Best Freebie Apps List...

Ok, how about we make a thread here for the Best of the Best Freebie Apps...

Feel free to voice an opinion one way or the other regarding whether or not any given app should or should not be included within this list...

Please define the Category, the App (linked), and what you would rate said app out of Five, and a brief explaination as to why you rated such... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif



3D Box Modeling App
Wings3D
4.8/5

Stretch out and use hotkeys to fully utilize the speed factor within the workflow of this liitle gem. Wings3D is chaulk full of the right tools to get the subdivision modeling tasks completed on time, and certainly within budget http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

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2D Paint App
Deep Paint 2
4.6/5

First off, I am not near experienced enough with this app to even be giving it a rating, however this said, Deep Paint 2 is one which I instantly took a liking to... Great paint app as a plugin, or standalone, tons of options, and while it might be missing some other important 2D editing options, and perhaps even some newer paint options found within other apps, for free, Deep Paint 2 is a fantastic time waiting to be realized http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

If you got Wings, you should also get Blender. Probably the fastest growing open source 3D software with a very large user group and active community.

3D App
Blender

Hey! Finally http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
From what I've collected through the threads and experience:

painting programs
Dogwaffle project http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free/
http://www.gimp.org/ The gimp program (like photoshop) - open source freeware
I recommend these two, as they can replace photoshop and CorelPainter (dogwaffle can paint 3D texture for as a complimentary to 3D modeling)

Ultimate Paint
http://www.ultimatepaint.com/

2Pic - looks rather too simple, but maybe for someone who needs easy looking effects will want this app
http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~moor/2...p?lang=english



Vector programs
Expression 3.3 - a VERY good one!
http://northlite.50megs.com/expr/index.html


Movie rendering and screen recorders
http://www.debugmode.com/
This is the freeware site of morphing program, a movie maker/editor which can be as a standalone or as a plugin (for premier for example), screen recorder/tutorial maker. Very recommended

PDF creators/managers
http://www.pdf995.com/ - has a rather annoying advertisement unless you buy it (10$) but except from that it's a freeware

Microsux too expensive?
http://www.openoffice.org/ OpenOffice - the complete microsoft-like office tools (from Word to Access - all opensource free programs - that can save directly to PDF, with rather cool vector drawing abilities).

Browsers
http://java.sun.com/products/archive/hotjava/index.html
Java browser - untested

3D software
http://www.le-boite.com/minos.htm Minos 2.2 - cool drawings but I didn't test it either

CAD programs
http://www.cadstd.com/

2D cad tool http://users.pandora.be/desi-iii/MainFrmE.html
ModelPress
http://www.modelpress.com/ - CAD viewer

A9 2D cad tool
http://www.a9tech.com/

http://www.blaiz.net/ Some CAD tools

Tracers
http://www.povray.org/ - Don't know exactly what it is.

Misc
Icon maker http://www.conware.org/
A rather peculiar islamic program for gifmaking and other stuff....
http://www.yildun.com/#

A complete set of photoretouching, viewers, painters - it's not freeware but it's only 45$
http://www.mediachance.com/pbrush/index.html

Very similar to Access's program that creates vector objects
http://www.royallyon.com/snowflake/index.htm

Simple free photo editor
http://www.virtualorange.com/

Brush strokes - a free unprofessional toy-like software
http://www.pabird.supanet.com/~pabir.../brushstrokes/

Some photo enhancers editors
http://www.vicman.net/index.htm

Image analyzer
http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/Analyzer/index.htm


I hope that would be enough for now... http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Don't know if they are the "best of the best" (or even if they are all still available).

This list was compiled by users at PP a year or so ago. Feel free to delete as necessary.

Freeware

Apophysis
http://www.apophysis.org/
--- A freeware application that enables you to generate, edit and render Flame fractals.

IrfanView
http://www.irfanview.com/
--- The image viewer that can also convert, optimise, scan, print, create slideshows, batch process and much more!

Iris
http://www.cinegraphics.net/product.php?location=Iris
--- The application produces all sorts of fractal clouds textures as seamless tiles.

Palette
http://ljug.com/sw/palette.html
--- A very simple painting program for children

Tux Paint
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/
--- A funny painting program for children - with sound.

iDraw
http://rpgmaker2000.narod.ru/files/iDraw332_e.zip
--- Raster application for the creation of pixel art.

XnView
http://www.xnview.com/
--- XnView is a small, fast, multi-format, multi-language, graphic viewer and converter. It has an Explorer like viewer that allows quick browsing of directory contents in both thumbnail and preview views. Its features include HTML page generation, batch conversion and image processing, full screen slide shows, image manipulation with effects like 'Tile' or 'Glass', screen capture and file operations (Copy, Paste, Delete). XnView supports hundreds of graphic formats, including digital camera formats, and 36 languages.

