Found a crazy little graphics program that you can't get enough of ?
Well this is the place for those Miscellaneous Graphics GIZMOS!
Share with us that crazy program that doesn't really fit the other categories.
Full Version: Misc. Graphics GIZMOS
Ascii Generator dotNET (ascgen2) is an application to convert images into high quality ASCII art - text that accurately represents the original image. The first program of its kind to support variable width fonts, and real-time output adjustment. »(ASCGEN - ASCII Generator Classic - no longer supported - please upgrade).
Intended Audience : End Users/Desktop
License : GNU General Public License (GPL) (OpenSource/Freeware)
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
Required: .NET 2.0
Website| SourceForge - Download
Intended Audience : End Users/Desktop
License : GNU General Public License (GPL) (OpenSource/Freeware)
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
Required: .NET 2.0
Website| SourceForge - Download
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Explogen v2.0
All game makers can now create original explosions for a variety of game styles and types, including top-down and platform. The flexibility of the program and multiple options available to the creator make the explosions fit the game's style, instead of the unfortunate, yet often seen, vice versa. Multiple styles, types, colors are available; any kind is possible! No two will ever be exactly alike...
With Explogen V.2, the only limit is your creativity.
The program will save a sequence of bmp's to a folder so you can reproduce the explosion later with the help of an animating program.
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All game makers can now create original explosions for a variety of game styles and types, including top-down and platform. The flexibility of the program and multiple options available to the creator make the explosions fit the game's style, instead of the unfortunate, yet often seen, vice versa. Multiple styles, types, colors are available; any kind is possible! No two will ever be exactly alike...
With Explogen V.2, the only limit is your creativity.
The program will save a sequence of bmp's to a folder so you can reproduce the explosion later with the help of an animating program.
Home
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Continuous Screenshot
Continuous Screenshot takes screenshot continuously in a matter defined by the user: start time, duration, delay between shots, etc. The user can define a screen area to be monitored, so that the next shot is only taken when the monitored area changes.
An open source, freeware application under development. It is too early to recommend to use, however, members interested can follow development at SourceForge and give it a try when it reaches Beta state.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=483704
Continuous Screenshot takes screenshot continuously in a matter defined by the user: start time, duration, delay between shots, etc. The user can define a screen area to be monitored, so that the next shot is only taken when the monitored area changes.
An open source, freeware application under development. It is too early to recommend to use, however, members interested can follow development at SourceForge and give it a try when it reaches Beta state.
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.p...lease_id=483704
There are alot of online graphics making (ie: banners, sigs, etc) sites out there - this is a good one -
WebFX a web-based graphics effects generator
by Bill Kendrick, author Tux Paint
WebFX is a graphics manipulatition tool that you use right over the web. No downloads, plug-ins or Java are required!
WebFX has eight different categories of effects, with a total of over four-dozen different effects! Many of the effects are animated.
Simply enter the address (URL) of any picture on the Internet, choose one of the four-dozen effects, and click "Apply."
Note: Please be aware that copyright laws do not allow you to use someone else's copyrighted works, even if it has been altered. For more information, read the copyright laws. (Try the demo).
Find Web FX Here.
WebFX a web-based graphics effects generator
by Bill Kendrick, author Tux Paint
WebFX is a graphics manipulatition tool that you use right over the web. No downloads, plug-ins or Java are required!
WebFX has eight different categories of effects, with a total of over four-dozen different effects! Many of the effects are animated.
Simply enter the address (URL) of any picture on the Internet, choose one of the four-dozen effects, and click "Apply."
Note: Please be aware that copyright laws do not allow you to use someone else's copyrighted works, even if it has been altered. For more information, read the copyright laws. (Try the demo).
Find Web FX Here.
Online grahics making links:
GIF Works
GRSites Logo Makes
Flaming Text
3D Text Maker
Cool Archive Logo Maker - Button Maker, etc.
BannerCreator.us
myImager - Everything Online Image Editor
Xara - online graphics tools
Cool Text
alot of resources out there - Click to view attachment is your friend !
One more cool one:
Picnik - Online Photo/Pic Editing
GIF Works
GRSites Logo Makes
Flaming Text
3D Text Maker
Cool Archive Logo Maker - Button Maker, etc.
BannerCreator.us
myImager - Everything Online Image Editor
Xara - online graphics tools
Cool Text
alot of resources out there - Click to view attachment is your friend !
One more cool one:
Picnik - Online Photo/Pic Editing
«JDraw» - free, open source, pixel oriented graphics editor designed especially for small to medium-sized pictures used to decorate web pages. It is entirely written in Java, easy to use and saves (animated) GIFs, JPEGs, ICOs and PNGs. Requires Java 1.4 or higher.
Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (95/98), 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux, Win2K, WinXP . "Really, it's a nice little tool."...
«MrImage» is a free, open source, win32 raster image editing application. It is written in C++ using MFC and is based on CxImage. It is more powerful than MSPaint but still easy to use. * No longer under development - downloaded, installed - works just fine - easy program for Kids!
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
«DaakuMataa» is free, open source and quite feature packed! Lots of image manipulation effects/generators
o Generate spirals, ranging from things that look like galaxies to tentacles, merge images and more
o Look through beer goggles
o Pixelation effects
o Hue/saturation/lightness twisting effects
o Matrix colour transformations
o Simple colour modifiers
o Resizing
o Quake colours
o Twirl and twist images
o Expand colours
o Rotations and contortions
o Plasma cloud generation
Undo/redo
o Unlimited steps
o Repeat previous actions
o Lots and lots of file formats
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
Operating System: 32-bit MS Windows (95/98), 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux, Win2K, WinXP . "Really, it's a nice little tool."...
«MrImage» is a free, open source, win32 raster image editing application. It is written in C++ using MFC and is based on CxImage. It is more powerful than MSPaint but still easy to use. * No longer under development - downloaded, installed - works just fine - easy program for Kids!
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
«DaakuMataa» is free, open source and quite feature packed! Lots of image manipulation effects/generators
o Generate spirals, ranging from things that look like galaxies to tentacles, merge images and more
o Look through beer goggles
o Pixelation effects
o Hue/saturation/lightness twisting effects
o Matrix colour transformations
o Simple colour modifiers
o Resizing
o Quake colours
o Twirl and twist images
o Expand colours
o Rotations and contortions
o Plasma cloud generation
Undo/redo
o Unlimited steps
o Repeat previous actions
o Lots and lots of file formats
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP)
IcoFX - the Free Icon Editor/Creator
IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.
A wealth of tools andmMore than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.
Main Features
Microsoft Windows ® 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Pentium ® 3/4 or AMD Athlon - 600 Mhz or more | True Color Video Card | 128 Mb RAM- 50 MB HDD
Languages: 11 languages and additional Italian & Dutch help files
More Info: IcoFX
IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.
A wealth of tools andmMore than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.
Main Features
- Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
- Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
- Support for transparency (alpha channel)
- Batch processing for import, export and extract
- Multiple language support
- More than 40 effects + custom filter
- Resolutions up to 256x256
- Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
- Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
- Import and export images
- Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools
- More...
Microsoft Windows ® 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista | Pentium ® 3/4 or AMD Athlon - 600 Mhz or more | True Color Video Card | 128 Mb RAM- 50 MB HDD
Languages: 11 languages and additional Italian & Dutch help files
More Info: IcoFX
Frog3d (Free Rendering Object Graphic 3D) is a 3ds file viewer.
it is writen in C++ and use QT for the GUI and OpenGL for the rendering.
Operating System :
32-bit MS Windows (95/98), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux
Home Website | Download @ SourceForge
it is writen in C++ and use QT for the GUI and OpenGL for the rendering.
Operating System :
32-bit MS Windows (95/98), All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux
Home Website | Download @ SourceForge
S c r u t i c o
Scrutico allows to scan a directory to extract all icons present on your computer in the form of
files (ICO) or of resources (EXE, DLL, ICL). Then, it makes it possible to export them to format ICO,
BMP, GIF transparent, TIFF or Targa. You can also integrate them in your short cuts, your programs
or your Web pages.
Tip
Try to scan Windows and System32 directories, you'll be surprised by the number of icons hidden
in your computer !
Copyright Antonio Da Cruz
Author, PhotoFiltre
S c r u t i c o » | Download»
Scrutico allows to scan a directory to extract all icons present on your computer in the form of
files (ICO) or of resources (EXE, DLL, ICL). Then, it makes it possible to export them to format ICO,
BMP, GIF transparent, TIFF or Targa. You can also integrate them in your short cuts, your programs
or your Web pages.
Tip
Try to scan Windows and System32 directories, you'll be surprised by the number of icons hidden
in your computer !
Copyright Antonio Da Cruz
Author, PhotoFiltre
S c r u t i c o » | Download»
AmitySource Userbar Generator
AmitySource Userbar Generator is an easy-to-use program for generating unique and attractive userbars. With it you can create nice-looking userbar within five minutes and without any technical or artistical knowledge. It has everything you need for creating personal userbars: you can choose colors, special effect, pattern, a glow effect, an overlay image for your composition. AmitySource Userbar Generator allows to save the created userbar in different popular formats.
