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• QuickNailer 1.7.1 Preview and organize thousands of images and movies. Create contact sheets, media catalogs, web pages, or linked web pages.
   
  
• A Pic Viewer - Multimedia Freeware / automatically search, download, display and email your favorites pictures, videos, movies and sounds from usenet newsgroups. This is a "5 out 5 stars" ZDNET editors choice product
  

-Other

• Picture Dicer PictureDicer 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.
  
  
• Shareware for the DTP and web designers here are some terrific utilities, artwork, and fonts that are every bit as valuable as their retail counterparts. Here are a few of my favorites.
  
  
• SmartDraw - Download SmartDraw, winner of the Best Business Program, for Business Graphics, Web Graphics, and Technical Drawings.
  
  
• DigArts Freebies Freebie Software Products
  
  
• The Free Graphics Store - Our master web graphics software index. If you need web graphics software to build your web site, this list of top-notch freeware, shareware and trialware products will get you productive quickly
  
  
• Freeware files - A resource of freeware software on the net.
  
  
• GIFCruncher Free Gif optimizer
  
  
• Information Systems Services - Home of great shareware imaging software. Professional image explorer and viewer, batch image editor, html pages generator, image archivist, image database.
  

-Backgrounds

• Reptile - Reptile is a cool application that lets you create funky backgrounds.
  
  
• Harms Ware - Create Seamless Tiles for use as web page backgrounds or Windows Wallpaper.

-Color

• BK Colour Coder - A small SmileWare program (every time you use it, you have to smile for the rest of the day) designed for Windows 95 / NT. It lets you specify colours for all the standard elements in an HTML document.
  
  
• Color Cop v4.0 converts RGB decimal values to RGB Hexadecimal Triplets. It has a built in color picker, color preview, auto copy to clipboard, and an eyedropper to choose colors anywhere on the screen.
  
  
• EyeDropper Now you can identify pixel RGB instantly with EyeDropper!

-Animation

• Alchemy Gif Animator 2.3 - You can create animated GIF images for your home page or Web site, as well as movies using pictures or graphics created or edited in any image-editing program, including Windows Paint, Adobe Photoshop, and dozens of others. Free trial, but software costs $35.
  
  
• 3D Canvas - Use a real-time, drag-and-drop modeling and animation tool.
  
  
• Animated Screen - the most popular software for creating animated screen savers and greetings.
  
  
• Antechinus Media Editor - Based on Platypus Animator and gives you an easy way to create animations, videos and sounds.
  
  
• Easy Gif Animator - Fast, easy-to-use, but powerful animated GIF creator.(Windows)
  
  
• GIF Movie Gear - a professional quality, award-winning, powerful and easy-to-use tool for building, perfecting and optimizing GIF animations. (Windows)
  
  
• Insane Flash Animator - Easily the best Flash game tool in the world and much easier to use than Flash (only PC)
  
  
• Janim - Bannermation - Janim is a set of online Java tools that allow you to create animations online, in your browser
  
  -3D
  

• 3D Anywhere - New Java engine based technique, which enables the web-site author to present 3 dimensional objects over the internet and allow the viewer to rotate and control the objects' size and shape.
  
  
• 3D Canvas - Use a real-time, drag-and-drop modeling and animation tool.
  
  
• 3D GIF Designer - produces animated high-quality 3D pictures, titles, banner ads and buttons for your Web page or for a presentation.
  
  
• Kashmir - It's a software for making landscape CG or amusing 3D maps. You can render a beautiful landscape CG on your PC.
  
  
• Morpheus - Morpheus is a freeware program that lets you morph from one image to another.
  
  
• Pov Ray - Free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows 95/98/NT, DOS, the Macintosh, i86 Linux, SunOS, and Amiga.
  

PLUGINS
-General Plugins
-Illustrator
-Photoshop
-Fireworks
-After Effects
-Premiere

GENERAL PLUGINS

Alien Skin Software - Quick and easy special effects for graphic designers.

Plugins.com - If you are looking for plugin, this is the place to look! We have netscape plugins, Microsoft Internet Explorer plugins and photoshop plugins.

Pen Tools - PenTools pack your electronic tool belt with a potent set of creative and productive instruments that only a Wacom graphic tablet can provide

ILLUSTRATOR

BoostX - is a suite of Adobe Illustrator plug-ins. These plug-ins increase the productivity of a typical Packaging prepress workflow in two different ways: the initial job preparation/fine-tuning in Adobe Illustrator, and checking of incoming jobs whether they are fit for final output.

FILTERiT4 - FILTERiT is a plug-in suite for Adobe Illustrator which features various exciting and unique effects.

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download. ()

Sapphire Innovations - "Sapphire for Illustrator plugins & brushes, photoshop plugins, nozzles, shapes, styles, patterns, fireworks, flash, frames and more."

Switched On Software - Stay Put allows you to align objects without moving already correctly positioned objects. Stay Put is a simple and effective plug-in to solve Adobe Illustrator's inability to align objects without moving other objects already correctly positioned.

Virtual Mirror - suite of Adobe® Illustrator® plug-ins brings designers a balance of stunning creative filters and everyday tools to make artwork creation simpler and more enjoyable

PHOTOSHOP

AutoFX - Auto FX Software is the largest developer of Adobe Photoshop special effects plug-ins for designers and photographers

AmphiSoft plug-in filters - The package consists of both free and shareware filters for accurate image enchancement and wild special effects.