PicPerk
http://www.picperk.com/
--- PicPerk is a nice image viewer and editor that supports most common graphic formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIF, BMP, PCX, WMF, TGA and more. PicPerk enables you to open a specific image file and also enables you to open a folder and easily view and edit any image included in it. Along with the usual assortment of file operations such as convert, copy, move, rename, delete, and print, PicPerk features thumbnails and full screen viewing, zoom functions, 20 image effects and 12 color effects. In addition, PicPerk features tools to display slide shows and set and remove the desktop wallpaper.

SmartMorph
http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/SmartMorph/
--- SmartMorph is a fast, advanced morpher program that can morph one picture to another or make funny effects with one picture. It allows the user to resize and crop the pictures to achieve the best results when morphing. The resulting animation can be computed and displayed in real- time or it can be saved to disk.

WinMorph
http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
--- A high performance Morphing and Warping application for the Windows platform. You can use WinMorph Warp & distort images; Create simple animations like a car moving along a road, or zooming into a picture. Create complex morphing movies in which one image morphs to another image. The movie sequences created can be saved as AVI or MPEG or individual BMP files. Combine many separate morphing sequences into a single movie, with special effects like moving morphs, or transparent morphs. Create cool videos by combining many WinMorph projects, individual bitmaps and even existing AVI videos. Apply special effects like transparency and motion tracks to each of these elements.

Radiant
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVall...51/Georadi.htm
--- Radiant is a stand alone application and render engine for creating lens flares and other spectacular effects. It includes a motion editor, and saves frames as targas. The program is public domain.

Bitmap To Ascii Converter DLA
http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/software.html
--- Bitmap to Ascii converter creates ascii art text images using letters, characters and symbols. The text can be in colour or just black, and the available characters for the text image can be changed so that only the selected characters will be included.

Icon2Text
http://camtech2000.net/Pages/Icon2Text.html
--- Change an icon into text art! Select an icon and change font, font size, font character, zoom in and out, save as a bitmap, and print. Over 80 icons included with the program.

Tales Animator
http://www.dollysoft.com/
--- DollySoft Tales Animator allows you to develop high quality animations easily. Your kids can animate their favorite fairy tales, you can animate your presentations, you do not need to be an artist or advanced user of other similar software - Just screenplay is needed. Really there is no similar software! Tales Animator is unique and it's absolutely free. No adware, spyware, banners etc. Enjoy the cartoons development!

Anim8or
http://www.anim8or.com
--- Anim8or is a 3D modeling and character animation program that was written over the past couple of years, not as a commercial endeavor, but because the author loves 3D graphics, animation, and programming. It's a nice and useable product. Try it!

Pover
http://erny.narod.ru/eng/pover.htm
--- Pover is a GUI interface for POV-Ray options, it helps you to change many of the POV-Ray Render options. With Pover you can open and save configuration files also associate Pover with PCG files and open your work with one click. Pover is small and uses very little system resources.

Wing3D
http://www.wings3d.com
--- Wings 3D is a polygon mesh modeler inspired by Nendo from Izware. I cannot emphasize enough how high quality and powerful this modelling tool is. If you have never touched 3D, or if you are already an professional using Cinema 4D/Maya/3D Max you will benefit greatly from this software!

Bigle 3D
http://www.alc-wbc.com/index.php?id=8%26lang=en
--- A "stereogram" is a picture where you see only a pattern normaly, but when you squint or look at it from a distance, you will see another image appear in 3Dimensions. Bigle 3D is a stereogram generator or SIS (Single Image Stereogram) to create you own stereograms. The wizard interface guides you through choosing a background and the grayed image that will appear in 3D. You can save your stereograms as one of the main image formats (bmp, png, jpg, tiff) and open even more types of images to create them.

AnaBuilder
http://anabuilder.free.fr/indexEN.html
--- AnaBuilder is a freeware program for the creation of anaglyph-type stereoscopic photographs. By shifting two views of the same scene, AnaBuilder builds an image that is stereoscopic when viewed through Red/Cyan glasses. The program makes it possible to readjust the two views manually or fully automatically. Adjusted pairs can also be saved. Supports multiple languages.

ZPaint
http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/
--- Forget your button maker! This software for creating 3D-looking elements for websites and software interfaces is much more flexible. Easily paint raised or lowered shapes such as buttons, rings, boxes, or add those effects to existing graphics. Color/texture selection, adjustable extrusion depth, gloss and other effects.

3DPlus
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/3d/3d2/index.asp

Teddy
Chameleon
Chateau
Sweater
SmoothTeddy
http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/index.html
--- Teddy is an easy-to-use 3D Modeler that can create models for Alice! Teddy is a sketch-based 3D modeling software. You can make interesting 3D models just by drawing freeform strokes. Teddy is written in Java (jdk1.1), and mainly designed for windows platforms.

--- Chameleon is an easy-to-use 3D texture paint program for Teddy. You can paint the surface of 3D models without worrying about complicated UV-mapping. It runs on Windows platforms (DirectX 3- is required)

--- Chateau is a simple 3D drawing system that demonstrates suggestive interface. You can make 3D models such as houses and buildings without explicit buttons and menus. It runs on Windows platforms (DirectX 3- is required).

