Autodesk Maya 2014 professional software for creating computer graphics

Autodesk Maya - a professional software to create Hight quality computer graphics. Professionals around the world use of this package in the areas of CG, as the creation of special effects in film and television, game development, graphic design.

Create impressive 3D-presentation with proven features 3D-animation, modeling, visual effects and rendering.

Autodesk Maya 2014 offers professionals all the possibilities for a holistic creative process with a complete set of tools for 3D-animation, modeling, rendering, compositing and motion tracking based on easily expandable platform. Maya provides a set of tools to meet the technological requirements for visual effects, game development and 3D-animation. In Maya 2014 added tools to organize parallel workflows, and work on projects of high complexity, as well as new features creative character. Increased productivity for building high-quality content.

Nvidia announces new graphics chips GeForce 700M

Nvidia today announced a new family of graphics chips built on the basis of proprietary Nvidia GPU Boost 2.0, which can change the core clock speed of the graphics to the one on the one hand efficient use of electricity, and the other - raises the frequency during peak calculation in the system.

The new line of graphics chip Nvidia GeForce 700M GPUs includes high performance GeForce GT 750M, GeForce GT 745M and GeForce GT 740M, and the mainstream line of GeForce GT 735M and GeForce GT 720M. All chips also support Optimus, which allows the GPU to take part in the system-wide CPU calculations, effectively distribute the load on the system and reduce the battery consumption.

In terms of software, all the chips come with a solution GeForce Experience, which allows for fine-tuning the video card for a particular game, and stay tuned for the video card drivers.

TurboCAD package for Windows is 20 years old

Company IMSI / design has released a new version of its flagship product, TurboCAD 20, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the first issue.

In this anniversary release, TurboCAD CAD system provides users with such innovations as a separate working LTE-environment simulates the work with the package AutoCAD, as well as a much more realistic rendering of materials that make up the project details.

TurboCAD product series come out regularly, once a year. Company IMSI / Design in general is one of the "dinosaurs" in the CAD market. Founded in 1980, the company has managed to survive the explosion in popularity and the subsequent development of individual CAD systems, remains one of the few companies of its time and its category, which have preserved the independence for over 30 years, not counting developers AutoCAD, MicroStation and DataCAD.

Implementation of a new working environment for LTE simulation work in AutoCAD was a logical continuation of politics by IMSI / design to migrate to your product of successful findings of other products - yours and theirs. At this time the Pro edition and TurboCAD Pro Platinum Package 20 for Windows offer features from the package TurboCAD LTE, which was released exclusively for those familiar environment AutoCAD, but do not like the price of the original license.

Adobe Photoshop C6 most known program for processing raster graphics

Adobe Photoshop CS6 product developed by Adobe Systems. Includes new tools for working with three-dimensional graphics, designed to work with video, Internet, manufacturing and design.

In Adobe Photoshop CS6 sold more technological advancements from Adobe Labs, than in any other software, including a functional for everyday tasks, the most popular community of users of Photoshop.

The program has developed a logical functionality with the ability to recognize image content, and allows you to perform complex manipulations with just a few mouse clicks.

Photoshop moved to smartphones

The company Adobe Systems introduced version photo editor Photoshop Touch for smartphones, according to an official blog post. Earlier work with the program could only tablet owners.

Opportunities from the phone and tablet versions of the editor is almost identical: they support the work with layers, offer tools to select objects in the image (you can trace the contours of the object with your finger) and include a set of filters.

Photoshop Touch supports Creative Cloud - Cloud services Adobe, designed to hold the user's documents. The owner of a smartphone can store in a "cloud" unfinished work to complete it, for example, on the computer where the full Photoshop.

The program can be installed on the iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, the player iPod touch and fifth generation smartphones running Android 4.0 or later operating systems. The App Store and Google Play Photoshop Touch app is worth five dollars.

Mobile tool for creating three-dimensional monsters

Autodesk has introduced to the public its new application for the iOS platform, called 123D Creature.

This tool is oriented to the widest audience, will allow owners of smartphones and tablets to create detailed three-dimensional models funny or frightening imaginary creatures right on your handheld device.

The program does not assume that the user has experience with tools for 3D-modeling. To master a tool kit can even children. The developers promise that the creative process will be limited only by your imagination and the imagination. At the disposal of smartphone users will slice virtual clay, which can crush, twist and warp with simple and natural gestures. 123D Creature allows you to rotate the model and view it from different angles, and upon completion of the creative process will offer to paint the creature in bright colors.

You can keep the model in memory of personal devices and when the opportunity to show it to friends and family. However, the features of the program are not limited. If desired, can pocket monster without much labor to step on-screen handheld device in the real world. Any model created in 123D Creature, you can print on a modern 3D-printer. If you have at hand was not this expensive device, the program offered the appropriate service, and within the agreed time a unique figure, made on personal projects will be delivered to the threshold of your home.

GIMP 2.8.4 - updated version of the popular graphic editor

The new version of the application GIMP 2.8.4 FINAL powerful cross-platform image editor open source.

This set of tools is different from many competitors convenient interface with the power settings, and more requested features. Thanks to these features, many users are called GIMP valuable alternative expensive graphics packages such as Photoshop.

The proposed set of tools can be used for retouching and processing of digital images, and to create their own drawings and illustrations of professional level. Despite its status as a free application, by the opportunities GIMP is not inferior to most commercial applications. In addition to the traditional tools for drawing and editing images, users are to assess the support layers, masks and channels, as well as a large number of additional filters and visual effects.

Formally build GIMP 2.8.4 is a technical update. However the list of release notes, in addition to the traditional mention of increased stability and performance also includes a number of functional enhancements, including a modified interface and increased responsiveness of drawing tools.