Image, Paint and Draw

Image Manipulation/Raster Graphics

Art Rage
Deep Paint
Dogwaffle
Painter 25
Serif Photoplus
Pixia
The Gimp

Draw/Vector Graphics

Auto Trace
Diagrams
Serif Drawplus
Inkscape
Raster to Vector Converter
Text Effects

Natural Media Simulation

Art Rage
Dogwaffle

Photo Mosaic

Azulejos
Centarsia
Mosaic Creator

Fractal Generators

Chaos Pro
Chaos Pro Database
FractalForge
Mandelbrot

Textures

Texture Processor

Icon Creators

Liquid Icon XP

Image to Text Converters

BG_Ascii
Pic 2 Ascii

Text Effects

Font Magic
Text Effects
Bitmap Font Writer

Miscelaneous

Boxshot Maker

Bryce 5

3D landscape modelling software with animation capability.

TrueSpace 3

3D modelling and animation including Live Skin, Physics, Inverse Kinematics, 3D Paint and more.

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