technical papers
Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
FXhome ships Imerge Pro
'World's first RAW image compositor' edits still images non-destructively, and provides some neat keying and grading tools.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 21
Sub-$100 image-editing tool gets support for scripting, new lens correction filter, auto-save system.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10
Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
The GIMP Team releases GIMP 2.9.8
Open-source image editing tool gets support for on-canvas gradient editing, improved PSD import.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.6 and Affinity Designer 1.6
New versions of the image editing and vector design apps come with free bonus resources worth $200+.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Serif releases Affinity Photo for iPad
Pro image-editing tool gets $30 iOS edition. All the key features of the Mac version, GPU-accelerated, and touch-optimised.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017