VISTA Compatible Beneton Movie GIF is a free animated GIF editor.
VISTA Compatible GraphicsGale is a software for editing raster format image. You can retouch a photo, paint a picture, and so on. In addition, you can make an animation, seeing its preview in real-time. This feature must be useful for making an animated GIF or a video-game character.
VISTA Compatible PhotoScape Does animation, saves gifs.
NOT VISTA Compatible Brush-Strokes-Image-Editor You can edit images in a variety of formats, create images for Web sites; create and view GIF animations.
VISTA Compatible Animator DV Simple 9.02 A software for creating stop-motion animated movies. Some features: onion skin, frame averaging (video noise reduction), AVI export, RAM player, time-lapse tool. Required serial number: ADV00843072-243 provided by the creator Wroblewski Multimedia
NOT VISTA Compatible AniS Applet can be used for simple animation of two or more images.
VISTA Compatible Cylekx Photo editor, graphics design, web animation, pixel and vector program. Does Layers and Multiframes; uses vector,binary, paletted, gradient, and rgb image types. Includes wands, cloning, quantizing, user-writable filters, true alpha support, and batch processing.
VISTA Compatible Photobie Design Studio can create and edit high quality GIF animations. Photobie Design Studio can also generate high quality PDF files.
VISTA Compatible AnimPixels is an animated movie software specializing in Isometric Pixel Art. Use your own movie components, or download them from the Web, to create a original pixelized animated movie.
NOT VISTA Compatible Project Dogwaffle is a paint and animation program. It's a fully functional version with some new features. It is not save-disabled, there's no time-limit, no registration needed.
NOT VISTA Compatible Serif Draw Plus 6, drawing and graphics software that enables you to create stunning vector graphics, family trees, room layouts and even web animations. With DrawPlus you can create outstanding vector drawings, high-impact graphics and eye-catching animations—no experience required. Main Features: Drawing & Sketching; Backdrop Wizard; Studio Resources ; Color Selection ; Animation Mode; Blends; Transparency; Watermark Wizard; Border Wizard; Color Schemes; Editable Envelopes.
VISTA Compatible Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you may set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use.
VISTA Compatible FREE for 20 DAYS, $19.85 to Buy Easy GIF Animator supports all types of GIF animation.Create and edit animated pictures, banners, and buttons. Features include built-in image editor, banner wizard and animated-button wizard. You can also save animation in SWF Flash format and add sound to your animation files.
VISTA Compatible - FREE 15 DAYS $19.00 to Buy MakeGIFcreates animated GIFs from command line in batch mode. It is a visual command line processor. You can use pictures created by MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop etc. MakeGIF has optimization tools for making your GIFs smaller.
VISTA Compatible - FREE 20 DAYS $19.95 to buy Animated GIF Producer is a quick and remarkably easy-to-use tool for making animations, buttons, and banners.
VISTA Compatible - FREE 15 DAYS $39.95 to Buy Advanced GIF Animator is a powerful tool for creating animated GIF images. Industry experts named it number one software in its class when considering cost, performance, number of options and ease of use. Comes with Tech Support
FILTERS & Artistic Manipulations FREE
XERO PLUGins Set 4 Abstractor, Artworx, Fritillary, Iridium, Moodlight, Radiance, Simplicity, Soft Vignette, Titanium.
XERO PLUGins Set 1 The effects included in this set are: Alien Mist, Greyscaler, Greytinter, Lithograph, Mistifier, Moonlight, Porcelain, Seasons, and Skycleaner.
XERO PLUGins Set 3The effects included in this set are: Bad Dream, Duochrome, Emphasis, Fuzzifier, Improver, Lineart, Pastellise, Tekstya, Tweaker
Paint.COM is an easy to use image editor supporting image masks and layers with effects. It can modify pictures using drawing tools like Rectangle, Ellipse, Line, Curve, Polygon, Text, Retouch, Magic wand, Transformation.
FotoSketcher turns digital photos into beautiful pencil sketches or paintings in seconds.
PixelToolbox offers the standard set of painting tools along with a few filters and features not found in other software. The unique interface, tools, and workflow were engineered to maximize your creative potential.
Simplifier Vista plugin for painting-look effects like watercolor, dry brush and others. Filter segments source images on regions and simplify color gradations within them, apparently emphasizing borders between regions. Fully compatible with various image editors.
Stipple Studiowill accept any Windows bitmap formatted picture (BMP) and convert it into a combination of a stippled painting and a paint-by-symbol painting. Your imported photos colors are matched to a wide selection of the most popular off-the-shelf hobby acrylic paint suppliers.
PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor with fun and ease of use. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, raw converter, resizing, brightness/color/white-balance adjustment, backlight correction, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming. PhotoScape has been used for two years and is expanding its features continuously.
Paint.NET is free 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 active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plug-ins. Version 3.36 includes unspecified updates.
Sqirlz-Water-Reflections Add pools of water to any image or AVI video. The pools, which can be of any shape, can be animated to give gentle rippling reflections of the scene above them. Choose from a variety of ripples, and control details such as wave size, perspective, flow, texture, color and transparency.
Sometimes found on the web as VM or Visual Manipulation filters, this 144 filter set is by Mario Klingemann. This link has the entire set for download.
3D Software FREE
3D Software and animation FREE includes tutorials and videos. K-3D org
A Free open source 3D content creation suite. Blender
Fractal Software FREE
Fractal Forge v.2.8.2 is freeware. You can use it to draw your own fractal images, and explore Mandelbrot Set's branches.
Apophysis is a windows application made in delphi for creating, editing and rendering fractal flames. Freeware by Sourceforge.
This is the free "Lite" version of the Mind Boggling Fractals program written by Paul Carlson. Paul is no longer selling the full version but you can download the light version from this link: MBF Lite—scroll down to mbflit23.zip
Fractal Explorer downloads must include, Fractal Landscapes Library and User Formula Compiler to be fully functional.
Sterling2 now has 50 formulae, all different from those of Sterling. You should be able to make interesting fractals using any of the 50.
New ChaosPro 3.3 rev 215 has been released on June 22 2008. It can be downloaded from the Download page. Freeware fractal generator for the Microsoft Windows operating system, able to create beautiful images based on mathematical formulas.
MSPlotter (Mandelbrot Set Plotter) helps you create fractal images using the Mandelbrot Set and the Julia Set. MSPlotter can produce some nice-looking fractals while giving you total control of the process. Fractal AVI movies can also be created.
Snowflake Generator Freeware utility to easily create beautiful fractal snowflakes, patterns and backgrounds. The resulting images can be saved at the desired resolution to 24-bit Windows Bitmap (.BMP) files.
