iClone Studio
iClone Studio - Animate Your Digital Identity
 

iClone 2 transforms any desktop into a complete virtual movie studio

Create 3D characters, scenes, and special effects for films inside a total 3D real-time environment

Designed for users of any skill level, iClone is equipped to break the barriers of storytelling offering simplified 3D character creation using any photos, custom face and body shapes, easy design of 3D wardrobe and real-time foliage ecosystem

Filming movies inside iClone casts users as the role of director with Timeline editing control over
scene animation and exporting options to gear your movie for Mobile, HD, Web, or PC premiere

iClone Studio is now iClone, a Brand-new Take on 3D Character Animation!

Instantly realize the power of 3D animation with iClone from Reallusion Now everyone has the ability to create, customize and animate personalized 3D characters with faces from any digital photo or image

Immerse yourself in a total 3D environment with all the tools needed to construct fully animated 3D characters and 3D scenes complete with custom props, scenery, outfits and motions

Enjoy iClone's interactive, real-time rendering previews for instant 3D entertainment Render complete video, images, web or mobile media files as 3D content for DVD games, videos, mobile phones and more iClone, the power to be 3D!

Requirements

Pentium III 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 1GB hard disk,
Display Resolution High Color 24-bit or True Color 32-bit,
Grahpic Card* Support for DirectX 81 and Shader 10,
Video Memory 32 MB RAM, Video card compatible with Pixel Shader 10 recommended for optimized visual performance


Limitations

15-day trial period, 30-second music, watermark output, and a limited quantity of content
You can download the Trial Bonus Pack and get more than 80 extra Free content for trial
Thumb marking system the marking on many thumbs indicates what content is included in Full version or what content you can download as Free Trial Bonus 

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Free Download 228 MB

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 Free Download 153 MB (If you have already installed DirectX9, you can download this smaller size program.)

iClone Studio
iClone Studio - Animate Your Digital Identity
 

iClone 2 transforms any desktop into a complete virtual movie studio

Create 3D characters, scenes, and special effects for films inside a total 3D real-time environment

Designed for users of any skill level, iClone is equipped to break the barriers of storytelling offering simplified 3D character creation using any photos, custom face and body shapes, easy design of 3D wardrobe and real-time foliage ecosystem

Filming movies inside iClone casts users as the role of director with Timeline editing control over
scene animation and exporting options to gear your movie for Mobile, HD, Web, or PC premiere

iClone Studio is now iClone, a Brand-new Take on 3D Character Animation!

Instantly realize the power of 3D animation with iClone from Reallusion Now everyone has the ability to create, customize and animate personalized 3D characters with faces from any digital photo or image

Immerse yourself in a total 3D environment with all the tools needed to construct fully animated 3D characters and 3D scenes complete with custom props, scenery, outfits and motions

Enjoy iClone's interactive, real-time rendering previews for instant 3D entertainment Render complete video, images, web or mobile media files as 3D content for DVD games, videos, mobile phones and more iClone, the power to be 3D!

Requirements

Pentium III 600 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 1GB hard disk,
Display Resolution High Color 24-bit or True Color 32-bit,
Grahpic Card* Support for DirectX 81 and Shader 10,
Video Memory 32 MB RAM, Video card compatible with Pixel Shader 10 recommended for optimized visual performance


Limitations

15-day trial period, 30-second music, watermark output, and a limited quantity of content
You can download the Trial Bonus Pack and get more than 80 extra Free content for trial
Thumb marking system the marking on many thumbs indicates what content is included in Full version or what content you can download as Free Trial Bonus

IconCool GIF Animator
IconCool GIF Animator is a professional and easy-to-use GIF animation software tool

IconCool GIF Animator is a professional and easy-to-use GIF animation software tool.

IconCool GIF Animator can create animated GIF banners, buttons and any other pictures for your web sites easily.

IconCool GIF Animator can easily export animation in animated GIF, FLI, AVI, MPEG, FLC as well as SWF formats.

Animation Functions
· An easy-to-use frame editor lets you can create, play, delete and modify GIF frames and so on.
· Support 25 kinds of video processing effects.

Editing
Functions
· Multi-layer technology like Adobe® Photoshop.
· Convenient marching line tools.
· Offer plug-in for exchanging image layers with Adobe® PhotoShop quickly.
· Support for editing several GIF projects at the same time.
· Easy-to-use drawing tools and powerful gradient functions.
· Support for editing 32-bit images.

Filters and Effects
· Supports various gradient effects and 18 image filters (Motion Blur, Median, Sharpen, and so on).
· Supports 25 kinds of animation effects, such as entrance effects, pull down effects, shutter effects, mosaic effect, interlaced effects and flip effects.

Supported Graphic, animation and video Formats
· Open and save 30 graphic formats, including animated GIF, PSD and PNG, as well as general animation formats, such as AVI, MPEG, MPG, SWF, FLC and FLI.

Samples and Gallery
· Offer plenty of samples, such as 100 banners and an useful gallery with 200 clip pictures.

