Useful Free Software
Free Serif Software - PagePlus SE, PhotoPlus 6.0, WebPlus6.0, DrawPlus 4.0, 3DPlus 2.0
Blender 2.42 - Open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.
Grappa - Visual Effect/Entertainment/Game: Grappa is one of my most successful "toys". It allows You to create artworks with your mouse in a fun way.
PrimoPDF - PDF Convertor
Image Analyzer 1.26 - Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.
Paint Shop Pro XI - Free 30 day trial
Paint.NET - Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
TinyUrl.com - Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Then you've come to the right place. By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires.
Nature Illusion Studio 1.3 - Free 15 day trial. Transform your real-world photo into an animated nature scene by adding a wide array of water, weather and sound effects to your own photos and images. A photo restricts your excitement from holidays spent at the seaside or near a waterfall to flat, two-dimensional images. Nature Illusion Studio lets you go beyond these physical restrictions and make a self-made animated scene, which can bring the original spirit and excitement of the holiday back to life. The end result is a superbly lifelike and atmospheric presentation that can be saved as a screensaver, a standalone executable, an AVI or animated GIF file and distributed to other people, who can admire your creation.
Inkscape - inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
The Rasterbator 1.2 - The Rasterbator is an application which creates rasterized versions of images. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into enormous (or smaller, if you prefer) posters.
Picture-shark - Picture-shark is the first choice for people who want to "stamp" visible logos or text on their imafe files.
PIXresizer - The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. A great companion for webmasters and digital photographers.
Photobie Image editing software.
The GIMP 2 - GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
Mozilla Firefox - Web browser which is much more secre than Internet Explorer.
OpenOffice.org - Open source office suite which is compatible with all other major office suites.
IconArt v2.0 - conArt is a highly-compact cursor & icon creator.
Picasa - Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.
CutePDF Writer - Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents - with just a push of a button!
AMP Font Viewer 3.70 - This program is an easy to use but powerful font manager, which allows getting a quick overview of both installed and non installed fonts. It can install and uninstall fonts, and organize them in categories.
Red Castle PrintTags - Free download. Print 15 styles of Tag in numerous sizes.
Project Dogwaffle 1.2 - Free paint and animation software
JAlbum - Free web album
thinkfree - Free online alternative to Microsoft Office
AM-Deadlink - Free bookmark cleaner
Gadwin PrintScreen - Screen capture software
Picture-shark - Picture watermark software
PIXresizer - Image resizing software
coverxp - Create CD/DVD covers in seconds
Photo Filtre - Complete photo retouching software
PrintMaster Express - With PrintMaster Express you can easily create Greeting Cards, Note Cards, Banners, Calendars, Photo Projects and so much more. Other features include an address book complete with event reminders for birthdays and anniversaries, plus mail merge capabilities that let you send personalized letters, invitations, and newsletters.
WinMorph - WinMorph is a high performance morphing and warping software. With over 400,000 downloads and much more distributed through PC magazines and their CDROMs, WinMorph enjoys a very wide userbase, have been used in movies such as Dreamcatcher and real life projects such as roadshows for promoting products.
OmniFormat - is a free document conversion utility which allows dynamic conversion and image manipulation of over 75 file formats including HTML, DOC, XLS, WPD, PDF, JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG, PCX, PPT, PS, TXT, Photo CD, FAX and MPEG.
Wink - Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users.
Artweaver - Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.
Tux Paint - Drawing program for kids aged 3-12 years.
Firm Tools ShellExtension - Install this tool and it will add three new options to your menu when you right click on a picture file: convert, print, and thumbnail preview.
Autostitch - is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical).
Convert - Convert is a free and easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!
Foxit - Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size (only 2.1 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
PDFCreator - PDFCreator easily creates PDFs from any Windows program. Use it like a printer in Word, StarCalc or any other Windows application.
Corel Draw Graphics Suite - With this comprehensive graphics suite, you can confidently tackle a wide variety of projects - from logo creation and Web graphics, to multi-page marketing brochures, or eye-catching signs.
Fractal Forge - Fractal Forge v.2.8.2 is freeware. You can use it to draw your own fractal images, and explore Mandelbrot Set's branches. Now it's easier and faster than before.
Google SketchUp - Google SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program whose few simple tools enable you to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp (free) is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you.
LEGO Digital Designer For Windows - Build anything in your imagination using virtual bricks, right on your computer.
Smooth Gallery Builder - Turn a folder of images into a cool web gallery in a few seconds. A web gallery is a site of web pages to navigate and view your images. Smooth Gallery Builder is different because:
Features:
- It doesn't have tons of settings which trade pain with pain.
- It generates chic gallery pages instead of formalistic ones.
- It allows you to design your own templates with your familiar visual tools.
- It doesn't require you to setup a project so as to gather and sort out you images in the application before you build a gallery.
TwistedBrush - 15 day trial. Digital paint art software, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simply enough for the novice. TwistedBrush has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use. TwistedBrush has over 1500 diffferent brushes included. These range from very simple color dots to realistic representations of natural artist tools to very wild brushes.
ImageXYZ - a utility to watermark your copyrighted images using single or multi-line text with virtually any font installed on your system. You can specify the font properties (type, size, bold, italic, etc.) and choose the fore color and shadow color of the watermark. The brightness level of the watermark and shadow colors are adjustable as well. The watermark can be located anywhere on the image by using X and Y scrollbars. The final image can be saved as a bitmap (.bmp), jpeg, (.jpg), tiff (.tiff) or png (.png) image or you can simply copy the image to the clipboard to be pasted into Microsoft Word or any other application capable of accepting pasted images. Image effects can be applied to the original image before and after watermarking. These effects include Rotating the image, flipping horizontally and vertically and applying Embossing, Smoothing, Sharpening, and Diffusing. The picture windows allow for panning of larger images. Please view the screenshots below to see the software and scroll further down to see actual images created with ImageXYZ v1.0.1.
Barcode Maker - is a utility that creates Code 3 of 9 barcodes (Code 39) from user entered text. The resultant image can be copied to the clipboard and pasted into any program capable of accepting images. The software also has the ability to save the image as bitmap (.bmp) file for later use. There is also a simplistic print feature that allows the user to visually place the image on the page based on their printers orientation (landscape or portrait). The barcode height is adjustable.
