Mulle kybernetiK, http://www.mulle-kybernetik.com/
Requirement: Mac OS X 10.3, iSight or QuickTime compatible video camera
MulleSight is a tiny application for capturing pictures taken with your iSight camera (others may work as well). It features a complete AppleScript interface, so you can do all sort of stuff with it.
Want better Ken Burns-style, pan-and-zoom effects than iMove can create? Photo to Movie is the ticket. This app gives you way more control over the effect than does iMovie, and it’s easy to use in conjunction with your video editor of choice. Saves movies in QuickTime or DV Stream format. Compatible with both iPhoto and iMovie, too.
Photoshop Elements 3.0 Tryout
Adobe Systems Inc., Voice 888-724-4508, http://www.adobe.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher
Got s Photoshop jones but about 500 too-few dollars to buy it? Try its little brother, Photoshop Elements. Elements has most of the tools and features of Photoshop, and lots of onboard help and explanations so if nothing else, when you save up enough cash for Photoshop, you’ll know how to use it.
Accidental deletion. Unintentional re-formatting. Inexplicable corruption. These things are a digital picture’s worst enemy happen all too often. Fortunately, there is Picture Rescue to protect you from these realities of the digital age. Picture Rescue offers unparalleled picture recovery options in even the most extreme digital media disasters. If you rely on digital pictures to commemorate your past and preserve your personal memories, you need Picture Rescue.
ScrapX 1.3.5 shareware
Aqueous Software LLC, 877 Willow St. #328, San Jose, CA, support@aqueoussoftware.com, http://www.aqueoussoftware.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
ScrapX is a multimedia scrapbook built for Mac OS X. It stores, displays, organizes, and dispenses content that is in text, image, movie and sound formats. Supported types include: animated GIF, BMP, GIF, HTML, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, RTF, RTFD, TIFF, URL, plain text, movie, sound, and (classic) sound resource.
It's Time to add Strata 3D CX to your Adobe Workflow. Strata 3D CX fits into your workflow with the new, easy to use features like polyspline modeling, live linking to Adobe files, high dynamic range lighting and more. Push your 2D files into a virtural environment, set up lighting, apply textures and take a perfect, photo-real picture. Illustration, design - even animation - will never be the same.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher, QuickTime 6.x
ThumbsUp is a simple, drag-and-drop based utility to create thumbnails for a bunch of pictures and supports all image formats of Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents). In addition size, quality, sharpening and antialiasing are configurable. Images can be scaled by percentage or limited to a maximum size, and with a scaling of 100 percent it may as well be used as an ultra-fast, comfortable image converter. Note: This utility is not intended to be a HTML thumbnail gallery generator; there are already lots of them out there.
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher, G3, G4 or G5 processor, USB or Firewire digital video camera or webcam, iSight cameras work well with Totem.
Totem transforms a personal computer and an inexpensive web-cam or video camera into an efficient system for conducting interviews and creating multimedia biographies. With Totem, there are no tapes that pile up needing to be digitized, transcribed or reviewed. The software enables many people to share the same computer and record video, audio and image files directly to it.
Tux Paint 0.9.14-2 freeware
New Breed Software, 675 Alvarado Ave. #27, Davis, CA, Voice 530-759-1019, bill@newbreedsoftware.com, http://www.newbreedsoftware.com
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Tux Paint is a paint program intended for young children (ages 3 and up). It has a very simple and fun-to-use interface, lots of sound effects, and a cartoon penguin who helps explain things. A variety of drawing tools are available, including a set of 'magic' special effect tools, and a 'rubber stamp' (or 'stickerbook') tool for placing pre-drawn and photographed images into a picture. Tux Paint is free software, released under an Open Source license.
