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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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 Banner Crafter - Looking to create a really cool banner image that'll pull in traffic to your site? Banner Crafter is the solution. This advanced freeware banner creator has a fairly steep learning curve (mainly because it offers so many bells and whistles). But if you spend some time with it, you can create amazing animated (or static) banner images. By far the best program of its kind. (2.5 megabytes). For Windows 98/95 and NT.
- Grafula - Here's a handy freeware graphics utility that offers an online picture download manager and image viewer. Helpful if you need to download a large number of images from an entire Web site, a single page (or a specified depth). Allows you to preview images as thumbnails. Handles loads of formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP and TIFF. (Requires a copy of the freeware download manager, Net Vampire). (For Windows 98/95/NT).
- Blender - Outstanding, high-tech freeware 3D modeling and rendering graphics program, but has a steep learning curve. Blender serves up many tools found in high-end, costly programs, (such as metaballs and splines). Offers an excellent materials editor, too. (Available for Windows 98/95, Linux, Sun Solaris, FreeBDS and BeOS).
- 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 free 3D "Interactive Graphics
Programming Environment." Alice can be used for creating many types of applications, including interactive games, animations and virtual reality environments. It has a moderately steep learning curve. Basically, if you've messed around with BASIC before or built a spreadsheet, you can handle Alice. 11.2 megabytes. (For Windows 98/95 and NT).
- 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 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.
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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.
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