Kid Pix was one of the best painting programs for kids.  It featured a ton of fun to use tools such as stamps, brushes, magic erasers that would reveal a bitmap, mixing tools that would scramble your pictures, really hours and hours of fun for...

Adobe and Aldus may be in the midst of tying the connubial knot, but Illustrator and FreeHand — the companies’ respective top draw programs — continue to duke it out. Illustrator version 5.5 includes improved text-formatting...

Goldberg is a freeware image and movie viewer with image editing capabilities and support for applying QuickTime and other effects.

3D program from the early 1990's. Modeling was a combination of lathe, extrude, path extrude. Also primitives like spheres, planes, and cubes. Rendering options - flat, Gouraud, Phong, and raytrace. No global illumination. Infini-D 4.5...

Director est un logiciel de création d'applications vidéo (cd-rom, jeux, démos, simulations, tutoriels, ...) pour Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, créé en 1994 et commercialisé par Macromedia puis Adobe...

Professional artists take for granted the rivalry between Adobe Illustrator and Aldus FreeHand. While Illustrator has, in my opinion, maintained an edge over FreeHand in recent years, it clearly lacked significant functions that FreeHand provided...

Version 2.0 of Fractal Design's Painter, a natural media paint program that simulates traditional art painting methods. Serial Number:...

Maya coming to the Mac is undoubtedly one of the greatest events for the Mac 3D user, and likewise for the whole Mac community. It’s proof that an industry leader sees the Macintosh as a viable 3D platform. Maya (on other platforms) created...

Kid Pix is a new color painting program created just for kids. But you don't have to be a kid to enjoy it. As the wildest, craziest mix of unique painting tools and zany sound effects you can find anywhere for the Mac. Kid Pix stole the show...

Choosing between FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator has never been easy, and FreeHand 3.0 makes the choice even more difficult. Faster screen redraws make the new version more responsive than previous versions. And although FreeHand may not offer as...

Adobe Streamline is a program that helps convert raster graphics (pixels) into vector graphics (lines). Depending on the complexity of the image, Streamline can do a fairly nice job at this conversion, though fine adjustments are often needed with...

Painter Classic provides developing digital artists and beginning web designers with an elegant, quick to learn and use digital painting technology, whether working from existing artwork or painting from scratch. Painter Classic contains a...

Adobe ImageStyler shows promise as a companion application for Web designers, but it doesn’t quite live up to its price tag. Since it’s a version 1.0 release, we can cut it some slack, but in its current state (lacking a few critical...

The munchkins and techno elves at MetaCreations have been hard at work on Poser, the company’s 3D virtual mannequin program. Whereas versions 1 and 2 were cool curiosities, Poser 3, with its all-new interface, slicker models, and innovative...