Handpicked Software

If you have more images than you can
comfortably manage, or if you just need an easy
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The File Browser Update plug-in increases the stability of the File Browser in Adobe® Photoshop® 7 running on Mac OS X version 10.2. This plug-in addresses a specific issue that could occur when browsing a large number of files in a single folder.
Developer’s website: Adobe Systems, Inc.

Aquatint gives you the ability to make glossy, “liquid” icons, buttons and logos more easily than you ever imagined possible. Just make a black and white silhouette, or “stencil”, of your desired image, and Aquatint will do the rest! No artistic ability required! Aquatint can also make a wide variety of other [...]

Toucan is a slideshow designed for showing your digital images quickly. Just drag them on the Toucan icon and go! (Beautiful icon, isn’t it?)

Features:

Toucan shows your digital images quickly and fullscreen.

Drag images and folders with images on Toucan.

Full keyboard control.

Point at your images with a BIG pointer.

Choose the display to use, great for presentations on [...]

Digital Design Buddy is a collection of 15 essential graphic design and production utilities packaged in a single, easy to use application.

Character set charts

WYSIWYG Font List

Type Sampler Slide Show

Font menu-styling equates finder

Type specimen sheets

ASCII chart

Task timer

Standard ad units (SAU) finder

Barcode generator

Proportio/resize calculator

Pre-press checklist

Folding/imposition charts

Xpress tags chart

Decimal equivalents chart

Standard print sizes [...]

Kartolina Photo provides immediate access to iPhoto Albums or any folder of images, enabling users to create cards, invitations, or business advertising material effortlessly. Text, photo placement and scaling, and color backgrounds can be applied to an image with Kartolina’s simple, intuitive interface. Access to images saved in iPhoto is almost immediate, enabling you to [...]

j2k is a free plug-in for reading and writing the JPEG 2000 file format, the successor to JPEG.

Also known as JP2, JPEG 2000 uses wavelet compression as opposed to the DCT compression used in standard JPEG. The end result is better image quality in a smaller file. JP2 also includes mandatory metadata such as [...]

iWriter allows teachers and students to create study tools for the iPod in minutes, then share those tools with (other) students, colleagues and friends – instantly.
What’s New:release notes not available
Developer’s website: Talking Panda

Graphic Inspector provides extensive info about both bitmap and vector graphic files and helps locate potential problems according to user-defined settings.
The program will go through folders of files and display info about the following attributes:

kind
size
color mode
resolution
color profile
dimensions
spot colors
fonts in vector files
spot colors in bitmap and vector files
EXIF data
file type and creator

The highly customizable Checkup Presets [...]

CD-ROM XViewer is a small "engine", which allows Mac users to navigate most of the Windows-only CDROMs, as long as they are created with Director (you can recognize them as they have the "Made with Macromedia" logo somewhere, usually in the booklet).
Developer’s website: Eventi Progetti Speciali