Software

Wazza's Photo & Video Editing Stuff

Info about choosing a camera, additional links to video and webcam software, video showcase sites, and more graphics stuff.

Wazza's Screen Capture Info

You can easily include "screen grabs" in your lesson notes or staff development documents.

Includes tips on inbuilt Mac OS and Windows solutions, and links to 3rd party utility software

GIMP (Mac/Win/Lin)

Freely distributed software for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. (Can be a bit of a drama to install).

GraphicConverter (Mac)

The Swiss Army knife of Mac graphics programs. Reads & saves in a huge variety of formats.

Image Resizer (Win)

Part of Microsoft's PowerToys collection.

Image Tricks (Mac)

Apply a wide variety of effects to photos. Free.

Inkwell (Mac/Win/Lin)

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand & CorelDraw. Free.

Irfan View (Win)

Useful for screen captures and general graphics editing.

LiveQuartz (Mac)

Powerful image editor with a range of tools and layers. Donationware.

Mike's Edge (Mac)

Web-ready transparencies and professional postScript image mattes (free).

MorphX (Mac)

Transform one image into another. Free.

Photofiltre (Win)

Full featured graphics editing. Free.

PIXresizer (Win)

Resize photos for web or email.

Seashore (Mac)

A full-featured image editor. Includes textures, gradients, anti-aliasing, etc.

CADintosh (Mac)

High performance 2D CAD program.

Cheetah 3D (Mac)

3D modelling, texture painting and animation.

DrawBerry (Mac)

A vector drawing application drawing that includes layers, inspectors and workspace, etc. Free.

DrawIt (Mac)

Image editing and drawing application (10.5). Non-destructive editing, live filters, powerful vector tools, a standard collection of basic shapes.

DrawWell (Mac)

DTP layout and drawing software. (About $US50)

EazyDraw (Mac)

Designed in the spirit of classic Mac drawing applications. Import and edit AppleWorks, ClarisDraw, MacDraw/Pro files.

Google SketchUp (Mac, Win)

3D modeling program to create models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, etc. Free.

Pencil (Mac, Win, Lin)

Create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.

SweetHome 3D (Mac, Win, Lin)

Interior design application that helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. (Free)

VectorWorks (Mac, Win)

High-end commercial 2D/3D drawing package. Australian distributor.

ViaCAD (Mac, Win)

2D/3D CAD software. Includes a 14 day trial version.

FFXporter

Upload straight from iPhoto to Flickr.

FaceBook - iPhoto

Upload straight from iPhoto to Facebook.

Downloading, organising, cataloguing and printing photos from digital cameras:

iPhoto (Mac)

Brilliant software for organising and sharing digital photos. (Part of iLife).

Picasa (Mac, Win)

Organise, view & print photos in albums. Free.

PhotoShop Album Starter (Win)

Free version of (now defunct) Photoshop Album.

Automatically create web albums - a web page of thumbnail-sized photographs, linked to the full-size item:

Galerie (Mac)

Very neat web album generator, for photos and QT movies, with a huge range of templates. Works with iPhoto albums. Free.

iPhoto (Mac)

Provides a built-in thumbnail export option. (See Wazza's iPhoto thumbnail quickstart - pdf - 1.37Mb)

Jalbum

Very elegant web album generator. Publish to a local folders, to their server or your own server. Donationware.

BetterHTML Exporter (Mac)

A plug-in to enhance iPhoto's web export function.

ShadowBox

Javascript application to display photos in a neat popup window on a web page.

TalaPhoto (Mac)

Create web galleries, slide shows, contact sheets, etc.

Picasa (Mac, Win)

 

Web Album Generator (Win)

 

PhotoPage (Mac)

 

Smaller Animals (Win)

 

Easy Thumbnails (Win)

Photo to Movie (Mac, Win)

Creates slide show with motion effects, music, and captions. Burn your movies to DVD or publish to the web.

PhotoPresenter (Mac)

Present pictures and movies, and easily create amazing presentations.

Art Text (Mac)

Create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, web banners and buttons.

AutoResizer (Mac)

Resize and reformat dozens, hundreds, even thousands of images. Free.

FastStone Photo Resizer (Win)

Image converter / resizer to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in batch mode. Free.

iResize (Mac)

Batch resize and compress images.

Resize (Mac, Win)

Resize an entire folder of photos with one click.

SmallImage (Mac)

Batch process JPEG files, resize, recompress, etc.

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Flashkit Images

InterfaceLIFT (Mac, Win)

GifFun (Mac)

Drag a folder of gifs to create an animated gif.