Pat's Freeware Selection
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Code: ' P ' indicates software that is Portable or can be manipulated
to be used as portable (see Portable freeware section).
| (short)Name & Link |
Commercial Use? |
VISTA ? |
Short Description |
| 3D Canvas |
YES |
YES |
3D Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Canvas' Object Building Tools. Creating an animated scene is as simple as positioning the objects within your scene for each point in time in your animation. |
| 3DtextMaker |
YES |
YES |
Free 3D online banner maker. |
| Art of Illusion |
YES |
YES |
It 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 J2SE 1.4 or later. You can also download a variety of plugins for specialized tasks. |
| Blender (P) |
YES |
YES |
Blender is a free open source 3D content creation suite. Create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. |
| Boxmaker Classic |
YES |
YES |
BoxMaker is a 3D virtual packaging design tool. It transforms your image artwork into a 3D box in real time using OpenGL. You can easily select the cover images, rotate, pan and zoom your box in real-time. |
| Bryce 5.5 |
YES |
YES |
Bryce is a powerful program for making realistic 3D landscapes and animations. With the userfriendly interface you can create beautiful landscapes, buildings and persons. This is not the newest version, but with version 5.5 gives DAZ Productions a free, fully functional version away without limitations. The only thing you have to do next to downloading the program, is request a FREE registration number on their website. You have to make a free account with them first. |
| Font Magic |
YES |
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Font magic is an easy-to-use tool for creating 3D text. Many options and a direct manipulation interface allow you to create attractive logos quickly and easily. |
| Freegraphics |
YES |
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Make online free 3D Headings. |
| Google SketchUp |
YES |
OK |
Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design. |
| OpenFX |
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OpenFX is an Open-Source 3D modeling, animation, and rendering suite. A powerful feature-set includes a full renderer and raytrace engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, and an extensive plug-in API. |
| POV-Ray |
YES |
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This is a free, high-quality tool for creating three-dimensional graphics. POV-Ray is based on David Buck's original raytracer, DKB-Trace. Raytracing is a method that allows you to create stunning photo-realistic images on a computer. |
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| Artweaver (P) |
YES |
YES |
Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver makes all artistic effects, which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photographies and experiment with a wide range of brushes.This is a pretty advanced program as far as paint programs go and it has a lot of features. |
| GIMP (P) |
YES |
YES |
The GIMP is a multiplatform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction. GIMP is expandable. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. |
| GIMPShop |
YES |
NO |
Gimpshop is a customized version of the GIMP, edited to be more user-friendly for Photoshop users. The menu structure and terminology are adapted to look and feel more like Photoshop, and other adjustments were made to make the GIMP more usable. In the Windows version, the Deweirdifyer Plugin has been used to place all of the various windows into one nesting window, so it will act more like a single program. |
| Inkscape (P) |
YES |
YES |
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard (SVG) file format |
| Paint.NET |
YES |
YES |
Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software for Windows. It provides an intuitive user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Requires .NET Framework 2.0 . |
| Photofiltre (P) |
NO |
YES |
PhotoFiltre V6 is freeware. It's a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. |
| Powerdraw |
YES |
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PowerDraw is a freeware CAD/Drawing Software which provides all features that a drawing application should have. Draw and manage your drawings with the easy and customizable interface of the PowerDraw. Export to all well known formats, integrated macro environment for automated operations. |
| Sweet Home 3D |
YES |
YES |
Sweet Home 3D is an open source interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. It is ment for drawing plans of a home -- including laying out furniture -- and viewing the result in 3D. Has an import wizard for updating the program with new 3D models that are offered on a number of sites. |
| Winmorph |
YES |
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WinMorph is a morphing and warping software. |
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| hugin |
YES |
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With hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more. |
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| FastStone Image Viewer (P) |
NO |
YES |
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments.Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. |
| Imgv |
YES |
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IMGV is a cross-platform, open source, Image Viewer. Features include slideshows, exif viewing, histograms, gamma correction, adjustable thumbnails, playlists, website image extraction, multi-dir loading, movies, and much more. |
| IrfanView (P) |
NO |
YES |
IrfanView is a image viewer with support for a large number of image, audio and video formats. It's capable of scanning and printing, viewing, converting and optimizing images. You can also create great slideshows with it. Supports plugins. |
| XnView |
NO |
YES |
