Free Graphics Editors
 
DDTitle
DDTitle is designed to facilitate creation of titles. You can enter any text with any TrueType font that is available in your system and apply any sequence of parametrized effects to it. The effects include color fill, contouring, chamfer (straight or rounded), radiation, shadow (with fuzzy or clear-cut edge). You can combine and repeat those effects, creating different images. The effects can be applied not only to the text but to any other graphical element, like a circle, a square, a vertical/horizontal line. DDTitle provides a high speed title generation even when several complex 3D-effects are used. (v1.0, 02/27/99, 887KB, FREE )
HarmWave
Create seamless tiles for use as Windows wallpaper or web page backgrounds. Can also create web buttons and banners, or be used for photo re-touching. Has many filters and effects. W95, W98, NT 4. Recommend True/High Color, Pentium, 32M, 800 x 600. (v1.3, 03/28/99, 305KB, FREE )
Imager
An image editor with many advanced capabilities like twain scanners support, so you can scan from any digital camera or scanner, many effects like emboss, etc... and many retouching capabilities, like brithnest, coloring in one color, etc... (v3.0b44, 01/25/99, 3200KB, FREE )
Movies 2
Movies is a GIF-Animator. You can create animated GIF-files from ready made BMP-files or from image frames created within Movies. FEATURES: drawing tools, free floating text tool, image scrolling and free rotation, frame duplication, re-arrange frames, image filters. NEW: 15 animation wizards. (v2, 04/07/99, 296KB, FREE )
Painter 17
Painter 17 Features: SCRIPT graphics language; FRAMES; TOOLS for Backdrops, Filters, Banners, Butttons, Cells, (3D-)Graphs, Fractals; GADGETS: free floating buttons, labels and images; IMAGE: seamless patterns, trace, emboss, mirror, flip, free rotation, whirl, scroll, drip, crop, wave, shadow, filter and mask ; FORMATS: jpg, (transparent-) gif,bmp,wmf,emf,ico; PRINT: with preview; DRAW: stars,polygons, mirrors, blocks,syms, spirals, arcs, curves, cubes, chords, pies, spirograph, maze, globe, concentric,anchored etc.; PATTERNS: create your own; TEXT: plain, shadowed and rotated; RANGE: color transitions, tiling,borders,move, smear etc; CAPTURE screen. NEW: JPEG optimizer; Clone Brushes; Oval Buttons; Effects Tool: Gaussian blur, Split blur, noise, contrast, saturation, brightness, grayscale. (v17, 04/23/99, 559KB, FREE )
RGB Editor 2.7
RGB Editor for Windows 95/NT is a small freeware utility useful for selecting and creating RGB colors for graphics projects. The values of the red, green and blue components are displayed and easily transfered to your source code files. Custom colors can be defined and saved for use in other projects. Custom color swatches can also be copied to the clipboard. (v2.7, 09/30/97, 97KB, FREE )
Seurat 3
Seurat is for painting your web graphics. You can create your own patterns for filling shapes and draw symmetrical shapes. Save your creations in bmp,gif or jpg format. Includes DrawTree for programmed drawing; Latour for jpeg optimizing and Imagine for image conversion; supported formats: bmp,gif,jpg,ico,wmf,emf. (v3, 10/28/98, 335KB, FREE )
SpiroDraw
The SpiroGraph(tm)-like graphics editor. The freeware version of SpiroDraw features: Drawing over 180 different shapes with the Spiro feature. Drawing over your existing picture files. Making great looking color gradients of different sizes. (v1.02, 04/01/98, 1979KB, FREE )
Ultimate Paint
A full-featured 32-bit Win95 graphics program for image creation, viewing, and manipulation. Paint with brushes, retouch and enhance photos using a comprehensive set of built-in tools and plug-ins. Its features include blurring, sharpening, resizing, rotating, text operations, scanner support, and support for some standard image file formats. Supports plug-in filters - includes help on how to create your own UP plug-ins. (v1.75, 08/18/98, 1180KB, FREE )
Visual Explorer
The program can capture information from a scanned image or import data from digital terrain files. After transformation into a 3D model the landscape can be viewed from any direction. A wide selection of different drawing schemes are available ranging from simple wire-frames to image overlays. Visual Explorer will be particularly useful for those who do not have access to expensive hardware and data as realistic models can be quickly obtained from a simple scanned image of a map. Import facilities are also available for ASCII files, US Geological Society DEMs,British Ordnance Survey DTM/NTF files, and general x,y,z,attribute data format which may be used to interface to GIS programs. Visual Explorer is a 16 bit program and requires only 4Mb RAM to run. The program can capture information from a scanned image or import data from digital terrain files. After transformation into a 3D model the landscape can be viewed from any direction. A wide selection of different drawing schemes are available ranging from simple wire-frames to image overlays. Import facilities are also available for ASCII files, US Geological Society DEMs, British Ordnance Survey DTM/NTF files, and general x,y,z,attribute data format which may be used to interface to GIS programs, for example Integrated Mapping produce a MapInfo PC extension that exports data in a suitable format for import into Visual Explorer. (v1.0, 06/03/98, 1800KB, FREE )