Amorphium is a 3D modeler like no other. It’s like virtual clay. You start with a basic shape and then you push and pull, twist and bend, twirl and warp to your heart’s content. From the people who brought you Electric Image, the professional 3D tool used in Star Wars, Special Edition, Amorphium is the intuitive solution for beginner and professional 3D artists for creating organic models. This demo version has disabled Save and Export.
Cinema 4D XL 6
3D Gear, support@3d-gear.com, http://www.cinema4dusa.com/
This powerful, multi-platform, 3D production program from Maxon Computer is packed full of workstation-quality modeling, animation, and rendering tools. It’s feature-rich and easy to use. Plus, its fast renderer will make your projects up and running in no time. This full functioning demo is save disabled and renders with a watermark. Requires a PPC and 32 MB RAM.
Discus is the one-stop, multilingual, kick-butt disc-labeling program for your Mac. This is the demo version which has only a small fraction of artwork and will put a “demo” on your prints. The commercial CD package comes with hundreds of backgrounds, a bunch of templates, and much much more! Both 68k and PPC versions are available. MacOS 7.0 or higher is required. Quicktime is needed for import of JPEG and other file formats.
Fractal Domains 1.3.7
Dennis C. De Mars, info@fractaldomains.com, http://www.fractaldomains.com
Fractal Domains is a shareware program that generates fractal images. It runs only on the Power Macintosh. Fractal Domains generates color images of the most popular fractal, the Mandelbrot set, and also generates images of the associated Julia sets (other fractal types will follow shortly). Fractal Domains has several options for producing striking variations of fractal images, and includes advanced features for producing high-quality images. You’ll need a PPC.
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, can import a truckload of file formats, and export a bunch too. This is the latest version. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.0 or later.
Install Adobe LiveMotion
Adobe Systems Inc., http://www.adobe.com/
The world wide web ain’t what it used to be! Graphics and animation are abound. To keep up with the flashy nature of today’s and the future’s web experience, you need a program like Adobe LiveMotion.
Install Adobe®Photoshop® Tryout
Adobe Systems Inc., Voice 408-536-6000, http://www.adobe.com/
Adobe Photoshop is THE world-standard photo design and production tool. It allows you to design artwork, generate textures and backgrounds, correct color, and retouch composite scanned images. Version 5.5 features advanced Web-optimized tools with the help of ImageReady 2.0, improved image file compression, new image slicing tools, JavaScript rollover effects, added layer effects, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 7.5 or later, 64 MB RAM, and 256 color support.
Holy Mackerel! This way-cool program simply smokes! Create your own images and artistic renditions with total control in this paint synthesizing, drawing, and image and video processing program. It utilizes intelligent-assisted drawing technology that will have you creating stunning eye-candy no matter what your skill level. Imagine organic wet paints that mix and smear, dynamic brush textures that evolve under your control, and complex visual stylizations that can be created easily just by the mere scrawling of your graphics pen or mouse. It features over 200 editable parameters, over 600 factory presets, warp capabilities, auto-rotoscoping and video effects processing, raster painting with vector editing, and an unlimited amount of complete customization. A definite winner! Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.0 or later, 32 MB RAM, and QuickTime 3 or later.