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AmitySource Userbar Generator is an easy-to-use program for generating unique and attractive userbars. With it you can create nice-looking userbar within five minutes and without any technical or artistical knowledge. It has everything you need for creating personal userbars: you can choose colors, special effect, pattern, a glow effect, an overlay image for your composition. AmitySource Userbar Generator allows to save the created userbar in different popular formats.
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Bricks'n'Tiles
Easy Creation of Architectural Textures
With Bricks'n'Tiles you can create perfectly seamless brick textures in photorealistic quality in a couple of minutes. Just select a few bricks from any source images such as photos taken with a digital camera. Bricks'n'Tiles automatically arranges the bricks and slightly alters the brick colors by random to create any possible brick pattern.
While your there click the 'downloads' button for free textures and bump maps.
Briicks'n Tiles
Easy Creation of Architectural Textures
With Bricks'n'Tiles you can create perfectly seamless brick textures in photorealistic quality in a couple of minutes. Just select a few bricks from any source images such as photos taken with a digital camera. Bricks'n'Tiles automatically arranges the bricks and slightly alters the brick colors by random to create any possible brick pattern.
- Creates brick textures from virtually any source image
- Textures are perfectly seamless in horizontal and vertical direction without any post-editing
- Different built in brick pattern generators for regular and irregular brick pattern
- Integrated brick variation algorithms help to create more natural brick distribution
- Import and Export of many common file formats (bmp, jpg, png, tif, gif)
- Supports some special texture types for texturing brick borders, arches, vaults or columns
- New version 1.5.3 supports generation of highly detailed brick surface Normal Maps
While your there click the 'downloads' button for free textures and bump maps.
Briicks'n Tiles
MediaCoder
MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.
Sourceforge Home page.
MediaCoder is a FREE universal audio/video batch transcoder distributed under GPL license, which puts together lots of excellent audio/video codecs and tools from the open source community into an all-in-one solution, capable of transcoding among different audio/video formats. With many extra features and a expandable architecture, MediaCoder is more than a GUI of a bunch of command line tools.
- Features In Brief:
* Convert to and from many audio and video compression formats and re-multiplex into various container formats, on the fly, in batch
* Give you the control over the transcoding process and all the parameters of the transcoded files, so you can learn about, compare among and play with various codecs
* Specific user interfaces for specific devices with device plug-ins and extensions
* Fully standalone, no dependent on any media player, filter or codec, no registration of any components into system
* Extensions to expand custom features and user interfaces
- Requirements:
* Windows Operating System (some users have reported MediaCoder works on Linux/WINE)
* A modern/fast CPU (with SSE support recommended)
Sourceforge Home page.
Font Frenzy - Free
It's a fact that Windows fonts slow down your computer. Every font that gets installed on your PC slows down the boot-up time and slows down your normal operational speed. Many programs that you install automatically add their own set of fonts, and very soon you can end up with a frenzy of unnecessary fonts clogging up your computer. Unless you use all of these fonts regularly, they are simply wasting your system resources.
Features:
DeFrenzy
Removes all fonts except those originally shipped with Windows XP, or to a previous snapshot. You can specify a folder where all removed fonts will be stored.
FrenzySnap
Takes a snapshot of your currently installed fonts, allowing you to later ReFrenzy back to that font configuration.
ReFrenzy
Guides you through installing new fonts quickly and easily, from a previous snapshot.
FrenzyMan
A font management tool that allows you to easily install, remove, and store your fonts.
SD Software»
It's a fact that Windows fonts slow down your computer. Every font that gets installed on your PC slows down the boot-up time and slows down your normal operational speed. Many programs that you install automatically add their own set of fonts, and very soon you can end up with a frenzy of unnecessary fonts clogging up your computer. Unless you use all of these fonts regularly, they are simply wasting your system resources.
Features:
DeFrenzy
Removes all fonts except those originally shipped with Windows XP, or to a previous snapshot. You can specify a folder where all removed fonts will be stored.
FrenzySnap
Takes a snapshot of your currently installed fonts, allowing you to later ReFrenzy back to that font configuration.
ReFrenzy
Guides you through installing new fonts quickly and easily, from a previous snapshot.
FrenzyMan
A font management tool that allows you to easily install, remove, and store your fonts.
SD Software»
@icon sushi
Image to icon converter that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit/Windows Vista format icons.
Zip(non-install) & Installer files: icon sushi»
Zip version: Does NOT touch win-registry, so you can UN-Install this software by deleting all files in directory and "aicon.ini" - automatically created - in chosen directory.(Read the 'readme' files).
Image to icon converter that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit/Windows Vista format icons.
- icon sushi can convert image files into icon files and vice versa.
- Support for Windows Vista large icons. (convert large image with PNG compression)
- Support for Windows XP 32bit Icons.
- Support for Multiple-Icon which contains some icons in a file.
