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3D GIF Designer produces animated high-quality 3D pictures, titles, banner ads and buttons for your Web page or a presentation.

The sprites technology guves you control over placement, size, motion, appearance, soft-edged shadows and opacity. You can add an unlimited number of 3D text strings with their own colour, font, size, extrusion, texture, rotation and lighting. There are over 30 templates (banners, buttons, logos) to save time getting started. The files are optimised for size and therefore download speed.

Web link: www.pysoft.com

A powerful image processing application, PhotoLine offers flexible text, vector and bitmap layers. It offers many special effects like shadow, glowing, morphing, 3d projection and many dynamic layer effects. Supporting many picture formats, it can create transparent and animated GIFs, and supports CMYK, multiple undo/redo levels, plugin filters, actions, batch conversion, and more.

Web link: www.pl32.com

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Vecta3D is a tool for creating 3D images and animations for Macromedia Flash and other popular vector formats. Creating 3D images in Flash is a laborious process normally requiring a lot of patience and image tracing skill. Vecta3D works as a standalone program or 3D Studio Max plug-in. It lets you create great 3D images then animate and render them. You can output directly to Flash where all your animation keyframes are preserved. Vecta3D lets you create 3D vector artwork for Flash in a fraction of the time.

Web link: www.vecta3d.com

Upgrade to the latest enhancements for Paint Shop Pro, the mighty graphics creation and editing application.

This minor upgrade version mainly fixes various bugs and inconsistancies, but also includes improved anti-aliaising of circular selections and accurate rendering of synthetic bold characters under NT4.

Web link: www.jasc.com

Can't afford a top graphics editor and want a nifty image slicer? This is what you've been looking for. It cuts up your large Web graphics into smaller, more easily downloadable segments. ImageSlicer also creates the HTML table and Web page to put your cut-up graphic back into one seamless image. Additionally, the program's Link Tool can make links for each segment of the sliced image.

Web link: www.coffeecup.com

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This is a serious piece of kit for shrinking your Web graphics (JPEG, PNG & GIF) to speed up access to your Web pages. Image Optimizer includes and builds on the technology introduced with JPEG Optimizer.

With Image Optimizer you get complete interactive control of the entire optimization process, from changing compression settings to the ability to apply these to some areas of the image more than others.

Version 2 adds powerful new capabilities including Crop, Resize, E-Mail and Scanner & Digital camera interface. Some features are disabled in this shareware version.

Web link: www.xat.com

IrfanView is an excellent streamlined image file viewer that also allows basic image editing. It supports about every graphic file format you can find plus sound and video. It's small and very quick with slideshow facilities.

Web link: http://stud1.tuwien.ac.at/~e9227474

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NOTE: The Mac programs on this CD are mostly in archived 'HQX' (BinHex) files – they can be extracted with several applications, including Stuffit Expander (which is on the CD...). Clicking on the links below should set the process in motion. You may receive a message that the file cannot be loaded into Simple Text — if so, start Stuffit and then open the HQX file you want from within Stuffit.

This is an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop application for image viewing and file conversion. It is helpful for determining quickly the size and content of an image file. You get HTML generation, conversion to most common file formats (JPEG, PICT, TIFF, PNG and others), scaling, zooming, rotating, flipping and much more.

Web link: www.theresistance.net

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Vecta3D is a tool for creating 3D images and animations for Macromedia Flash and other popular vector formats. Creating 3D images in Flash is a laborious process normally requiring a lot of patience and image tracing skill. Vecta3D works as a standalone program or 3D Studio Max plug-in. It lets you create great 3D images then animate and render them. You can output directly to Flash where all your animation keyframes are preserved. Vecta3D lets you create 3D vector artwork for Flash in a fraction of the time.

Web link: www.vecta3d.com

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ProJPEG is an easy to use, high performance tool for preparing optimised JPEG images for the Web. It is a file format plug-in for Adobe Photoshop 3.0 and greater. ProJPEG provides many unique abilities to aid you in the creation of optimised JPEGs for the Web without trial and error that can save you valuable production time as you achieve smaller, faster JPEG files.

Web link: www.boxtopsoft.com

A Smaller GIF is a program for shrinking animated GIFs without changing their appearance. A Smaller GIF can reduce the amount of space an animation uses without introducing any visual artifacts, distortion, or blurring, as GIFs are stored using a loss-less compression format. A Smaller GIF tries several different compression techniques, then uses the technique that will minimize the size of the resulting GIF.

Web link: www.peda.com/smaller