--- Sweater is 3D clothing manipulation software in its very early stages of development.

--- SmoothTeddy is a simple 3D sketch-based modeling and painting software. You can make rotund 3D models such as teddy bears quickly, and paint them in an integrated environment. The resulting 3D models has hierarhical joint structure, so you can use them for animation projects like Alice. (SmoothTeddy is a successor to Teddy and Chameleon)

Alice
http://www.alice.org/
--- Alice is a 3D Interactive Graphics Programming Environment for Windows 95/98/NT built by the Stage 3 Research Group at Carnegie Mellon University. The Alice project is a public service to the wider computing and artistic communities; our hope is to make it easy for novices to develop interesting 3D environments and to explore the new medium of interactive 3D graphics. The current version of Alice authoring tool is free to everyone and runs on computers that are commonly available for reasonable prices. Worlds created in Alice can be viewed and interacted with inside of a standard web browser once the Alice plug-in has been installed.
Alice is primarily a scripting and prototyping environment for 3D object behavior, not a 3D modeler; this makes Alice much more like LOGO than AutoCAD. By writing simple scripts, Alice users can control object appearance and behavior, and while the scripts are executing, objects respond to user input via mouse and keyboard.

DesignWorkshop Lite
http://www.artifice.com/free/dw_lite.html
--- The complete freeware DesignWorkshop Lite software package provides all you need to build your own 3D models for home design and visualization of architecture, landscapes, exhibits, or any kind of spatial design. With DesignWorkshop Lite you can view and walk-through ready- made models of any size, like the free 3D building models in the Great Buildings Online, in DXF, DesignWorkshop, or 3DMF format, with amazing live 3D speed.

GenesisII
http://www.geomantics.com/
--- Photorealistic landscape renderer. Creates photorealistic images of real or imaginary landscapes. Extensive support for terrain editing, import and export. Full control over surface, atmosphere, lighting, camera/target, water and all other features.

OpenFX
http://openfx.org/news/index.php
--- OpenFX is an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite created by Dr. Stuart Ferguson. He made the decision to release the source code to the public in the middle of 1999, and the product formerly named SoftF/X was renamed to OpenFX. It has now been released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. A powerful feature-set includes a full renderer and raytrace engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, and an extensive plugin API. Plugin capabilities include image post processor effects such as lens flare, fog and depth of field. Animation effects such as explosions, waves and dissolves add enormously to the flexibility of the program. Check out the full list of the various effect types and let your imagination run wild!

Jahshaka
http://www.jahshaka.com/
--- The worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. Currently supports Linux, Irix and Windows, and Mac OsX is coming!

Art of Illusion
http://www.artofillusion.org/
--- Art of Illusion is an open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with JDK 1.1 or later. Nice!

Clayworks 3D
http://www.clayworks3d.com/
--- A fairly nice 3D modelling program written for DOS. There is a newer version in development right now that appears to offer exciting features. The newer version will not be free. (It will be very affordable though!)

Mops
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/~rschultz/mops/
--- The Mops is a free 3D modeling environment for the RenderMan Interface.

The Mops features at a glance:

RIB (RenderMan Interface Bytestream) export.
Support for NURB curves and (trimmed) NURB surfaces, Boxes, Quadrics (Sphere, Disk, Cylinder, Cone, Hyperboloid, Paraboloid, and Torus), CSG.
NURB modeling includes normal and interpolating curves, extrude (with caps, holes, and bevels), revolve (with caps), sweep, and (interpolating) skin operations.
Custom objects that may freely implement their representations (using OpenGL and RIB) and even small GUIs to edit their type specific parameters may be written by the user and dynamically loaded at runtime.
Scripting interface: Tcl.
Misc: instancing, arbitrary number of modeling views, object clipboard, independent property clipboard, console, single level undo, 3DMF import/export.

MindsEye
http://mindseye.sourceforge.net/
--- There are many professional Animation/Modeling packages. The problem is price. It is about time that a cheap (Free actually under the GPL terms ) package was developed. This is the MindsEye project. The aim is a complete modeling/animation package for the GNU/Linux operating system. Another goal is to combine forces when it comes down to 3d programming. There currently exist a number of specialised packages, which can do specific 3d-tasks. The idea here is to create a total package which can be configured to do all the major 3d-tasks you need. It is supposed to run on any X Window system currently available.

K3D
http://k3d.sourceforge.net/new/
--- K-3D is a free (as in freedom) 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system for GNU/Linux and Win32. K-3D features a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture. K-3D does not include its own renderer but instead relies on the presence of a RenderMan compliant renderer as a subsystem.

ModelMagic3D
http://www.imagewaredev.com/welcome.htm
--- An easy to use, interactive, 3D modeling package used to create OpenGL scenes rendered in real-time. Build 2D and 3D objects from pre-defined primitives, add text, lighting, lens flare effects, particle simulation and animation. Features include texture mapping of BMP, GIF, JPG, and PNG, TIFF images or play AVI movies as textures mapped to any 3D surface. Print your work, save it in native *.wld format or as a standard image format. Build Web pages, 3D Screen Savers and other graphic applications.

