Paint Programs | Vector Drawing Programs | Desktop Publishing | Icon Editors | Cursor Editors
Background-Creation Programs | Image Optimizers | Image Converters | Image Viewers
Photo Albums | 2D Animation Software | GIf Animation Software | Animation & 3-D Software
Presentation Programs | Fractal Software | Various Graphics Utilities & Services
Advanced & Scientific Graphics Programs | Related Links & Resources
- Ultimate Paint Windows photo editing and image creation with support for many file formats. Freeware and shareware versions available. Also has excellent GIF and JPEG optimizer.
- ArtRage Freeware artistic painting program provides realistic simulation of using paint on canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools.
- Artweaver windows freeware paint program for creatinve painting: realistic brush simulation, artistic effects, etc.
- Brush Strokes image editor supports GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PCX, TARGA and AVI file formats, GIF animations, filters, rotations, transformations, etc.
- GIMP Freeware image editing program for Windows, Linux, X-Windows. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is suitable for photo retouching, image composition, image authoring, etc.
- iMage Fast, simple, graphics editor for Linux and Windows. Supports 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit images. Excellent for tile editing, cropping, cleaning up images. Supports GIF, BMP, JPG, PCX. Split view zoom and basic graphics file support.
- Image Enhance image editor for Windows: bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners, filters and effects.
- ImageForge Freeware for Windows. Create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more.
- Paint.NET Freeware paint program for Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
- Painter 25 image editor for Windows. Features: backdrops, effects, and filters, banners, GIF and JPEG optimizer, airbrush, textures, clone, morphing, mirror, flip whirl, etc.
- PhotoFiltre 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.
- PhotoPlus 6 professional photo editing program from Serif Software.
- Pixia Very nice freeware paint and image editing program for Windows.
- Texture processor program for creating various textures. Texture Processor is intended both for 3d-artists and web-designers. Windows.
- TwistedBrush
Edition Freeware paint program very suitable for creating artistic images and effects. - VCW VicMan's
Photo Editor Freeware photo editor with intuitive skinnable interface and a variety of features. Windows.
- Draw A freeware open-source vector graphics editor. It is part of the OpenOffice.org office suite.
- DrawPlus 4 Vector drawing program for Windows with many features.
- Gill open-source vector drawing program for Linux. Gill = Gnome Illustration app.
- Inkscape A freeware and open-source vector graphics drawing program for multiple operating systems, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw.
- Skencil Skencil is a interactive vector drawing appliction for Linux and MAC OS/X.
- TGif interactive 2-D drawing tool for Linux/Unix.
- Xara Xtreme An open-soruce general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms including Linux, FreeBSD and (in development) OS-X.
- Xfig An open source vector graphics editor for Linux/Unix.
- Page PLUS desktop publishing and print program for Windows created by Serif Software.
Useful when you want to create Ads, Brochures, Flyers, Forms, Newsletters,
Handouts, Posters, Pricelists, Reports, Invitations, Calendars, Greeting cards, etc. - Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing program for Linux, MAC OS and Windows.
- @icon sushi Freeware image to icon converter with support for large Windows Vista icons, 32bit Windows icons, multiple-icon files, alpha-channel, transparency mask, etc.
- Batch Icon Extractor Extracts icons from files, such as executables, icon libraries and dll's. Freeware for Windows.
- AWicons Lite Freeware icon editor for Windows.
- RealWorld
Cursor Editor Freeware cursor editor for Windows. It includes a raster image editor, supports all native Windows cursor types and Vista cursors,
2-bit to 32-bit RGBA color depths, animated cursors, and many image formats, such as: JPEG, GIF, BMP, RRI.
- sTile A graphics program to create seamless 'tiles' which can be used e.g. as background images for web pages. It has many filters and effects.
- Dynamic Drive online image optimizer. Reduce the size of your (animated) GIF, JPG, and PNG images. You can also convert from one image type to another.
- GIF/JPEG Cruncher service. Compresses GIF/JPEG files from the Web or from your harddisk. You can compress as many images as you like.
- 36-Image converter Converts from/to bmp, gif, jpeg, icon, tiff, pdf, pii, etc. Other features: resize, merge, re-color, filters for eg. grayscale, roman effect, lighten, darken, etc.
- Formati (Batch) graphics file converter. Load formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, wmf, emf, ico, icl, bmp, tga, tif, pcx, pcd, psd, psp, ppm, sgi, cut and eps. Save formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif, tga, ico and icl. Features: 34 effects including buttonize and seamless. Shape and Text tool. Twain scan. GIF and JPG optimizer. Overlays. Screen capture. Smart resize. turn. PNG alpha support (mask based variable transparency). Adjustable blending of two images. Scriptable drawing wizards (HTML+javascript). Create and edit (multi-image) icons and icon libraries.
- Fotosizer Freeware batch image resizer with many features such as: flip, rotate, convert to black and white; supported image formats: JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, GIF.