- Edit Alpha channel and Transparency-Mask.
- Open 1x1 to 256x256 size of images.
- Open 1/4/8/24/32bits color images.
- Open: ICO/BMP/PNG/PSD/EXE/DLL/ICL, Convert into: ICO/BMP/PNG/ICL
- Copy to / Paste from Clipboard.
Zip(non-install) & Installer files: icon sushi»
Zip version: Does NOT touch win-registry, so you can UN-Install this software by deleting all files in directory and "aicon.ini" - automatically created - in chosen directory.(Read the 'readme' files).
Crystal 3D IMPACT!
Create 3D animation with just a few clicks.
Easy-to-use with wizard interface that guides you through the 4 steps of text entry, beveling, assigning materials and adding motions!
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This working, no-time-out version is available to you for a limited time for FREE.
There are quite a few restrictions compared the the Pro version, but good for 3D text effects/animations.
System Requirements:
After downloading you have to provide an address in order to e-mail you your free password to permanently unlock the software.
Home/Download
Create 3D animation with just a few clicks.
Easy-to-use with wizard interface that guides you through the 4 steps of text entry, beveling, assigning materials and adding motions!
- This working, no-time-out version is available to you for a limited time for FREE.
There are quite a few restrictions compared the the Pro version, but good for 3D text effects/animations.
System Requirements:
- Windows® 95 or NT 4.0
486 (Pentium Pro or II recommended)
16 MB RAM (64 MB RAM recommended)
30 MB available disk space (50 MB available disk space recommended)
8-bit graphics card (24-bit graphics card recommended)
Imports Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw
Outputs: GIF, Animated GIF, JPEG, TGA, TIFF, BMP, PNG and AVI
After downloading you have to provide an address in order to e-mail you your free password to permanently unlock the software.
Home/Download
CamStudio 2.0/2.5 beta1
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).
Don't like the sound of your voice?
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself "picture-in-picture" over your desktop.
System Requirements: * 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP)
Home/info and download CamStudio20.exe, here]
Blog/info and download for CamStudio 2.5 Beta 1 Release, here
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CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs).
Don't like the sound of your voice?
CamStudio can also add high-quality, anti-aliased (no jagged edges) screen captions to your recordings in seconds and with the unique Video Annotation feature you can even personalise your videos by including a webcam movie of yourself "picture-in-picture" over your desktop.
System Requirements: * 32-bit MS Windows (NT/2000/XP)
Home/info and download CamStudio20.exe, here]
Blog/info and download for CamStudio 2.5 Beta 1 Release, here
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dbblast (Dust bunny blaster)
Dbblast (Dust bunny blaster) is a utility that automatically removes dust spots or "bunnies" from .jpg images. It also removes hot pixels. It can be run manually one bunny at a time or in batch mode from either a GUI or from the command line. Free - Open Source.
Operating System : Linux, Win2K, WinXP
Find it at: SourceForge
Dbblast (Dust bunny blaster) is a utility that automatically removes dust spots or "bunnies" from .jpg images. It also removes hot pixels. It can be run manually one bunny at a time or in batch mode from either a GUI or from the command line. Free - Open Source.
Operating System : Linux, Win2K, WinXP
Find it at: SourceForge
DeKnop (dutch for "The Button") is a graphics editor that is designed to let you create buttons for your web site without requiring any graphic design experience.
Easy to use step-by-step interface that lets you select the text, font style, color, 3D bevel, size, gradients and many other aspects.
You can preview any changes that you make as it takes place, so it is easy to experiment a little until you decide on a design you like.
It offers support for automatic up/down effects for use in mouse over java scripts as well as gradients and more.
Button images can be saved in PNG, JPG, BMP or GIF(non LZW) format. DeKnop also supports projects, allowing you to save your work and continue on it later or reuse it for other jobs.
DeKnop is a card ware button manager.
http://deknop.sjfrancke.nl/index.html
Easy to use step-by-step interface that lets you select the text, font style, color, 3D bevel, size, gradients and many other aspects.
You can preview any changes that you make as it takes place, so it is easy to experiment a little until you decide on a design you like.
It offers support for automatic up/down effects for use in mouse over java scripts as well as gradients and more.
Button images can be saved in PNG, JPG, BMP or GIF(non LZW) format. DeKnop also supports projects, allowing you to save your work and continue on it later or reuse it for other jobs.
DeKnop is a card ware button manager.
http://deknop.sjfrancke.nl/index.html
Vector-Magic - Online Tool for Vectorization
Vectorization (aka tracing) is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image.
Raster images are pixel-based, whereas vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves.
Types of images supported
The site is currently tuned for tracing logos and photos.
