28 Excellent Free Mac Apps for Graphic and Web designer
As you know by now, I like lists. This blogger created quite a list of free Macintosh application for doing graphics and web design.
Of course several of these we have had on lists in the past. But he does provide a simple review of each and a link to the home page.
01 - GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
02 - Scribus, an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops.
03 - JAlbum, allows you to create nice-looking photo galleries for the Web.
04 - Paparazzi, a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages.
05 - Google SketchUp, powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software. We think of it as “the pencil of digital design”.
06 - Linotype Explorer, a great font management application for the Mac.
07 - FotoFlexer, the world’s most advanced online image editor. Completely free access to hundreds of fun and powerful features.
08 - Seashore, Free Mac Apps for Graphic and Web designers. Based on Gimp, but doesn’t require X11.
09 - Xee
10 - Lego Digital Designer, also known as LDD. With the free Digital Designer software you can build absolutely anything with virtual Lego bricks right on your computer.
11 - Colorate, a utility for creation of harmonized color palettes and color schemes, aimed from hobbyist to professional designers.
12 - Front End Digital Media WorkShop, harnesses the power of QuickTime to bring you powerful batch based conversion of sound, video, and image files.
14 - Autodesk Maya, Personal Learning Edition (PLE) is a special version of Autodesk Maya software, which provides free access to Maya for non-commercial use.
15 - Graphisoft ArchiCAD, delivers new and enriched capabilities designed to help architects develop their concepts, compete for business more effectively and boost business efficiency.
16 - Simple CSS, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a way to specify the styles of fonts and other page elements on your sites.
17 - Blender, the open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.
18 - HyperEngine-AV, a true multimedia editor that lets you combine seamlessly video, photos, sounds and text to create slide shows, family movies, business presentations, or your own feature films quickly and easily, with full DV quality.
19 - POV-Ray, a three-dimensional ray-tracing engine. It takes information you supply and simulates the way light interacts with the objects you’ve defined, creating stunning 3D pictures and animation
20 - Gnuplot, a portable command-line driven interactive data and function plotting utility for UNIX, IBM OS/2, MS Windows, DOS, Macintosh, VMS, Atari and many other platforms.
21 - DAZ Studio, a feature rich 3D figure posing and animation tool that enables users of any skill level to easily create stunning digital imagery. W
22 - Bryce, creates breathtaking realistic 3D landscapes and animations with DAZ 3D Bryce 5.5. The easy user interface simplifies the design process for a novice or the seasoned professional.
23 - Goldberg, a freeware image and movie viewer with image-editing capabilities and support for applying QuickTime and other effects and its new version affering rotation capabilities, free zooming, and undo support.
24 - Image Tricks, an image editing application that allows you to easily edit and apply various effects and filters to your photos and images.
25 - Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
26 - NIH Image, can acquire, display, edit, enhance, analyze, and animate images. It reads and writes TIFF, PICT, PICS, and MacPaint files, providing compatibility with many applications, including programs for scanning, processing, editing, publishing, and analyzing images.
Comipro Plus
27 - Comipro Plus is a cartoon production software. You can produce the cartoon work with the kind of feeling which compiles the document with the word processor as the material using the picture and the photograph.
28 - Scratch, designed for children, this freeware multimedia programming tool makes creating animated stories, video games and interactive artwork a snap.
See the complete article with links to the software here.
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