Flash Player 10 code named “Astro” has been released as a beta version for the time being by Adobe Labs. The beta 10th installment of flash player includes new features, enhancments and bug fixes. Highlighted features are the creative expression’s, Custom Filters and Effects, 3D Effects, New Text Engine, Drawing API Enhancements and many more. Click here to read the overview on Flash Player 10 beta. If you would like to test flash player 10 follow the installation instructions at Adobe Labs.

 [via Download Squad]

The award winning morphing and assistant in complex morph setups and animations plug-in for 3Ds Max has released its second version with major updates in its features. Morph-O-Matic v2 features, Faster morphing calculation speed, Enhanced user interface, Displaying 20 morph channels at all time, Static poses preset, etc. Check the full list of v2 features here. Morph-O-Matic is avalible for sale at a retail price of $249 USD. A demo trail is also avalible for download here.SD

PolyBoost 3.0 evolves the concept of working with edgeloops with new tools such as CurveLoop, SpaceLoop, StraightenLoop, CircleLoop, RelaxLoop, tools for moving and building in screenspace in PolyDraw, advanced UVW Unwrap tools, new selection functionality and many fixes throughout PolyBoost. PolyBoost will work in 3ds max versions 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9. Most of the tools work on all subobjectlevels, so it’s one tool for all modes. You can buy a single liscense of PolyBoost from here for 124$. You can also check out a perview video over here.

[via CGIndia]

The new release of Strata 3D CX features a much more friendly user interface, that matches the need of regular Adobe cutomers. It also has more power for modeling, animating - and now scripting. The highlighted key features in the 5.0 are: 

- Render to Adobe Layers. Each image component gets rendered out as a separate layer in a native Photoshop .psd file for easy compositing and new effects possibilities.

- History Palette. The improved CX interface is more Adobe-like with History and palette docking.

- Scripting Power. New scripting power arrives via the popular Lua scripting language.

Stara 3D CX 5.0 is up for ording and shipping at the moment via store.strata.com for $695.00 USD.

[via Digit Magazine]

Paravue announced its ‘human understanding like’ image editing tools, for Photoshop CS3 users, known as Turbo Mask. Turbo mask features operations such as AutoSubject Detection, Procedural Results, Real-Time Mask Previews, etc. The key feature of Turbo is that it understands objects like people do, it removes them from backgrounds accurately-often with just one click! Turbo Mask will start shipping around May, and will cost around $249 USD. Read more here.

[Via Digit Magazine]

Electric Iris recently released Enzo. Enzo is a 3D painting plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Enzo gives Photoshop the ability to paint on 3D Models in a 3D environment, or paint on 2D textures. Enzo imports most of the known 3D formats into Adobe Photoshop, it also supports Photoshop 7, CS, and CS2. Enzo single license costs $ 299. To read more about Enzo, and view demo videos click here.