MaximumPC 2005 05

MAY 2005 MA XIMUMPC 6 How To...^ A step-by-step guide to tweaking your PC experience TIME TO COMPLETION 02:16 HOURS MINUTES MA ...

How To 6 MA XIMUMPC MAY 2005 ISOLATING THE SUBJECT The first step is to remove the kids from the unwanted studio background 1 U ...

MAY 2005 MA XIMUMPC 63 7 RETRACE YOUR STEPS You’ll probably make errors as you create your path, especially when you’re zoomed i ...

MERGING THE LAYERS Now we can add the Kids layer to the image of the book, shrink the kids, and create realistic shadows How To ...

MAY 2005 MA XIMUMPC 6  How To 7 FAKE DEPTH OF FIELD Place a duplicated layer above the original. Gaussian Blur it and go to Lay ...

In the Lab A comparative look at SLI configurators A Deck of Daughtercards A behind-the-scenes look at Maximum PC testing F or c ...

Best of the Best As of May 200 5 There are scant updates to our list, despite this column’s hiatus last month. We’ve bumped the ...

Reviews 68 MA XIMUMPC MAY 2005 Falcon Northwest Mach V OC’d SLI P4 stomps our new benchmarks into the ground Y eah, we’re hardwa ...

MAY 2005MAY 2005 MA XIMMAMAMAXIMXIMXIMXIMUUUUUMMMPPPPCCC 6969 choice of P4 SLI boards and will sub- stitute the reference board ...

Reviews Western Digital Caviar SE 3200JB Very un-Raptor like... and that’s a good thing W e all love Western Digital’s 10,000rpm ...

Reviews  MA XIMUMPC MAY 2005 Portable LCD Lowdown Taking your monitor with you has never been easier In transit, the BenQ FP78 ...

single OCR error (thoughtfully highlighted in green to label it as suspect). Don’t let the modest 7 verdict give you the wrong i ...

Reviews Asus Vento 3600 Gaming Case Looks aren’t everything T he Vento 3600’s lusty red paint and bulging scoops are sexy enough ...

application for power-users, called QSuite. This program enables you to set the default “book type” of your recordable DVD media ...

Reviews P oint-and-shoot digital cameras are multiplying faster than rabbits in a lunchbox. And the trends and technology shifts ...

rate of 13MB per shot! Normal and Fine settings for the 12.3MP image size are offered, but Normal’s the only choice for all othe ...

Reviews T he original Splinter Cell rein- vented the stealth shooter. Its sequel Pandora Tomorrow deliv- ered near-perfect objec ...

Reviews 80 S ingle-player role-playing is far from dead. Knights of the Old Republic rekindled our love for captivating RPGs and ...

Reviews The Sims 2 University Expansion Pack Here’s your chance to act like Van Wilder Y ou can play the first Sims 2 expansion ...