DC Plugin Filters - DCspecial plugin filters work with various Graphics Apps. Highly Prized collection 6 years in the making. includes various Tile Tools, Layer FX, and even some Psychidelics

Deep Space Web Brushes - Free downloadable brushes.

Eliminate White Filter and Grid Creator Filter - Here you can download two original Photoshop plug-in filters.

Filter Farm - A Photoshop (Windows only) plug-in. It is not a filter. It is an environment where filters live their own life.

Filters Quick Review - It adds spice to Photoshop. It can fulfill the need of beginner as well as professionals. The first time user of Photoshop can just open an image and apply filters with single click. Professional will be more serious and can create wonders out of it.

Flaming Pear - Graphics plug-ins for Photoshop. Download free fully working demos

Free Photoshop Brushes - Here's some free Photoshop brushes for you to download from About.com.

Gora Nation's Brushes - Downloadable brushes and a description of how to load them.

GrafoManiac - they are very fun to play around with and sometimes you get surprised. Most of the filters have a wide range of adjustments, so the previews are only examples of what can be done.

How to Create Custom Brushes - Have you ever wanted to create a brush to solve a specific image problem? Here's a description of the simple process.

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download.

PC Resources for Photoshop's Plugins (PC and MAC )- The World Famous Filter Factory Galleries and Andrew's Filter Collections Galleries

Photoshop Brushes - Use 'em anytime and anywhere! Download some custom brush sets for Photoshop and let your imagination run wild. An included readme.txt file will explain how to add them to your Brush Palette.

Sapphire Innovations - "Sapphire for Illustrator and Photoshop plugins & brushes, photoshop plugins, nozzles, shapes, styles, patterns, fireworks, flash, frames and more."

FIREWORKS

Sapphire Innovations - "Sapphire for Illustrator plugins & brushes, photoshop plugins, nozzles, shapes, styles, patterns, fireworks, flash, frames and more."

AFTER EFFECTS

AE Flame - Create your own animated flame fractals

Automatic Composition Import 1.0 - Gone are the days of lengthy export/import procedures to get your ideas into After Effects 5.0. No more must you export each clip from your timeline individually, gone are the pages of notes describing each transition and effect so you can tediously reconstruct your layers the correct way in After Effects.

Boris FX - Boris FX 6.0 provides advanced compositing features such as 27 apply modes, motion blur, particles, lighting effects, and displacement mapping.

Diaquest - The recognized industry leader in video animation control and network image transfer, offers a wide range of products for animation recording and capture, and video input/output solutions for Macintosh, Windows, and SGI computers.

DigiEffects - Digital Special Effects Tools

Digital Film Tools - presents a comprehensive set of special effects plug-ins for the television and motion picture industries. Available for Avid Editing Systems and Adobe After Effects, Composite Suite 2.0 includes indispensable effects tools that no editor or artist should be without.

HoloDozo - photoshop plug-ins for easy 3D effects.

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download. ()

ReelSmart - ReelSmart FieldsKit provides better deinterlacing and more workflow options for interlacing and pulldown.

Scopo Gigio - Full featured video waveform monitor and vectorscope for adobe effects.

SISnikk - photoshop plug-ins for professional single image stereogram development.

Spices for Adobe Premiere - Add our Video SpiceRack PRO™ and OrganicFX™ CDs. Then you can easily create subtle "directional" dissolves, terrific organic transitions, cool cutting-edge looks, and an enormous range of other super-softenable transitions -- all tied to your content and creative desires.

PREMIERE

Access FX - Download Lord of the Wipe and Translux from Access FX. Lord of the Wipe is a gradient-based transition plug-in for Adobe Premiere with fully customizable options, and TransLux is a pixel-based transition plug-in for Adobe Premiere which allows the user to customize a wide variety of parameters.()

Boris FX - Boris FX 6.0 provides advanced compositing features such as 27 apply modes, motion blur, particles, lighting effects, and displacement mapping.

CrystalGraphics - is a leading provider of add-on products and services designed to add energy and excitement to your corporate communications. Our award-winning products and services will add the power and flair of TV-style graphics and effects to your presentations, Web sites, and videos!

Paint Alchemy - transforms your images with painterly effects like Colored Pencil, Impressionist, or Pastel choosing from 75 built-in brushstroke effects and 36 editable brush style and complete versatile controls. Windows/Macintosh, Photoshop plug-in filter

Panopticum LLC - Panopticum LLC developes different plugins for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects & Adobe Premiere. Demo versions are available for download. ()

Photography Filters - cMulti and sMulti Filters create versatile circular or straight, multiple lens, kaleidoscopic effects.

Screens Filter - Line Conversion and Mezzotint Master... Reinvented for the desktop. Converts gray-scale into a wide variety of different line art screens from 15 to 400 lpi.

Spices for Adobe Premiere - Add our Video SpiceRack PRO™ and OrganicFX™ CDs. Then you can easily create subtle "directional" dissolves, terrific organic transitions, cool cutting-edge looks, and an enormous range of other super-softenable transitions -- all tied to your content and creative desires.

Three D Filters - Offers true 3D surface wrapping, viewpoint control, image and surface manipulation, and shading for scene building and compositing images, 3-D visualization and package design. A digital product only.

TypeCaster - Turns ordinary type into broadcast-quality 3D titles with depth, texture, and contours that lift off the page. Create eye-popping type quickly and easily. Windows/Macintosh, Photoshop plug-in filter