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Adobe
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The daddy of all graphics software companies and the home of
PhotoShop, Acrobat, PageMaker, Illustrator,
InDesign and much, much more. Free trialware downloads of most new products
are now frequently available here. |
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Macromedia
Software |
The source for Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash,
Director, Drumbeat, Shockwave and more. Macromedia are now seen as
one of the best high-end tools manufacturers for web work - and they
certainly have the best all-round set of tools. |
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Boxtop
Software |
The source of the PhotoGIF, ProJPEG, GIFmation, m2GIF and ColorSafe
plugins for Adobe Photoshop. |
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Equilibrium
Software |
Authors of DeBabelizer, a powerful tool for handling image,
animation and digital video files |
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| MetaCreations |
The home of Kai products (Kai's Power Tools, Power Goo and
Photo Soap), Painter, Infini-D, RayDream Studio, Backburner, Bryce, Collage
and many others. Following massive losses in 1999, MetaCreations may be leaving
the graphics market soon, though. |
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Ulead
Software |
The home of Media Studio Pro, WebRazor, PhotoImpact, Cool3D,
iPhoto Express and Web Utilities. Nearly all Ulead products are now available
as trialware. |
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Sausage
Software |
The home of the HotDog web editor, HotDog Express and the HotDog
Snaglets (many of which are available as free trialware downloads) |
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| Allaire |
Allaire's ColdFusion has been winning a lot of hearts and minds
amongst web programmers over the last few years, and their HomeSite Web Editor
is a useful tool as well. Although both are expensive and occasionally buggy,
support is good.... |
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| Microsoft |
Microsoft are not really a graphics company, but over the
last few years their desperate drive to try to own the Internet
(and mess things up for everyone else) has made them release a slew of web-based
products. Typically, most are overblown, over-buggy and over-priced - but
what a great place to get those endless bug fixes!.... |
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Jasc
Software |
Jasc Manufacture several software products, but are best known for
Paint Shop Pro, the increasingly sophisticated graphics program that
has grown by leaps and bounds since it first debuted as shareware many years
ago (it's now trialware). |
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