Stellarium (planetarium software)

Category: Image/Graphic, Other

Product Description:

Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.

Product Features:

Sky

• default catalogue of over 600,000 stars.
• extra catalogues with more than 210 million stars.
• asterisms and illustrations of the constellations.
• constellations for twelve different cultures.
• images of nebulae (full Messier catalogue).
• realistic Milky Way.
• very realistic atmosphere, sunrise and sunset.
• the planets and their satellites.

Interface

• a powerful zoom.
• time control
• multilingual interface
• fisheye projection for planetarium domes.
• spheric mirror projection for your own low-cost dome.
• all new graphical interface and extensive keyboard.
• telescope control.

Visualization

• equatorial and azimuthal grids.
• star twinkling.
• shooting stars.
• eclipse simulation.
• skinnable landscapes, now with spheric panorama projection.

Customisability

• add your own deep sky objects, landscapes, constellation images, scripts.

Product Info:
Stellarium
version 0.10.2
Size: 40738 kb

Platform:
Linux (source)
Mac OS X
Windows

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Mac OS X

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IRIS (astronomical images processing software)

Category: Image/Graphic

Product Description:

IRIS is astronomical images processing software that provides a full range of features to enhance, correct and process digital astronomical images, optimized for CCD captures. It can open digital raw formats, as well as BMP, FITS and PIC as well as images from the Buil-Thouvenot Atlas.

Product Features:

The many features include noise suppression, distortion correction, stacking of image sequences, spectra processing, sun chromosphere image processing, frame grabbing via webcam and much more. Support of Canon 5D mk2 and Panasonic DMC-LX3. Support of Canon 50D, support of image capture from Lumenera cameras. FITS 48 bits support, World Coordinate System compatible.

Product Info:
IRIS
version 5.57
Size: 3114 kb

NOTE: If after a new installation of IRIS some dialog box dissappear, do not panic: (1)exit IRIS, (2)delete the IRIS.INI file in the WINDOWS directory, (3)re-run IRIS.

Platform:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP

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B/Works (create old fashioned B/W images)

Category: Image/Graphic

Product Description:

Yes B/Works os for creating old fashioned B/W images, Sepia or Duotone colored images. Sometimes you have a picture which doesn't look very exciting in color, try to experiment with B/Works and maybe you create some art! As a special bonus there is also included a procedure to enhance sky - to create the powerful dark dramatic sky.

Product Features:
I didn't get the feature list. Sorry.

Product Info:
B/Works
version 1.0
Size: 650 kb

Platform:
Windows/98/ME/2000/XP

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virtualPhotographer (black and white effects for photoshop)

Category: Image/Graphic

Product Description:

virtualPhotographer is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to create a variety of photographic styles with the greatest of ease.

Product Features:
virtualPhotographer features many presets, all of which can be fine tuned to fit your requirements.

Effects such as Film Grain, Soft Focus, B/W, B/W tinting, High Contrast etc. are all just a click away. No more struggling to get to grips with the steep learning curve of your photo editor. Great results are just a mouse click away.

Compatible with Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro, Photo-Paint and other popular imaging applications.

Product Info:
virtualPhotographer
version 1.44
Size: 273 kb

Platform:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista compatible

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PhotoMeister (digital photo manager and processor)

Category: Image/Graphic, Multimedia

Product's Description:

To handle, edit and publish photos from your digital camera. Everything that you need to manage your photos and to impress your family, friends or customers with your photos are included in one piece of software - easy to install and even easier to use.
Using photoMeister you can: Import the photos from most digital cameras directly into your PC, Sort, arrange, filter and crop your photos and even remove red eyes, Convert your photos into web pages, emails or screensavers, Create Photo Albums to print or export as PDF files, Create VCDs for your DVD player to show your photos on your TV.

Product's Features:

Finding photos quickly: you can quickly locate your photos in albums based upon a standard naming convention.
Managing your collection: PhotoMeister includes a number of easy-to-use features such as copying photos, importing photos into albums (from existing folders on your hard drive, from a digital camera, or from a TWAIN-compliant source like a scanner), removing photos (from an album), and deleting photos (to the Windows Recycle Bin).
Editing photos: Photomeister has built-in editing capabilities that allow you to quickly and easily perform everyday taks such as rotate, crop, reduce red-eye, and add frames. If more advanced editing is required, PhotoMeister allows you to set a default “external editor” (such as Adobe™ Photoshop®) that launches when you click the Edit button.
Sending your photos: Using PhotoMeister’s build in “publishing templates” you can create web-based photo albums, screensavers, email them, or even burn albums and collections to a CD-ROM, all without using any additional software.

Product's Info:
PhotoMeister
version 2.6
Size: 11682 kb

Platform:
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP/2000/2003

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PhotoFiltre (photo editing and effects)

Category: Image and Graphic

Product's Description:

PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to perform simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. 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).

Product's Features:

• Standard editing features (selection, clone brush, paint brush, etc.).
• Large selection of image effects, photo masks, image adjustments, thumbnail browser and
  much more.
• Supports batch processing to apply filters, sizing, adjustments and transformations to a large number of images at once.
• Auto zoom adjusts the image’s size according to Photofiltre’s window size.
• It has five different zoom options. And more...