Optimization functions
· Powerful GIF optimization functions with many optional parameters, such as Merge, Crop, Palette and Dithering.
· Fast optimization for JPEG and PNG files.

Html Map Creator
· Html Map Creator allows you to transform the editing image to a Html map file with Javascript quickly.

Local search functions
· Offer local search and internet search for picture and animation files.


Limitations:

· 30 dayS trial


What's New in This Release:

· Powerful function for operating marquee
· IconCool Studio 5 has added Rectangular Marquee Tool, Ellipse Marquee Tool and Polygonal Lasso Marquee Tool. These functions are similar to Adobe PhotoShop without limiting the limitation of the Rectangular Marquee for operating selection in the icon editing software. You can use them to make some powerful and convenient operations, such as move, fill, filter, etc.
· Convenient tool for making lighting effect
· IconCool Studio 5 has a special lighting effect tool in the drawing tools that enables you to add lighting effect for images easily.
· Make different states of icons quickly
· IconCool Studio 5 has a function for creating 3 different states automatically for current icon which is being edited. The software will create Lighter(active), Current Pick(valid) and Gray Scale(invalid). Use this to make a suit of software toolbar buttons with ease.
· Visible filter operation
· IconCool Studio 5 provides you with about 10 filter effects. You can open the preview panel and view the effect after adjusting the preferences by using filters as in Adobe Photoshop.
· Convenient operation, exquisite interface
· IconCool Studio 5 is easy to use with a friendly interface. We understand that designers are accustomed to using design software such as PhotoShop, Flash, and Fireworks. We developed the interface and operating methods of IconCool Studio 5 with your comfort in mind.

Imazer
Imazer is a free and effective easy-to-use application which allows you to resize your images in all major graphic formats

Imazer is a free and effective easy-to-use application which allows you to resize your images in all major graphic formats. With Imazer you get the opportunity to reduce file sizes for e-mailing your photos or publishing images on the
Internet. Now you don't need to resize each single image yourself as Imazer will resize multiple images in batch mode in no time.

Here are some key features of "Imazer":

· Intuitive user-friendly interface.
· Resizing multiple images in batch mode.
· Support for all major graphic formats (BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG)
· Drag and Drop functionality implemented.
· High speed of resizing.
· Simple Workflow.
· Ability to rename resized images (prefixes and postfixes).
· Convenient preview window.
· Ability to vary the quality level.


Requirements:

· NET Framework 1.1


What's New in This Release:

· Ability to precalculate the resulting image size added
· Feature to convert Mega-sized images added
· Major engine optimization
· Minor bug fixes, small enhancements and improvements to the interface based on recent feedbacks

CinePaint
CinePaint is a collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing

CinePaint is a collection of free, open source applications built for image processing and deep paint manipulation.

CinePaint is used for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal, render repair, background plates, and 3d model
textures.

It's been used on many feature films, including The Last Samurai where it was used to add flying arrows. It's also being used by pro photographers who need greater color fidelity than is available in other tools.

CinePaint is fundamentally different from other painting tools because it handles high fidelity image formats such as Kodak Cineon, SMPTE DPX, and ILM-NVIDIA OpenEXR. To do that properly requires a 32-bit per channel color engine core so that data isn't crushed into 8-bit color channels.

The CinePaint core is 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit as needed. It's different from GraphicsMagick which also supports different color depths but only as a compile-time switch. (GraphicsMagick has better support for film industry file formats than ImageMagick.)


What's New in This Release:

· FIXED: Programs wouldn't launch due to issues with redist dll files
· FIXED: Programs would crash on dual-head display due to bug in FLTK 1.1.7
· Better diagnostic messages in CinePaint console window

Photo Finale
Photo Finale lets you easily organize, edit, share, print, archive photos

Photo Finale is an easy-to-use application that helps you quickly locate and organize photos.

With the introduction of library and calendar views, photos are automatically organized into days, months and years on your calendar.

Organizing and finding your photos is a snap. From Auto-Find Photo Wizard locating photos on your computer to defining your search criteria by one or multiple items. Look by name such as "Cancun Trip" or "Jeff and Julie's Wedding" or refine your search by using 14 other definitions inclduing date, ratings, camera info, size, category, catpion and others. Photo Finale can help locate, organize and view better and faster than
any other software.

View photos using our quick-view high resolution thumbnails or full detail display. View hundreds of photos at once or just a few and organize by date, events, places or people allowing you to view photos by month and year.

Have fun making your photos look good. Photo Finale is easy to use while still offering all of the essential tools to edit and enhance your photos.
One click corrects a photo's color, contrast, and sharpness, one more click to remove red eyes in one or multiple photos.

More experienced users still have the ability to manually adjust photos, or access advanced features like editing multiple photos at a time.

A great way to share photos with family and friends. Photo Finale® makes it easy without knowing anything about web pages to put photo albums directly from your desktop into your own home page of photo albums. You can manage each album with simple yet powerful features such as:
· Access control - Who gets to see each album
· Access control - Public or private Albums with password
· Community - Auotmatic photo album home page creation
· Community - Allow rating of photos and posting of comments
· Share the fun - See an online slideshow of the album
· Share the fun - Use photo finale® to update & share albums

Pick your print template, scrapbook page, magazine cover, greeting card or tons of other built in templates then pick your photos, make them exactly as you want and print. Or make it even easy and order professional quality prints online.

