Freeware 3-D Modelling K - 3D

K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system. K-3D features a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed from-the-ground-up to generate motion-picture-quality animation using RenderMan-compliant render engines. We strongly recommend the Aqsis render engine for use with K-3D.

K-3D´s innovative interactive tutorial system will introduce you to basic use of the program. New tutorials can easily be recorded and shared with the rest of the community.
 

K-3D allows you to create and edit documents in multiple realtime OpenGL solid, shaded, texture-mapped views. You can even model, animate, and interact with animations while they play back for maximum productivity!

Compatible: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. But K-3D is written in C++ with platform independence in mind. As a result, K-3D is available for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, and others. Download 73 Mbytes

Link: Download Free Program 3D Modelling K-3D

Image Viewer Freeware

WildBit Viewer, a compact and fast image viewer with slide show and editor. Includes and eye catching interface within blazing fast folder, file list and thumbnail viewer. It offers users the ability to view, edit, and design slideshows with their pictures. With simple commands and fantastic results, photo lovers will find a lot to enjoy here.

WildBit Viewer includes also Image Info with Image EXIF meta data JPEG and TIFF support and IPTC (IIMV4) information (like PhotoShop file info) from JPEG and TIFF, Thumbview has changeable views, sorting and thumbnail predefined sizes for fast thumbnail size setting. Viewer also includes shell toolbar, you can drop your favorite folder there and use it as an organizer.

It also includes image compare. In Compare you can compare images side-by-side. In Favorites you can save list of favorite images and load list later on and you can create custom show in to Slide Show also that list you can edit with Custom Show List Editor. With Slide Show you can view images within 172 different transition effects. Slide Show includes now multi-monitor support for fast switching between two monitors.

WildBit Viewer supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF and TGA (over 70 formats).

Compatible:  Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 98. Download 8.46 Mbytes.

Link: download Free and Fast Image Viewer.

Freeware to Create Photo Album

JAlbum will create thumbnails of your images and display them in index pages in HTML. You can also have JAlbum produce slide shows of your images for easy navigation. The appearance of the generated albums can be fully configured through the use of skins.

Create stunning albums in a snap with the Jalbum application. Your home page is automatically created when you sign up and you can start sharing your albums right away. It's free.

Customize your albums' look with skins and your homepage with themes. Make your albums social with widgets. At Jalbum, your presentation is as unique as your photos.

Share your albums on Jalbum.net and/or on your favorite social network. Uploading is just one click either to yourname.jalbum.net or to your own site (if you got one).

Features:

    * Easy to use User Interface
    * Runs on many systems
    * Add images with drag & drop
    * Skins — endless customization
    * Add comments
    * IPTC and EXIF support
    * Apply filters
    * Other Filetypes
    * Share straight from your computer
    * Publish to the web
    * Your personal page: yourname.jalbum.net
    * Manage your albums
    * Create your own skin
    * Supports 32 Languages

Compatible: Windows (All) / MacOSX / Linux. Download 13.5 Mbyte

Link: download JAlbum to create photo albums.

Freeware to Create Calendars

TKexe Kalendar enables the creation of photo calendars of any size.

TKexe Kalendar is very easy: position the elements by dragging them with the mouse and change the settings of any element by double-clicking it. 20 images can be added to a month. You can rotate the images and add special effects to them.

Weeks can start on Sunday or Monday, and you can add your personal events. Each calendar page can be customized separately, but the settings can be applied for all months.

Create calendars in any language. Select national holidays from 10 countries. Save your customized calendar to an image file or print it to paper.

The software is available in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Dutch, Polish, Romanian and French.

Link: Freeware to Create Calendars, Tkexe Kalendar.

Best Open Source Graphic Editor

Inkscape, an excellent open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to commercial programs like Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.

Inkscape supports SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more. Its main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool.

Compatible: Windows, Mac Os X, Linux. Download: 27,28 Mbytes.

Link: download open source Graphic Editor Inkscape.

Freeware Paint Program

HeliosPaint, a freeware paint program for creating and editing images. Compatible: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix. It was written in Sun Microsystem´s Java programming language. Download 1,18 Mbytes.

Features:

    * Pencil for editing pixels.
    * Freehand and straight lines with choice of width, dash pattern, line joint and line end.
    * Paint Brush with sizeable head.
    * Spray Can with sizeable head or global spray option.
    * Paint Can with local and global replace. Colour bleed sensitivity allows nearby similar colours to be painted.
    * Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon, star, moon and heart shapes.
    * Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation.
    * HSB/RGB/contrast/gamma adjustment of image.
    * Image invert, gray, colour filter, blur, sharpen, edge detection, oil painting effect, emboss.
    * Image colour and transparency adjustment by flat, round, rectangular and ´fit to shape´ gradient patterns. This allows areas of the image to be darkened, brightened and colour enhanced.
    * Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate, shear, perspective view.
    * Full colour pallet with adjustable transparency and colour grabber.
    * Zoom in/out with optional zoom grid.
    * Text and image paste from clipboard. Image and image segment copy/cut onto clipboard.
    * Scissors, lasso and wand for selecting and moving image segments. Sensitivity of lasso and wand is adjustable. Transparency of overlaid segments is adjustable. Scissors can cut out various shapes including regular polygons, stars and hearts. When part of the image is selected, all paint operations apply only to that area.
    * Saving selected areas as transparent gif or transparent png files.
    * Undo and redo.
    * Printing with auto fit to page.
    * Reads and writes image file formats: bmp, gif, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, xpm.
    * Supports images up to 12 megapixels in size (a high end computer is recommended for working with very large images).

