Programs to enhance your graphical experience. Be sure to check out my other Graphics Helpers pages listed under Resources on the menu above.
ICC
Tool is a simple but useful tool. You can use it to check how ICC profile
combinations perform for particular sets of input values.
Freeware from Serendipity Software
Monitor
Calibration 1.0 from Hex2Bit is a freeware program for adjusting your
monitor's colors.
Color
Palette Editor PEdit palette editor for ADOBE Photoshop, JASC Paintshop and
all programs using ACT-, ACO or PAL-palette files.
Palette
Master - from Nebu-Labs - "How many times have you been designing a web site
and struggled to get a good set of matching colors that look good with your
background or logo? Well, struggle no more! With Palette Master, you can select
a base color and at the click of a button, instantly generate a 42 color palette
that is perfectly complimentary to your base color!"
Check
out the products from MediaChance Commercial and freebies to download.
imagENGine
from ISS, Inc. is a powerful collection of imaging utilities where you can
create html pages with image/photo galleries, batch process images, generate
thumbnails, rename or convert to other formats. Create contact sheets and
searchable image catalogs with thumbnails, keywords and comments. Print image
galleries and photo albums. Browse, locate and manage digital photos on your PC
or the network. Program support jpg, gif, pcx, bmp, tif, tga, emf, wmf and
Photoshop image formats. Download a demo.
Ambient
Design offers ArtRage (for Windows), a free painting application that
simulates using paint on a canvas along with pens, pencils, crayons and other
tools.
Dogwaffle
is a paint program, great interface, you can play with stuff right away.
Genesis
2 from Geomantics - Landscape visualization for the real world.
Studioline Photo
Basic is a basic image editor that also creates web galleries.
PicMaster
from Alex, who describes his freeware app for "Quick and easy image
editing promises you the Picture Multi-Talent Picmaster. Functions range
from simple scanning, using Filters, putting Images into Catalogs to
Huge-Poster-Prints, video image capturing, Webcam and presenting Slide Shows.
Thousands of Photoshop Filter Plugins from the Internet can be included in
Picmaster. You can record a sound comment to each picture which gives your
real multimedia feeling combined with the slide show. And with the
possibility of previewing all operations Picmaster becomes a very comfortable
program for you." Download this freebie stand alone program.
FilterFX
Lite is an image processing application containing, among other effects, 16
original filters, brilliant for processing photographs or scanned images.
Castle
Software has Split Image - Software for dividing an image into multiple
parts for use on web pages
TriVista
has some cool apps for putting your images on cubes and in VRML image scenes
and cubes. There are demos available for downloading.
Eos
Systems introduces PhotoModeler Lite! PhotoModeler Lite! PhotoModeler Lite
is a fully functional, high-quality Windows freeware program for creating 3D
models of real-world objects and scenes through the use of photographs.
Satori
PhotoXL, "the shareware version of Satori, for drawing, photo-editing
and image compositing. Professional graphics in the studio, office and home. "
Ultimate
Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation,
viewing and manipulation. It's freeware and it will remain so until it reaches
version 2.0.
Armin
Mueller Software Engineering has Spiralizer and Elefont freeware programs.
Spiralizer generates sea shell type spirals (with variations) and Elefont
generates 3D text from TTF type fonts. Both export in DXF format.
ShoeString's
PictureDicerTM for Windows is a Freeware tool that chops any image file into
several smaller images, suitable for creating mouseover effects and pseudo-imagemaps
on Web pages. It also generates the HTML for a table to contain the partial
images and display them so they appear as the original uncut image.
20/20
from HotFreeware is an image viewer, capture and annotation application. It
is also capable of creating slide shows and generating thumbnails.
Behemot
Graphics Editor
Picasa
works with the digital photo files on your PC to create a better, more
organized viewing and editing experience. Picasa will not delete or move the
location of pictures saved on your PC
Ameri-Imager
from Think Tank Software has a 15 day demo their image management program
for downloading. "Ameri-Imager is a powerful all-in-one graphics solution for
image editing, conversion, viewing, and much more. Over 60 image, animation, and
video formats are supported."
Performer
DiGiViewer -
The DiGiViewer is
a fantastic tool for the digital photographer to view categorize their images.
Kudo
Software will allow you to publish and manage image collections on the
Internet and CD-ROM. Download their free software.
CQuick
Technologies has Showcase, which is Photo/Image Cataloging software.
You can download a demo of their latest version, or a fully functional earlier
version.
ImageN is
a great, easy to use image viewer that also will accept Photoshop Compatible
plugins.
GSet
Explorer, a multi-function viewer from 2T Soft Invasion will view files of
many different formats. Download a free copy.
Irfanview
is a freeware (for non-commercial use) 32-Bit graphic viewer for Windows
supports over 30 file formats, including sound and video formats for previewing.
It also has a host of other features.
Panorama
Factory for stitching panoramic images together. There is a commercial
version, and a freeware version available.
PixAround
software lets you stitch up a series of photographs of a place into a 360°
interactive image, and publish it as a 360° PixAround Scene (an image), Web page
or Postcard. You can add hotspots to your images to link them to other things,
too. Can be used for PDA's, also. Download a trial version.
PictureWorks
Technology, Inc has Spin Panorama, which is an innovative and easy-to-use
software program that transforms multiple still images of a scene into
"super-wide" panoramic still pictures and 360° QuickTime VR panoramic movies.
Download a timed demo.
Wasabi
Software has Skypaint - SkyPaint is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in.
Download a demo - "SkyPaint is the first 3D panorama painting tool. Artists use
SkyPaint to create and edit 3D panoramic images such as Quake II, Live Picture,
3D Studio MAX, Bryce, VRML, and Quicktime VR. SkyPaint makes creating panoramic
backgrounds as easy as painting 2D images by allowing you to use the painting
features of your favorite paint program to work directly in an unwarped
what-you-see-is-what-you-get view."
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ALL BROWSER SAFE COLORS Chart and Sampler
The
Aldrige Company Graphics, multimedia, web tools and more.
Webmaster's
Notes and Links - Graphics Section A really great place to find all sorts of
links for graphics, HTML, Internet related, etc.
Cel
Assembler is a fully graphical tool for building animated GIF files.
"Designed to make animation building easy, Cel Assembler allows the user to
interact directly with the actual frames (or cels) of the animation instead of
with technical aspects of the GIF format". This can be downloaded for a 30-day
trial. .
Andover
Advanced Technologies has cool tools and things for animated GIF support.
ULead System
- Download PhotoImpact GIF Animator free 30-day trial software.
Barry's
Clipart Server has all kinds of clipart and animated GIF's.
Kweb Design
and Kristy's Desktop Creations has
lots of animated GIF's for Kids.
Page Works Lots of very good original animation.
Alchemy
Mindworks Animated GIF Construction shareware site.
Royal
Frazier shows you everything you need to know about animated GIF's
Rose's
Animated GIF's Plenty of good animated GIF's to see and download.
The
Micro Mini Movie Multiplex Much to see and experience.