- Omniformat.com 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. Also: optical character recognition.
- Photoscape image viewer, converter and editor for Windows.
- PIXresizer Freeware image resizing program for Windows. It can also convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode.
- IrfanView Excellent image viewer/converter for Windows. It supports a large number of graphics file formats. Many features, including: thumbnails, preview, resize/resample, drag & drop, directory view , print, scan (TWAIN), slideshow, batch conversion, change color depth, audio CD player, capturing, cut/crop, effects (blur, sharpen etc.).
- CocoViewX graphics viewer for MAC.
- WildBit Freeware image viewer for Windows with support all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF and TGA
- FastStone Image Viewer Freeware image browser, converter and editor that supports BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA images.
- Quick Image Viewer Freeware image viewer for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and HP-UX
- Picasa Freeware image organizer and viewer for Windows. Created by Google.
- Image Browser Arctic Freeware image viewing program for Windows with support for all major image file types. Different viewing modes are supported, such as: Full screen, Stretch window + more. Also: create and deploy image slideshows,online photo gallery for users for sharing images and information with other users.
- XnView image viewer and converter for MAC, Windows, Linux and many other operating systems.
- EXIF Image Viewer Freeware EXIF image viewer. Allows you view thumbnails AND all the EXIF data in your jpg files, as well as editing the EXIF description field in your photographs.
- Portmix Gallery Maker program to create HTML photo galleries and photo albums.
- StudioLine Photo Basic photo-album, slide-show and image-management program for Windows.
- CreaToon Non-free, but interesting 2D cell animation program, demo available.
- Dogwaffle Animation and Paint program for Windows.
- MonkeyJam animation program for Windows. MonkeyJam is a digital penciltest program, designed to let you capture images from a webcam, camcorder, or scanner and assemble them as separate frames of an animation. You can also import images and sound files already on your computer. Although it is designed for pencil and paper, MonkeyJam can also be used for StopMotion animation and has several features just for that. Movies created in MonkeyJam can be exported as AVI files.
- Retas! Non-free. 2.5D digital animation production system: digital drawing, pencil test, line trace, ink & paint, compositing & special effects.
- The Tapptoons
Linetester 2003 Freeware animation program for Windows. It enables animators to input images using a flatbed scanner or video camera to view as an animated sequence and to edit the result using up to seven levels of animation with the option of outputting the result as an AVI file. - Toonz Non-free. 2D Cel Animation software for feature films, video, commercials, multimedia and web animations. Designed by traditional cel animation artists and producers Toonz precisely traces the steps of hand-drawn animation, giving you the familiar tools and process and all the efficiencies and options of a digitized medium.
- Beneton Movie GIF animated-GIF editing tool for Windows. Supports many file formats such as BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, and AVI, effects, brush, pencil, transparent, text, etc.
- Movies 12 Freeware GIF animation program for Windows.
- UnFREEz Freeware gif-animator for Windows. It will take any number of GIF files and create a single animated GIF from those images.
- 3-D Schrift Generator program to create 3-D texts. The Web site and program are in German.
- 3DBase 3D modeling and animation program with a small set of easy to understand functions. Very suitable for 3D-beginners. Windows.
- 3DPLUS 2 3D effects and animations. Transform plain text into 3D works of art with just a few clicks of your mouse.
- Anim8or Freeware 3D modeling and character animation program.
- Art of Illusion A free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, so it should run on any major platform (such as MAC, Linux, Windows).
- Blender3D Freeware, open-source. Blender is a cross plaform 3D creation suite, allowing fully integrated modeling, animation, rendering, post production and interactive 3D creation and playback.
We are in the process of bringing back the old Blender product website. For the time being check www.elysiun.com for more info.
Blender download page. - DAZ Powerful freeware 3D graphics and animation program for Windows and MAC. The optional add-ons are mostly non-free.
- DeleD 3D LITE 3D editor for games developement. The 'Lite' version is free.
- Gloodle Freeware 3D drawing program for Windows.
- Maya Personal
Learning Edition 3D graphics and animation program, for non-commercial use. Runs on Windows and MAC. - PlantStudio Freeware tool for creating 3D plant models and 2D illustrations. PlantStudio simulates herbaceous (non-woody) plants like wildflowers and cut flowers, vegetables, weeds, grasses, and herbs using a parameter-driven simulation of plant growth and structure. You can 'grow' plants over their life cycles, producing lifelike images at any age. You can design, animate and breed a wide variety of plants. By using the 'evolutionary arts' of variation and selection in the plant breeder, you can quickly and easily create whole families of unique plants for your 3D scenes.
- POV Ray program for creating realistic three-dimensional images and animations. Versions available for Windows 95/98/NT, DOS, MAC, Linux i86, SunOS, Amiga. Source code available for those wanting to create versions for other operating systems.