Genesis
http://www.silicond.demon.co.uk/
--- Genesis is a fully functional, realtime 3D editor for windows. It has many unique features not found on other editors and is very intuitive to use. 3D objects can be loaded, edited, viewed and saved again to disk while enjoying the luxury of realtime rendering. It also has a very powerful programming toolkit for those who like to get their feet wet. The toolkit allows 3D applications or plug-in tools for the editor to be written.

Fractint
http://spanky.triumf.ca/www/fractint/fractint.html
--- Fractint is a freeware fractal generator created for IBMPC's and compatible computers. It is the most versatile and extensive fractal program available for any price. The authors (of which I am not one), work very hard to keep it that way. It has many great features and it is constantly being upgraded and improved by the Stone Soup team.

POV Ray
http://www.povray.org/
--- The Persistence of Vision Ray-Tracer creates three-dimensional, photo-realistic images using a rendering technique called ray-tracing. It reads in a text file containing information describing the objects and lighting in a scene and generates an image of that scene from the view point of a camera also described in the text file. Ray-tracing is not a fast process by any means, but it produces very high quality images with realistic reflections, shading, perspective and other effects. The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux.

Texture Editor
http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~aiin-in/features.htm
--- The Texture Editor is a powerful tool to generate procedural quadratic textures that you can use for your stunning 3D scenes, demos, games etc., wherever textures are needed. Use the Texture Editor to create color texture maps, bump maps, specular/diffuse maps, reflection/refraction maps, transparency maps, displacement/height maps.

DeKnop
http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/deknop/deknop.htm
--- DeKnop (dutch for "The Button") is a graphics editor that is designed to let you create buttons for your web site without requiring any graphic design experience. It provides an easy to use step-by-step interface that lets you select the text, font style, color, 3D bevel, size, gradients and many other aspects. You can preview any changes that you make as it takes place, so it is easy to experiment a little until you decide on a design you like. It offers support for automatic up/down effects for use in mouse over java scripts as well as gradients and more. Support for other languages (Dutch, French, Spanish) is available as a separate download.

Pixia
http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight/download.htm
--- An English version of a famous Japanese free painting and retouch software by Isao Maruoka. Pixia is graphic software exclusively made for fill color graphics, it has layer, mask, transparency channel, and various filters, and is very convenient and useful for computer graphic beginners. It also has good photo retouching functions, which are good for photographic editing. There are help files in various languages and also several tutorials by users.

The GIMP for Windows (Photoshop for Linux and now for us too! - Amazing power...)
http://www2.arnes.si/~sopjsimo/gimp/
--- The GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is a project of the GNU/Free Software Foundation and is a 100% free, open source code, copyleft'ed program. Basically the GIMP packs 95% of the features of Adobe's Photoshop into an easy to use and highly polished graphics program. You can also use Photoshop plugsins, all Psfilters with the ending *.ffl can be used in the USER FILTER plug in from GIMP. If you need to do anything from simple web logos/buttons and miscellaneous images to advanced high-tech computer art images, the GIMP is the program you'll want. If you find the GIMP as necessary as I do, also check out books in print on the GIMP and also the GIMP's Linux/Unix versions.*Minimum requirements* 16-bit HiColor & 64 M RAM (128 M recommended)

NOTE: If you have previously installed an earlier version of the GIMP, be sure to uninstall that first! Also read the rest of the author's uninstall instructions on his download page.

sTile
http://harmware.com/sTile.htm
--- sTile is a program designed to create 'Seamless Tiles', a small image that, when lined up adjacent with itself, makes a seamless pattern with no discernable borders. It can do other things, but that was (and still is) its primary purpose.

EVE
http://www.goosee.com/
--- The incredible shrinking vector graphics editor, only 54K bytes yet extremely powerful -- has to be seen to be believed. For all line drawing applications: organisational, structural, project planning, layout design, circuit design, brainstorming. Unlimited drawing surface. Export to WMF, EMF, bitmap (raster). Used by hobbyists and professionals, very easy to use. Scan the online User Manual, FAQ, read what other users have to say, download and try for yourself.

imageN
http://www.pixoid.com/
--- imageN is an image acquisition, processing and cataloging software. The program transfers images from a digital camera and renames them according to the exposure information. Includes a multi-window image viewer, image manipulation functionality; supports 32-bit Photoshop Filter plug-ins. Creates an image database containing image thumbnails. Includes a built-in Web server for immediate image publishing.

PhotoPlus
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/ph/ph5/index.asp
--- PhotoPlus is your number one choice for working with photographs and paint type images, whether for the Web, multimedia, or the printed page. Once you've got your image into PhotoPlus, you can enhance and alter its on screen appearance with a diverse toolkit of functions and effects. Features include Image Export Optimizer; Image Enhancement; Unique Selection Options; Image Slicing/Image Maps; Editable Text; Smart Shapes; and more.

