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An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.

This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons.

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Porta turns an image directory into a neatly formatted web photo album. Besides being free its primary virtues are:

* It's fast,
* It's simple to use,
* It's lightweight,
* It produces clean and uncluttered web pages that
will load fast and look good in all modern browsers.

Features and program options include:

* Skins
* Multi-language album support
o Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norweigian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Turkish

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Reflet makes it possible to generate simply and quickly an animation simulating waves effects and lake reflection. It is very practical to animate logos, to decorate your web pages or quite simply to have fun. It can be used of course for images with water but you can widen the choice for the monuments, portraits or to create text animations.

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Absolute Color Picker - is free software for webmasters and web-designers. This is a simple application based on Absolute Color Picker ActiveX Control that lets you select and pick colors by means of various color models and convert them into HTML-based hexadecimal representation.

Being a great compact color designer it features a free color picker, color scheme generator, color history builder, color scheme management system, screen color grabber and much more. Absolute Color Picker is 100% compatible with most graphics packages and is the best compact choice for professional designers, freelancers and home users.

- History of selected colors – up to 12 slots to save the color in
- Screen eye-dropper – pick any color directly from screen

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“Silk” is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16-by-16 pixel icons in strokably-soft PNG format. Containing a large variety of icons, you're sure to find something that tickles your fancy. And all for a low low price of $0.00. You can't say fairer than that.

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Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Key Features

* Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow
* Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
* Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
* Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
* Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
* Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
* Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo

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This compact and easy-to-use graphics software enables even a computer novice to create funny caricatures or realistic images applying creative warping effects in a matter of minutes. Cartoonist has a simple, easy-to-grasp interface so that the user can easily and quickly operate the program. Cartoonist lets you watch the results of each operation in real time, allowing you to undo any operation at any time or jump to the original image, if you don't like the results.

So, with Cartoonist you can make the best use of your creativity or just relieve stress by warping images of your friends and celebrities!

Cartoonist allows you to:

* warp images in a simple and easy way
* load and save files in jpeg, bmp, png, gif and tiff formats

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Rig • Model • Shade • Particles • Animate • Render • Composite • Interact

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

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PhotoFiltre is 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. It 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.

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!

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Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. (See the full list of features.)

PictureClip enables the user to import an image into it and cut the image into individual picture files by the process of "drawing" lines on the application for the sections.

The application will import image formats of BMP, GIF, and JPG; and will export in either JPG or BMP format. For those that use this application for creating images for their web pages, PictureClip will now generate the HTML for them as well.

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Skix™ is a light and easy-to-use tool which... breaks pictures in pieces! It is a good solution for those who wish to save their photos from stealing from Web. Skix breaks the picture to small chunks, so 'Save Picture As...' button cannot be used to save the whole picture anymore.

Besides smashing the picture itself, SKIX also generates the corresponding HTML code, so the original HTML documents can be modified to use the smashed picture with ease.

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MediaPortal is an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC / TV into a very advanced Media Center. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch and store your videos and DVDs, view, schedule and record live TV as a digital video recorder and much much more.

You get MediaPortal as Open Source software. This means you can help in developing MediaPortal or tweak it for your own needs with lots of innovating plugins from our great community.

Zenphoto is an answer to lots of calls for an online gallery solution that just makes sense. After years of bloated software that does everything and your dishes, zenphoto just shows your photos, simply.

It’s got all the functionality and “features” you need, and nothing you don’t. Where the old guys put in a bunch of modules and junk, we put a lot of thought. We hope you agree with our philosophy: simpler is better. Don’t get us wrong though –zenphoto really does have everything you need for your online gallery, and you’ll even stare in awe at some of the innovative innovations we innovated upon.

Here are some of the wonderful things about it:

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WinMorph™ is a high performance morphing and warping software. Developed and distributed as a freeware, the focus is on providing both high speed and high quality
warping/morphing tools for both home users and amateur/professional video editors.
WinMorph can work in two modes - as a standalone application using which you can do image warping/morphing effects, and as a "Plug-in" with many video editors to leverage more functionality for video warping/morphing and other complex effects.

Currently supported video editors are Adobe® Premiere®, Vegas Video® and Wax™ (Wax, also from DebugMode, is available at http://www.debugmode.com/wax/).

-Intuitive shape-based morphing for both ease of use and high degree of freedom.

GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package. The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files.

Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden.

LiquidIcon XP is one of the most popular Icon Editors in the world. Best of all, it's completely FREE (no Adware, Spyware, Guaranteed), portable and lightweight, and works on every version of Windows!

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Tool for extracting icons or icon arrays from files (EXE, DLL, OCX, etc.) with ability to scan folders to search for EXE, DLL and OCX files, which contain icons.

Extracted icons can be saved (exported) to file - all or selected icon to ICO, BMP, JPEG, EMF files and all icons as one picture to BMP, JPEG or EMF file. There is an ability to extract and save all icons from all files in selected folder at a time. Also, all icons from the selected file can be exported to HTML document (.htm, .html) or dBase 5 file (.dbf). Saving high color icons (wich have more than 16 colors) is also possible. Export operations can be performed also via command line.

There is an ability to print extracted icons (all or selected only).

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The complete freeware DesignWorkshop Lite software package provides all you need to build your own 3D models for home design and visualization of architecture, landscapes, exhibits, or any kind of spatial design.

With DesignWorkshop Lite you can view and walk-through ready-made models of any size, like the free 3D building models in the Great Buildings Online, in DXF, DesignWorkshop, or 3DMF format, with amazing live 3D speed.

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IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.

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The Scott's Box Shot Maker program is a unique marketing tool and image-editing software that creates a virtual package for your product.

A box shot is a colorful image of the box in which your product would be packaged if it were on the shelf at a software store. Now you can use your company's existing logos and promotional images to create a virtual box with ease, whether you've actually developed packaging or not. Box shots are a key motivating factor in potential customers' perception of overall product quality and their willingness to download your product.

Foto2Avi is a freeware video/photo converter to avi/mpeg/flv. It is a video editor too with special effects like ...

Transitions (Flippage,Swirl...)
Basic Effects (Brightness/Noise/Fade in/Fade out)
Advanced Effects (Distort, Ripple)
Animations
Subtitles
Logos

Each effect is highly customizable.You have thousands of effects right out of the box! The only limit is your imagination...

Foto2Avi supports external audio formats [mp3/ogg/wav]
Foto2avi can trim audio video streams with millisecond precision so you can edit your sounds and synchronize them with your videos.

You can save your work as .f2a project files. Foto2Avi is easy to use. After just a couple of minutes using it, you will understand it and be able to produce your films ! Foto2Avi is fast if used correctly!

VAMP is an easy-to-use multimedia dashboard for all your creative needs.

-Organize your media
-Create image galleries
-Create playlists
-Share & Publish Photos
-Add Effects Add Effects
-Fix your photos
-Enhance images
-Design new creations
-Create Slides Create Slides
-Create a photo-show
-Send greetings & e-cards
-Build screen savers
-Make Clips Instantly

CadStd is a general purpose, easy to learn CAD/drafting program for creating professional quality mechanical designs, house plans, blueprints, schematics and charts utilizing ANSI drawing standards. The Lite version is free and can read any drawing created by the Pro version.

CadStd Lite can export files as DXF so you can share your drawings with friends who have other CAD programs like Autocad.