- SketchUp An easy-to-learn 3D modeling program by Google. Currently only for Windows; a MAC edition is planned.
- Synfig A freeware and open source 2D vector graphics and animation program for Linux, MAC, Windows capable of producing 'feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.'
- Teddy Freeware for Windows, MAC, Linux, Solaris, written in Java. Teddy is a sketch-based 3D modeling program, enabling you to make interesting 3D models just by drawing freeform strokes.
- Terragen Terragen is a scenery generator for generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. For Windows and Mac OS. Currently Terragen is for personal, non-commercial use.
- Tree Magic Shape Maker Freeware program for creating 3D shapes. Flowers, glasses, goblets, amphoras, pipes, tubes, logs, caves and other shapes are possible.
- TeeChart Office charting and plotting tool with hundreds of charting styles and multiple configuration parameters. Includes importing data and exporting charts to several formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF...). Versions available for Linux and Windows. Freeware, open source, GPL.
- Powerbullet Presenter program for creating Flash presentations, including: splash screens, slideshows, self-running shows, and multi-page presentations that are commonly used in electronic sales brochures and catalogues. Your presentations can be exported as an HTML page with an embedded SWF (Flash) file or as an executeable file which you can run on any Windows PC.
- Apophysis Freeware fractal flame editor for Windows
- Double Fractal Double Fractal is a program that creates fast and easily high complex images . No specific knowledge is needed to use this program, it is a program that can be run just for fun!
- Fast Floating
Fractal Fun Win32/OSX Mandelbrot generator. Features OpenGL, realtime zoom, SSE/AltiVec QuadPixel calc, SSE2 and 3DNow! DualPixel calc, FPU per pixel calc, GPU asm (FragmentProgram/VertexProgram) calc, multiprocessor support, and benchmarking. - Fractal Explorer A freeware fractal generator that can produce mysterious and beautiful mathematically-based images.
Various Graphics Utilities & Services
- 2 Pic Freeware. Program which enables you to mix two pictures, including effects: gradient, airosol, transform, color, negative, frames, etc.
- A Ruler For Windows A on-screen pixel ruler for your PC.
- Eyedropper Can tell you the exact colour value of any pixel on your screen.
- Gifclean Program which reduces GIF images by removing unnecessary data structures and comments contained in the image file.
- HTML Picture Freeware. Converts any JPEG or BMP file to a HTML text-art file.
- Mihov Gallery Creator Automatically creates a Web site including index file from your image collection; various customization options and FTP upload.
Advanced & Scientific Graphics Programs
- CVIPtools CVIPtools is a UNIX/Win32-based software package developed at the Computer Vision and Image Processing Laboratory at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. One of the primary purposes of the CVIPtools development is to allow students, faculty, and other researchers to explore the power of computer processing of digital images.
- Descartes Freeware application for drawing graphs of mathematical functions. Runs on Windows.
- MathGV program for Windows to draw mathematical functions. It can plot 2-dimensional, parametric, polar, and 3-dimensional functions.
- Vis5D Vis5D is a system for interactive visualization of large 5-D gridded data sets such as those produced by numerical weather models. One can make isosurfaces, contour line slices, colored slices, volume renderings, etc of data in a 3-D grid, then rotate and animate the images in real time. There's also a feature for wind trajectory tracing, a way to make text anotations for publications, support for interactive data analysis, etc. Freeware, open-source. Versions available for: SGI, RS/6000, SunOS, HP-UX, DEC, Linux, Windows, OS/2.
- VMD Freeware, open source. VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. VMD supports computers running Unix, MACOS-X or Windows, is distributed of charge, and includes source code.
- Dream Tools Some great freeware, shareware and trialware graphic tools.
- Software
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thousands of fonts, icons, GIFs, animated GIFs,
backgrounds, wallpapers, etc. - Freebyte Gallery images, bars, arrows, flags, animated gifs and signs for your Web page.
- CAD software Mechanical Engineering software for a variety of platforms.
- Freebyte Gallery:
Background Images background images for your Web pages: stone, marble, metal, decoration, sky backgrounds, timber images, psychedelic, office, trees and plants, space and stars. - Games chess, checkers, go, card games, puzzle games, arcade games, games CD-roms, online games, games for download, cheats, virtual pets, role playing, and more!
- Screensavers screensavers, cursors, ringtones and desktop themes. 3D screensavers, nature, funny and artistic screensavers, screensaver construction packages which don't require any programming, and more.
- Freebyte Music Zone Software synthesizers, music sites, midi sequencers, score/notation software, MP3 search engines, midi/MP3/WAV files for download, etc. etc.
- Home pages Publish your own Web pages for free! Find the best service to host your home page. Create your Web page without any knowledge of HTML. services which enable you to run your own CGI scripts (PHP, ASP, Perl, etc.).
- Satellite images shots of earth taken by satellite. Also: real-time satellite images.
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