Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Your camera's best friend

A mountain of digital photos needs a friend and a master. A friend to help organise the good ones and a master to discipline the bad. One that fits the bill on both counts is Adobe's Photoshop Elements. It was good in version 3 but now version 4 is even better. It comes in flavours for Windows (XP only) or Mac OS X.

Its companion product, Premiere Elements (v2), is similarly capable with camcorder footage. The two are available in a good-value bundle for 150 notes and you can read the full review of both in today's paper.

In games, Psychonauts (PS2/Xbox) is a trip, an acid-drenched wild ride that just happens to be a platform puzzler on the side. Full Auto (Xbox 360) does the Burnout schtick - but with guns. The visual fireworks aren't matched by long-term appeal but it's fun for a while.

Rugby 06 (PS2/Xbox) continues the upward evolution of the series - it's still lacks wide-ranging appeal (maybe that's just rugby's convoluted nature) but fans will relish how it's finally getting so much right. Lemmings (PSP) is, well, Lemmings, but it feels all 1991 again.

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