08-Nov-98: the Newsletter
FreeGraphics.com, the Newsletter
November 08, 1998
vol. 01, issue 05
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CONTENTS
It Wasn't Your Imagination
Textpad
QuickTip: Counting Clicks
Weekly Download
New Sites
IT WASN'T YOUR IMAGINATION
That's right, you didn't miss reading last week's newsletter,
there wasn't one. But I'm back this week and let me tell you,
there have been *tons* of great additions to FreeGraphics.com
(see them all at the end of this rather lengthy newsletter).
I had hoped to announce a new feature this week and dad-blast
it, I just didn't get it finished. But since I had so wanted
to announce it -- here's a hint: soon you'll not only be able
to find free graphics at FreeGraphics.com, but also artists
who do custom work for free, artists who work for barter, and
yes, artists who will work for cold hard cash.
TEXTPAD
http://www.textpad.com/
I'm testing out a new editor for this newsletter. Past issues
have had some formatting problems for people using Exchange --
previously, the only way I could correct the problem was to go
in and manually add line breaks to the newsletter. With
Textpad, it's done automatically (if I've configured it
correctly) -- you Exchange readers out there let me know if
this newsletter looks okay. If it does, I've got a new piece
of software to register.
QUICKTIP
Been playing around with your foreground and background colors
in Photoshop and want the default black and white back? Sure
you can click and recover them, but for you keystoke fanatics
out there, just hit the letter D.
(Want to submit your own QuickTip? QuickTips can be about a
particular graphics software program, about FreeGraphics.com,
about graphics in general (such as optimization, transparency,
etc.), or about general site production. QuickTips are
limited to 50 words or less (yes, I count them, URLs count as
one word). Submit your QuickTip to
mailto:webmaster@freegraphics.com - if I use it, you'll get a
mention here in the newsletter along with a link to your site
-- no adult sites, please.)
WEEKLY DOWNLOAD
This week's download is from freegraphics.com is a "remote
control" interface and looks something like a fall leaf
light-switch plate circa 1973 (that's not an insult -- it's
retro, I meant for it to look like that... really). Download
it at: http://www.freegraphics.com/download.html
NEW SITES (two weeks worth)
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/25-Oct-1998.htm
01 Web Graphics : Families Themes Sets
Mystic Arts
Overall Rating: 4
Marvelous, delicate, matching ornamentals make these sets
delightful. A site and graphics with a magical, mystical air.
Quality Rating: 4-5 Quantity Rating: 4
07 Backgrounds
Textured Backgrounds
Overall Rating: 3
Because each tileable background here uses so few colors, the
backgrounds are a bit harsh and abrasive or bold and
experimental -- dependent on your point of view.
Quality Rating: 3 Quantity Rating: 4
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/26-Oct-1998.htm
05 Free Graphics Software (yes, I finally opened this section)
000 -- NOTICE FROM CLAIRE -- 000
PLEASE NOTE: These software programs are not Reviewed by
Claire -- the descriptions you see below are taken from the
software manufacturer's web site. Always use caution when
downloading software from the Internet. PROCEED AT YOUR
OWN RISK.
Gimp
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely
distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo
retouching, image composition and image authoring. (Unix)
ImageMagick
The ImageMagick image display program can display an image
on any workstation screen running an X server. It can read and
write many of the more popular image formats including JPEG,
TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD. In addition you can interactively
resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to
an image and save your completed work in the same or
differing image format. (Unix)
Terrain Visualization and Flyby Animation
3DEM freeware for Win95 and WinNT will produce OpenGL
rendered landscape scenes and flyby animations from USGS
Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files, USGS Global 30 Arc Second
Elevation Data Set (GTOPO30 DEM) files, NASA Mars Digital
Topographic Map (DTM) files, or any topographic data file which
is organized by rows and columns of elevation data.
Gif Animator (Digital Frontiers)
Digital Frontiers announces the release of HVS Animator for
Windows 95/NT and Macintosh. A full-featured GIF animation
editor, HVS Animator is included with your purchase of HVS
ColorGIF 2.0, and can also be downloaded from the demos
page.