Requirements:

· Microsoft Windows XP SP2
· 1+ GHz processor speed
· 256 MB of RAM
· 100 MB of available hard disk space
· 8 MB of Video RAM
· 800x600 Screen Resolution (1024x768 recommended)
· Internet access required for ordering, web sharing
· Internet Explorer 5.01 or later


Limitations:

· 15 day trial


What's New in This Release:

· Organizing, online ordering, online album sharing and archival, multi photo editing

Saint Paint Studio
Saint Paint Studio is a powerful paint package that was designed to be the essential base tool for editing photos

Saint Paint Studio is a powerful paint package that was designed to be the essential base tool for editing photos, Web graphics, icons, images, and animations. Developed initially for use in the games industry, it comes with the most vital tools (often neglected by more expensive paint packages) needed by professional artists, designers, and programmers.

Whether you are a newbie or a professional, you'll be amazed how you managed without it. Supporting GIF and JPG formats (and many more besides), it is the perfect package for designing web graphics.

Saint Paint Studio is also fantastic for photo editing, with many tools including a tool for eliminating red-eye, image sharpening, and full support for printing out images. Its versatility makes it the essential graphics tool, whatever your needs are.

Even if you already have a much more expensive paint package you'll find Saint Paint Studio to be invaluable. Developed for use in the games industry by artists and programmers
, it has all you need for everyday use, and will establish itself as your only essential paint package.

It's also extremely well suited to making fun, doctored photos. Many file formats are supported, including GIF, JPEG, BMP, ICO, TGA, and AVI.

Here are some key features of "Saint Paint Studio":

· Full support for every combination of colour depth conversion between True Colour/256 colour/16 colour/Monochrome colour images, including 2 dithering options.
· Complete animation system, with GIF and basic AVI support, including mixed colour depth images and mixed image sizes. Also with a full set of animation playback controls.
· A fully featured layer and alpha channel editor.
· An image file browser with adjustable viewing grid and an integrated set of file handling functions - find, rename, copy, delete, undo.
· Square or free hand brush grabs (selecting part of an image to use as a brush to paint with) and a comprehensive set of tools for manipulating them, including rotation (through any angle), resizing (with a bi-linear interpolation option), flipping, colour palette swapping, loading and saving, pasting as a newly created image, pasting with anti-aliasing. Also you can deform the brush image into almost any shape you like. This can be used to create a variety of interesting effects including perspective.
· Single image or animated brush grabs with a variety of pasting options.
· Image processing tools including conversion to negative image, conversion to black & white, brightness (including automatic brightness correction), hue control (colour tinting), contrast, gamma correction, image sharpening, image de-speckling, image blurring/softening/smoothing, image simplification (oil painting effect), a red-eye filter for eliminating red-eye from photographs, image resizing/cropping/stretching/shrinking functions (with the option of bi-linear interpolation) and image flipping.
· Effects include smoothing/blurring, translucency and brush paste fades.
· Quick Image duplication. Image copying and pasting via the Windows Clipboard, therefore incorporating screen capture functionality.
· A full range of painting tools including lines, simple geometry, spray can, text, curves, square and freehand brushes.
· A 256 colour palette remapping and swapping utility, including batch processing. Also batch processing into different file formats etc can be acheived by using the animation system as a simple image buffer.
· A host of palette manipulation tools, including loading and saving palettes, colour spreads, swapping, copying and excluding (a palettised image can be forced into any set of selected colours).
· A symmetry tool that allows easy production of cyclic or tiled patterns (very useful for website wallpaper). Full support for printing.
· Full help documentation system.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial

Ulead Gif Animator description
Ulead Gif Animator is a professional, easy to use GIF animator

Ulead GIF Animator is the only program you need to create great looking animations.

Ulead GIF Animator provides you with all the necessary tools whether you are creating animations for the Web, multimedia files, presentations or simply just want to impress your friends.

Ulead
GIF Animator now allows you to work in True Color, giving you more enhancement tools and flexibility to work with when creating your animated masterpieces.

Here are some key features of "Ulead Gif Animator":

· Intuitive Interface
· Capture
· Dynamic Effects
· Powerful Optimization
· Flexible Output

Requirements:

· Intel® Pentium® compatible processors
· Microsoft® Windows® 98, NT 4.0 SP5 or higher, 2000, Me and XP
· 64MB of RAM
· 20MB of available hard drive space
· CD-ROM drive
· True Color or HiColor display adapter and monitor
· Windows® compatible pointing device

Limitations:

· This trial version will only work for 15 days.

ArtRage
Free painting software, that lets you draw on virtual canvas, using virtual drawing tools and produce a realistic painting

ArtRage is a painting package created to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools.

You can run ArtRage on a normal Windows machine with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet.

Even better, running ArtRage on a TabletPC takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.

