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Editor: 3D

Blender
Company: Blender Foundation
Author: --
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://www.blender3d.org/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista 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 2.45 (2007-09-15)
[ blender-2.45-windows.exe (8154 KB) Windows]
[ blender-2.45-windows.zip (11492 KB) Windows]
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-03)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: blender-2.42a-windows.exe  blender-2.42a-windows.zip    

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Editor: Photo-Paint

ArtRage
Company: Ambient Design Ltd
Author: --
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.ambientdesign.com/
Windows OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
Other OS: Mac OS X
Languages: English, French and German
Description: ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting package that lets you get painting from the moment you open it up. You can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, and more. You can even load in your photos as Tracing Images to help you recreate them as paintings.
Home page:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/
Program description:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragecompare.html
download page:
v 2.5.18 (2007-11-02)
[ artrage2.5starteredition_win.msi (8031 KB) English]
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedown.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-03)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: ar2winfree.exe     



PhotoFiltre
Company: --
Author: Antonio Da Cruz
(Donationware) (Liteware) (free for non-commercial use)
http://www.photofiltre.com/
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.
Homepage:
http://www.photofiltre.com/
download page:
v 6.3.0 (2008-01)
[ pf-setup-en.exe (1645 KB) English]
http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-06)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: pf-setup-en.exe     



Pixia
Company: Tacmi Co.
Author: Isao Maruoka
(Freeware)
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
Windows OS: Windows Me /2000 / XP / Vista
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Pixia is a small, fast and very capable paint program. The user interface is very compact, leaving most of the screen for painting, and there are no disturbing toolbars. Easy to use layers support. Pixia opens and saves to all common image formats (except for GIF) .Excellent HTML help file (available as a separate download). Tutorials, user made brushes, and art galleries available on the homepage. NOTES: Installing a newer version over an old one (or reinstallation of the same version) overwrites files and may initialize pen data and/or palette. It is recommended that you backup "pendata", "palette" folders, and env_.env file before installation.
Home page:
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
download page:
v 4.2a (2007-12-26)
[ pix42ae.exe (4865 KB) English]
http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-06)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: pix33be.exe     



The Gimp
Company: The Gimp
Author: Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball
(Freeware) (open source: GNU GPL)
http://www.gimp.org/
Windows OS: Windows NT4/2000/XP/Vista
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.
Home page:
http://www.gimp.org/
The Gimp for Windows information:
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
download page:
GIMP v 2.4.2; GTK+ v 2.12.1 (2007-11-21)
[ gimp-2.4.2-i686-setup.exe (14824 KB) (Windows)]
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=121075
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: gimp-2.3.14-i586-setup.zip  gtk+-2.10.6-setup.zip    

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Editor: Vector-Draw

Zoner Draw 3
Company: Zoner
Author: --
(Registerware: product key) (free) earlier version of $ware
http://www.zoner.com/draw/download.htm
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000
Languages: English; German
Description: Zoner Draw 3 is an ideal graphics program for a broad range of applications. Use it to create powerful brochures and leaflets, as well as illustrations for documents, business cards, price tags, letterheads, postcards, signs, blueprints, greeting cards, and more. One new feature of the product is the ability to create graphics for Internet presentations, including vector animations. NOTES: Registration is via email. You must obtain a registration number to make this program run as a full version,
Home page:
http://www.zoner.com/
download page:
v 3
[ zd3.exe (9027 KB) English]
http://www.zoner.com/draw/download.htm
(desc. rev.: 2007-03-15)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a

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Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer
Company: FastStone Soft
Author: Andrew Lu
(Donationware) (free for personal use)
http://www.faststone.org/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English, Chinese (Simp & Trad), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish and Spanish
Description: FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Home Page:
http://www.faststone.org/
Program description:
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm
download page:
v 3.4 (2007-11-07)
[ FSViewerSetup34.exe (4150 KB) (English)]
[ FSViewer34.zip (4338 KB) (English) portable]
http://www.faststone.org/download.htm
Buzzy's review:
http://www.buzzys.net/faststone.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-04)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: FSViewerSetup29.exe  FSViewerSetup29.zip  FSIV29.zip   



