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Analysis of free graphical software

Name	Location	Description of features
3D GIF Designer	PYsoft Freeware	Tool for creating animated GIF and AVI files. You can create animations from your own pictures (JPG, GIF, BMP, AVI) and easily add 3D text and shapes. You can add unlimited number of 3D text strings with own color, font, size, extrusion, texture, rotation and lightening. For quickly getting started, design own animation from over 50 professional templates (banners, buttons, logos), and then save as animated GIF or AVI movies, or as set of JPEG or BMP files. The files have optimized size that are 90 percent smaller than nonoptimized.In addition, 3D GIF Designer allows you to animate sprites with several effects such as Swing, Rotate, Blink and Animated Colouring.There are no fees and royalty-free for you to publish your animations.
Buttons & Tilez	Björn Ischo Freeware	Software package for web authors. Buttonz! renders buttons of various size and shape. Offers a wide range of button shapes and effects, as well as the batch rendering of several similar buttons with different captions. The button faces can either be filled with a texture, an imported image or a gradient Tilez! generates seamless textures using a procedural approach. In Tilez! can choose more than 20 basic texture types, all of which can be modified to suit your needs. Additionaly, textures can be combined in layers to produce more complex ones. You can even import images to include them in a texture as a layer.
BWorks	Mediachance.com Freeware	Tool for editing digital photos using predefined filters/effects. Supports BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, PAX. No online help
CadStd Lite	Cadstd.com Freeware	Opens and exports DXF (AutoCAD) and HPGL Draw Arc, Line, Arrow, ...indicating coordinates or by clicking Supports layers, rotating, ..
CleanSkinFX	Mediachance.com Freeware	Tool editing digital photos using predefined effects (Enhance Pink, Double Clean) to affine the skin in photos. Supports BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF, WMF, PAX. No online help.
Formati	Jansfreeware.com Freeware	(Batch) graphics file converter supporting the bmp, wmf, emf, ico, bmp, tga, tif, gif, jpg and png format. Features: 34 effects including buttonize and seamless; Shape and Text tool; Twain scan; overlays; screen capture; smart resize; turn.
GIMP	GIMP.org	Full-featured graphics program that supports a variety of graphical file formats. Can extract channels out of an image, and can handle layers in an image.
HarmWave	Harm harmans@uswest.net Freeware	Graphics application that is used to design seamless 'Tiles' for use as Windows wallpaper or background as Web pages. It has many filters and effects, and can also be used for photo re-touching.
IrfanView	Irfan Skiljan Freeware	Compact, easy to use image viewer. More than that, you can also edit images directly in IrfanView, to produce a variety of effects. The perfect tool if you want to convert, resize etc.
JustCad	Justcad.com Freeware	Tool for creating CAD files. Negative aspects: Supports only his own file format (JCD) No online help No coordinates on the screen No graphical toolbox
Mosaicer	PAT or JK Freeware	Allows you to create mosaics (also known as photomosaics) out of the different pictures you have on your computer. A mosaic is a picture or pattern made by placing objects together. A photomosaic is a mosaic made up of photographs.
Movies Lite	Jansfreeware.com Freeware	Movies Lite is a freeware GIF Animator. It will produce an animated GIF-file from a series of ready made BMP, GIF or JPG images, or you can Create Frames within Movies. Both imported frames and frames created from scratch can be edited in the Frames Editor.
Novamatic	Fernando González del Cueto http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/8762/ Freeware	Tool to create graphic effects known as novas: globular, rays, supernova. Only for BMP.
Spiralizer	Armanisoft Freeware for non-commercial use	Software to create spirals based on a variety of parameters. Results can be saved as DXF (AutoCAD), UDO, INC (Moray / PovRay)
The Castle's SplitImage	TheCastle.com Freeware	Tool for dividing/splitting images in cells (columns and rows) so it can be used in a table with separate links. Supports JPEG, BMP, ICO, EMF, WMF, GIF
Terragen	Planetside Freeware	To create Worls, that are landscapes or water with clouds, atmosphere and lighting conditions of which you can get the camera view you want.
UltimatePaint	Megalux Version 1.x is freeware, from2.x onwards it is shareware.	Paint program to draw and edit graphics, with several additional built-in photo-processing functions and effects. It has a very flexible brush handling method which encourages creative drawing. You may also find it useful to touch existing drawings and photographs. All pictures are handled 24 bit (true color).
ZPaint	Steffen Gerlach Freeware	Tool for creating 3D-looking elements for websites and software interfaces. You have Shares and Surfaces to cretae the 3D effects.