ArtRage is all about playing with paint without the mess, and having fun in the
process. You can paint your own image from a blank canvas to completed work, or load in a picture to trace and have the tools pick their colours for you as you paint over it.

It provides several drawing tools, including chalk, crayon, felt pen, pencil and oil paint, as well as a virtual palette knife and different canvas style to choose from.

It even comes with a virtual water glass to dip your paint brush... and can even load an image of your choice as use it as virtual trace paper for your painting.

The interface is nicely designed and provides maximum work space while keeping all tools and option easily accessible. You can use ArtRage with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet, or even a TabletPC.

The paintings can be saved or exported to JPG, BMP, PNG format.

Google SketchUp
An easy-to-learn 3D modeling program

Google SketchUp is an easy to use application that willl help you learn to create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships.

You can add details, textures and glass to your models, design with dimensional accuracy, and place your finished models in Google Earth, share them with others by posting them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies. Google SketchUp (free) is a great way to discover if 3D modeling is right for you.

SketchUp (free ) includes these tools:

· Drawing and modifying geometry: Polygon, FollowMe, Offset, and Intersect with Model.
· Construction: Dimension, Tape Measure, Protractor, Section Slice, Layers, Area & Length Calculation

Using SketchUp (free ), you can:

· Draw, modify, measure, rotate, and scale geometry.
· Place section slices to view and work on model interiors.
· Add pre-made textures to your models, or create new ones.
· Add pre-made components like trees, cars, doors and
windows, and people to your models, or create new components.
· Soften and smooth faces.
· Cast real-time shadows for any location on earth.
· Simulate movie camera placements.
· Perform walk-throughs.
· Create presentation tours.
· Import 2D images (.jpg, .png, .tif, .tga, .bmp) and 3D models (.3ds, .dem, .ddf, .dwg, .dxf, .skp).
· Export your models to Google Earth.
· Export 2D images of your models (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .tif).
· Print your models.
· Create add-on programs using the Ruby programming language.


SketchUp is the 3D modeling tool for design professionals
The professional version of SketchUp empowers design professionals to explore and communicate complex design concepts.

SketchUp users have the ability to:

· Export models in 3DS, DWG, DXF, OBJ, XSI, VRML, and FBX file formats.
· Export animations and walkthroughs as MOV or AVI files.
· Use organic modeling (Sandbox) and Film & Stage (pre-viz) tools.
· Import and export GIS data.
· Print and export raster images at higher-than-screen resolution.
· Receive free email technical support for two years after purchase.
· Use the software for commercial purposes (the free version is approved for personal use only).


Requirements:

· 600 MHz Pentium III processor
· 128 MB RAM
· 80 MB of available hard-disk space
· Video card that is 100% OpenGL compliant
· Windows compatible pointing device
· Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
· Windows Media Player or QuickTime 5.0 and web browser for multimedia tutorial.


Limitations:

· Google SketchUp is free for personal use.
· No registration is required.

Ulead PhotoImpact
Ulead PhotoImpact gives Web designers all the tools needed to design and optimize images, animation and interactive graphics

PhotoImpact will take you every step of the way from transferring and organizing pictures to enhancing and sharing images.

Equip yourself with the same tools and techniques professionals use to make photos come alive.
PhotoImpact makes it easy to get creative.

Create eye- catching logos and other graphics with advanced text and 3D features. Or produce original works of art with a full set of painting and drawing tools.

PhotoImpact sets the standard for high quality, bandwidth-efficient Web graphics and animation - even complete Web pages. And now with JavaScript slideshows, you have more ways to share your photos on the Web.

All in all, PhotoImpact provides an unparalleled blend of flexibility and ease of use, making it the best value photo editor for Windows.

Limitations:

· Limited to 30 days.

PhotoWatermark Professional
PhotoWatermark Professional - apply text and graphic watermarks to multiple images in batch

PhotoWatermark Professional is the most powerful digital photo watermarking tool that combines simplicity and efficiency and simplifies the process of creating and applying watermark to multiple files.

PhotoWatermark it uses a mixture of text, graphic and drawing watermark of any complexity. Various fill styles alow you to create good looking text and shape objects.

PhotoWatermark Professional is a program that will apply text and graphic watermarks to pictures.

The automatic objects can extract various EXIF data from your images. The multi-level transparency settings allow you to choose how your watermark objects will affect your pictures.

PhotoWatermark supports JPEG, TIFF (inc. multi-image TIFF), BMP, GIF (inc. animated gif), PNG and JPEG2000.

The built-in
watermark manager helps you manage multiple watermark files and easily switch.

Its batch features include combinations of watermarking, converting, resizing, renaming, cropping, rotating, fine-tuning and printing.

A built-in FTP client lets you upload and download your photos directly to and from your server. A 4-step watermark wizard will help your start.

