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Killer OSX Native Apps (Graphics)
Blender
Blender is the in-house software of a high quality animation studio. It has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of three dimensions. Blender can be used to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations or business graphics, to do some morphing, or to design user interfaces. Developers can easily build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves and keys) are implemented. [more]
Gif Fun
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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GIFfun(TM) by Stone Design is the key to creating Web Animations quickly - you can use Create(TM) to make the individual slides, or drag in any Image File directly into the GIFfun window, and the best part is that GIFfun is totally free, including the well-commented source code. GIFfun was originally created because I wanted to add yet another feature to Create, but since this tool is of use to every web page designer, I thought it would help spread the word of Cocoa and to provide you with source and make it free because I can hear Monty saying "The Price Is Right"
This is just about as simple as it gets for creating animated gifs, it just plain works, without the bloat others are crippled by. And yes I used this for the Farscape banner on the left of this page. Highly recommended. [more]
Gordon
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Payware (with trial)
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Gordon is a tool that simplifies and accelerates Flash development and help optimize Shockwave Flash (SWF) files. Gordon can decompile all ActionScript and accurately display all movie elements of a published SWF file. With Gordon you can compress Shockwave Flash movies and take advantage of the new Flash MX format without having access to the original .fla project. Vector graphic, bitmap image and sound data can be easily exported to a variety of different formats including PDF and TIFF. Whether you want to recover lost or corrupt Flash documents, review the programming of an animation, updating an entire site to Flash MX or just explore the SWF file structure, Gordon can help.
If you are a flash developer, you need this bad. [more]
Graphic Converter
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Shareware
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Excellent graphics format converter, reads 175 formats and exports 45, supports batch edits and conversions. Even supports some strange formats like ecw and many others. If you do anything with graphics, you want this app, highly recommended. [more]
Kunvert
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Freeware
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Kunvert is an application to convert PDF files to JPG, for example to convert the screen shots made by Mac OS X 10.2, saving disk space. It is capable of converting any type of PDF. In addition it can convert more formats like gif, pict, bmp, and png, to jpg or pict. And even make an scale to it during conversion. Just drop the files to convert onto the application icon, or to the program window. In the preferences window you can choose some extra options, like Delete the original item after conversion or Quit the application when finished. [more]
Maya Personal learning edition
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Free for non-commercial use
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High end 3D modeling and animation package, made available free for non-commercial use to allow anyone to learn it without having to buy it. Be warned this is a very powerful and complex app, so you will want to sign up for the online community, which contains all sorts of tutorials and other goodies. [more]
Terragen
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Payware (with demo)
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Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage in its development, Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use. Although Terragen is a continually evolving work-in-progress, it is already capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualization, special effects, art and recreation. Terragen has been used in a variety of commercial applications including film, television and music videos, games and multimedia, books, magazines and print advertisements. For just a small selection of projects Terragen has been used in, please visit the commercial use page. Despite the fact that Terragen can be used for professional landscape visualization projects, it is accessible and easy to get started with. You could be rendering your first landscape image in as little as 15 minutes after installation. [more]
Vuescan
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Developer: Home Page
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License: Shareware
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VueScan is a powerful scanning program that works with most scanners to produce high-quality scans that have excellent color fidelity. It takes advantage of the advanced hardware capabilities of most scanners on the market today, and helps you do batch scanning while at the same time producing color-balanced and cropped images.
I have been using this app under Linux and OSX for several years, with zero problems of any kind, as for the scan quality, it beats everything else I have seen including Silverfast. [more]
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