This is a 3D modeling tool that takes graphics to an all-new level. In seconds you can create, texture, and render images to realize the extremes of digital quality.This has a user-friendly and easy-to-learn interface. There are also custom features for everything from advanced functions to first-try beginner tools.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT
Rhino can create, edit, analyze, and translate NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline) curves, surfaces, and solids, and offers limited support for polygon meshes. There are no limits on model complexity, degree, or size. Rhino offers extremely fast 3D graphics, unlimited viewports, working perspective views, coordinate read-out, named views, named construction planes, customizable icons, and user workspace. It allows you to create, edit, and render any combination of freeform curves, surfaces, and solids, and then export your model to other rendering and animation products, including 3D Studio MAX, Softimage, and LightWave 3D.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
This is a professional toolset for modeling, animating and rendering 3D objects. It features a multi-window graphical user interface, integrated 3D modeling tools, hierarchical animation, and a raytrace renderer. This comes with an illustrated context-sensitive online manual with lots of tutorials and examples.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
With Active GIF Creator, you can create fabulous animated GIF images for the Web. You can create movies in GIF Creator using pictures or graphics created or edited in image editing programs including Windows Paint, Adobe Photoshop, and dozens of others.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Morpheus is a free graphics tool that lets you morph from one image to another. Two versions of the program are included; there is one for beginners and another for advanced users. Both versions support clean-looking interfaces and can open many popular types of images. You can save your morphs as a sequence of BMP files or as an uncompressed AVI file. You can load any two pictures into the program's viewer boxes and then drag and drop dots onto each image, creating the final morph. The more dots you place on the pictures, the smoother your end results will be.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Creates GIF Animations.File types: GIF, BMP, JPG, JPEG, AVI, MOV, PIC, PCX, TRGA, RGB, CEL, TIF, TIFF, PCD, PSD, PDD, WAV, MID. Info: New generation of GIF animation. The best optimization. Optimization of graphic pallets to reduce file sizes. Interfaces with scanners. Online help. Easy create 3D text. And much more. You may easy create professional GIF files. CyD GIF Studio include: CyD GIF Studio, CyD Image Viewer.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
The StillMotion Creator is designed to allow the user to create pan and zoom animations from still images that have been scanned, taken with digital cameras or in existing image files. The software mimics the actual functionality of an animation camera stand, where you can apply pan, zoom and rotate to images. The completed animation can then be output in multimedia formats including: SWF (Flash 5 and 6 compatible) as Internet ready AVI, as high-resolution media files for professional video and direct support for HDTV formats.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
KoolMoves is web animation software for creating Flash animated web pages, banners, navigation systems, and intro pages. It lets you combine and manipulate text, images, shapes, vector clip art, and sounds to create Flash movies as well as frames for animated GIFs.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP
Create professional animated GIFs quickly. Animations can be quickly assembled from imported images.
System requirements: Windows 95/98
UnFREEz is a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
Pro Motion is a 256-color based animation and drawing package similar to Deluxe Paint on Amiga. It has been designed with 8-bit color depth in mind, a key feature for sprite, Web, or character animators. Pro Motion features a variety of drawing tools, paint modes, effects, drawing aids, and a 3D keyframer for creating 3D animation from 2D images.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/NT/2000
The Gimp is an image-editing programs. A free-floating interface allows the user to access the full desktop environment to create or edit images. The Gimp initially appears to be a Photoshop clone, but this couldn't be further from the truth. It supports all the major graphical extensions such as GIF, JPEG and PNG.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
Paint Shop Pro is an award-winning image-editing tool that offers a robust set of painting and drawing tools and support for more than 40 image formats. Features include dockable toolbars, built-in special-effects filters, RGB color separation, masking options, multilevel undo functionality, complete layer support, "picture tube" brushes, CMYK separation, pressure-sensitive tablet support, flexible painting and retouching brushes, and adjustable cropping and selection tools. Version 7.04 offers faster preview windows, new smoothing options, bug fixes, and more.
System requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
AVI-GIF is a batch image converter that's optimized for graphic files batch processing. You can convert AVI to GIF image format and back again.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
With Advanced Batch Converter you can easily convert multiple graphics files at the click of a button. You can also edit images directly to resize, rotate, flip, mirror, crop, filter, morph, and add color enhancements. The program supports 19 file formats to which you can convert and the original file can be in any of 55 popular file formats.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
Advanced JPEG Compressor lets you compress your images and preview how the changes will affect the picture quality, pick and choose how you want to shrink the file size of each picture and alter the values to ensure that picture quality is maintained. Other features include: Batch image processing, Support of more than 20 image formats, enhanced open and save image dialogs, enhanced compression profiles, system shell integration to provide a Windows-like interface.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
Advanced GIF Compressor can reduce the size of a GIF image by up to 50 percent. With Advanced GIF Compressor files will be significantly smaller with no difference in quality.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
ACDSee is a high-performance image viewer. It supports BMP, GIF, JPG, TGA, TIF and others. It now displays very fast thumbnails for each directory, as well as animated GIFs and almost every image format available
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
This program provides a simple way to browse, view, edit and share pictures. A full set of common editing functions lets you make quick adjustments like cropping, auto-correcting, rotating and resizing pictures. This program also has tools like picture index, batch conversions, and slideshows as well as integrated Internet support to give you even more power. Version 6.1 adds over 100 high-quality slideshow transitions, improved image zooming quality, address bar, file listing generation and several fixes.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/ 2000
This is a program for viewing and converting your graphics files. It supports more than 360 file formats, and you can apply filters and effects.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
This is a remarkably popular and prolific freeware image viewer and converter. Irfan View supports many of the popular file types including support for Apple QuickTime and Microsoft Media Player PlugIns.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in Windows Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information. It also offers full-screen viewing, image printing and converting. It supports 17 popular image formats, rotates JPEG images with no image degradation, sets desktop wallpaper to any image and performs batch format conversions. Apart from it's image viewing capabilities it also acts as a preview media player. This is an excellent addition in the newest version.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
SnagIt lets you captures images, text, video or anything you see on the Windows desktop. Captured items are automatically sent to a file, the printer, or a Web site. It provides automatic file naming, timed captures, and image processing effects. You can store multiple configurations of your most common settings. Plus, you can edit, view, and manage your images in the updated catalog browser.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
Easy Screen Capture lets you capture any part of your screen. You can make professional screen shots and save them as BMP, PNG, GIF or JPG files. This even supports capturing DirectX games. You can define your favorite keys as hotkeys, edit and print your screenshots and copy the snapshot to the clipboard.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
This is a screen capture and image editing tool. It captures screens from standard desktop programs and hard-to-grab DirectX/Direct3D, Voodoo and Glide-mode games. HyperSnap-DX can capture more than is visible on the screen with auto-scroll technology or extended capture on WinXP. This integrates with the clipboard and has new painting and image editing tools.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
SPX Instant Screen Capture is a tool to create screen shots in real time. It captures freehand shapes, rectangle marquees or entire windows. The program can send images to the clipboard, file, e-mail, ICQ user, shared folders, graphic editor, printer or fax. Automatically e-mail images as attachments or embedded HTML. File names can be generated automatically or manually.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
ThumbsPlus creates thumbnails of whatever graphics files/directories you specify and stores them on your drive for quick access any time, is very configurable and fast. Supports all major file types.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
With Thumbnail Factory you can create thumbnails and Web pages the easy way.This program supports multiple file types and comes stock with a ton of extras.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000
This tool lets you create great-looking image galleries for use on the Web. Express Thumbnail Creator creates high quality thumbnails, organizes them into web pages and links to full size images. It can also resize and modify the original images.
System requirements: Windows 98/Me/XP/NT/2000