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Graphics, desktop publishing, image editing, photo and picture shareware and freeware...
Fred Showker
This week is Graphics, desktop publishing, image editing, photo and picture shareware and freeware... Photoshop / Elements Styles Collection, VueScan 8.1.14 better looking images, J2SCatalog InDesign Layout Plugin, iView MediaPro Ultimate Media Management, 2005 Calendar Templates, PictureSync 1.1 Uploading Photos, OmniGraffle Diagramming and Drawing, Blender Open Source 3d Suite!
Styles Collection 2 offers 4000 styles for use in Photoshop, including over 40 themed style sets. It features a wide range of exciting dynamic styles as well as layer effects for instant use. The set includes plastics, metals, glows, wood grains, buttons, shimmers, weird and wonderful and surreal as well as utility. It works with Photoshop CS (and older versions) as well as Photoshop Elements. The main download requires payment. A simpler set is available for free with fewer styles
VueScan software enables users to more easily produce better looking digital images from color snapshots, negatives, slides and documents. The new version now produces accurate, true to life colors on all Epson and Canon scanners via a custom-developed IT8 color calibration technique. VueScan 8.1.14 also significantly improves the speed of display refreshes and saving files.
J2SCatalog is an automatic page layout and tagging solution for publishing recurrent pieces of information associating texts and images from XML files. This InDesign CS plug-in should prove useful to those who need to set up catalogues, directories, ads, portfolios, etc. with a creative layout starting from XML input. A free demo of the plugin is available for download.
Most Recommended! iView MediaPro 2.6.2 is a digital asset management solution for digital photographers who need to streamline their processes, shorten time to market, and eliminate costs from the production cycle. It now supports the Digital Negative Specification (DNG), the new public archival format developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated for digital camera raw files. (Now commercial)
The HSC Calendar Templates allow users to modify and print professional 2005 calendar templates. It includes four sets of templates with twelve months each. "With the 2005 Templates you can fully customize the full year or per months templates, change font types/sizes/colors easily. Insert your own graphics within any template as a new layer. Sample Picture; Full Year.
PictureSync is a convenient utility that simplifies uploading photos to a Web site. PictureSync now has Webshots support, and the option to upload images directly to albums (Webshots) or photosets (Flickr).
OmniGraffle 3.2 Beta is the latest beta release of the diagramming and drawing program. It supports the OmniOutliner 3 file format, which means OmniOutliner 3 files can be imported into OmniGraffle. Other improvements include a reworked interface for the Action inspector. (Pro version download)
Blender 2.36 is the latest version of the open source 3D suite for Mac. A few bugs have been corrected, and features such as improved bump mapping, texture warping and RGB normal map rendering were added.
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Check these out and let us know how you like them. Remember, all UGN readers would like to know your opinion on the best shareware and freeware... send in your reviews and have them published here in the User Group Network!
Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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