EyeBrowse
http://download.eyebrowse.co.uk/eyeb...d/download.php
--- EyeBrowse is an advanced graphics management and manipulation program, featuring screen capture, support for many file formats (save/open), batch file management, animated GIF support, favorites and print with print preview. It comes with an EyeBrowse Update utility which will update EyeBrowse to the newest version available amongst many other things. This new version expands on the image manipulation features in a big way, making EyeBrowse an essential application for anyone who works with graphics.

Kaos Rhei
http://www.b-zone.de/software/kr.htm
--- Kaos Rhei is a program for rendering fractal images which can be used as stand-alone images, textures or bump maps for 3D rendering. It currently supports more than a dozen different fractal types, including M-Sets, N-Sets and N/M-Sets. A unique formula parser gives you full control over the coloring of the fractals, either using a preset 256-color palette, or applying different formulas to RGB or HLS color space. Image size is only limited by the available memory. Additional features include integration of plasma clouds, several filters, and various fractal options such as inverted fractals. Minimun requirements are 8 MB RAM, a Pentium processor (or a comparable with FPU), and High Color or True Color display.

Buttonz & Tilez
http://www.b-zone.de/software/bt.htm
--- Buttonz & Tilez! is an award-winning software package that should make the life of webmasters easier. The package includes 2 applications, "Buttonz!", which creates buttons of various shapes, and "Tilez!", which renders seamless textures. Buttonz! renders buttons with various bevel types and shapes from either an imported image, or using a procedural texture. Tilez! textures are created using a procedural approach. You can choose from 20 basic texture types, all of which can be modified to suit your needs. The package is freeware, and comes with dozens of preset textures & buttons for you to use and modify. Please note that this is still a beta version so it might contain some minor bugs.

Reptile 2
http://www.sausagetools.com/products/index.html
--- Limited only by your creativity, Reptile allows you to easily produce any combination of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth textures. And besides generating a vast range of shapes and surfaces the program also features a great way to color the textures to suit the look and feel you require. Use your wild creations for your Web page backgrounds, on your Windows desktop, or invent a completely new use for them, it's entirely up to you. Reptile is so much fun to use it is difficult to stay focused on what you want to do. So BE WARNED, this program is addictive!

Harry's Filters
http://thepluginsite.com/products/ha...ters/index.htm
--- Harry's Filters is a Photoshop-compatible plug-in containing 55 different image effects that can be used with dozens of different image editing applications such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel Photo-Paint and many others (full compatibility list on website). The main effect categories are called Color, Artistic, Gradients, Patterns, Warp, Noise, En/Decrypt and Other. Options for saving and opening effect presets, an animatable preview feature and a random effect button are included, too.

"Toadies" plug-in filters
http://www.illustrator.ru/catalog/so.../index_e.shtml
--- Set of various filters for Adobe Photoshop that will also work with similar programs including Paint Shop Pro, Macromedia Fireworks, GIMP and others (webpage has full list of host applications tested). Eight separate filter sets available, with full descriptions - ButtonMakers; Mosaic Filters; Noise & diffuse effects; Distortion Filters; Pseudo 3D-filters; Transparency Filters; Colour Transfer Function Filters; Miscellaneous Filters;

NVR BorderMania
http://www.pluginfilters.com/bordermania/index.html
--- NVR BorderMania(tm) is a set of plug-in filters for popular graphics editing programs including Adobe Photoshop, JASC Paint Shop Pro and Corel Photo-Paint. 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. These are features surprisingly hard to find in overly complicated and expensive filter packages. With NVR BorderMania the tedious task of creating great looking borders and buttons becomes a snap. Just a few mouse clicks will make your images jump off your Web pages and give you buttons that beg to be pressed.

NOTE: The original BorderMania program is still FREE but it is now distributed exclusively as BorderMania Pro. The pro features work for a 30 day evaluation period and after that the filters continue to work exactly as the original free plug-in filter set without the Pro features.

AFH Beveler Plugin Filters
http://www.afh.com/web/pshop/free.html
--- Want to give a photo a chiseled edge? Or just want to create some quick Web buttons? Or create instant menubars? For Photoshop 3.04 or later. Version 2.0c works with many non-Adobe programs, such as Paint Shop Pro 4.

AlphaWorks
ColourWorks
EdgeWorks
ScreenWorks
EmbossWorks
SwapShop
MasterBlaster
Mezzy
http://www.cybia.co.uk/
--- AlphaWorks : 20 filters with various transparency properties
--- ColourWorks : 20 filters for modifying the colours in your images
--- EdgeWorks : 20 filters for producing edge/contour effects
--- ScreenWorks : 20 filters with different screen/mesh overlays
--- EmbossWorks : 20 filters containing simple emboss variations
--- SwapShop : 15 filters that "swap" colour values in your images
--- MasterBlaster : 20 filters to "blast" colours giving a strong cast
--- Mezzy : 15 filters for producing mezzo and grain effects

Doodle Pad
http://www.adders.org/freeware/doodlepad.html
--- Doodle Pad is a simple drawing and colouring program which includes stamps (small pre-drawn pictures to colour) of Winnie The Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Gopher, Roo and Kanga to add to your pictures. Other stamp sets are available and they're free too. Choose from: Dinosaur; Vehicle; Christmas; Alphabet; Nature; Farm; Lion King and Clown.