Link: HeliosPaint, freeware paint program

Freeware Graphic Program, Artweaver

Artweaver, freeware program for creative painting. Artweaver makes all artistic effects, which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photographies and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is realistic as possible.

Features:

    * Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...

    * A wide variety of adjustment settings to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes.

    * Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.

    * Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support).

    * Transparency and Layers support.

    * Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.

    * Editable text layers.

    * Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.

    * History function to und/redo last editing steps.

    * Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver Standard).

    * Support for many languages through language files.

Artweaver is for free and it's only allowed to use it for non commercial purposes. Compatible Win 2000/XP/Vista, download 6,34 Mbytes.

Link: download Free Graphic Program, Artweaver.

Free Disney ScreenSaver

Disney´s world gives joy and fun. Feeling of careless childhood in bright colors is guaranteed for you. One of the most famous animation studios creates only true masterpieces. For Win 9x/ME/NT/2K/XP/2K3. Download 1.86 Mbyte.

Features:

    * Beautiful high-quality images

    * Worldwide characters from Walt Disney.

Link: download free screensaver Disney Characters 

Free Image Editing Software IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! Multi-language Interface!

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Light download 1,3 Mbyte. Compatible  Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 98.

Link: Download IrfanView

Free interior design application

Sweet Home 3D, a free interior design application that helps you placing your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Sweet Home 3D comes with 50 pieces of furniture, but you may also import some additional objects in it.

Features last realase:

    * As the Online version available on sweethome3d.eu is now able to save homes in the private space of the users registered to the site

    * Improved loading performances of a SH3D file.

    * Renamed print process as Sweet Home 3D followed by home name.

    * Fixed a bug in photo-realistic rendering that displayed black polygons around a home.

    * Fixed a bug that prevented home plan to be rendered correctly when walls were created with a double-click in a room which contains two points very close to each other.

    * Fixed a bug that caused memory leaks when importing 3D models and when creating photos.

    * Fixed a bug under Mac OS X that made menus and their shortcuts disappear after displaying Preferences or About dialog boxes.

    * Reduced maximum used memory from 1024 MB to 512 MB to avoid could not create the Java virtual machine errors under Windows.

    * Replaced JRE 6u14 by JRE 6u16 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.

Sweet Home 3D is available in English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German,  Spanish, Swedish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Greek, Russian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified) and Japanese.
It may run under Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 to 10.6, Linux and Solaris.

Link: download a Free Program for Interior Design Application, Sweet Home 3D

Free Special Effect for your Photos

EffMyPic is a free website using which you can add different types of crazy and funny effects to your pictures online (like Make Photo Online).

It's a fun site to play with your pictures. There are many ways to change or edit images online and add different effects. EffMyPic makes it easy to add new designs or effects to your images and make them look different and interesting.

The effects available include a lot of funny stuff which will include your picture on a Graffiti Wall, Billboard, Vintage TV, News, Wanted, On a city bus, In a museum, and other effects like falling pictures, burning picture, ripping pictures, Picture on a flag, etc

Link: Funny Effects to Your Personal Pictures

Free Graphic Tool Pixia

Pixia is a freeware painting tool and retouch software made exclusively for full color graphics.

Pixia supports layers, masks and many other graphic editing functions. You can use your own customized brush tips and even use an image file as a brush tip to create unique effects.

Friendly interface is suitable for beginners as well as experts. Pixia supports the most common editing techniques and presents a user friendly interface.

Basic Specifications:

    * Maximum graphic size: 10240 x 10240 dots (Note: this depends on RAM capacity.)
    * Number of Layers: As many as memory allows.
    * Peripheral devices applicable:
          o TWAIN32 devices.
          o Printers made to use for Microsoft Windows
          o Tablets (Wacom, Oce-Japan)

For Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7. Download 5,1 Mbyte. Warning: Installing a newer version over an old one already installed in your computer overwrites files and may initialize pen data and/or palette. The same holds true on reinstallation of the same version. It is recommended that you backup "pendata", "palette" folders, and env_.env file before installation.

Link: download freeware Graphic Tool Pixia

Free image and photo editing software

Paint.NET an image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows with a simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help,  tutorials, and plugins.


Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

 Minimum System:

    * Windows 7 (recommended),
         or Windows XP SP2,
         or Windows Vista,
         or Windows Server (2003 SP1 or newer)
    * .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (free download from Microsoft)
    * 512 MB of RAM
    * 1024 x 768 screen resolution
    * 200+ MB hard drive space
    * 64-bit mode requires a 64-bit CPU and a 64-bit edition of Windows

Language:

English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish.

Link: download free image and photo editor Paint.NET

Face in the hole

FunFacer, having Fun With Pictures.

FunFacer is one of these popular sites that let you create a photo mashup. By using it you can create your own funny images by uploading a picture, doing the necessary adjustments and choosing in which picture you want your face to be plastered, and where.

In FunFacer you can add hair, lips, ecc... Once the finished picture is ready you can proceed to save it and show it to your friends, or to the hapless soul you caricaturized.

Very simply to use!

Link: FunFacer, having Fun With Pictures.

Blender 3D content creation suite

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. A free program used for modelling, rendering three-dimensional graphics and animations, Non Linear Editing, Compositing, and interactive 3D applications.

Blender has a robust feature set similar in scope and depth to other high-end 3D software such as XSI, 3D Studio Max and Maya. These features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid body dynamics, fluid dynamics, and softbody dynamics, modifier based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, and node based materials system and an embedded scripting and programming language using Python scripting.

Blender compares favorably with commercial, proprietary, high end and mid range 3D software in terms of breadth and depth of features.

Link: download Blender