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[Editor: 3D] [Editor: Photo-Paint] [Diagram And Chart Drawing Tool] [Organizer; Image Gallery; Screensaver] [Viewer] [Viewer; Image Optimizer] [Editor: Gif Animations] [Icon Tool] [Edit Image Comments] [Measure]Editor: 3D Blender
Company: Blender Foundation Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Other OS: Mac OSX;.Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: Blender is the essential software solution you need for 3D, from modeling, animation, rendering and post-production to interactive creation and playback. Professionals and novices can easily and inexpensively publish stand-alone, secure, multi-platform content to the web, CD-ROMs, and other media.
Home page:
http://www.blender3d.org/
download page: v 2.41 (2006-01-25) [ blender-2.41-windows.exe (6586 KB) Windows] [ blender-2.41-windows.zip (6437 KB) Windows]
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender.31.0.html
2006PL CD files: blender-2.37a-windows.exe blender-2.37a-windows.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-03-02)
Editor: Photo-Paint PhotoFiltre
Company: -- Author: Antonio Da Cruz
(Donationware) (Liteware) (free for personal use/non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows NOTES: A no install version is available in French
Languages: English; French; Dutch; Czech; language packs for other languages
Description: PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.
Home page:
http://www.photofiltre.com/
download page v 6.2.6 (2006-10-04 ) [ pf-setup-en.exe (1638 KB) English]
http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
2006PL CD files: pf-setup-en.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-07)The Gimp
Company: The Gimp Author: Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball
(Donationware) (free) (open source: GNU GPL)
Windows OS: Windows
Other OS: Linux; Unix
Languages: English
Description: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, a expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc. GIMP is extremely expandedable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plugins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. NOTES: Because of patent issues with the LZW compression algorithm the installer does not install the ability to save GIF files. (Yes, I know that the Unisys patent has expired in the US. Not so in other countries, though.) To be able to do this, make sure that either you are in a country where Unisys doesn't have a patent on the LZW algorithm, or that you have a license from Unisys. Then download the file gimp-gif-1.2.5.zip (http://www.iki.fi/tml/gimp/win32/gimp-gif-1.2.5.zip) (from a server in Finland). Unzip and put the gif.exe in your GIMP plug-ins folder.
Home page:
http://www.gimp.org/
The Gimp for Windows information:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
download page: [ v 2.3.8 (2006-04-30) gimp-2.3.8-setup.zip (9875 KB) (Windows)] [ GTK+ 2.8.15 (2006-03-24) gtk+-2.8.15-setup.zip (4384 KB) (Windows)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075
2006PL CD files: gimp-2.2.8-i586-setup.zip gtk+-2.8.6-setup.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-04)Pixia
Company: Tacmi Co. Author: Isao Maruoka
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: The original Japanese version of Pixia was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but it has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software to be quite unique and different from other tools. Pixia Help File is now available as a separate installation file. To get better tips for using Pixia, visit users' tutorials linked from the Tutorial page.
