BUILD A SITE

The start of the New Year might be a good time to start a new website. We’ve tried more than half a dozen ways, and these are the ones we liked… Read more

THE T-SHIRT AS ART

RedBubble turns your artwork into a T-shirt or some other product. They will also sell it for you and collect the payment, from which they take a… Read more

PRINTING ON ANYTHING

We’re waiting to buy this one: Printbrush is a $200 device that you can use to take a picture of anything and then use the same device to print it… Read more

READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP, C.B.

Mold a small plastic lens into a rubber band and what have you got? A close-up lens for your cell phone, that’s what. You can get it from… Read more

HANG ON TO OLD STUFF

Bokeh is a program from Alien Skin for making special effects on photos, but you need Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or Light Rain to use it. We… Read more

ART FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

Ray Turley, an 82 year-old New Zealand woman, got a new career when she started taking tutorials to learn how to turn photographs into art. Now… Read more

FREE VIDEO TOOLS

We’re constantly being pitched to write about upgraded video editing programs, like Nero, version 11, but frankly, we find the free ones easier… Read more

PHOTOS ON A DIET

JPEGmini.com provides better photo compression of large photos than Adobe Photoshop, and it’s free. Our test photo, a picture of tulips, was made… Read more

FONT AND CENTER

A new version of FontAgent Pro for the Mac is out. You can tell it’s for graphic designers by its price: $100. But it’s 40 percent off if you are… Read more

GETTING AN INKLING

The new “Inkling” could be a real boon for artists. Draw on ordinary paper and everything you draw is saved in a digital version, thanks to a… Read more