Here are some key features of "PhotoWatermark Professional":

· Recursive batch processing while keeping your source categories
· Mixing all kinds of watermark objects of any complexity on one watermark
· Automatically sizes individual watermarks according to the size your image
· Any text can have outline, soft shadow, 3D shadow, emboss, engrave, gradient or texture fill.
· Supports drawing objects of line, box, ellipse and polygone which can have gradient or texture fill.
· Manages multiple watermark files and switches instantly.
· Supports watermarking photos with any common EXIF or IPTC entries.
· Supports watermarking pictures with age of anything.
· Supports format string in date time object, age object, file info object, renaming template and more.
· Supports scalable vector watermarks
· Supports symbols (e.g. ©®) in all languages.


Limitations:

· The demo version is full-functional without time limit. Therefore, if you have previouly tried it, you can try every new version. However, a demo watermark object will appear on your watermarked image.


What's New in This Release:

· New: inner glow property.
· New: inner shadow amount is adjustable.
· New: TIFF color depth support.
· New: bold and maroon color drop down menus to reflect their status.
· New: save as dialog automatically reflects output format.
· Refined rendering algorithms.
· Refined watermark size calculation algorithms.
· Bug: text is better fitting the box.
· Bug: the more color button is unicode compatible now

Image Constructor
Image Construct - Helps you to create pictures!

Image Constructor will help you to create pictures in form of texts and small images over some background with picture or gradient fill and import them to graphical files.

With Image Constructor you can:

* create illustrations as some set of small images with texts;
* move and edit objects in your pictures;
* use your own set of basic images;
* import your pictures to BMP, JPEG and GIF files or clipboard.

Areas where you can apply
Image Constructor:
· making graphics for Web pages;
· presentation materials;
· structural schemas and diagrams;
· flow-charts;
· beautiful pictures for somebody heart and soul.

Here are some key features of "Image Constructor":

· loads background pictures for your illustrations from BMP, JPEG, GIF, WMF, ICO, PCX and PSD- files;
· creates background pictures using color or gradient fill;
· edits parameters of your illustration: size and background;
· adds objects from a set of basic objects and image collections;
· adds objects from BMP, JPEG, GIF, WMF, ICO, PCX and PSD- files;
· adds object as a text line;
· adds object as a coordinate axis;
· makes clipboard operations: copy, cut, insertion both separate objects and whole group of objects simultaneously;
· edits, deletes, duplicates, rotates, aligns, changes sizes and position of object (group of objects) on background picture;
· copies created image to clipboad in BMP- format;
· saves created images to IMG- files;
· exports illustrations to BMP, JPEG or GIF- files;
· supports localization tools for different languages.


Limitations:

· nag- screen;
· restriction on quantity of objects on image (up to 10 objects);
· text "demo".


What's New in This Release:

· Feature added: alignment palette for object arrangement.
· Improvement: selection of overlapped objects by Ctrl+Tab.
· Improvement: dialogs for "text image" and "axis image" Keep object parameters.
· Improvement: "text image" has new parameter Autosize.
· Improvement: associate file extension IMG with Image Constructor

ConceptDraw
A software application designed for professional flowcharting, diagramming and illustrating

ConceptDraw VI is designed for professional flowcharting, diagramming and illustrating. Its flexible, handy tools help business and technical users quickly document complex structures, systems and processes.

ConceptDraw VI charts can be shared as a variety of graphics files and CAD documents, printed pages, presentations and web pages. Owing to the advanced libraries of pre-drawn shapes, ConceptDraw VI is perfect for most of the charting tasks.

ConceptDraw VI is cross-platform software with powerful drawing capabilities, extensive libraries of shapes and advanced data exchange features.

ConceptDraw can be used for drawing nearly all kinds of business and technical diagrams and enables users to exchange documents with many popular applications, including MS PowerPoint, MS Visio, CAD applications. Powerful Drawing Tools - ConceptDraw offers a set of vector drawing tool that can rival a professional illustration program.

Smart Connectors - stay connected to their shapes, every time you moved them and can flow around shapes on their way. Flexible Interface - New exciting look and feel, customizable toolbars and floating
dialogs let access main tools and settings quickly and easily. Cross-Platform Compatibility - ConceptDraw VI works on both Windows and Macintosh computers.

ConceptDraw is a software that allows you to draw illustrations.

Libraries & Wizards - ConceptDraw VI comes with dozens of ready to use shapes to help you create a number of different types of diagrams. For more productive work, a number of task-based Wizards will guide you through the basic stages of creating documents.

MS Visio Support - ConceptDraw VI supports XML for Visio, allowing you to exchange documents with MS Visio users. Import & Export - ConceptDraw VI imports and exports files to a large number of raster, vector, multimedia and text formats, making it easy to exchange data with other applications.

Apart from most popular graphic formats, it supports AutoCAD DXF files, allows to create and edit MS PowerPoint files, export documents to PDF and HTML. Intelligent Shapes - ConceptDraw shapes are highly customizable.

You can assign custom properties to them, add user-defined context menus, create links to other shapes, files or programs. Database Connectivity - ConceptDraw VI features ability to connect to any ODBC compliant database and visualize its data. Built-In Scripting Language - ConceptDraw Basic provides developers with powerful means of building customized solutions.

