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Here's a roundup of the Web's best free graphics software. Whether you're a professional artist or someone who's just wanting to learn about computer graphics, you'll find a program to fit your needs below. Some of these programs will help you create graphics; others will help you organize the image files on your hard drive. If you're a Web page designer or you're doing business presentations or you just would like to create some cool 3D art, you'll find free programs here that can assist you.
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 Photonyx - Here's a cutting-edge image viewer that offers a wealth of powerful features. Handles any type of image file you can throw at it and offers many helpful features, such as the ability to define and play your own custom slide shows. You can also quickly scroll, zoom and pan images and even use it to calibrate your CRT monitor.
- IrfanView32 - Great freeware graphics viewer from Bosnia. We use this as our system's default image viewer and converter because it loads quickly, is easily customizable, has Drag & Drop support and supports many file
formats: JPEG and GIF files, as well as BMP, RLE, DIB, PCX, PNG, TGA, RAS, TIFF, ICO, AVI, WMF and more. IrfanView was the first graphics viewer to offer animated GIF support. Offered in English and German versions. This file is 312 kilobytes in size. (For Windows 95/98).
- Rick's Planet PlanetView - A good free image file viewer that's packed with helpful features. Offers a VCR style interface, with toolbar buttons, sizable directory list and more. PlanetView also offers image conversion and TWAIN image capture. Also supports many image types: GIF, JIF, JPG, BMP, TGA, DIB, RLE and PCX files. (For Windows 95/98/NT). 1.1 megabytes.
- POV-Ray Free Graphics Tool -
POV-Ray (the Persistence of Vision Raytracer) is a high-quality, free program for creating amazing 3-D graphics. Has a steep learning curve, but is worth the time you invest in it, if you're serious about learning about ray-traced graphics. Available for Windows, DOS, Macs, Linux, SunOS and Amiga.
- ShoeString's PictureDicer - This 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.
- Minos: a free CAD program - A very well-done freeware CAD program from France (offered in French & English) that offers lots of goodies, including 3D features, such as cylinders, pipes, pockets, a snapshot function, and more. Here's a screenshot. For Windows.
- Freeware themes installer - OK, here's the deal. You've been checking out all these cool free desktop themes for Windows 95 that are all over the Web, such as here. And you wish you could install them on your machine, but you don't want to purchase Microsoft Plus! Well, here's the solution. Free Themes is a freeware program that will load themes without the Plus! program. If you feel guilty, go ahead and send Bill Gates a check. You don't need this program if you have Win 98 (it has a built-in theme installer).
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Free Graphics Tools - This site offers various free studio IPAS (Ixps, Axps, Pxps and Sxps), including tools such as "3D Studio," filters for animated special effects and "Grad, ripple, bub and pat."
- NVR BorderMania free filters - This site offers free plug-in filters for graphics editing programs including the popular shareware program, Paint Shop Pro. All of these filters are designed to create a variety of basic borders around images and are particularly well suited to creating buttons for Web pages.
- Alice
- Are you interested in 3D graphics, but find the whole
process too involved and complicated for a novice? Then check out Alice. It's a 3D "Interactive Graphics
Programming Environment." The goal of Alice is to make it easy for novice programmers to develop interesting
3D environments.
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