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...

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,...

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:...

At first glance, GraphicConverter might seem like a poor person’s Photoshop. After all, it lets you edit 32-bit images and apply effects and filters to those images; it also handles just about every graphics file format known, includ- ing GEM,...

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...

Strata Vision3d was one of first batch of 3D solutions software by Strata. Complete 3D package with modeling tools, texturing and raytracing render. Until 1993 Strata Vision3d was the top 3D solution by Strata Inc. In...

Original DMG installer for Adobe Lightroom 2.4. System requirements according to Adobe: Processor: PowerPC ® G4, G5, or Intel-based Mac OS: Mac OS X 10.4 or Mac OS X 10.5 (32-bit application) RAM: 1 GB Hard Disk: 1 GB of available...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...