Fileformats supported
Input: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF
Output: EPS, SVG, PNG
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
Vectorization (aka tracing) is the process of converting a raster image to a vector image.
Raster images are pixel-based, whereas vector images are represented by geometric shapes such as lines, circles and curves.
Types of images supported
The site is currently tuned for tracing logos and photos.
Fileformats supported
Input: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF
Output: EPS, SVG, PNG
"This site converts bitmap images to vector art - it's an online auto-tracer.
Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you. "
Just upload your image and we will vectorize it for you. "
http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
mtPaint is a painting program designed for creating icons and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit RGB images and offers painting, palette, and image manipulation tools.
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
WPanorama
Freeware - For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
With WPanorama you can display panoramic pictures by letting them scroll horizontally or vertically on the screen. You can use this software to view the gorgeous 360° swiss panorama included with the program, the 695 panoramas available on the site or your own pictures in .jpg or .bmp format.
When you install the software, both the executable program and the screen saver are installed. If you plan to use the screen saver in a graphic mode other than the desktop mode (default), WPanorama.exe can be used to fine tune the various modes. These settings will be used by both the executable program and the screen saver.
Both modules include many features, such as:
- 360° continuous scrolling
- Back and forth scrolling for non 360° pictures
- Automatic detection of 360° panoramas
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling
- Multi-monitor systems support (the scrolling panoramas can span over
several monitors)
- Mini slide show (one sample of it included in the package)(It is possible to display in full screen mode slide shows which aspect ratio is different from the one of the display)
- Mirror function for special interesting effects
- Miscellaneous stretch filters
- Variable scroll increment and speed
- Extensive help with a "Question and answers" section
- Direct access from the programs to the update on the Web
The Viewer has many more features.
More Info-Download: WPanorama
Freeware - For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
With WPanorama you can display panoramic pictures by letting them scroll horizontally or vertically on the screen. You can use this software to view the gorgeous 360° swiss panorama included with the program, the 695 panoramas available on the site or your own pictures in .jpg or .bmp format.
When you install the software, both the executable program and the screen saver are installed. If you plan to use the screen saver in a graphic mode other than the desktop mode (default), WPanorama.exe can be used to fine tune the various modes. These settings will be used by both the executable program and the screen saver.
Both modules include many features, such as:
- 360° continuous scrolling
- Back and forth scrolling for non 360° pictures
- Automatic detection of 360° panoramas
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling
- Multi-monitor systems support (the scrolling panoramas can span over
several monitors)
- Mini slide show (one sample of it included in the package)(It is possible to display in full screen mode slide shows which aspect ratio is different from the one of the display)
- Mirror function for special interesting effects
- Miscellaneous stretch filters
- Variable scroll increment and speed
- Extensive help with a "Question and answers" section
- Direct access from the programs to the update on the Web
The Viewer has many more features.
More Info-Download: WPanorama
Pencil is an (traditional) animation/drawing 2D software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux.
It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
Pencil is free and open source.
This is in development, yet very usable - beta stage software - worth keeping an eye on!
Pencil website | Files Hosted @ SourceForge
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Attention Windows users:
The movie export function has not been implemented yet (only works on the Mac). At the moment the Windows version can only export frames and Flash files. Any help would be appreciated.
It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
Pencil is free and open source.
This is in development, yet very usable - beta stage software - worth keeping an eye on!
Pencil website | Files Hosted @ SourceForge
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Attention Windows users:
The movie export function has not been implemented yet (only works on the Mac). At the moment the Windows version can only export frames and Flash files. Any help would be appreciated.
CamView - the world of Webcams
...allows you to view few webcams around the entire world.
"The main purpose of camview is for fun, for view differents citys and monuments of the world in real time and for check the weather in many countries. Well, there are a lot of purposes for this project, but it solve the very common question of: "Oh! i want to view the carnivals in Spain" or others cases. I can not imaginate all the reasons becouse i want to view some place or city."
This project is under a GNU General Public License (GPL) license - free, Open Source.
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)
The program is in Spanish yet still easy to use - Screenshots & English instructions
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc....group_id=204412
Hosted @ SourceForge: CamView
...allows you to view few webcams around the entire world.
"The main purpose of camview is for fun, for view differents citys and monuments of the world in real time and for check the weather in many countries. Well, there are a lot of purposes for this project, but it solve the very common question of: "Oh! i want to view the carnivals in Spain" or others cases. I can not imaginate all the reasons becouse i want to view some place or city."
This project is under a GNU General Public License (GPL) license - free, Open Source.