IrfanView
Company: --
Author: Irfan Skiljan
(free for personal use/ non-commercial uses) bundled with toolbars (installation is optional)
http://www.irfanview.com/
Windows OS: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista NOTES: No registry entries. 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. COMMENTS: The plugins page may have plugins that were updated after the latest version of IrfanView PlugIns was released. .
Home page:
http://www.irfanview.com/
Mirror site:
http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/
download page:
v 4.10 (2007-10-15)
[ iview410_setup.exe (1129 KB) English]
[ iview410.zip (1010 KB) English]
http://www.irfanview.com/download_sites.htm
Plugins download page:
[ irfanview_plugins_410.exe (6353 KB)]
[ irfanview_plugins_410.zip (6159 KB)]
http://irfanview.tuwien.ac.at/plugins.htm
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-05)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: iview399.exe  iview399.zip  irfanview_plugins_399.exe  irfanview_plugins_399.zip  



XnView
Company: --
Author: Pierre-E Gougelet
(Freeware) (free for personal use/ non-commercial uses)
http://www.xnview.com/
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: A critical vulnerability (arbitrary code execution) is present in some versions of XnView. See this Secunia advisory: http://secunia.com/advisories/24973/ Many file packages are available for download, see the author's site for details.
Home page:
http://www.xnview.com
download page (32-bit Windows versions):
v 1.92 (2007-12-29)
[ XnView-win-small.exe (2134 KB) Windows (Minimal) (English, German, French)]
[ XnView-win.exe (4934 KB) Windows (Standard) (Multi-language)]
[ XnView-win-full.exe (10222 KB) Windows (Complete) (Multi-language)]
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-07)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a

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Viewer: Image Optimizer

Free Digital Camera Enhancer
Company: MediaChance
Author: Roman Voska (aka Oscar)
(Liteware) (free)
http://www.mediachance.com/search.htm
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
(desc. rev.: 2006-10-13)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a

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Editor: Animation

Ulead GIF Animator (v 2.0)
Company: ULEAD
Author: --
(Freeware) LFW (v 2.0)
http://encoderx.co.uk/imageeditors/
Windows OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: Everything you need to start making those adorable little animated gif files...
Program description: download:
v 2.0
[ GifAnimator.zip (4642 KB)]
http://encoderx.co.uk/imageeditors/
Home Page ($ware):
http://www.ulead.com
(desc. rev.: 2007-01-11)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a

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Icon Tool

IconShop
Company: Lion Tech
Author: Peter Stuer
(Freeware)
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
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.: 2006-10-21)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a

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Edit Image Comments

Exifer
Company: --
Author: Friedemann Schmidt
(Requestware) (free)
http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/
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.: 2007-01-11)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a

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Measure

JR Screen Ruler
Company: Spadix Software
Author: --
(Liteware) (free) bundled with the $ware version
http://www.spadixbd.com/
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.: 2006-10-21)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: n/a



Meazure
Company: C Thing Software
Author: --
(Donationware) (free)
http://www.cthing.com/
Windows OS: Windows 98/ME/NT 4/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: Measure is a utility for measuring, magnifying and capturing arbitrary portions of the screen. Measures images, windows and icons, up to 32X magnification of screen, reads the color of a screen pixel in RGB, hex RGB, CMY, CMYK, HSL, YCbCr, YIQ, display rulers anywhere on the screen, can measure using a number of units including pixels, points, twips, centimeters, or user-defined.
Home Page:
http://www.cthing.com/
Program description; download:
v 2.0 (build 158) (2004-01-11)
[ meazr20.exe (3516 KB)]
http://www.cthing.com/Meazure.asp
alternate download page:
http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/simtelnet/win95/grafscrn/
(desc. rev.: 2008-01-08)   desc.link  ACF participants notes and review comments
PL2007-CD files: meazr20.exe     

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