GIF Animator Lite Edition (Ulead)
Ulead GIF Animator Lite Edition is a special Free version of the
award-winning Ulead GIF Animator. This Lite Edition is designed
to give you a taste of the industry standard for GIF animators.
It is available for unlimited use, and is brought to you
exclusively from the Ulead Web Utilities web site. (Win95/NT)
Photo Viewer (Ulead)
Photo Viewer 4.0 offers an unbeatable range of features, while
the most commonly used functions are just a mouse click away.
View and convert 27+ image types, view GIF animations,
display multiple images, rotate and pan, print, or open into
PhotoImpact or another image editor.
Behemot Graphics Editor
Behemot Graphics Editor is a graphics program which allows to
model and render 3D objects and scenes. It runs on Windows
3.1 (win Win32s Extension) Windows95/NT and Linux; it can
create and modify graphically b-rep, blob, NURBS models; object
can be logically intersected or subtracted; text can be
converted into solid objects using True Type fonts; polyline and
NURBS curve can be edited and used to build rotation and
sweep solids; objects can be linked using skeleton to easily
move them.
WOCAR
WOCAR is an Optical Character Recognition Application (OCR). It
converts scanned documents to text documents. The software
can process documents written in English or in French. WOCAR
can work with any scanner that supports the TWAIN interface.
It can also process any bilevel TIFF image file. This application
works on Windows 95 and Windows NT.
CSamp
Small 32-bit utility used to determine the RGB values of the
point under mouse cursor. It can be used in any application.
Now also includes magnifying lenses. (Win95/NT)
Reptile (tileable backgrounds)
Limited only by your creativity, Reptile allows you to easily
produce any combination of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small,
wide, narrow, rough or smooth textures. And besides
generating a vast range of shapes and surfaces the program
also features a great way to color the textures to suit the look
and feel you require. (Win95)
Ultimate Paint
Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics
program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. It's
freeware and it will remain so until it reaches version 2.0. It
supports JPEG, GIF (only reading), BMP, PCX and IFF image
formats and Twain compatible scanners. You can print your
image setting its size and orientation. It has a very flexible
brush handling method which encourages creative drawing.
Retouch and enhance photos using a comprehensive set of
built-in tools and plug-ins. Features include resizing, rotating,
flood filling, text operations and a lot more. Comes with several
cool plug-in filters.
20/20
HotFreeware by American Software provides advertiser
supported freeware. The first free application is 20/20, an
image viewer, capture, and annotation program.
Photonyx Viewer
The new Photonyx Viewer interface design enables you a quick
access to all its functions. Furthermore it is easily customizable
to match your needs. You can switch to full screen mode,
hide/show directory panel and toolbar and place them on the
top or bottom (toolbar), or left and right (directory panel)
relatively to the main window (slide show, monitor display
correction, virtual screens technology, save and print,).
POV-Ray
The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, totally free
tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is
available in official versions for Microsoft Windows 3.1/Win32s
and Windows 95/NT, DOS, the Macintosh, i86 Linux, SunOS, and
Amiga. The source code is available for those wanting to do
their own ports.
Picture Dicer
PictureDicer is a Freeware tool that chops any image file into
several smaller images, suitable for creating mouseover effects
and pseudo-imagemaps on Web pages. It also generates the
HTML for a table to contain the partial images and display them
so they appear as the original uncut image. (Win95/NT)
Minos (CAD)
Your Personal 3D CAD system including: French and English
version, Polylines, Shapes, Circles/Arcs, Bezier's Curves,
Perforates, Line Strings, Points, Straight Lines, Planes,
Intersections, Projections, Bezier's Patches, Cylinders, Circular
Cylinders, Cones, Revolves, Pipes, Pockets, Ruled Surfaces,
Fuse, Cut, Common.
Crossroads 3D
Crossroads 3D is a new Windows freeware application that can
translate between several 3D file formats. (Win95/NT)
Photonizer
Photonizer lets you attach information to your photos.
Information like persons appearing on the photos, the year the
photo was taken and the event captured by the photo.
Furthermore, you can create slide shows, thumb nails and
search for photos based upon the information you have
attached to the photos. So you can search for photos with
specific persons, events and years. New: export photo albums
to automatically generated HTML pages.
