Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.1 or later, Adobe Photoshop 7 (including CS) or Photoshop Elements 2.0 or later
Create little works of art to plaster all over your desktop or anyone else’s. One of the best tools for creating simple to professional 32-bit icons, this Photoshop filter allows you to generate icons from your Photoshop creations for OS X, Classic, and even Windoze platforms. It also features QuickBuilder, which assembles all of an icon’s resources with one click; allows you to view icons against a variety of backgrounds, and lets you import any Mac or Windows icon via the Extract feature to study how it was built.
Requirements: Power Mac, Mac OS 9.2.2 or OS X 10.0 or later
If you’re a digital photographer, you know what happens when you try to append photo information such as a copyright, keywords, caption, location, special instructions, and other metadata—called IPTC information—to your JPEG files. They lose image quality due to the fact that JPEGs get recompressed when you save them again. But with this handy tool, you can read and write any text info appended to a JPEG (or TIFF) file without the need to compress the file again. It also allows you to tag keywords to your pic files to build your own photo catalog.
iPhoto Diet 2.1.3—Freeware
Martin Fuhrer, mfuhrer@alumni.ucalgary.ca, http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~fuhrer/personal/freestuff
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
Why is your iPhoto library so huge? Because iPhoto automatically backs up your original photo anytime you make a change to it, leaving you with the original and a modified copy in your library. This wonder app can help slim down your ilibraries. iPhoto Diet removes the original copies of modified photos based on several selectable criteria. You can set it up to remove unrotated originals, original red-eyed images, redundant duplicates, and more. It can also remove icon thumbnails from photo files to save space.
Requirements: G3 or faster Mac, Mac OS X 10.2 or later
This cool standalone app works much like iMovie’s Ken Burns effect, but gives you better control over the results. With it, you can pan and zoom over digital still images to create a video that can be used in iMovie, iDVD, or any other multimedia project. The app allows you to take multiple “shots” of an image, pan along a curve, and even rotate the “camera.”