QCad
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/qcad/
--- QCad is a free open-source 2D CAD system for Linux, various Unices and Windows. The developers main goals are to build a stable, fast and easy to use CAD for everyone & one doesn't need any knowledge of a CAD program to start working with QCad. (NOTE: Beyond version 1.5.1, this software has become commercial. You can still download the above absolutely free and enjoy.)

ImageForge
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
--- ImageForge (Basic Freeware Edition) provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. 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. Upgrade your ability to edit images with this free paint program.

BlockCAD
http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
--- BlockCAD is a program for building virtual models with Lego-like bricks. You can save your models, or save pictures of them, even reuse a complete model as a part in another model. BlockCAD is not a full CAD program, the pieces can only be placed 'studs up', and rotated in steps of 90 degrees. It is impossible to draw pieces that are partly inside other parts, which excludes almost all of the Lego Technic line, but there's still a lot of fun to be had with it. Everything can be controlled with the mouse, but it's also possible to use the keyboard for most of the commands, making 'routine building' more effective, and there is a minimum of text involved, to make it easier for kids.

TerraPainter
http://huizen.dds.nl/~kokpeter/TerraPainter/index.htm
--- TerraPainter is a simple program which can be used to draw terrains, by painting with brushes, for use in programs like Terragen.

Behemot Graphic Editor
http://sourceforge.net/projects/behemot/
--- The Behemot graphic Editor is a raytracing program with editor. Features: • Raytracing and preview • Depth bitmap for stereogram • VRML 1.0 • Antialiasing • Texture and bump mapping.

DrawPlus 4
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/dp/dp4/index.asp
--- Whether you want a classy logo, attention grabbing text or an artistic masterpiece, DrawPlus 4 has the power and tools to help you. Beginners and professionals have praised this as one of the best design programs, ever! Features include Drag & Drop Formatting; Animation Mode; Advanced Graphic Functions; Border Wizard; Transparency Effects; Backdrop Wizard; and much more.

Sketchit
http://www.brianssoftware.co.uk/prod02.htm
--- This little utility is a sketch pad for the young! You can choose from basic shapes or create patterns as shown in the screen shot. To get the effect shown double click and hold down the second click, this will give the swirling pattern. Your creation can be saved in bitmap (.bmp) format.

Block Works!
http://www.cellosoft.com/software/view.php?id=7
--- Block Works! is building program for young and old alike, you can create simple pictures with colored interlocking blocks. With the Gravity-Build engine, the program automatically ensures that you do not place blocks where they could not normally be. You can also save your buildings and send them to your friends to load in their copy of Block Works! Or you may capture a screen shot with the Export option to send the picture as a standard image file. Block Works!'s storing method allows you to see your creation "rebuild" itself as it loads, placing the blocks in the same order as they were placed originally.

CadStd Lite
http://www.cadstd.com/lite.php
--- CadStd (pronounced "CAD Standard") is a simple and easy to use 2D computer aided design (CAD) program. Computer aided design replaced what used to be called drafting. Since it is a general purpose CAD program it can be used for mechanical design, architecture, map making, wood working and many other vector oriented design projects.

CBN Assistant
http://www.cbnsystem.com/software/assistant.htm
--- CBN Assistant lets you apply real world colors to your images in Adobe Photoshop, AutoDesk AutoCAD and you can even use it as a Stand-alone. CBN Assistant is great for Design Professionals such as Architects, Interior Designers, and Specification Writers.

Drawing For Children
http://www.cs.uu.nl/people/markov/kids/draw.html
--- Drawing for Childen is a drawing program for small children with many nice options. The best way to learn to use it is simply to use it. There is though a document describing the use of the program (both in Word format and in text format. HYML format available from the homepage). For more information, see the readme file. The new version 2.0 is a complete rewrite of the program. Many improvements and additions were made, including addition behavior when using and/or key, font selection and rotated text, collection of stamps, collections of cliparts, backgrounds, and child-proof settings.

DESI-III (DOS but runs in console mode in Windows)
http://users.pandora.be/desi-iii/MainFrmE.html
--- ESI-III is a powerful and userfriendly 2D CAD system with a lot of profeesional features: associative hatching, dimensioning, associative text attributes to lines and symbols, multiple (up to hundreds) lines or line chains and curves. Automatic interruption of lines on user definable boundaries of symbols AND repairing if the symbols is moved or deleted. Adaptive and powerfull line pattern definitions, macro's etc. etc.

