View various formats of graphics, sound and movies with this program. It’ll take tons of formats to help produce presentations for friends, work, school, etc.
Requires OS 7.1 & up, QuickTime 3.0 & later.
Cameraid 1.1.4 Shareware
Juri Munkki, cameraid@kagi.com, http://www.clinet.fi/~jmunkki/cameraid
Here’s an all-in-one digital photography utility program for your Mac. Use it to download pictures up to twice as fast from your digital camera. It also features lossless rotation and transforms for all JPEG format photos, a powerful viewer, super-powerful batch processing commands, and more. Requires Mac OS 7.0.
Inundate the landscape and submerge your friends. Create realistic pseudo-3D watery reflections with control over waves, ripples, and perspective. Plug-In requires PPC, Photoshop.
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. Carbonized for Mac OS X.
HexaSuper2 includes the epoch-making 3D Manga feature for making 3D objects from illustrations and photographs, and Smooth Curved Surface feature comparable to that of any of the high-end 3D software packages. HexaSuper2 is suitable for awide range of users including beginners interested in 3D and professionals who require a modeling software.
iCamMaster 1.9.2 Shareware
Catalunya Disseny Informatic, catdis@catdis.com, http://www.catdis.com/realcode/
For that voyeuristic instinct in everyone. View more than 500 webcams from all over the world on your desktop with the help of this Internet application. Take on the role of Big Brother as the program automatically retrieves the latest images from each of your chosen webcams and delivers them directly to your desktop. Images can also be recorded as QuickTime movies. Many types of subject matter to choose from including people, animals, space, travel, weather, and more. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8.6 or later, Carbonized for Mac OS X.
If you’re addicted to icons as much as I am, you’re gonna love this program. Using your System’s contextual menus, Icon Tools allows you to copy and paste icons, add embelishments to your icons from a huge assortment of graphical stamps, frame them with an assortment of borders, manipulate them in a variety of ways, and more. An icon hacker’s dream! This new version takes advantage of the new 32-bit icons under Mac OS 8.5. Requires a PPC running Mac OS 8 or later.
ImageBuddy, with it's simple and intuitive interface, lets you rotate, size, crop, mask and layout your digital photos for printing in just a few simple clicks. Need 20 wallets and a 5x7 of each member of the soccer team? No problem with Image Buddy’s built-in event page you can create standard ‘packages’ that you can use over and over again. Requires PPC.
ImageDV is a utility which allows you to easily extract digital images from DV video on a FireWire DV camera or from previously captured DV video clips. Images can be extracted, deinterlaced if necessary, and saved in a variety of formats, making them suitable for web publishing, image editing and printing. ImageDV is designed for Power Macintosh, PowerBook, iMac and iBook computers. Requires Mac OS 8.5 or higher.
ImageViewer 5.42 Shareware
Plato Grande Software, kevinw@imageviewer.com, http://www.imageviewer.com/
This image viewing, editing, and organizing application will allow you to locate, display, browse, and print GIF, JPEG, PICT, and TIFF files, as well as other file types supported by QuickTime 3 or later. It allows you to convert files from one format to another, create HTML contact sheets, build slide shows, perform simple editing functions, play movies, listen to music, implement QuickTime effects, access digital cameras, scan images, view images in a number of view modes, and more. 68k and PPC versions included.
Install Illustrator 9.0 Tryout
Adobe Systems Inc., Voice 408-536-6000, http://www.adobe.com/
Hands down, one of the most popular illustration packages for the Mac. Illustrator 9 includes Flash and SVG output, instant drop shadows and glows, unlimited transparency capabilities, opacity and layer mask, feathering, enhanced layer controls, native support for Adobe PDF, tight integration with Adobe's print publishing and web design programs, extended file format support.
This beginner-level animation tool allows kids to create their own computer animations quickly and easily. Use the drawing and painting tools to create your first frame, then click the duplicate button and change the newly created picture a bit. Continue in this manner until your done by selecting a last frame for your animation. 68k and PPC compatible running at least Mac OS 7.0.
MacVCD is a Video CD player for the Macintosh. It recognizes the Video CD format and plays the movie files on the CD. It supports large screens, multiple video CDs (if you have more than 1 CD drive) and allows you to save the Video CD files as standard Quicktime movies. In addition to the convenience of automatic Video CD format recogniton and playback MacVCD can also be used to play standard Quicktime movies. Requires PPC, Mac OS 8 or higher.
Ornament takes a photo of a mirrored ball and unwraps the reflection into a form called an "equirectangular panorama." You can use this in panorama viewers to view and zoom into the entire scene. Starting with a mirrored-ball photo involves no image-stitching step, and you can even use a simple Christmas tree ornament as the mirror. There will be a flaw in the resulting panorama at the point directly behind the ball.
Painting 2.0.2 Shareware
Sarwat Khan, sarwat@kagi.com, http://sarwat.net/painting/
This simple and easy-to-use program allows you to create and edit pixel based graphics. It features standard editing and paint tools, color palettes, anti-alias supporting text tool, QuickTime 3 effects capabilties, graphics tablet support, customizable hot keys for quick access to tools, drag and drop colors, and more. Requires a PPC.
Billed as a “very interactive lava lamp”, this visualistic toy for the eyes and ears will create endlessly moving images, much like a screen saver, but with more capabilities. Let it warp, blur, melt, and distort any of your graphic images, which can also be converted into a QuickTime movie. You can even stick in an audio CD in your Mac’s CD-ROM drive and watch the program’s patterns dance to the music as it plays. Requires a PPC.
PixMachineMac allows you to automatically download and decode hundreds images from usenet newsgroups. Since it runs automatically, you can go off and do other things while PixMachineMac does its thing. PixMachineMac also includes a slide show player that will let you playback all those movies and images. Requires MacOS 8.6 or higher
RainbowPainter 2.0.1 Shareware
Norbyte, info@norbyte.com, http://www.norbyte.com
This ultra cool image editing and painting program will allow you to edit images using picture tools and effects and crate your own works of art. Import PICT, Targa, RAW, and Rainbow files onto the Studio palette (the editing window), edit the image or add effects such as spray, split, blur, sharpen, noise, roughen, and glamour, and the program will automatically save your work-in-progress in a “portfolio” until you export it. It features eight image layers with alpha channels, a mask layer, and more than 60 effects and tools. This latest version adds a finger painting tool, five new masking features, and more. Requires a PPC and QuickTime.
Video Funhouse turns your Macintosh and video camera into a virtual funhouse! Using a palette of easy to use tools, you can twist, bulge, pinch and push your face into virtually any shape imaginable. Unlike other 'goo' applications, Video Funhouse lets you do all this with either live video from your camera or any static image of your choosing. Pull on your ears, make your eyes bulge out, pinch your nose - the fun is endless! Requires PPC, Mac OS 8.5 or higher, QuickTime 4 or higher, video input source optional.
If you’re capturing video into your Power Mac, this utility is for you. This software waveform and vector scope performs realtime luminance and chrominance analysis of any video source, QuickTime movie, or still image. This will allow you to fine tune your video digitizer’s image settings for optimum video quality. Requires CarbonLib or Mac OS X.
