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Fred Showker
This week we look at some all new applications for everything from 3D modeling to improving your photos... and more! Enjoy this week's download fun!
Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeller and renderer for Mac OS X with an easy learning curve. The new version delivers improvements to both the renderer and modeler. It now supports HDRI backgrounds, radiosity, ambient occlusion and area lights just to call the most important ones. Cheeta3D 2.0 also sports user interface improvements and new file loaders.
Juicer 1.5 extracts images from many types of files on your computer. "Like most text editing applications can search a text file for a word, Juicer can search inside any file format for images of the types: JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDF, BMP and SWF." For convenience it can search single files or entire folders at once.
FlexoStep is the answer for everyone in the flexographic printing business -- step and repeat software for use in Adobe's Illustrator and Macromedia's Freehand. Users create custom die configurations and completely automate the task of stepping, repeating, distorting, and adding printer's marks and job info options
ThumbBorker is a picture browser that lets you create thumbnails from your image files. It can also generate an HTML page to show off your new thumbnails.
Image Interlacer allows users to create image interlacing effects, including images for use with 3D glasses. Version 2.0 adds a reworked interface, a help window, and a Batch Save feature.
Neat Image 2.1 is the latest version of the digital filter designed to reduce visible noise in digital photographic images. This update introduces Photoshop action support and fixes several bugs discovered since the first release.
ImageConverter is a simple utility that allows users to quickly convert images between several major types, including jpeg, gif, png, tif, bmp, and pict. Version 1.5 is adds the ability to resize image while converting, and is the first shareware version.
EasyBatchPhoto makes repetitive tasks such as batch converting, resizing and stamping images easier. Version 1.5 adds the option to set output resolution, and to set text size for EXIF overlay.
Veenix is a collection of 18 essential utilities and tools for print and Web designers, illustrators, and other graphic professionals. The latest version adds tools to view, activate/deactivate, sample, and compare any font(s).
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Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News
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