Operating System : All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes)
The program is in Spanish yet still easy to use - Screenshots & English instructions
http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc....group_id=204412
Hosted @ SourceForge: CamView
Image Inc. - Image Compositing Tool
The purpose of this utility is to blend existing images in a very fast and easy way, using a layer mask for transparency. The process is simple ... load the base picture followed by a top layer image, then add a mask and the program automatically merges everything together. Ideal for anyone who doesn't want to use a major graphics application for this task.
Photo Blending : One possible use for this application would be to mix parts of photographs together. For example, if you wanted to enhance the sky in one picture by fading-in the clouds from another, as shown below (see webpage)...
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista, plus suitable images or texture maps.
Free @ Cybia
Steve Upham @ the yahoo mailing list - Jan 1, 2008:
"I just uploaded the first minor update to kick things off though. You can
now get version 1.1 of the Image Inc. utility from :
http://www.cybia.co.uk/imageinc.htm
I will continue to release minor upgrades to many of the other freeware
downloads over the coming weeks. One of the new features is that I'm
converting all the old *.htm manuals to *.pdf format for easier viewing and
printing. I hope you will like them. Check out the pdf file in the new Image
Inc. download to see an example of how the updated manuals will look."
There's lots more free 'stuff' @ the Cybia site - here's the Site Map link.
The purpose of this utility is to blend existing images in a very fast and easy way, using a layer mask for transparency. The process is simple ... load the base picture followed by a top layer image, then add a mask and the program automatically merges everything together. Ideal for anyone who doesn't want to use a major graphics application for this task.
Photo Blending : One possible use for this application would be to mix parts of photographs together. For example, if you wanted to enhance the sky in one picture by fading-in the clouds from another, as shown below (see webpage)...
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista, plus suitable images or texture maps.
Free @ Cybia
Steve Upham @ the yahoo mailing list - Jan 1, 2008:
"I just uploaded the first minor update to kick things off though. You can
now get version 1.1 of the Image Inc. utility from :
http://www.cybia.co.uk/imageinc.htm
I will continue to release minor upgrades to many of the other freeware
downloads over the coming weeks. One of the new features is that I'm
converting all the old *.htm manuals to *.pdf format for easier viewing and
printing. I hope you will like them. Check out the pdf file in the new Image
Inc. download to see an example of how the updated manuals will look."
There's lots more free 'stuff' @ the Cybia site - here's the Site Map link.
Cool.
Lots of good Photoshop plugins at that site too.........some good free ones.
Check in drop down menu - Digital Photography.
More freebies in the other drop downs.
Lots of good Photoshop plugins at that site too.........some good free ones.
Check in drop down menu - Digital Photography.
More freebies in the other drop downs.
IntuImage
IntuImage is a little software experiment in the field of content aware image resizing methods. Such methods may produce amazing results. For an example, you may shrink the image width by a half and keep the original proportions of the important image elements.
Download: IntuImage
IntuImage is a little software experiment in the field of content aware image resizing methods. Such methods may produce amazing results. For an example, you may shrink the image width by a half and keep the original proportions of the important image elements.
Download: IntuImage
Create dazzling 3D titles for your videos with BluffTitler DX9
BluffTitler is an effects program for creating 3D text animations and 3D picture/video wipes.
The result can be played in realtime by the player and screensaver or exported to picture and video formats for use in your videos (chroma key supported), multi-media presentations, VJ performances and websites.
BluffTitler DX9 is a program that titles and wipes 3D images.
Animations are built out of layers that can be animated independently. The current version of BluffTitler supports 8 different layer types: camera, light, text, picture, video, plasma, particle and audio. Layers can be connected to each other for special effects.
When you buy BluffTitler you will receive your own personal license keys. Entering them into the program with the menu item Settings > Enter License Keys... will turn the evaluation version into the fully functional version.
System requirements
Home Page
BluffTitler is an effects program for creating 3D text animations and 3D picture/video wipes.
The result can be played in realtime by the player and screensaver or exported to picture and video formats for use in your videos (chroma key supported), multi-media presentations, VJ performances and websites.
BluffTitler DX9 is a program that titles and wipes 3D images.
Animations are built out of layers that can be animated independently. The current version of BluffTitler supports 8 different layer types: camera, light, text, picture, video, plasma, particle and audio. Layers can be connected to each other for special effects.
When you buy BluffTitler you will receive your own personal license keys. Entering them into the program with the menu item Settings > Enter License Keys... will turn the evaluation version into the fully functional version.
System requirements
- * Microsoft Windows XP or Vista
* DirectX version June 2007 or later
* Intel Pentium compatible processor (Pentium III 800 MHz or better recommended)
* 128 MB RAM
* 10 MB available hard disk space
* Hardware accelerated 3D graphics card with hardware vertex shader support
Home Page
SmoothDraw NX
"SmoothDraw NX is an easy yet powerful freehand drawing tool. It's a limited yet free version of SmoothDraw. It produces the most smooth and expressive stroke through your tablet. It also smooths mouse input for who don't have a tablet. A quantity of tools are provided for the tasks from basic drawing to image retouching".
