MetaCreations Art Dabbler is the complete artist's toolkit that makes creativity easy and fun. Unique digital imaging tools let you effortlessly trace photos or turn them into paintings or drawings. Step-by-step art lessons teach you to draw,...

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.)  

GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator,...

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...

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...

QX-Tools 4.0 is the XTension package that focuses on the features you need and can use without a huge learning curve. QX-Tools 4.0 includes QX-VectorEdit, which allows you to convert PostScript, EPS files and PDF files into QuarkXPress...

Strata StudioPro is a 3D modeling an animation application. New advanced modeling features in Strata StudioPro 1.5 are like a delightful candy coating on an already impressively versatile program, which retains its interface and core set of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...