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.
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