System Requirements
Version 3.0.703 Beta (1MB)
Home Page - Look under 'Freewares' for SmoothDraw NX.
IMO, nice little drawing program suited more for kids or beginners as this 'free' version is very limited.
Remember also, it is beta software.
"SmoothDraw NX is an easy yet powerful freehand drawing tool. It's a limited yet free version of SmoothDraw. It produces the most smooth and expressive stroke through your tablet. It also smooths mouse input for who don't have a tablet. A quantity of tools are provided for the tasks from basic drawing to image retouching".
System Requirements
- * Win98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista
* .NET Framework 2.0
Version 3.0.703 Beta (1MB)
Home Page - Look under 'Freewares' for SmoothDraw NX.
IMO, nice little drawing program suited more for kids or beginners as this 'free' version is very limited.
Remember also, it is beta software.
Favicon editor - Adsen FavIcon. (FREE)
"Adsen FavIcon is a simple favicon editor that lets people make a favicon ico for their website, which shows up in IE's favorites. It can use either bmp or jpg files, and will convert them to ico format using the size and color quality you choose. Not only can you create fav icons, but it can also be used for creating icons for programs. Adsen FavIcon comes with notes on what settings to use for making fav icons and how to install them. Create your favicon ico with Adsen Favicon."
Can't get any simpler than this one, open an image and save your favicon. Also makes program icons by choosing the 32x32 pixels size.
Download
"Adsen FavIcon is a simple favicon editor that lets people make a favicon ico for their website, which shows up in IE's favorites. It can use either bmp or jpg files, and will convert them to ico format using the size and color quality you choose. Not only can you create fav icons, but it can also be used for creating icons for programs. Adsen FavIcon comes with notes on what settings to use for making fav icons and how to install them. Create your favicon ico with Adsen Favicon."
Can't get any simpler than this one, open an image and save your favicon. Also makes program icons by choosing the 32x32 pixels size.
Download
WPanorama version: 9.3.1
January 1st, 2009
95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
http://www.wpanorama.com/wpanorama.php?r=1233439598
January 1st, 2009
95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
http://www.wpanorama.com/wpanorama.php?r=1233439598
QUOTE (Chachazz @ Jan 2 2008, 05:23 PM) 
WPanorama
Freeware - For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
With WPanorama you can display panoramic pictures by letting them scroll horizontally or vertically on the screen. You can use this software to view the gorgeous 360° swiss panorama included with the program, the 695 panoramas available on the site or your own pictures in .jpg or .bmp format.
When you install the software, both the executable program and the screen saver are installed. If you plan to use the screen saver in a graphic mode other than the desktop mode (default), WPanorama.exe can be used to fine tune the various modes. These settings will be used by both the executable program and the screen saver.
Both modules include many features, such as:
- 360° continuous scrolling
- Back and forth scrolling for non 360° pictures
- Automatic detection of 360° panoramas
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling
- Multi-monitor systems support (the scrolling panoramas can span over
several monitors)
- Mini slide show (one sample of it included in the package)(It is possible to display in full screen mode slide shows which aspect ratio is different from the one of the display)
- Mirror function for special interesting effects
- Miscellaneous stretch filters
- Variable scroll increment and speed
- Extensive help with a "Question and answers" section
- Direct access from the programs to the update on the Web
The Viewer has many more features.
More Info-Download: WPanorama
Freeware - For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
With WPanorama you can display panoramic pictures by letting them scroll horizontally or vertically on the screen. You can use this software to view the gorgeous 360° swiss panorama included with the program, the 695 panoramas available on the site or your own pictures in .jpg or .bmp format.
When you install the software, both the executable program and the screen saver are installed. If you plan to use the screen saver in a graphic mode other than the desktop mode (default), WPanorama.exe can be used to fine tune the various modes. These settings will be used by both the executable program and the screen saver.
Both modules include many features, such as:
- 360° continuous scrolling
- Back and forth scrolling for non 360° pictures
- Automatic detection of 360° panoramas
- Horizontal and vertical scrolling
- Multi-monitor systems support (the scrolling panoramas can span over
several monitors)
- Mini slide show (one sample of it included in the package)(It is possible to display in full screen mode slide shows which aspect ratio is different from the one of the display)
- Mirror function for special interesting effects
- Miscellaneous stretch filters
- Variable scroll increment and speed
- Extensive help with a "Question and answers" section
- Direct access from the programs to the update on the Web
The Viewer has many more features.
