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sepo

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Nov 03, 2009 at 11:51 AM

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Just today. So you might want to download it and install it today. Inpaint 2.0 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/

It is quite neat piece of software for removal of unwanted things. It beats default tools in Photoshop.

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olishea

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Nov 03, 2009 at 02:07 PM

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Nice I will check it out tomorrow looks quick and easy.

Neat thread Sid I think I will add some more free software:

Free modeling app, very easy to use and great for organic and subdividing etc (although as Michalis informs me, not too stable on mac)
http://www.wings3d.com/

Free tone mapping software:

http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/download.php

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sepo

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Nov 03, 2009 at 02:13 PM

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Picturenaut, great tone mapper and HDRi editor for Windows.

http://www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/index.html

panorama sticher for Windows

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

evilelvis

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Nov 04, 2009 at 02:18 AM

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Well spotted and thanks Sepo!

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olishea

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Nov 04, 2009 at 04:50 AM

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For making people models very easily. Change gender, weight, tone, age, nationality etc.....save in 3DS format and import into sketchup. I've not tried this on PC but apparently it's more stable than mac version.

http://makehuman.blogspot.com/

Vector based graphics editor (for mac, requires X11):

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18954

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michaliszissiou

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Nov 04, 2009 at 08:37 AM

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These fine and tested apps.

Gimp (photoshop like)

http://www.gimp.org/

inkscape (illustration or corel like)

http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en

scribus DTP (QuarkXpress or indesign like) (professional PDF layout)

http://www.scribus.net/

The official and stable blender here: (The 3d app that almost never crushes)

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

All the new blender 2.5 experimental builds (not stable)

http://www.graphicall.org/builds/

sepo

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QUite fine image editor IrfanView for Windows only
http://www.irfanview.com/

Small Windows utility to making trnsparent windows. Useful for eyeballing models into context.
http://download.cnet.com/Vitrite/3000-2072_4-10079850.html

XnView is file organiser , converter and much more. Will allow for preview of HDRI files , DWGs, SKetchUp ....etc.
http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html

michaliszissiou

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Nov 04, 2009 at 10:37 AM

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But sid you could write that these are windows only apps. The only one that runs on MAC OSX is xnview and the only thing it can really do is to simulate windows explorer on a mac. Mac users don't need this sid. Finder is much better thanks. There was iview media pro, much better viewer but Microsoft stopped it, that's sad.

BTW you should stop xnview thumbnail cashing, else you'll be in trouble soon. (an ex xp user)

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Nov 04, 2009 at 11:15 AM

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I use Xnview on my XP system without any problems. Sorry about for not being clear that some were Windows only. I have corrected it now. I keep forgetting there are Ipod people about