Home page:
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
download page v 3.3b (2005-09-26) [ pix33be.exe (3883 KB) English]
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm
2006PL CD files: pix33be.exe
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-14)
Diagram And Chart Drawing Tool Visual Thought
Company: Company::2000 Confluent Inc. and E*TRADE Inc. Author: --
(Trialware: 13-year license) (free) unsupported
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Visual Thought is a cross-platform diagramming and flowcharting tool for the enterprise that runs on Windows 95/NT and UNIX. It lets you effortlessly create technical and documentation graphics, network diagrams, flowcharts, org charts, software design diagrams (UML, Booch, OMT, Objectory, etc.), circuit and logic diagrams and business and presentation graphics. Choose from a library of drag-and-drop palettes, or create your own with user-definable shapes. Edit your work easily with 100 levels of undo. Publish your diagrams into Word or FrameMaker documents or right onto the Web with GIF and JPEG output and instant clickable imagemaps. NOTES:For windows the following licence key is good for 13 years: 4687 5261 1375 3152 2773 94
Program description:
http://product-support.web.cern.ch/product-support/sdt/visualthought.html
download page v 1.4 (2000-10-06) [ VT14.EXE (6966 KB)]
http://tersesystems.com/vt14/
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-14)
Organizer; Image Gallery; Screensaver MyAlbum
Company: MyAlbum Author: Pierre Meindre
(Donationware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English; French; language packs for other languages
Description: MyAlbum is: A free picture cataloger for building easily digital photo albums. Build self-running "all-in-one" albums. Supported picture formats JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, animated GIF, TIFF, TGA, PCX and WMF files. Supported video formats AVI, MOV (QuickTime), MPEG (all the video formats supported by the Windows Media Player). Other format : HTML (IE 4 or above needed). Comment and keywords can be added to each picture. Searching on file name, comment or keyword. Full screen display, zoom, unzoom, fit to screen. Manual, automatic, random and multiple slideshow with background music. Easy printing of the thumbnail pages and the pictures. Poster printing on several sheets of paper. Build contact sheets and HTML pages (online demos: Film strip, Automatic slideshow (IE 5.5+) and Metal). Easy convert, resize of the pictures. Special features for building CDROM album. Extracts information from images taken with digital cameras. Integrated script tool (VBScript, JavaScript, Perl,...). Screen saver to play albums.
Home Page: download v 2.5 (2006-03) [ MyAlbumSetup.exe (2072 KB) standard international]
http://www.myalbumpro.com/
2006PL CD files: MyAlbumSetup.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-04)
Viewer IrfanView
Company: -- Author: Irfan Skiljan
(free for personal use/non-commercial use) bundled with toolbars (installation is optional)
Windows OS: Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: A no install version is available.
Languages: English; German; language packs for other languages
Description: The first graphic viewer with Multiple (animated) GIF support, one of the first graphic viewers with Multipage TIFF support and the first graphic viewer with Multiple ICO support. Features: Thumbnails, Preview, Drag and Drop Support, fast Directory View (fast moving through directory), Print Support, Scan (TWAIN) Support, Slideshow, Batch conversion, change the color depth, audio CD player, Capturing, Cut/Crop, Effects (Blur, Sharpen etc.) and many many more ... other features: Many supported file formats, Thumbnail/preview option, Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD), Drag and drop support, Batch conversion (with image processing), Email option, Multimedia player, Print option, Change color depth, Scan (batch scan) support, Cut/crop, IPTC editing, Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Photoshop filter factory), Capturing, Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, Lossless JPG rotation, Many hotkeys, Many command line options, Many plugins, Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, No registry changes without user action/permission! and many more
Home page:
http://www.irfanview.com/
Mirror site:
http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
download page v 3.99 (2006-11-16) [ iview399.exe (1013 KB) English] [ iview399.zip (982 KB) English] [ irfanview_plugins_399.exe (5569 KB) English] [ irfanview_plugins_399.zip (5829 KB) English] note: see the plugins page for recently updated plugins
http://www.irfanview.com/download_sites.htm
2006PL CD files: iview397.exe iview397.zip irfanview_plugins_397.exe
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-01)FastStone Image Viewer
Company: FastStone Soft Author: Andrew Lu
(Donationware) (free for personal use)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English
Description: A image browser, viewer, converter and editor wich features resizing, renaming, cropping and color adjustments. Other features: Full-screen mode, quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser, magnifier, slideshow (with 150+ transitional effects), lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram, several different skins, red-eye removal. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, RAW, EMF, PSD and TGA.