Paint - A paint program for very small kids
http://michaelmoser.org/content_products.htm
--- Very small kids have different requirements such as: right and left mouse should do the same thing. holding the mouse down and dragging is difficult - rather do the same thing in two clicks

MINOS
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rleboite/index.htm
--- Minos is a full 3D Solid CAD System including: - Lines creation. - 3D geometric constructions. Solids: - Extrude - Revolution - Cylinder - Cone - Pipe - Evolutive volume - Box - Ruled surface. 3D Topology: - Cut - Fuse - Common. - Fast hidden line removal - Flat shading - Tree editing - Cell libraries - IGES interface.

Visualizer Image Browser
http://www.freeimagebrowser.com/eng/
--- Visualizer Image Browser is a powerful, smart looking, image tool that makes it easy for you to browse through your images and at the same time provides you with a lot of easy-to-use features. Fast access to your entire collection of photos. Browse images inside Visualizer's thumbnail gallery, Generate html thumbnails, Setup Slideshow (with timer support). Zoom in and out on your images (with drag support), import Screen Captures, edit and optimize images. Save as html documents, add new skins, change background color, add effects or browse through 10 different types of images.

Mayura Draw 2.04
http://www.mayura.com/
--- Using Mayura Draw you can create illustrations composed of graphical shapes such as rectangles, ellipses, polygons, bezier curves, bitmapped images and text. Mayura Draw has powerful tools for editing and transforming graphical shapes. All shapes including images and text can be scaled, rotated, skewed and reflected. Bezier curves can be edited by manipulating handles.

Gloodle v1.03
http://www.wondertouch.com/gloodle/gloodle.asp
--- Gloodle is "doodle with globs". Drawing using 3D shapes to create 2D images with a lot of richness, complexity, and depth.

CinePaint (Mac OS X through X11, Windows, Linux, etc.)
http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/
--- Supports up to 32 bits per channel color, which very few applications do. It started it’s life as an offshoot of The Gimp but has since taken a new direction toward rotoscoping and image correction for film and video work. Still very Gimp-like from the user's perspective.

ChaosPro.
http://www.chaospro.de/index.php
--- On a par with many fractal programs that you would pay form such as Ultrafractal. It’s also compatible with Fractint files. It can also generate movies of you zooming into the fractal, as well as create 3 D heightmaps. Also exports to Povray format with raytracing.

Wow Risto! You've outcome me! It must have taken you 3 hours to compile such a long message (it took me an hour to compile mine http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

But not everything is freeware.
Mayura is 45$. Some other software which I know of like Behemoth or such don't remember.

Availor,

The list was compiled over time at another forum (member suggestions). This was simply a copy and paste.

As I said, it was compiled over a year ago, so perhaps some apps now cost a penny or two? (I have no idea?) However, as a basis for good list, I'm sure it will do the trick. I've only tried a few - loved Apophysis - great fun, and very addictive.

Painting
ArtRage

i guess i can post this here. it has nothing to do with graphics, i just redid my system and i really didnt like nortons antivirus it wasnt catching much of anything and was to much fluff and when i went to ms to get their anti spyware they reccomended some anti virus programs and this one is free has a 14 month renewel for registration and is still free as long as you renew it. it is called avast! and you you can find it here avast! it is 100x better then any other virus program i have seen. it has stopped toolbars from installing and browser hijacking. it has caught a trojan that was emailed to me from a friend that had infected his address book. my spyware programs have litterly nothing to catch anymore. it is a great freebie check it out it is worth looking into if your subscriptions are up and dont feel like paying for one anymore.

Forgot to mention the "multi tools":
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
Contains Free Desktop publisher (very good I might add with many free templates which are quite good), a simple vector graphics, a very simple 3D, a very simple photo retouching program and a website publishing. Personaly, I always carry their software on a "tools" disc. In case I need to travel to some company's office, and they don't have any of the software I need, I can always install it since it's a freeware. Helped me many times already.

A discussion brought by Klaus: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/
A free microsoft (creaturehouse ?) Acrylic. You need to register through NetPassport.
The original thread:
http://talkgraphics.com/groupee/foru...2/m/2061089621

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Originally posted by Mike.S:
it is 100x better then any other virus program i have seen. it has stopped toolbars from installing and browser hijacking. it has caught a trojan that was emailed to me from a friend that had infected his address book. my spyware programs have litterly nothing to catch anymore.

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Mike, with all respect, but by telling people that it's 100x better than everything you've seen you're advising a tool that might give them a false sense of security.
I know, you're exaggerating, but from an older guy like you I didn't expect a teenager reaction.

Here's some test:

http://www.av-comparatives.org/seite...se_2005_02.php

For your information, Avast scores 11th place out of 13 scanners tested, not something what I would call a top score. And this was not even the free version.

So next time when you talk about things you don't understand, go to http://www.wilderssecurity.com/ and do some reading before people get infected because of your lack of experience. And as for your scanner catching all that crap on your computer; with all respect, but that says more about your inexperience as a user than the quality of the tool. I use Kaspersky which is considered one of the best (tests back that up) and I have never caught one single nasty one with this scanner, because I know what to avoid.