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/28-Oct-1998.htm
03 Holiday : Thanksgiving
Animation Factory
Overall Rating: 4
These people do it Very Right. Some pumpkins and squash with
falling leaves, turkeys (including one with a gun) and Happy
Thanksgiving text. (All animated graphics.)
Quality Rating: 5 Quantity Rating: 3
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/30-Oct-1998.htm
01 Web Graphics : Families Themes Sets
Soccer Graphics
Overall Rating: 4
It's a kick in the grass. Some fun matching sets for the soccer
enthusiasts out there -- featuring soccer balls and/or players
(matching buttons include text such as Club Info, Teams).
Quality Rating: 4 Quantity Rating: 2
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/02-Nov-1998.htm
04 Animated Graphics
ProDraw Free Graphic Gallery
Overall Rating:
Extruded images that spin (all a nice silvery texture), may web
appropriate symbols (arrows, diskettes, etc.).
Quality Rating: 3 Quantity Rating: 3
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/3-Nov-1998.htm
01 Web Graphics : Families Themes Sets
The Gilded Lily Graphics
Overall Rating: 4
A small collection of very nice gilded and bejewelled sets.
Quality Rating: 4 Quantity Rating: 3
03 Holiday : Christmas
Fiely's Kooky Art Stuff
Overall Rating: 5
From one of my favorite artists, dancing pink snowmen and a
green sumo snowman (no, I'm not kidding).
10 Tutorials : PaintShop
Making Beveled Buttons
By X-Streme Graphics.
Flaming and Ice Text
By X-Streme Graphics.
Metallic Text
By X-Streme Graphics.
Gas Flame
By X-Streme Graphics.
Rounding Corners
By X-Streme Graphics.
Outlined Text
By X-Streme Graphics.
Bevelled Text
By X-Streme Graphics.
Indented Text
By X-Streme Graphics.
Slime Text
By X-Streme Graphics.
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/4-Nov-1998.htm
01 Web Graphics : Families Themes Sets
Graphics By PeeLee
Overall Rating: 4
Treasure trove! Fabulous sets from the delicate to the bold -- a
wide variety of detailed and lovely work. Everything from
primary color dinos to delicately colored florals to marvelous
mystical ships.
Quality Rating: 4-5 Quantity Rating: 3
01 Web Graphics : Misc BBB
Gifart
Overall Rating: 4
Buttons, bars, icons, counter digits -- all good stuff, all
web-ready.
Quality Rating: 5 Quantity Rating: 4
03 Holiday : Christmas
Graphics by PeeLee
Overall Rating: 5
Not your standard Christmas matching sets. There's one here
which features the Little Match Girl, a Feliz Navidad set with
beautiful sparkly Christmas ornaments, and a glitter-blue Joy to
the World set.
03 Holiday : Halloween
Graphics by PeeLee
Overall Rating: 5
An absolutely creepy skull matching set for spooking up your
web pages pages and a tamer more-childlike ghosties in the
graveyard set.
03 Holiday : Thanksgiving
Graphics by PeeLee
Overall Rating: 5
No turkeys or pilgrims, but a wonderfully muted tone set
perfectly accented by the occasional fire-orange leaf.
http://www.freegraphics.com/New/5-Nov-1998.htm
01 Web Graphics : ClipArt
Traffic Signs
Overall Rating: 4
Richard Moeur is a designer different from most in this
database -- he's a Traffic Engineer that knows a *lot*
about yes, traffic SIGNS. If you're looking for a U.S.
traffic sign, I bet you'll find it at his site.
Quality Rating: 4 Quantity Rating: 5
03 Holiday : Christmas
Santalady's Victorian Christmas GIFs
Overall Rating: 5
Delightful Santas, nutcrackers, angels, trumpets, and garlands.
Ann-S-Thesia
Overall Rating: 5
Ann-S-Thesia's beautiful art work is well known across the web
and her holiday graphics demonstrate her scrumptious touch
with candy canes and holly (web sets).
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notice, intact.
Copyright 1998, Claire Amundsen Schaeffer, All Rights Reserved.
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