Adobe GroundZero 1.0 is the pre-releasee codename for Adobe Imagestyler .  It was intended for use in conjunction with Flash for web development. (Thanks to klnnurv for clarying this.)  

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

The first version of a drawing program aimed at young children. Main features of the application include stamps, "wacky" brushes, shape-creation templates, and an easy-to-use interface.

Designer's Studio (a.k.a. D' Studio in short) is an awesome, and altough unofficial, very complete Kaleidoscope scheme maker/editor.  As a shareware, D' Studio was the very first Kaleidoscope scheme editor to even appear on the...

Imagine if Painter were a vector-based instead of a pixel-based program. Fractal claims that's what Expression is: an infinitely scaleable Painter. To some degree they're right, but unfortunately, not enough. Expression is a natural-media...

Aldus FreeHand 5.0 compiled in december 1994, right before the rights were sold to Macromedia.   It's an application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and...

All you have to do is choose your favorite combination of sky, ground, and mountains to create exquisite natural and supernatural landscapes in KPT Bryce, an easy-to-use terrain-generation tool. With an interface long on high-quality pictures and...

The last decent version of creative Suite for PowerPC based macs. You get everything you need all in one package. Turn your PowerMac G4 or G5 system into a full working design / media authoring studio without any worries. includes: Adobe...

Good old ClarisWorks. Better in one significant way than MS-Office: there is a 'drawing' style document which is effectively a page layout tool similar to MS-Publisher, but actually usable. Perfectly serviceable office suite including...

AppleWorks — the most popular program on the Mac — is really several applications in one. It gives you six core capabilities (and a number of combinations thereof): word processing, spreadsheet, database, presentation, drawing and...

Everybody knows what Adobe Photoshop is, but Adobe Photoshop 7.0 is the last version that could run under Mac OS 9.  Since Adobe Photoshop 7 was Carbonized, it was also ready to run under Mac OS X. Photoshop 6 addressed nearly all of the...

Popular 3D landscape creation software.  Export options include HTML image-mapped links, RealPlayer movies, VRML and QTVR. Bryce 4 is dedicated to designing, rendering and animating breathtaking natural 3D worlds and abstract 3D...

The Mac hosts only a few professional-level 3D animation apps — four, to be exact — and one of the most capable is Maxon’s Cinema 4D XL. Like its main rival, NewTek’s LightWave..., Cinema 4D XL is designed for serious artists...

Rainbox is an amazing application that lets you exploit the Mac's 8-bit colors palette to its nearly full extent.  Do not overlook its tiny size - only 76KB.  Rainbox allows for an extensive set of creative drawing tools: You can use...

A very simple, straight forward program for creating little animations. The name says it all. First software I ever used at a graphics academy in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Normally working with 8- and 16mm filmcamera's for animation, it felt...