Here are some key features of "ConceptDraw":

· Vector Drawing Tools
· Smart Connectors
· Unlimited number of layers
· Libraries and cliparts: Network Diagram, Office Layout, Org Chart, Business
· Diagram, Flowchart, Software Chart, Floor Plan, Landscape Design
· Powerful text tools
· Customizable toolbar and floating dialogs
· Texture Fill
· Alpha-channel (transparency)
· Droptool
· Custom Properties
· Intelligent Shapes
· Built-In Scripting Language
· Measuring units selection
· Import and export files to a large number of raster, vector, multimedia and text formats
· Export to PDF
· Cross platform compatibility


Requirements:

· Pentium III 700 MHz or higher processor
· 256 MB RAM
· 500 MB HDD


Limitations:

· 30 days trial


What's New in This Release:

· Possibility to import/export MS Visio xml files.
· The Table View interface is now available.
· Support of documents of ConceptDraw 1.x format is released.
· Highlight of connect-points when connector moves to the object.
· The possibility to apply a semitransparency to the png.

FaceGen Modeller
FaceGen Modeller - create realistic human faces in 3D, at random or from your own photos.

FaceGen Modeller is a great program that lets you create realistic human faces in 3D, at random or from your own photos.

With FaceGen Modeller you can edit faces with 150 controls including age, race and gender. Apply animation morphs for expressions and phonemes.

FaceGen Modeller lets you export your work to various 3D file formats.

Here are some key features of "FaceGen Modeller ":

· Instant, realistic face creation:

Generate realistic faces at random for any race, gender and adult age group.
Easily create faces from one or more photographs.
Over 50 symmetric and 25 asymmetric shape controls.
Over 30 coloring (texture) controls.
Quickly shape faces to match almost any adult human face.
Apply detailed skin textures.

· Flexible import options:

Match faces to your photographs.
Bring in your own head mesh and hairstyle models using the FaceGen Customizer.
Import your own texture images onto any object.

· Flexible export options:

Apply your face to any of our hi-res, med-res and lo-res meshes.
Or apply your face to your own mesh and UV layout using the FaceGen Customizer.
Save your faces in the FaceGen FG format and apply them later to any mesh.
Export models to 3DS, Maya ASCII (ma), Lightwave 6 (LWO), OBJ, XSI, VRML1 and VRML97.
Export texture maps to BMP, JPEG, TGA and TIFF.
Transform the coordinate system of your exports.

· Instant Animatability:
Comes with 36 expressions, phonemes and modifiers.
Blendshapes appear automatically in Maya.
Endomorphs appear automatically in Lightwave and are easily hooked up in MotionBuilder or any other application that reads LWO files.
Morph targets appear automatically in Softimage 3D and XSI.
Morph targets are batch exported in a single command for users of Max (via OBJ or 3DS), and for any other application that reads OBJ, 3DS or VRML1/97.
Animation morphs are mesh-specific and are not included with some of the add-on meshes.


Requirements:

· Pentium III (or Athlon) or higher is recommended.


Limitations:

· the demo version cannot save or export

ArcSoft PhotoStudio
ArcSoft PhotoStudio is a powerful photo editing application featuring an array of advanced tools, filters and special effects

ArcSoft PhotoStudio is a powerful photo editing application featuring an array of advanced tools, filters and special effects inside a very friendly user interface. Beginners will appreciate the straight-forward design, while advanced users will love the performance and control. The program includes everything one needs to manage, enhance, print, and get creative with digital photos.

One-click Fixes
Removing red-eye and improving a photo’s overall quality doesn’t require a steady hand or expert knowledge in graphic design. The Auto Enhance and Auto Red-eye Removal tools make it easy for you to touch-up and brighten photos with a single mouse click.

All-at-once Enhancing
Use the custom macro and batch processing features to process hundreds of photos in a single action. A single click and all your photos are
brightened, rotated, or resized. You choose how they’re edited.

Layer Support
You may not be a professional artist, but your friends and family may think otherwise when they see what layering does for the quality and originality of your photo projects. Stack multiple images and text layers one atop another to create awesome photo blends and designs.

Photo Cloning
The fun Clone tool makes it easy to paint over smudges, tears, and other photo blemishes. You can even duplicate objects within a single photo, or clone them to a different one! Move a friend from one pic to another!

Photo Browser
PhotoStudio’s unique Photo Browser gives you quick access to the images on your computer and includes powerful tools for searching, index printing, file sorting, and batch processing.

Simple Selection
The Magnetic Lasso and Magic Cut tools make it easy for you to separate objects and people from their surroundings. Forget about manually drawing around an object with your mouse. We’ll take care of it!

99 Levels of Undo
Make a big mistake? No problem. Multiple Undo/Redo commands (up to 99 levels!) enable you to "step back in time" to restore your image to its former (better) self.

3-D Text
Add amazing 3-dimensional titles to your photos, presentations, and slides, or export motion 3-D text for use on Web pages and in your digital home movies. You can even export each of your 3D text creations as animated graphics.

Over 40 Special Effects
Including: Oil Painting, Watercolor, Charcoal, Wet brush, Pastel, Impressionistic, Neon Edges, Bulge, Pinch, Stretch, Magic Mirror, Mosaic, Splash, Texture, Cool, Moonlight, Solarization, Exposure, Wind, Frost, and more.

