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eFrontier Anime Studio Pro (Win/Mac)

9 reviews

Windows, Macintosh | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

$27 for the student discount
I think people have said enough great things about the program, and I agree with them all. But what I want customers to know, if you can get a student discount (you're a student, someone you know is a student, or faculty) you can get it for $27 and the Pro version is $94 at places like academic superstore.

Manga Studio 3.0 Debut for Windows

15 reviews

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

Digital Drawing
The best drawing program I've seen. Drawing on the computer is an art in itself, and this program has fewer hurdles to overcome. Happy drawing

Anime Studio 5 Win/Mac

14 reviews

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

I find this product very worth the money.
The one thing that is not made clear in most reviews of this anime creator is that first: The animation software is for people that have worked with some kind of animation software before or have worked with such products as PhotoShop. And those folks should understand a bit of the basic premise of animation production. This is a software package that is made to introduce folks to a product of ...

Poser 7 3D Figure Design and Animation

14 reviews

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

Fantastic application
I had a problem in that I needed to complete a presentation in flash with characters doing athletic movements within a few days. I had previously used Poser3 about 6 years ago and decided to pick up poser 7 (for a very good price from Amazon directly as it happened - about the same as some companies were selling the upgrade for!). Within a couple of days I had the software delivered and ...

Rapidweaver

6 reviews

Mac OS X Intel | Smith Micro Software, 2008

Best Single User Mac Web Site Creator
I've been using Rapidweaver for several years now, ever since Don McAllister of ScreenCasts Online demoed it on his vidcast. The product was so amazing and filled my need so well, I actually swayed me over the edge to make the switch back to Mac. For years on the PC I had searched for web creation software that gave me power and ease, but nothing was availble. This amazing product changed all ...

VMware Fusion

193 reviews

Mac OS X, Macintosh | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2007

VMWare Fusion
I bought this and an OEM version of Windows Vista so my wife could run a few of her Windows-only programs on Leopard (iMac 24"). So far, I have only installed the Hallmark Card Maker Deluxe 2008, but installation of Vista and the Card Maker program were very intuitive and easy. Before getting this, I was worried about what to expect when installing windows, but interestingly, Vista was ...

Artrage Deluxe 2.5

1 review

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software, 2008

Great Features with Nice Price Tag
ArtRage is a natural media digital art software with several very nice features, some challenging those of Painter and Photoshop. The first thing that I liked was the software's graphic user interface or workspace. Given the number of features and the amount of controls to customize the tools, you would expect a complicated and intimidating GUI similar to that of Painter or Photoshop. Instead, ...

StuffIt Deluxe 12.0

1 review

Macintosh, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2007

What Doesn't Come With Your Mac OS X
The stuffit engine does a wonderful job of extracting compressed files, zip, tar, sit, & sea. The Deluxe version adds the ability to make your own self-extracting compressed files to send, and well as to archive. This version allows you to view archived files without having to extract them. (kind of like 'quick look' on OS X Leopard). Your compressed files also can be encrypted with very strong ...

Poser 7 3D Figure Design and Animation (Win/Mac)

8 reviews

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

Superior value
It seems that the consensus is that Poser 7 is a difficult tool to use. I would have to agree that the learning curve is somewhat steep, but if you think about it, so is the learning curve for driving a car, yet most people have fought through learning to shift gears because it is a necessary skill to be able to do so much more. The Poser documentation is excellent. It is professionally ...

Vue Easel 6

2 reviews

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2007

Great software
If your just starting to get into 3D art this is a great place to start before getting heavy into things like lightwave or cinema4D and the more advanced versions in the Vue line. I've created a lot of great stunning images in teh few months i've owned this product. There's only a few complaints i have and they really shouldn't stop anyone from buying this product. - Purchasing add-ons like ...

Morpheus Photo Morpher

3 reviews

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

Really Fun!
I didn't know what to expect, but using Morpheus was really fun! Morpheus was easy to learn (the kids had absolutely no trouble learning it), easy to use (the kids had even less trouble using it) and fun for the entire family. Combining a child's photo with her favorite pet's, or friend's, showing how one might look older, fatter or (wishful thinking?) thinner, idea after idea--we've already ...

MotionArtist 4

1 review

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2007

Not what expected
Item was not what I expected. Need several add-ons to complete project software was intended for. But item was shipped fast, well packaged. Just had to spend a few more bucks to really get full use of product.

Poser 7 3D Figure Design and Animation (Mac)

Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

EFRONTIER POSER 7 MAC - OS 10.4 & UP

Poser Figure Artist

3 reviews

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2007

Good Application Overall, Some Limitations
This program is a very stripped down version of Poser. There is no animation in this application. It's for posing 3D figures, rendering them and exporting or printing out 2 dimensional images only. Like many digital artists I don't have the space or money for real human models so this application should help me. To help me actually "draw" the human figure I pose it in Poser Figure Artist, ...

Poser Pro

1 review

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software, 2008

Good by itself, poor integration with 3D programs
Poser Pro is fairly stable by itself (a bit better than Poser 7) but still slow in rendering and without any significant change in its dated user interface. The collada export, which was widely advertised for its integration with XSI etc. is buggy and crippled. The tutorial on collada export to XSI, for instance, works for non animated models, but if one selects to export the skeleton (bones), it ...

DTV4PC

3 reviews

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2007

Highly Recommended from Tightwad Friend
A close friend, known for his parsimony and greed, raved about his purchase of DTV4PC - he absolutely couldn't understand how anyone would not give a superlative rating to this product - hence, I've tagged 5 Stars above even though I haven't even received my order confirmation from Amazon yet. "Why?" - you ask! Because if you order by the 29th you get a 15 dollar rebate that's why... but if you ...

TuneRanger

1 review

Windows, Mac OS X | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2008

Seriously incomplete...
The idea of this program is excellent, but it has one serious, incomprehensible glitch: it does not preserve the order of tracks within albums. If you like to listen to your music randomized, then that is fine, because that is what you will get, but if the sequence matters you have to manually reorder the tracks. Especially for classical music, opera, spoken-word recordings that is onerous. ...

Morpheus Photo Animation Suite

2 reviews

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc.

Even Better than Photo Morpher!
One may start out with Morpheus Photo Morpher and "graduate" to Morpheus Photo Animation Suite, or spend the few extra bucks and buy the Suite in the first place, as it does even more than Photo Morpher does. Both are easy to learn, easy to use and a whole lot of fun for adults as well as for children. I can only add to my comments on Photo Morpher--that program is really great, but this ...

Manga Studio 3.0 Debut for Mac

Macintosh | Smith Micro Software Inc.

DEBUT MAC OS X 10.2 +

EMC Retrospect Express HD

15 reviews

Windows | Smith Micro Software Inc., 2006

Don't understand some of the reviews
You can definately choose to backup more that just the entire hd. You can choose individual folders if you want. My friend uses it to just back up one huge folder that has all his business files. I must admit that I've never actually used it to restore anything yet so I can't testify how well it would do that, but it's been backing up my hd faithfully for over a year every Monday morning at ...