XnView is a multi-platform software used for viewing, converting and manipulating graphic files. It supports more than 400 graphics formats for viewing and 50 graphic file formats for export. It can lossless (without new encoding) turn, flip and crop JPEG files. Within a few mouse clicks, scripts can be created to convert, manipulate and rename a batch of images in one go. Several image editing tools are included, for instance color and size manipulation, several filters and effects. Creation of advanced slideshows is possible as well. |
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| iWebAlbum |
YES |
YES |
iWebAlbum is an easy to use program which allows you to create great-looking web photo albums with just a couple of clicks. Generated web albums can be viewed on any browser. |
| JAlbum |
YES |
YES |
JAlbum lets a user generate a web photo album from a collection of digital photos, ready for publishing on the internet or, alternatively, can be stored localy or be burned to a portable storage medium for distribution. |
| Picasa |
YES |
YES |
Picasa is software that makes it easy and fun to view, organize, edit and share the digital photos on your PC. It automatically locates all your pictures and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures: you can email, print photos, make gift CDs, instantly share them. |
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| Poster Forge |
NO |
YES |
Poster Forge allows you to quickly make your own posters without any efforts. You can print your big size posters or publish them on the Internet (myspace, livejournals, flickr, etc.). |
| PosteRazor |
YES |
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PosteRazor cuts an image into pieces which can afterwards be printed out and assembled to a poster. The resulting poster is saved as a multipage PDF document. An easy to use, wizard like user interface guides through 5 steps. |
| Posteriza (P) |
YES |
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Design your own big posters and signs from any digital photo with your home printer! No installation needed. |
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| Dia (P) |
YES |
YES |
Dia is a program to draw diagrams and can serve as an Open Source alternative to Visio. |
| Diagram Designer |
YES |
YES |
Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowcharts, diagrams and slide shows. |
| yEd |
YES |
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yEd is a very powerful graph editor that is written entirely in the Java programming language. Create flow charts, UML diagrams, mind maps and other kinds of diagrams, graphs and networks. Choose from a range of layout algorithms to automatically arrange your diagrams. You can save, print or export it to popular formats like WMF, PDF, JPEG, GIF, XML, PNG, HTML or SVG. |
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| IcoFX (P) |
YES |
YES |
It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing.
More than 40 effects + custom filter, Support for transparency (alpha channel), Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll, Batch processing for import, export and extract, etc. |
| Icon Sushi (P) |
YES |
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Icon Sushi can convert image files into icon files and vice versa. Open: ICO/BMP/PNG/PSD/EXE/DLL/ICL, Convert into: ICO/BMP/PNG/ICL. Support for Multiple-Icon which contains some icons in a file. |
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| Beneton Movie GIF |
YES |
YES |
Beneton Movie GIF is a complete GIF editing tool that supports all popular file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPG, and PNG. It allows you to create animations from scratch by importing the frames, dragging them into position, setting frame properties and more. You can also apply a variety of image effects (rotate, color blend, blur and more) as well as animation effects that enables you to generate animated moves, distortions, transition effects and more. The program can be used to create new animation or to load and edit existing GIF files. The results can be exported to animated GIF image or AVI movie. |
| Unfreez (P) |
YES |
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UnFREEz is a Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images. Just drag and drop some GIF files, set the frame delay time, and hit Make Animated GIF. UnFREEz will take care of the rest, including automatic interlacing and transparency detection. |
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| EasyThumb (P) |
YES |
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EasyThumb is a small program which makes thumbnails and coverts images to a different format. Supports a wide variety of image formats. |
| FastStone Photo Resizer (P) |
YES |
YES |
FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported. |
| Icons from File |
YES |
YES |
Tool for extracting icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) with the ability to scan folders to search for EXE, DLL and OCX files, which contain icons. Extracted icons can be saved (exported). |
| JPEG & PNG Stripper (P) |
YES |
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JPEG & PNG Stripper is a tool for stripping/cleaning metadata from JPG, JPEG, JFIF & PNG files. The image quality is not affected. |
| JQL Avatar Sizer |
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YES |
Avatar Sizer has been designed to make images smaller, quickly and easily. Ideal for making Avatars! Creating your Avatar is done using an easy to use Wizard type interface. The Wizard guides you, step by step: select the image, set the maximum size, press "Next >>" (and your Avatar is created), save your Avatar. Avatar Sizer automatically sorts out the "Aspect Ratio" of the image and uses "Smooth Resizing" to make your Avatar look as good as the original image, only smaller. |
| PngOptimizer (P) |
YES |
YES |
Cleans PNG files of useless or wrong information. Makes your PNG files smaller. Convert BMP, GIF, TGA into PNG. Create PNG screenshots. |