Pros: Solid for a free image editor, Reads large amount of image formats, Quick batch convert/processing, Optimizable color palette, Quick contrast/hue/saturation buttons, Great editing features, easy-to-use, fast loading.

Cons: Limited amount of filters, Unintuitive image explorer, Crowded and not customizable interface, Doesn’t include layers.

Product's Info:

PhotoFiltre
version 6.3.2
Size: 1,647 MB

Platform:
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

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ScreenHunter 5 Free

Category: Image/Graphic

Product's Description:
Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter is a free screen-capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. ScreenHunter can capture a full screen, an active window, the client window, or a rectangular area.

Product's Features:
Capturing Features.....Rectangular area, Active Window, Full screen.

Addition Features.....Mouse pointer.

Timing Features.....Delayed capture.

Saving Features.....Automatic naming and saving to files, Clipboard.

Other Features.....System tray, Zoombox, Flexible hotkey.

Product's Info:
ScreenHunter 5 Free
Version 5.0.125
Size: 3,32 MB

Platform:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

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PhotoScape

Category: Image/Graphic

Product's Description:

PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor with fun and ease of use. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, raw converter, resizing, brightness/color/white-balance adjustment, backlight correction, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming. PhotoScape has been used for two years and is expanding its features continuously.

Product's 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.
Splitter.....Divide a photo into multiple parts.
Screen Capture.....Capture your screenshot and save it.
Color Picker.....Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color.
Rename.....Change photo file names in batch mode.
Raw Converter.....Convert RAW to JPG.
Save options.....Backup, Save Exif, File date.
Reflection filter and film effect dialog (Hotkey Ctrl-F).

Product's Info:
PhotoScape
Version 3.2
Size: 14,08 MB

Platform:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista

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Inkscape

Category: Image, Graphic

Product's Description:

Inkscape is 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. SVG is an open, industry-standard XML-based format for vector graphics developed by the W3C.

Product's Features:

SVG Validator.....It will complain about sodipodi or inkscape namespaced items in the document, unless you've exported to plain SVG.
Video editing, for building animation.....Linux Video Editing System, Kdenlive, Open Movie Editor.
Multipage presentation or book.....InkSlide, slides, Scribus, JessyInk.
Charts & Graphs.....Gnuplot, matplotlib, Gnumeric, SVG Charter.
Diagrams.....Graphviz
Vectorize/trace.....Potrace, Autotrace and Frontline, Delineate.
SVG Metadata.

Learn more? HERE

Product's Info:
Inkscape
Version 0.46
Size: 33,45 MB

Platform:
Windows 2000/2003/XP (fully self-contained installer)
OSX (dmg package)
Linux
Inkscape is successfully used on FreeBSD and other Unix-like operating systems.

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FastStone (Image Viewer)

Category: Image, Graphic

Product's Description:
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, andconverter editor. No Adware No Spyware. Free for Home Users.

R says: When I looking free software replacing my unoriginal ACDSee, I found many alternatives. Then I decided using FastStone because it's not difficult to use it.

It's similar ACDSee. Almost.

Product's features :

- Image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.
- It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
- Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves.
- Multi-level Undo/Redo capability.
- One-touch best fit/actual size image display support.
- Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs).
- Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...).
- Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere).
- Versatile screen capture capability.
- Create a no-install fully portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device.
- Supports multiple program skins.
- Supports dual-monitor configurations.

Product's Info:
FastStone Image Viewer
version 3.6
Size : 4,06 MB

Platform:
Windows 98/NT/XP/2003 Server

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Paint.NET (image and photo editing)

Category: Image/Graphic

Product's Description:

Getpaint.net : Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Product's features :
Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description.

Layers
Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.

Active Online Community
Paint.NET has an online forum with a friendly, passionate, and ever-expanding community.

Frequently Updated
Updates usually come about every 4 to 6 weeks, and contain new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.

Special Effects
Blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect. Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

Unlimited History
Once you've undone an action, you can also redo it. The length of the history is only limited by available disk space.


System Requirements :
Minimum System

• Windows XP (SP2 or later), or Windows Vista, or Windows Server (2003 SP1 or later)
• .NET Framework 2.0 or newer (.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 recommended)
• 500 MHz processor (Recommended: 800 MHz or faster)
• 256 MB of RAM (Recommended: 512 MB or more)
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution
• 200+ MB hard drive space
• 64-bit support requires a 64-bit CPU that is running a 64-bit version of Windows, and an additional 128 MB of RAM

Notes :
Paint.NET uses your hard drive to store temporary files related to undo/redo history. Because of this, actual disk space requirements will depend on the type of actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.


Version 3.36 (1,6 MB)

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GIMP (great free image editor)

Category: Image/Graphic

Product's Description:

Gimp.org : GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.

Product's features:
Painting
• Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
• Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
• Supports custom brushes and patterns System
• Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Advanced Manipulation
• Full alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
• Editable text layers
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
• Foreground extraction tool
• Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
• Transformable paths, transformable selections.
• Quickmask to paint a selection.
Extensible

• A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu

• Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)

• Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters

• Over 100 plug-ins already available
Animation
• Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
• MNG support
• Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package) File Handling
• File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
• Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
• SVG path import/export
Supported Platforms :
• GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
• Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
• Mac OS X
• Sun OpenSolaris
• FreeBSD

Platform:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, GTK + Runtime Environment.

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