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.

A fun drawing and animation program with many built-in backgrounds and clip-art. Object-oriented so things are (re)moveable.  Sound effect can be added as well as recording your own

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...