Georges Gyory, ggyory@club-internet.fr, http://perso.club-internet.fr/ggyory/Warper/warper1.html
Design and create seamless and animated warping backgounds for your Web pages or desktop with this program. Comes with a few examples ready-to-use and modify. Requires a PPC and either Netscape or Internet Explorer 4.0 or later to display moving backgrounds.
This powerful graphics design package offers everything you need for your graphics and publishing projects. Using SpriteLayer technology, it gives you limitless methods of layering and blending vector drawings, images, and text with infinite control over transparency. Draw, illustrate, and edit graphics and photographs, and layout pages for both print and Web publication. This latest version includes over 150 new features including SpriteEffects, enhanced Web and animation features, new vector drawing tools, new lenses, interface improvements, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later, 32 MB RAM, 80 MB hard disk space, 16-bit color or higher, and 800x600 screen resolution.
clip2icns 1.5.1 - Shareware
Mihai Parparita, mihai@mscape.com, http://www.mscape.com/
For those of you basking in the wonderment of Mac OS 8.5 and later’s ability to display 32-bit icons, here’s a nice little program that will allow you to create your own. It allows you to take an 80x32, 64x32, or 16x32 image and construct a 32-bit icon using this app, or you can extract a 32-bit icon into the program for additional editing. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.5 or later.
Fireworks 3 - 30-day Trial
Macromedia, http://www.macromedia.com/
Web designers and Dreamweaver users should check this one out. This graphics package of text, design, illustration, image editing, URL, JavaScript, and animation tools will allow you to create and optimize professional web graphics, create animation for the web, optimize production work flow, and integrate fully editable web graphics into your favorite HTML editor. This latest version offers more features for Web graphics and supports live preview and optimization of rollover effects and automates your graphics workflow. It also features a full set of image editing tools, multiple layer support, transparency by object, vector graphics, GIF animation controls, onion skinning, tweening, live graphic effects, automation, slicing, URL management, button and rollover creation, and much, much more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5.5 or later and 24 MB RAM.
Organize and manage your fonts with this cool tool. It features an easy-to-use browser interface that allows you to intelligently work with your fonts without being constrained by their suitcases. With a single drag-and-drop operation, it pre-processes all of the fonts in your system, extracts complete font information, and organizes them in a database so that you never have to touch your physical font files again. It allows you to view all of your fonts with a Finder-like listing, search for fonts, automatically checks fonts for corruption and removes duplicate fonts, create custom font classes, group fonts by family, display font previews, and more. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 7.5 or later.
This all-purpose image editing program can open and save images in just about any graphics format. It also features high-end editing tools for graphic manipulation, as well as support for Photoshop plugins. It also offers batch-conversion capabilities, a slide show window, support for Mac OS 8.5, can import 96 file formats, and export 38 file formats. This is the latest version. 68k and PPC versions included. Requires Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Iconographer 1.0.2 - Shareware
Mihai Parparita, mihai@mscape.com, http://www.mscape.com/
Create beautiful works of icon art with this full-fledged icon editor. It allows you to work with standard icons, 32-bit icons, and even icons from those other platforms. It features a standard graphics tool palette, multiple magnification levels, multiple undos, fully Appearance Manager-savvy, easily integrates with other graphics programs, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5.3 or later.
Give your photos and images a pen-and-ink drawn effect with this great Photoshop plug-in. It allows you to create grayscale, RGB, and CMYK graphics from images that appear as if they’ve been illustrated. It features 30 built-in style effects, five apply modes (pen-and-ink, scratchboard, texturize, mask, and reveal), crosshatching capabilities, and more. Requires Adobe Photoshop 3.05 or later, or plug-in compatible program.
Create your own 3D interior design floor plans with this modelling program. Using QuickDraw 3D technology, it allows you to draw up a 2D floor plan grid of your exterior walls; transform it into a 3D field; drag-and drop doors, windows, and furnishings; add floors, walls, lighting, and textures; and completely render your design in minutes. It features multiple views, a number of libraries (windows, doors, chairs, office, lighting, tables, bedroom, textures, kitchen, bathroom, and more), rendering options including wireframe and interactive, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.1.2 or later, and QuickDraw 3D 1.0.2 or later.
This Photoshop plug-in will allow you to cut your images on alpha channel. Create cool visual effects by cutting your images by geometric objects such as in thin lines, circles, squares, rectangular, and more. It features six groups of adjustable masks and filters (line, square, circle, ring, helix, and wave), realtime previews, mask automation, and more. Great for creating splash screen backgrounds and logos. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.0 or later, 16 MB RAM, and Photoshop or compatible.
Add realistic fire effects to your graphics work with this hot Photoshop plug-in. This plug-in will bring completely controllable fire animation into your images. It features realtime previews, an original interface to control parameter settings, crackling fire sound, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.0 or later, 16 MB RAM, and Photoshop or compatible.
Add amazing lens effects to your images and graphics with this Photoshop plug-in. Create the effect of seeing various images through different types of lenses, prisms, and crystals. It features a wide set of adjustable parameters for each lens effect including parameters for shape, optical properties, position of the lens, and light intensity. It also features an anti-aliasing effect, color adjustments, an easy-to-use interface, and seven filters—universal, ellipse, square, droplet, torus, diamond crystal, and star crystal. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.0 or later, 16 MB RAM, and Photoshop or compatible program.
Pen Tool How To Templates - Freeware
Elyse Chapman, elyse@compuserve.com
These three PICT images are templates that folks working through the Pen Tool how-to can use to practice their Bézier path creation skills. The first has entirely straight lines, the second is a smooth curve, and the third presents a challenging mixture of straight and curved segments. See the article "How To Use a Béziér Pen Tool" by Elyse Chapman for instructions.
PrintToPDF 1.0.3 - Shareware
James W. Walker, jwwalker@kagi.com, http://www.jwwalker.com/
This print driver allows you to create PDF files from within your application programs without the need for Adobe Acrobat. It allows you to create documents with bookmarked sections, hot-clickable URLs, graphics, different fonts, and more. PPC recommended running Mac OS 7.0 or later and Acrobat Reader.
Web Album Wizard 1.0.2 - Shareware
Timothy M. Brown, support@blackmagik.com, http://www.blackmagik.com
Organize and display your photos and graphics on your Web pages in a neatly arranged thumbnail gallery easily. This step-by-step app will allow you to display your images (JPEG, GIF, or PNG) in different layouts, and with optional captions, without requiring any knowledge of HTML. 68k and PPC compatible running Mac OS 8.0 or later, QuickTime 3 or later.
