Articles in Graphics
Window Ruler is a free on-screen measurement "ruler" tool that offers a number of interesting features, including portability, the ability to "snap-to" any on-screen object, and the ability to automatically resize to a number of common predefined size profiles.
Microsoft Photosynth is a program that can combine multiple images taken at or around a single location from multiple perspectives into a single, unified whole. The resulting synth can be viewed as a single object from different perspectives and browsed in and out of, and it incorporates many of the details that might have been contained in the various source images.
Png2swf is a free program that can convert PNG files into an animated flash SWF file. It can process a number of PNG images serially into a SWF file or otherwise batch-create SWF files out of individual PNGs.
DExpose is a replacement for the Alt+Tab application switching funcitonality that emulates the Mac Expose window-stacking style.
XnView Shell Extension is a free Windows explorer extension that installs a number of image-related tools in the right-click context menu, including a thumbnail preview, image conversion to a wide variety of formats, image resizing, editing image IPTC metadata, uploading to ImageShack, and other functions.
Vjpeg is a fast, lightweight free image viewing program designed to open "images as objects", such that they are draggable on the desktop and not placed within a program window.
Pictomio is a free image viewer which features a slick, modern interface and 3D accelerated browsing of image libraries. It brings together a host of functions for working with images such automatic grouping of images, tagging, image rating, EXIF and metadata editing, as well as image rotation and zooming. Pictomio can also view and manage video and media files and requires a fairly powerful graphics card to run.
Deleket’s icon gallery on deviantART features multiple, freely downloadable icon packs provided for free download under the Creative Commons license.
Phantasmagoria is a free image manipulation program that offers a number of potential interventions, ranging from common editing operations (scaling, rotating, cropping, annotation, etc.) to sophisticated effects such as adding background textures, applying color adjustments, distortion and warping, blurring and sharpening, and a number of other effects. It also includes Flickr and Twitter uploading support, as well as the option to receive Twitter messages.
Looxis Faceworx is a free 3D modeling program that can construct a textured 3D model of a person’s head out of two 2D photos (one from the front, "mugshot" style, and the other profile style from the side).
TwinsVisions is a free image viewer that uses a so-called “3D image management system” to navigate and manage image collections. It combines this with image editing and online image sharing functions, as well as Windows context menu integration.
