Alice

Create 3D models and learn programming with an easy drag-and-drop method designed for students.

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ArtRage

Just check out the website to see some of the incredible art created with this painting program. If you’re artistically inclined, you’ll want to take ArtRage for a spin.

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Avery DesignPro

Design and print labels, business cards, dividers, T-shirt transfers, greeting cards and more, using templates and stock art. Merge data from Address Book, Mail, iPhoto and iTunes.

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Blender

A free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

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Cenon

Desktop publishing app features images, complex paths, text functions, color shading, printing, and a multitude of import and export abilities. Vector graphics conversion for supported formats.

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CocoViewX

A nice way to browse through your pictures. Full-screen mode is especially impressive.

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Colorate

Create harmonic colour palettes from a photograph. Great for designers looking for a colour scheme that fits in with their photos.

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Cosmic Painter

Create complex animated patterns and save them as QuickTime movies.

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DrawBerry

Vector drawing program based on CoreImage technology. A bit on the low end, but nonetheless quite capable.

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DrawIt Lite

At last a pretty darn good freeware drawing program for the Mac. It has fewer features than the pro version, but it still makes a great vector tool.

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Expression

It’s a full-featured vector graphics program along the lines of Illustrator or Freehand. Expression was recently acquired by Microsoft and, for reasons unknown, is available for free. Get it while you can from MacUpdate.

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Flickr Uploadr

Upload batches of pictures to flickr. Scale them, tag them, create new photo sets, choose who’s allowed to see your pix.

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FlickrBooth

Send your Photo Booth photos to flickr automatically or on a per-picture basis. You can title, describe and tag them.

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GifBuilder

A stalwart of the Mac computing world, GifBuilder has been around since 1996. Many people love the ease with which it can be used to create animated GIFs, and a carbon port for OS X was created in 2000. GIFfun can also be had for free.

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Also try: GIFfun

GIMP

Have you ever wished there were a free version of Photoshop? Well, there is — kind of. It’s called the GIMP, but it comes with a couple of provisos: You must have X11 installed on your Mac and you must be prepared for a steep learning curve. The GIMP is not exactly Photoshop, but it you may find it comes close enough.

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Hugin

Assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.

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Image Tricks

Use the power of Tiger’s Core Image to apply a number of cool effects to your pictures. You can also generate original images.

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ImagePlay

Easily add effects to your images with ImagePlay. Reflect, shimmer, glow — the list goes on. And you’re not limited to just one effect. You can layer them one on top of the other. A guided tour makes learning easy.

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Inkscape

If only there were a free version of Illustrator … or FreeHand … or CorelDraw. Inkscape aspires to be all these things and has lots of support. You must have X11 installed on your Mac in order to run this Unix-based program.

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jahshaka

An open source realtime editing and effects system for graphic design, animation and compositing.

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JustLooking

Drag and drop your picture files onto a canvas to have a quick look at them. Then navigate through other files in the same directory. Nice transitions.

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LiveQuartz

A free image editor based on layers and CoreImage filters. You have the layers on the left and the filters on the right of the window. To edit an image, just drag it into the layers’ list and it will be added as a new layer.

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MacOSaiX

Use a whole bunch of little pictures to make a big picture—and maybe make a statement while you’re at it. The examples shown at the MacOSaiX website tell the story. And if you can’t get enough of this stuff, try MozoDojo.

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Paintbrush

A Cocoa-based paint program similar to Microsoft Paint and the now-defunct MacPaint. It can open and save to most major image formats, including BMP, PNG, JPEG, and GIF.

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Pencil

Nice little drawing program creates 2D animations with the use of layers.

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Photopolis

Create a 3D cityscape using pictures from your photo library.

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PhotoRetouch DigiCam

PhotoRetouch DigiCam does indeed touch up your photos. Improve them or warp them for fun. This free version has a lot more features than you might expect.

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Picasa

Organize photos wherever they might happen to be on your Mac. Easily upload, email and blog about your photos. Integrate with online Picasa Web Albums and sync with the desktop app.

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Pipette

Quickly and easily grab the colour of any pixel on the screen and copy it in hex format, as used in CSS files, or in paint programs, such as Adobe Photoshop.

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PixelNhance

PixelNhance is one of the best of the bunch, but it’s been hard to find since the developer has discontinued it. Caffeine Software has a download link that works as of this writing, but unfortunately it hasn’t been reliable in past. In addition to the link below, you can try this one at 5 star.

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Pixen

Edit your pixels with Pixen, and paint to your heart’s content — assuming you have the creativitiy.

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QuickImage CM

A contextual menu that lets you view and edit images in a floating window in the Finder. Just control-click on a picture’s icon in Finder and a menu will pop up with a QuickImage option. Once you have the picture open, you can send it to a printer, convert it to another format, create an HTML tag for it, and much more.

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Scribus

This open source alternative to the likes of QuarkXPress and InDesign supports CMYK colour, separations, ICC colour management and versatile PDF creation. It may take some getting used to, but there is a strong community of users to offer support.

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Seashore

It’s full of cocoa and open source goodness, so Seashore is worth keeping an eye on this program as it develops to its potential — a free version of Photoshop?

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Shape Collage

Use an assortment of pictures on your Mac to create collages in various shapes — hearts, circles, squares, or a something of your own design. Control sizing, spacing, backgrounds and borders. Watch an animation of the collage being created.

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SketchUp

Google’s 3D modeling software tool lets you place your models in Google Earth. Examples of where it could be used are remodelling a kitchen, landscaping a backyard or adding a deck to your home.

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Skitch

Take screenshots or photos or make your own sketch from scratch, then edit or annotate and share easily with others. (Note: This program is in beta and may not remain free once it reaches version 1.0.)

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SmallImage

Get those JPEGs nice and compact for the web with batch processing that includes resizing, recompressing and removing embedded profiles.

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SnapNDrag

If you’re not content with the built-in way of taking screen shots with your Mac, give SnapNDrag a try. You click to capture a PNG, TIFF or JPEG, then drag the image off to wherever you want — your e-mail application, for example.

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Also try: InstantShot!   Capture Me

Sweet Home 3D

Interior design app helps you place your furniture on a house 2D plan, with a 3D preview. Choose from a variety of rooms and objects to put in them.

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Thumbscrew

Thumbscrew is a neat little program that puts borders and drop shadows on your pictures — a nice way to enhance your images.

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Tint

Tint is a small program that does one thing well — adjusts the colour balance of images.

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Tux Paint

Give your children hours of enjoyment with this simple paint program — or, what the heck, indulge your inner child.

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Wings 3D

Create three-dimensional models such as a frog or, well, how about SpongeBob Squarepants. Check out the gallery to see the amazing things that are possible. Actually, there seems to be no shortage of entries in this category, with Blender, POV-Ray and Art of Illusion to round things out.

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Xee

Lightweight and fast browser is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface. This replacement for Apple’s Preview is very fast, and uses less memory than most other image viewing tools.

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