More Info-Download: WPanorama
45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends
http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/45...-design-trends/
Note
You should read the license of each font before using them in your designs. In some cases, you have to attribute the font designer or need to meet specific requirements for you to use the font for commercial purposes.
http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/45...-design-trends/
Note
You should read the license of each font before using them in your designs. In some cases, you have to attribute the font designer or need to meet specific requirements for you to use the font for commercial purposes.
WPanorama 9.4.1 free
( update on July 11th, 2009)
For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
http://www.wpanorama.com/whatsnew.php
List of What's New:
http://www.wpanorama.com/whatsnew.php
A new beta version is available on http://beta.wpanorama.com since August 9th, 2009
( update on July 11th, 2009)
For Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP and Vista
http://www.wpanorama.com/whatsnew.php
List of What's New:
http://www.wpanorama.com/whatsnew.php
A new beta version is available on http://beta.wpanorama.com since August 9th, 2009
Anny's 'Just Color Picker'
Graphic designers tend to look at things differently. They see the arrangement and colour scheme of things that mere mortals would just take for granted. Anything can be art, and it takes a discerning eye to really see it sometimes. While taking part in normal computer functions, some designers may see colours that they would like to use in their own projects. Identifying the type of colour can be very difficult, but with Just Color Picker, you can get the exact colour value of any pixel.
Features:
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP 32 bit & 64 bit, Server 2003, Vista 32 bit & 64 bit, Server 2008.
No installation required.
License: freeware.
Get it at: Anny Studio
Thanks to: TheSentinel found this jewel
Graphic designers tend to look at things differently. They see the arrangement and colour scheme of things that mere mortals would just take for granted. Anything can be art, and it takes a discerning eye to really see it sometimes. While taking part in normal computer functions, some designers may see colours that they would like to use in their own projects. Identifying the type of colour can be very difficult, but with Just Color Picker, you can get the exact colour value of any pixel.
Features:
- Five formats of colour value: HTML, RGB, HEX, HSB/HSV, and HSL.
- 3x, 9x and 15x zoom of any screen area.
- Picked colours history. History saving function for future use of the picked colours. Removal of colours from the history.
- RGB and RYB colour wheels to display triads and complementary colours.
- Two harmonious colour finders. With this feature you can easily pick harmonious colours, for example, for your web site. Just choose your favourite colour and the colour picker will find the best colours harmoniously matched with yours.
- RGB & HSV colour editors to edit a picked colour.
- Gradient between two latest-picked colours to allow you to pick a colour from a wide range between the chosen colours.
- Optional stay-on-top.
- User-defined hotkey to capture colour info (Alt+X by default).
- Copying the colour value or its selected part to the clipboard just by button click.
- Conversion of HTML, HEX or RGB colour codes into corresponding colours.
- No installation required. Just Color Picker is a portable application and can be run directly from a USB stick.
- Multilingual interface Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish.
Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP 32 bit & 64 bit, Server 2003, Vista 32 bit & 64 bit, Server 2008.
No installation required.
License: freeware.
Get it at: Anny Studio
Thanks to: TheSentinel found this jewel
Watermark image software - Free
by Anders Pedersen
The watermark image program, is a free software that can add digital Watermarks to all your images, photos and pictures in the background with the transperancy you decide. The program can also resize the images before the digital watermark is added.
When creating the watermark, you can use either text or another picture as the source of the watermark. If you want to add the watermark to the background, you can set the logo or the text to be more or less transparent, and define the transparency color on the image or select the first pixel in the upper left corner as transparency color.
You can even use this program instead of photoshop to watermark your images, this is a quicker and more easy way of getting a watermark on all your images. Also watermark in Word, Excel or images used in pdf files can be made with this software.
This program is freeware for personal use. For commercial applications there is a commercial version of the product available, please contact the author (link on site).
Windows XP, server 2003, Vista, server 2008, 7 - with .NET framework 2.0 or higher installed:
http://www.watermark-image.com/
by Anders Pedersen
The watermark image program, is a free software that can add digital Watermarks to all your images, photos and pictures in the background with the transperancy you decide. The program can also resize the images before the digital watermark is added.
When creating the watermark, you can use either text or another picture as the source of the watermark. If you want to add the watermark to the background, you can set the logo or the text to be more or less transparent, and define the transparency color on the image or select the first pixel in the upper left corner as transparency color.
You can even use this program instead of photoshop to watermark your images, this is a quicker and more easy way of getting a watermark on all your images. Also watermark in Word, Excel or images used in pdf files can be made with this software.
This program is freeware for personal use. For commercial applications there is a commercial version of the product available, please contact the author (link on site).
Windows XP, server 2003, Vista, server 2008, 7 - with .NET framework 2.0 or higher installed:
http://www.watermark-image.com/
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