Photo Printing
In addition to single image printing, PhotoStudio includes tools for making index prints of the contents of a photo album or folder.

Universal File Format Support
Save your photo projects as both layered files (PSF) for future editing and as flattened image files for printing and sharing with friends. You can also save in a variety of common image file formats.

Here are some key features of "ArcSoft PhotoStudio":

· Scan & crop several photos in seconds
· Remove red-eye automatically
· Create animated 3D text
· Layer photo elements for dramatic effect
· Fast and easy photo browsing


Limitations:

· 15 days trial

Canvas 11 is the single most cost-effective, integrated solution for the creation, enhancement, presentation and sharing of technical illustrations and graphics.
 

If you work with technical illustrations and graphics, you know how daunting the task can be when a project requires various documents, images, and data – even legacy files from obscure formats or obsolete products. Canvas 11 is your cost-effective integrated solution that lets you work with reliability, accuracy, and flexibility..

Directly import from over 100 standard file formats (including PDF, DXF, and DWG) and use Canvas’ many tools and features to create stunning illustrations, graphics, and presentations that can be shared in a variety of formats.
Create with confidence

Technical illustrations require accuracy and micron-level precision from concept to finish. Canvas’ flexible environment lets you draw in any scale, define custom units of measurement, as well as grids and rulers. Add dimensioning objects that conform to industry standards, including ANSI, DIN, and JIS, or create custom settings for a specific project.
Import, view and save projects in 100+ file formats

Why work within limits when you don’t have to? From DWG, RAW DICOM to Kodak FlashPix, Canvas can open, numerous file formats so you can edit, apply effects, and export to another format. With the Canvas Print Driver (Windows XP only), ”print” almost any document – no matter the complexity – into Canvas for further enhancement and export.
Apply filters to images, text, and vector objects

With Canvas’ proprietary Sprite technology, illustrations, text, and graphics can be enhanced with both image and transparency effects without affecting the original object. This technology offers you extreme flexibility for creative art, technical illustration, and graphics production. Channel and vector masks, as well as gradient transparency tools are all on hand for stunning visuals.
Share your projects and ideas while ensuring security

At any point in the design process, you can save your Canvas documents or export as PDF, both with secure encryption and password protection. Canvas truly puts you in control of your design content by letting you decide who opens, edits, or prints your files.
Work with CGM files and study seismic data

Canvas boasts a CGM engine that is compliant with both the Aviation Transportation Authority (ATA) and Petroleum Industry Protocol (PIP) standards and offers the highest level of fidelity of the vital CGM data. The Canvas™ 11 CGM engine offers the highest level of vital CGM data fidelity and is compliant with Aviation Transportation standards (ATA). Geologists and earth scientists can import seismic data and study it with the integrated Seismic Traces palette.
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The Canvas™ Assistant allows you to receive real-time help and information at any time, saving you from expensive training costs. What are you waiting for? Get started today!
Make the most of your data

Specialized imaging instrumentation within the medical and other related scientific industries often creates DICOM image files that contain 16 bits of data per grayscale channel. Canvas 11 offers DICOM and RAW import options that target the need to study, enhance, and apply visualization effects to specialized information.
Leverage advanced visualization features

A number of highly specialized filters enable users to visually enhance an image according to user-defined parameters thereby allowing users to see things that would otherwise be invisible to the naked eye.
Analyze with precision

To understand the results of a research or medical imaging project the vast amount of numerical data within each pixel must be accurately selected, gathered, viewed, and analyzed from within a precise environment. Direct access to numeric data makes the most advanced analysis tasks easy and accurate.

LightZone
LightZone offers a unique visual approach that focuses on what you want to do with your photos
 

LightZone offers a unique visual approach that focuses on what you want to do with your photos.

LightZone allows you to work at a higher level and focus on being creative rather than having to struggle with things like pixels, curves and histograms. Our photographic approach allows you to become proficient at image editing in a matter of hours. Use your intuition as a photographer rather than having to spend years reading books and attending courses.

LightZone, our classic all-in-one application, has its own integrated image browser and raw converter allowing you to use one application for your entire workflow.

The Photo Browser allows you to navigate among the folders on your computer.

For a given folder, the main view shows you thumbnails of all the photos in that folder. You also see all the image metadata for a selected photo.

Connecting the dots
LightZone is the only photo-editor where every operation is a smart operation.
No more tweaking of confusing histograms, no more guess-work; a single slider in LightZone can adjust any of the 16 exposure values in an image: individually, grouped or selectively.

Built-in intelligence
Safely experiment with change in exposures without
changing color or vice versa. Instantly create High Dynamic Range images, without the need to take multiple exposures. All operations are performed in a 16-bit dynamic range for maximum editing flexibility.

Unlimited layers
An unlimited tool stack allows for unlimited edits to the photograph, in which the hierarchy determines in what order these edits are performed. Edit instructions are stored as non destructive operational layers (rather than pixel layers). Individual edit operations can be sequenced differently and turned on or off.