Home Page:
http://www.faststone.org/
download page v 2.8 (2006-10-26) [ FSViewerSetup28.exe (2915 KB)] [ FSViewerSetup28.zip (2903 KB)]
http://www.faststonesoft.org/download.htm
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/faststone.html
2006PL CD files: FSViewerSetup.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-28)XnView
Company: -- Author: Pierre-E Gougelet
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial use)
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP NOTES: No install versions are available. A version is available for Windows 3x
Other OS: Mac OS X; Linux; Unix
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. Fatures : Import about 400 graphic file formats. Export about 40 graphic file formats. Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support. Resize, Copy/Cut/Crop Adjust brigthness, contrast... Modify number of colors, Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...), Apply effects (lens, wave, ...), Fullscreen mode, Slide show, Picture browser, Batch convert, Thumbnail create, Screen capture, Contact Sheet create, Multi-page file create (TIFF, DCX, LDF), TWAIN support (Windows only), Print support (Windows only), Drag and Drop support (Windows only), 36 languages support (Windows only), And many many other things... NOTES: Many file packages are available for download, see the site for details.
Home page:
http://www.xnview.com
download page Windows v 1.82.4 (2006-03-07) [ XnView-win-small.exe (1658 KB) Minimal: English, German, French] [ XnView-win.exe (3554 KB) Standard: Multi-language] [ XnView-win-full.exe (7791 KB) Complete: Multi-language]
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html
2006PL CD files: XnView-win-small.exe XnView-win.exe XnView-win-full.exe
(desc. rev.: 2006-06-04)
Viewer; Image Optimizer Free Digital Camera Enhancer
Company: Mediachance Author: Roman Voska (aka Oscar)
(Liteware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Free DCE does the hard job of noise reducing and automatic balance control for you. The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already fine, you won't see much difference. DCE makes very delicate changes... One thing makes DCEnhancer different from other tools - reducing the noise and skin smoothing algorithm. It makes DCE ideal for making cool portraits and close-ups!
Home page:
http://www.mediachance.com
Program description: download v 1.3 [ dcenhanc.zip (524 KB) ]
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
2006PL CD files: dcenhanc.zip
(desc. rev.: 2006-05-31)
Editor: Gif Animations Ulead Gif Animator
Company: ULEAD Author: --
(Freeware) LFW (v 2.0 )
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Everything you need to start making those adorable little animated gif files... NOTES: if having difficulties accessing the file, go to the Future Net FTP Directory and download file from there.
Program description: download v 2.0 [ GifAnimator.zip (4642 KB)]
http://encoderx.co.uk/imageeditors/index.php
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.ulead.com
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-14)
Icon Tool IconShop
Company: Lion Tech Author: Peter Stuer
(Freeware)
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: IconShop is an icon librarian that offers the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Read and write ICL icon libraries. Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them. Drag and drop icons or icon images between IconShop windows. Extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP bitmaps, GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables and libraries. Export icons to icon, cursor BMP or TIFF bitmap format.
Home page: download v 1.13 (1999-06-07) [ IconShop.zip (88 KB)]
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-15)
Edit Image Comments Exifer
Company: -- Author: Friedemann Schmidt
(Requestware) (free)
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English; German
Description: Exifer is a software with which you can manage the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of pictures taken by digital cameras. Often image processing software destroys metadata when saving files, with Exifer you can create a backup of the metadata before editing it in any software, and restore it back into the processed file very easily. Features: Supports EXIF (up to 2.2) and IPTC data in JPEG and TIFF files; Reading and displaying of makernotes by Canon, Casio, Fuji, Minolta, Nikon and Olympus; Backing up, restoring and comparing metadata (EXIF/IPTC); Editing of metadata (for JPEG files only); Inserting EXIF data from THM files (for JPEG files only); Creating/inserting/rotating EXIF thumbnails (for JPEG files only); Customizeable view of metadata; Export/import of metadata (CSV, Canto Cumulus, descript.ion files); Renaming and redating with various formats; Lossless rotation (for JPEG files only); Cropping (with aspect ratio); Watermarks; Slideshow.
Home page:
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/
Program description; download v 2.1.5 (2002-09-18) [ exifersetup.exe (1663 KB)]
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-14)
Measure JR Screen Ruler
Company: Spadix Software Author: --
(Liteware) (free) bundled with the $ware version
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters.
Home Page:
http://www.spadixbd.com/
Program description; download v 1.4 (2001-09-11) [ jruler.zip (494 KB)]
http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
(desc. rev.: 2005-10-15)