Btw, since we're talking about security now; here's a list of all kind of Anti-Spyware that turns out to be useless and trust me, there is a lot out there that falls into this category:

http://www.spywarewarrior.com/rogue_...e.htm#products

SteveS, you were quite harsh in your post. Mike was relating his experience and his use of 100x was an obvious exaggeration to express his pleasure with the product. Even if it is not in the top 10, if it was of assistance to him then it was worth the post on this section of the forum.

I have a couple to offer, but hesitate if they will be critiqued as harshly as Mike's was....

Since the thread is best freebies:

Password storage: Any Password tool to store passwords, favorite URLS, notes on registrations, etc. Tiny file, easy to use and so helpful.

Antivirus: AVG Free Edition When my Norton died, I switched to this terrific freebie.

Firewall: Zone Alarm Has nag screens but is easy to use and does the job.

Create fast Thumbnails: Easy Thumbnails quickly makes clean thumbnails in batches, has many optimization settings and compression settings.

Tutorial software: WINK This program creates FLASH tutorials. Someone already mentioned the Morphing software but thought I'd mention this one too.

Webmaster tools: Screen Caliper, Color spy and Web tool Three nice products (web tool also has a pro version) that make web building easier.

Backup program: BLAUNCH No spyware/scumware here. It simply creates a backup of your file when you open it. Unlimited copies. Simple

-Samantha

Hi Sam thanks for your post. i didnt reply to his post as it is my opinion he doesnt know me or my level of expertise. i for one am tired of going to a website and it has happened on msnbc a page gets highjacked and things happen. been doing this for many years now things get worse on the net we all know it. i am tired of paying for something to stop something that should never happen. thats one reason i switched to firefox and dont use ie. and everyone is entitled to there opinon and i will not get into a discussion with anyone that wants to bash my opinion as it is my opinon as you stated. thanks for the links will check them out.

Well, another top notch freebie for 3D would be trueSpace3.2

I mean if you are using Wings3D or other,for box/subd like modeling, and you want to get some nice renders, tS3.2 is a very capable app for such tasks...

Printing web pages on IE...


http://www.visiontech.ltd.uk/software/#ieprint will fit a wide page properly. (Seen in IT section of The Gurdian - UK newspaper; it seems to work!)

thanks for the long list of free options! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif totally super cool.

I have more to add:
http://www.freeimagebrowser.com/article4229.html Visualizer
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html Outrage painting program
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html a <b> whole <b> portal of freeware goodies
http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/ Gnome office including all platform Abi Word (Can be very useful if you need to work both on PC and MAC).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tions#Graphics All the Gnome applications
http://www.koffice.org/ Koffice suite
http://www.webdesigntoolz.co.uk/ Freeware stuff, DHTML editors and more

Enoy :p

Hello

Does anyone know of simple remote graphics software (free or paid) to draw in real time from say, my computer and display it in real time across the world on another. I am aware that there is high end and dedicated workstation software about and some available with and in some CAD/Animation modules, but something that we don't have to spend a lot of time setting up, securing and learning would be a great asset.

An easily setup, small footprint program to interact with other designers, artists, clients, family etc. It would be great to have the ability to send an image to a client, hook up and discuss or make changes interactively, efficiently and timely.

Thanks... Bob

Image manager / viewer: Picasa 2 from Google (freeware).
http://google.picasa.com

Real late but Apophysis is still going strong and deeper I might add. I used Apop but kind of stink at fractals; it is definitively an abstractionism form of design without question.

Heard that Wings does in fact rock!

Blender is cool but the interface needs an overhaul, definitely not for new bees. I myself gave up on Blender but at the time the B org. didn't have all the tutorial videos that they do now.

Google's Picasa 2 rules as an image manager/cataloger/publisher, etc. etc. features out the butt!

Art rage is cool, the designers of A.R. worked on the Dev team behind Corel Painter. They're cool to boot.

FastStone has an awesome line-up of screen capture, image viewer, browser, and image resizer freeware tools and they work as is said they do which is a blast.

Got TrueSpace 3.2 and must say that out of all the 3d apps that I have used
Cal' TrueSpace got the easiest U.I./learning curve that I have come into contact with in 3D modeling.

Saw this app when I was "Stumble Upon" had a look and thought it was a very good image viewer. It supports RAW images direct from your camera so therefore you do not need PhotoShop CS only a camera which it supports. I have not downloaded as yet because I normally use an HP bit of softtware to do that or PS itself as my browser.

Click on the link below:
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Knotplot
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/nest/imager/con.../KnotPlot.html
3D knotted objects making program.

Lego, anyone?
http://www.lego.com/eng/factory/design/ldd.asp

Even better than the above. This one lets you save the models as wavefront obj. files for your 3d program:
http://www.leocad.org/win.htm
So if you can stack lego bricks, you can make 3d models....

http://www.amabilis.com/ Amabilis 3D software. Very good actually. Wonderous it's freeware.