Artweaver. A Freeware Graphic Design Software

With Artweaver you do not need to pay to start learning Graphic design.PcMag.com chose this Software as best freeware in Graphic Design. If you want the freedom to paint, without the mess and without paying $359 for Corel Painter X, Artweaver is a good starter tool for artists.

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.

Advantages of Artweaver

• Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
• Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
• Transparency and Layers support.
• Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
• Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
• Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
• Support for many languages through language files (Columbian Spanish, Danish, Hungarian, Swedish, ...).
• Artweaver is Freeware.

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Artweaver.exe  8.85 MB
Portable-Artweaver.zip  11.24 MB

Free Icon Editor - IcoFX 1.6.4

IcoFX is a freeware icon editor. Create easily icons with transparency for Windows XP and Windows Vista.

In the integrated workspace you can easily preview, save, change your icons. You can convert your favorite images into icons, or icons to images. With the help of many tools and more than 40 effects icon creation is made easy. It offers powerful tools like Brighten, Darken, Blur and Sharpen for retouching your icons in minutes.

Features:

    * Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
    * Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
    * Support for transparency (alpha channel)
    * More than 40 effects + custom filter
    * Resolutions up to 256x256
    * Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
    * Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
    * Import and export images
    * Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools
    * Built in resource editor for creating icon libraries or changing icons inside exe files
    * Zoom icons up to 10000% for increased precision
    * Import image dialog, for creating icons from images
    * Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa
    * Open, save, edit and convert Macintosh OS X icons
    * Extract Macintosh icons from resource files
    * Snapshot window for creating overviews of the icons

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CaptureScreen 1.6.3266

Screen capture program, very easy to use. Right-click for contextual menu access. Move and size the window to the desired location, and select the command "Capture" for a region capture of the screen, or the command "Full Screen" for a full capture of the screen.

Save the capture with the command "Save"; png format (by default) gives a perfect result. For precision, the "Image Size" menu displays or sets the real size (pixels) of the capture. The "Clear" command erases the capture and enables the commands to set the size of the capture.

The "Transparent Mode" command preserves the window and the image in transparency: you can use the capture like a tracing paper. The "Thumbnail..." command allows to save a thumbnail of the capture (with a Preview command). Image effects (Lighten, Darken, GrayScale, Invert, Contrast, Color, RGB ...) and some special effects are available with the "Effects" menu .

This version adds click and drag system.

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.

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