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IrfanView is a fast FREEWARE image viewer/converter for Win9x/NT
and Windows 2000.

Supported file formats:
AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, BMP/DIB, CAM (Casio), CLP, Dicom/ACR,
DJVU, EMF/WMF, EPS, FlashPix (FPX), G3, GIF, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM,
IMG (GEM), JPG/JPEG, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MOV, MP3, MPG/MPEG,
PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PNG, PSD, PSP, RAS/SUN, RealAudio (RA),
RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF (Flash/Shockwave), TGA, TIF/TIFF, WAV, WBMP,
XBM, XPM.

Support for Apple QuickTime: allows IrfanView to read following
formats: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC.

Microsoft Media Player PlugIn: allows IrfanView to read following
formats: ASF, AU/SND/AIF, AVI, DAT (VideoCD), MID/RMI, MOV, MP3,
MPG/MPEG, WAV, WMA, WMF, etc.

Some features of IrfanView:
Multi language support, Thumbnail option, preview option, slideshow,
drag & drop support, fast directory view (fast moving through directory),
batch conversion, email option, audio CD player, print option,
change color depth, scan support, cut/crop, effects (sharpen, blur,
Photoshop filter factory), capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLLs,
lossless JPG rotation, many hotkeys, many command line options ...

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer (worldwide) with Animated-GIF
support !

Zoner Draw 3

• Blends between objects were often requested by users of previous version. Using these, one can create, for example, soft shadows or other attractive effects.

• Anti-aliasing, that is, softening of objects' edges, will be especially useful when you create small images for publishing on the Internet.

• Internet artists using Zoner Draw also requested the option to export to bitmap while maintaining a transparent background. Zoner Draw 3 and the new version of Zoner Media Explorer allow for this.

• Overall, transparency can be used for some interesting "image magic." Zoner Draw 3 can also set several kinds of transparency profiles, so an object can be, for example, opaque on the left, and completely transparent on the right.

• Professional graphic artists will appreciate full support for "plug-in" bitmap filters under the Adobe specification. The best-known product which uses these modules in Adobe's Photoshop.

• Professionals will also welcome full OLE support. Zoner Draw 3 can now work as both an OLE client and as a server.

• Many professional graphic artists will be pleased to see export to PostScript. A related new feature is the option to show CMYK separations directly on-screen as well as the separations for inserted WMF files.

• Zoner Draw 2.01 already contained support for creating vector graphics and vector animations which can be displayed on Web pages. This is done through the new SGC format, and Zoner Draw was the first product in the world which was capable of placing graphics into this format. Version 3 goes even further, offering improved abilities in this area. Thanks to these features, Zoner Draw 3 received the Finalist Best of Show award at the CeBIT 98 exhibition in Hannover, Germany.

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Pixia

If you don't have PSP or the like, please give this a try.

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Graph Paper Printer←← CraftGrid is included.

Graph Paper Printer is designed to print out numerous variants
of graph papers , music manuscripts, pattern papers, and
tables with user-defined size and colors :
-Rectangular, polar, triangular, hexagonal, isometric and
axonometric diagrams
- Linear scales (metric, imperial, time, equal divisions,
customizable)
- Non linear scales (logarithmic, quadratic, probability,
square root, Weibull, logit)
- Paper with dots
- Tables with mouse-adjustable width of columns
- Music manuscripts, paper for percussion notation, tablatures
- Mercator grids
- Pattern papers (brickwork, losanges, ellipses, hexagons,
octogons, triangles)
- Line papers for handwriting.
- Ellipses.

Graph Paper Printer is an application of interestfor a wide range of users :
- School (from the elementary level to university)
- Scientific work (laboratory, engineering...)
- Hobbyists (modelism, needlework...)
- Music composers
- Navigators
- Roleplaying gamers
- Designers in any fields.

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Go get 'em...

HotPixels - FilterSIM - ColorCast FX
ClearSkin FX - B/Works - DCEnhance - RGBLights

NOTE: You don't need a camera to use these programs.

