Graphic Design Tools - Freeware Files

Freeware graphic design tools; design, create and edit graphics, 3D and illustrations.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » 3D Modeling Software:

BlenderOS:2000/XP/Vista/7
Advanced 3D content creation suite featuring: Interface, Modeling, Rigging, Rendering, Animation, UV Unwrapping, Shading, Physics and Particles, Imaging and Compositing, and Real Time 3D/Game Creation.

Google SketchUpOS:XP/Vista/7
Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of anything you like. Design a new piece of furniture. Model your city for Google Earth. Create a skatepark for your hometown, then export an animation and share it on YouTube.

Serif 3DPlusOS:All
3D design software that enables you to create stunning 3D graphics for your home, school or business - no experience required!

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Desktop Graphics:

AWicons Lite 1OS:All
AWicons Lite allows creating, editing and managing icons and other small imagery. It handles popular file formats used to store multiple icons of various sizes and all possible color modes.

LiquidIcon XPOS:All
LiquidIcon is a full-featured icon editing program with features such as icon extraction, multi-icon resource creation, cursor creation, and multiple built-in graphics effects.

PixelToolbox 1OS:9x/NT4/ME/2000/XP
Create, edit, and apply 1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Desktop Publishing Software:

Serif PagePlus SEOS:All
Desktop publishing software that enables you to create stunning documents for your home, school, business or club - no experience required!

Terragen 1OS:All
Terragen is a powerful solution for rendering and animating realistic natural environments. Create entire worlds from your imagination, or import real world terrain datasets and use Terragen to generate photorealistic landscape images and animations.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Digital Photo Tools:

Microsoft Pro Photo ToolsOS:XP/Vista/7 + .NET 3
Easily and quickly geotag your photos, view and edit metadata properties in digital images, including RAW captures. Convert from RAW to JPEG, TIFF, and HD Photo. This includes the ability to resize the image.

PngUtilsOS:All
A collection of utilities for PNG images. Convert, optimize, verify, reduce size, extract metadata, and much more.

ShrinkItOS:XP/Vista/7 + .NET 2
ShrinkIt help you make thumbnail images, in any sizes. You can drag'n drop a image to the ShrinkIt windows and it will make a smaller thumbnail picture. You can change quality, preserve aspect ratio, set file name suffix, and set background color.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Graphic Capture:

ScreenHunterOS:98/NT4/ME/2000/2003/XP/Vista/7
ScreenHunter is a screen-capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. ScreenHunter can capture a full screen, an active window, the client window, or a rectangular area. It automatically saves captures in BMP or JPEG format, or diretcly to clipboard.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Illustration Software:

Inkscape 1OS:All
Open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Serif DrawPlusOS:XP (32-bit)/Vista/7
Drawing and graphics software that enables you to create stunning vector graphics, family trees, room layouts and even web animations.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Image Editing Software:

GIMP - GIMP Portable 1OS:NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7
GNU image manipulation program for tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring, image format converter etc.

Paint.NET 1OS:XP SP2/Vista/7 + .NET 3.5
Image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An online community provides help, tutorials, and plugins.

PhotobieOS:2000/2003/2008/XP/Vista/7 + .NET
Photobie is image editing software that combines features amateurs can use with advanced tools professionals will appreciate. Create 3D cubes, make a screen capture, and produce GIF animation with your picture and changes.

Photofiltre 1OS:All
PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program, allowing you to adjust an image an apply filters for adjusting brightness, contrast, dyed, saturation, gamma correction and also artistic filters. (No layer- or GIF support).

Photoscape 1OS:98/NT/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Combine and split images, screen capture, Raw converter, make animated gif and let you do other usefull operations.

Pixia 1OS:2000/XP/Vista/7
Pixia is a painting tool made exclusively for full color graphics. Supports unlimited layers, Photoshop plugins, extended undo function and high pixels layout (No GIF support).

Older version are also available for previous versions of Windows.

Serif PhotoPlusOS:XP/Vista/7
Photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance digital photos, create stunning bitmap graphics and even web animations. Supports Photoshop plugins, layers, editable text, extensive shaping and masking tools, slicing and web image maps.

Great application with all the features you need, but unfortunately Serif has implemented some extremely annoying advertisment, making this a second choice.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Image Viewers & Editors:

FastStone Image Viewer 1OS:98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter, and editor with features including resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustment, watermarks, and a broad array of other image-managing features, like batch image converter and slide show.

FastStone MaxView 1OS:All
Fast and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout lets you view images in a variety of ways like images in password-protected ZIP and RAR archive files directly and instantly. Also supports basic editing.

IrfanView 1OS:All
Fast image viewer/converter that lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. In addition to basic editing IrfanView has a Thumbnails shortcut that offers an Explorer-like file tree that displays all images in a selected folder.

XnView 1OS:All
XnView is a fast multi-format graphics browser, viewer, and converter. It can read more than 400 file formats and allows quick browsing of directory contents in both thumbnail and preview views. Its features include HTML page generation and much more.

» Freeware Files » Graphic Design » Media Management:

Fresh ViewOS:9x/NT4/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7
Gives you the ability to organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, video). Watch movies, listen to music, and view graphics in a slide show. Image files in a folder can be displayed using a number of views, including a thumbnail view.

MyAlbum 1OS:All
Picture cataloger for building easily digital photo albums. Build self-running "all-in-one" albums. Manual, automatic, random and multiple slideshow with background music and transition effects. Screen saver to play albums when PC is unattended.

PicasaOS:XP/Vista/7
Picasa automatically finds and organizes all of your pictures. View slideshows of your albums with the click of a button. Convert pictures to movies, enhance, fix red-eye, and even crop without losing data or permanently changing your original picture.

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