Powerful selections and mask
While many accurate adjustments can be made with tools without selections because of LightZone's advanced image analysis technology, sometimes a specific region requires more attention or isolation.

LightZone's live-regions with feathering can be changed in shape, or moved even after the edit is applied. Regions are linked to individual tools, allowing for very detailed editing operations.

Here are some key features of "LightZone":

Instant Styles:
· High Dynamic Range
· High Dynamic Range sunset
· Black and White Toning
· Blue filter Black and White
· Contrast and Pop
· InfraRed Look
· Lomo Look
· Palladium Toning
· Sepia
· Wow
· Soft Wow
· Page Soft Wow
· Shadows opener
· Alien InfraRed
· Style creation
· Import and Export Styles

Intelligent Tools:
· Relight tool
· Colorized Black and White
· Hue/saturation
· Noise reduction
· Modify live RAW adjustments
· Selections and Masks
· White Balance
· ZoneMapper
· Sharpen
· Blur
· Color Balance
· Clone and stamp
· Red-eye removal

Powerful Workflow:
· Embedded edit tool-stack in JPEG
· Selective edit history
· Metadata editor & preference
· Lift and batch-apply Styles
· Image stack and unstack
· Smart select
· Send and preference
· Help and advice
· Convert
· Drag-and-drop
· Photo browser
· Batch processing
· New camera RAW support
· Rank and sort
· Soft Proof
· Printing with automatic resize
· RAW selective editing
· Lightroom integration
· iPhoto integration
· Aperture integration


Requirements:

· Pentium or AMD CPU w/SSE2
· 1 GB RAM (2 GB recommended)


Limitations:

· 30 days trial.


What's New in This Release:

· LightZone BASIC support - including "lite" access to the LightZone Digital Asset Manager
· New built-in Polarization Style, emulates a polarization filter
· Added support for Nikon D40X RAW
· Added support for Kodak P712 RAW
· Added support for Samsung GX10 RAW
· Improved
· Performance
· Improved Nikon D40 RAW support
· Improved Sony R1 RAW support
· Improved Fuji S5 RAW support
· Bug fixes:
· Fixed license key issues
· Fixed certain memory & thread leaks
· Fixed rotation on Olympus 8080 RAW
· Nikon D1X JPEG issues..

GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program
 

The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as image composition, photo retouching and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. 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.

Here
are some key features of "Gimp":


Painting

· Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone,
etc.
· Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
· Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
· Supports custom brushes and patterns

System

· Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by
available disk space
· Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

Advanced Manipulation

· Full alpha channel support
· Layers and channels
· Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
· Editable text layers
· Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
· Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
· Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
· Transformable paths, transformable selections.
· Quickmask to paint a selection.

Extensible

· A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from
external programs as in Script-fu
· Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
· Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new
effect filters
· Over 100 plug-ins already available

Animation

· Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
· MNG support
· Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
· Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
· Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

File Handling

· File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps,
psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
· Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
· SVG path import/export


What's New in This Release:

· Further improvement to the Print plug-in
· Completed the color management functionality for 2.4
· Store JPEG setting with the image and use them when saving as JPEG
· Further improved the rectangle tools, in particular handling of the fixed aspect ratio
· Added color profile selector widget
· Further improved the display quality for zoomed-out views...

PhotoFiltre
A complete image retouching program
PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program.
 

PhotoFiltre allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it.

PhotoFiltre is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives PhotoFiltre a robust look.

PhotoFiltre is an image editor and effects package.

PhotoFiltre comes with many features
that rival some commercial packages, as well as additional add-on that can be downloaded from the web site.

PhotoFiltre offers all the standard editing features (selection, clone brush, paint brush etc.) as well as a large selection of image effects, photo masks, image adjustments, thumbnail browser and much more.

PhotoFiltre also supports batch processing to apply filters, sizing, adjustments and transformations to a large number of images at once.

Its wide range of filters allows novice users to familiarize themselves with the world of graphics. You can find the standard adjustment functions (Brightness, contrast, dyed, saturation, gamma correction) and also artistic filters (watercolor, pastels, Indian ink, pointillism, puzzle effect).

There are more than 100 filters to be discovered!

Limitations:

· 30 days trial


What's New in This Release:

· Show EXIF base information for the format Raw (menu File > Image properties)
· Improvement of the filter Gradient (more directions)
· Improvement of the Copyright module (vertical center display)
· New deformation Ellipse
· All transformations (rotation, distort, ...) use a bicubic interpolation
· Improvement of the Deformation brush tool (more precise)
· Deformation tools have a real time preview
· The functions Offset, Replace color, Replace color range, Indexed colors, Stroke and fill and Custom filter have a direct preview option
· The Transparent color button is active for layers (contextuel)
· Supports DNG format
· Drawin tools can use true size cursors
· Improvement of the filter Emboss (dialog box)
· Improvement of the Clone stamp tool (clone from other image or layer)
· The texture module can load external texture files
· New Perspective correction module
· New Horizon correction module
· Improvement of the filter Radial blur
· Improvement of the filter Motion blur (dialog box)
·