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GRAPHIC TOOLS
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Editors
Description:
A complete tool, to meet all of your image editing needs.
Features include a viewer, editor, batch editor, RAW converter and much more. What sets this apart from other editors, is the function that allows you to create animated GIF's from your images. If you don't like using multiple programs to do your tasks, I would highly recommend this excellent editor to handle your needs
Description:
Does a lot more than paint can do.
A complete image retouching program that allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It's simple, small, easy to use and includes various filters, selection tools, automation, transparency etc... This is what should come with you operating system.
One of the best out there
Description:
Ok, this is the very popular tool used by the pro's. It will take a while to learn how to use properly, but it's what the pro's use, so the possibilities are endless.
Note: Make sure you read the doc's included
Description:
A vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand and CorelDraw which uses W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. If you don't like GIMP because of it's interface, give this a try. It's powerful and is becoming popular among pc users, including myself. Enjoy
Description:
A high performance morphing and warping software. With over 400,000 downloads and much more distributed through PC magazines and CDROMs, winmorph enjoys a very wide userbase, has been used in movies such as Dreamcatcher and real life projects such as roadshows for promoting products
(Authors desciption)
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Dia is like the well known commercial windows program 'Visio'. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams
Viewers
Description:
I use this program for so many things, it also has
a lot of excellent plugins available to download as well.
A must have
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View and convert graphic files and so much more. Supports over 400 graphic formats, creates slideshows with effects, edits pictures, capture's screenshots, creates web galleries and more.
Highly recommended
Enjoy
Description:
It lets you transfer your digital camera pictures to your PC with ease.
Manage, view, convert and much more.
After testing a lot of other similar freeware I have come to the conclusion that this is the best of them. While the others were good, this was the only one that would allow me to transfer my video files as well. It's fairly easy to set up, supports a lot of different digital camera brands and it's small and quick, so get it while you can
Description:
Includes over a hundred types of filters from kodak, cokin and hoya. It's easy to use, load a picture and select a kind of colour filter. Features include a handy preview window, adjustable density and auto luminosity compensation, which give's a more natural look and a pleasant result (Partly taken from authors description)
Animation
Description:
Create animated gif images the easy way.
Use the window frame by moving and resizing it to capture and record your actions. The program will optimize the recorded frames for you, by replacing the unnecessary pixels with a green screen, which then heavily scales down the size of the end animation. This software is portable, easy to use and has more features included that will help you create great animations
Description:
This software provides an easy way to create flash animations for web content.
Features include over 100 effects which can be applied to both text and images, plenty of built-in design functions, easy to use interface, preview window and more. There aren't many programs like this that are free, so grab it while you can. An excellent free alternative to adobe flash
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This program allows you to create web animations. It features a wizard interface to help you and lots of plugins to extend your creativeness.
NOTE: Last freeware version, get it while you can
Description:
A GIF-Animator with 98 animation wizards including text and actor wizards. Edit existing animations, create new from imported images or from images created with integrated Movies Draw. (Taken from authors description)
Very nice, it's hard to find free tools like this
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