MetaCreations Painter™ 6 is the best version yet of the ultimate painting tool for graphic designers and fine artists alike. Painter's exclusive tool set offers an extensive array of brushes, textures, canvas choices, and art materials to...

Mac3D is an early Macintosh vector based drawing app, similar to MacDraw, with the bonus that it supports 3D, making it one of the very first 3D drawing apps on the Mac.  It also supports shading through basic patterns, the same B&W...

AutoCAD is a CAD (3D) design and rendering software suite. AutoCAD version R11 and R12 for 68K FPU-equipped Macs. Note: disk images inside main R11 and R12 archives are packaged using ShrinkWrap (also available on this site). Recommend...

Third major Kid Pix Deluxe release See also: Kid Pix Deluxe 3X for Mac OS X  

Elastic Reality was one of the very first PowerPC only app on the Macintosh market.  With Elastic Reality, you could morph, warp, crossfade images and whatnot.  Then you could export the animation to a QuickTime movie with different...

ClarisImpact™ software lets you create more kinds of structured business diagrams than other programs—flow charts, org charts, data charts, calendars, network diagrams and much more. And they’ve never been so easy to create....

Apple's LaserWriter and Adobe's PostScript page-description language introduced the world to low-cost, graphic-arts-quality output. But PostScript's full drawing capabilities have remained hidden to most users. Existing drawing programs...

A Smaller GIF is a nice little app to create animated GIF or to edit them.  

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.

Corel Graphics Suite 11 includes CorelDRAW 11 and CorelTRACE 11. CorelDraw is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. Note: You have to set a printer before launching it otherwise it might...

Pixar's 3D renderer for Macintosh.  For NetRenderMan each Macintosh in network need have different serial numbers . Below have 50 numbers:  1:  99426  2:  117101  3:  304824  4:...

Until recently, Adobe Illustrator was the only Macintosh drawing application offering an interactive interface that took advantage of some of PostScript’s more advanced capabilities. Now Illustrator has a formidable challenger — FreeHand...

According to the introductory videotape that comes with Adobe Illustrator 88, “Now anyone can create high-quality graphics and illustrations quickly and easily.” One has to take promotional videos with a grain of salt, of course; the...

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...