Hot pixels is a known problem of all CCD cameras during long exposures (1s and up). A hot pixel is created by an element with a higher rate of charge leakage than its neighbors. On long exposure the leakage may cross the exposed value treshold thus producing a white dot on the image. HotPixels, the program removes such noise with preserving details.

FilterSIM: Simulate the ussage of Kodak Wratten filters on your digital images.
Warm or cool your scene. Learn when to use Color Correction filter, how to raise or lower a color temperature of the lightand much more...

ColorCast FX: Many Digital cameras don't reproduce the nature colors.
The grass is dark, almost balck instead of green, the houses have some blue cast...
ColorCastFX changes the colors to match original and create perfectly balanced image.

CleanSkinFX is the most powerful automatic retouch for portraits.
It smoothes the skin of the object while preserving all the details
and crispness of hair, eyes or background. This procedure was exclusively
developed by mediachance.com and it can't be found anywhere else.

B/Works: Crate interesting B/W images from your digital cameras. Uses many different procedures to enhance skies. Create Sepia look or Doutones.

DCEnhance: Digital Camera Enhancer does the hard job of noise reducing, skin smoothing and automatic balance control for you. The program works best if you have bad light condition (indoor, shadows etc..) and your image is somehow off. So if some of your images are already fine, you won't see much difference. One thing makes DCEnhancer different from other tools - reducing the noise and skin smoothing algorithm. It makes DCE ideal for making cool portraits and close-ups!

RGBLights: Create an image with amazing colors with just digital camera this software and the equipment you have already at home! No needs for special color lights. Professional photographers knows that using an interesting light is the 80% of success. (Well even photography gets the name from light.) Now you can produce amazing close-up photography without using the expensive light equipment.

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Gif Cleaner

Gif Cleaner (GifClean32) will remove these extraneous structures, making your GIF files leaner and cleaner. Some GIF image editors and animation tools place a number of comments (usually stating that the GIF was created with unregistered shareware) and their own application extensions. These extensions are NOT USED by Netscape or Internet Explorer and can be safely removed without affecting the functionality of the GIF or animated GIF file. Space saving from 100 bytes to over 1K can be realized by cleansing animated GIF files.GIF image files contain a number of internal structures. These structures govern how the GIF is displayed, the looping counter, delay times, etc. There are also a number of comment and application extension structures. Comments and non-Netscape application extensions take up space and cause some delay in loading a GIF file to your Web page. Some Gif creation and/or animation tools embed comments stating information about the tools and sometimes that the GIF was created with SHAREWARE and isn't registered!! These comments and data sections take up space and the smaller the image file the less time it takes to download and display on your web page.

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JPG Cleaner

JPG Cleaner 95 is a Win32 program for cleaning JPG files from anything that is not picture data. Commonly used programs such as Adobe Photoshop are writing additional information into JPG file that isn't needed for correctly displaying the picture:
- Texts such asFile written by Adobe Photoshop, Creator: PolyView(R) Version 3.32 by Polybytes, LEAD Technologies Inc. V1.01
- Picture previews (sometimes even bigger than main JPG data!)

- Color Management data

All this data is useful only when opening the file in program that created it. Other programs such as Internet Browsers are just skipping this data, so the data is downloaded ant then thrown away! Just use this program when publishing JPG files on the Internet and your JPG files become smaller (if they contain non-picture data) with NO QUALITY LOSS.

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Print 'n Stitch Program Description:

Print 'n Stitch is a program that lets you turn any JPG, GIF,
ICO, WMF, EMF or BMP image into a cross-stitch pattern. Requires
a color printer that can handle letter-size sheets and a video
system that can handle more than 256 colors.

Installation: No need to install. I suggest running it straight from
the zip file by double-clicking the file pstitch.exe from
within the WinZip window.

Special Requirements: You'll need the Microsoft Visual Basic 5 runtimes, available from most large archives on the internet. Mirage Technologies Canvas Ink Jet paper is available and recommended for direct needlework on printed patterns. Mirage products are available at Frye's Electronics.

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