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,...

A unique graphics application designed in Japan in 1986 that allows one to practice calligraphy skills using various brushes and inks.  Thickness of strokes varies by the speed of your mouse movement.  A somewhat difficult program to use,...

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...

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...

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...

Installing Maya (Mac OSX) The installation procedure is fairly self-explanatory. If you are installing Maya 5.0 for the first time, double-click installMaya and follow the on-screen instructions.  If a version of Maya 5.0 is already...

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...

Fantastic Art and Creativity software for kids and adults.  This version works well in emulation.  It is identical to the drawing portion in Kid Pix Studio.

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...

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...

Several 3-D CAD programs can handle drafting, rendering, and presentations, but they usually specialize in only one aspect. Presentation was the forte of DynaPerspective 1.0 (July ’89, page 47), with its ability to create fly-through...

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...

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...

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

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....

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

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...