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Reviews: Design and illustration

Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch graphics tablet

Graphics tablet and mouse touchpad combined

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Genius M508W wireless graphics tablet, pen and mouse

A decent graphics tablet with a few clever extras, ideal for creating artwork

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Coreldraw Graphics Suite X5 Limited Edition drawing and painting package with graphics tablet

Want to be a better computer artist? Take the tablet

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Xara 3D Maker 7

Create static and animated text and buttons in 3D

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Serif Template Packs

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Moviestorm 1.4

Make animated movies on your PC

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Microsoft Publisher 2010

A good page designer for home-office use

This useful planning tool is now on sale from Amazon in the UK

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Xara Web Designer 6

Focus on the ‘design’ part of designing a website

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  • £39
  • Web
  • 30/07/2010
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Print Artist Platinum 23

Create professional-looking printed projects

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Web Easy Professional 8

Web design without hassle - but with less control than other programs

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  • £40
  • Web
  • 11/03/2010
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Greenstreet Publisher 4.6

An affordable and easy-to-use desktop-publishing program

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  • £33 (download) or £40 (CD)
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  • 12/01/2010
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1&1 My Business Site

Get your small business online cheaply

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  • £10 per month
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  • 30/11/2009
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Serif Pageplus X4

A tweaked edition of the popular low-cost publishing program

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Computer Aided Design. Software used to create 3D models.

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