45 best Freeware Design programs

[surftwo]

Hello all seems that Snap2objects http://www.snap2obje...are-design-programs/ has a mega list of the 45 best ever freeware design programs.  I checked it out and found a lot of programs I didn't even know exisited.  The catogories include Vector draw, 3d imaging, basic image editig (like paint.net, gimp etc) some color pickers, and a few other ones.

[mouser]

very nice.. 
looks like they are getting enough traffic to slow down the pages (lots of pics).

[Nighted]

Nicely laid out. Here are a few programs that are far superior to those listed in the article (imo).

Examples:

Screen Ruler: PMeter
Font Viewer: Font Xplorer
Colour Picker: Color Cop
Screen Capture: Cropper or ScreenshotCaptor

[cthorpe]

Some cool stuff on that list.  Will have to bookmark it and take a look when I have some time to test them out.

Carl

[nudone]

Nicely laid out. Here are a few programs that are far superior to those listed in the article (imo).

Examples:

Screen Ruler: PMeter
Font Viewer: Font Xplorer
Colour Picker: Color Cop
Screen Capture: Cropper or ScreenshotCaptor

-Nighted (July 24, 2007, 08:29 PM)

thanks for listing those, Nighted. you are obviously on the lookout for the best in these categories as i remember you mentioning some before - these appear to be new (except for font xplorer) and certainly the best i've seen.


thanks to surftwo also, i think there are one or two things i'll be trying/using from the snap2objects list.

[kartal]

Thanks for the colorpicker tip. That is exactly what I needed

Nudo

Nicely laid out. Here are a few programs that are far superior to those listed in the article (imo).

Examples:

Screen Ruler: PMeter
Font Viewer: Font Xplorer
Colour Picker: Color Cop
Screen Capture: Cropper or ScreenshotCaptor

-Nighted (July 24, 2007, 08:29 PM)

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[J-Mac]

Wow, that IS some list!

Very much appreciated!   

Jim

[fhayes]

For making measurements on the screen and getting sizes of things I really like Meazure 2.0.  Lots of features and customizable, I use the angle measure tool a lot.  Much more versatile than Pmeter or Jruler.

http://www.cthing.com/Meazure.asp

[TucknDar]

nice tip fhayes. thanks

[Renegade]

Interesting. I'll be bookmarking that as well.

One thing that still freaks me out >>> How in hades does Google manage to have such a crappy page for it's products that tell me virtually nothing about it and make it miserably difficult? For a company with so much great stuff, I just don't get that.

Maybe I'm just being a bit cranky, but is it too much to ask for a screenshot?

I'm referring to this here. The Pro version is $500, but still doesn't have a screenshot that's in any way obvious.

Yes... If a software page doesn't have a screenshot, I figure that the author is probably too dumb to bother with. I'm a bigot. I discriminate against authors that make life difficult for me.

The answer to, "There is one there," is that it's an output screenshot. Which is equivalent to Digidesign not putting a software screenshot up, but rather saying, "Listen to any top 10 album." Digidesign is on a bit better footing there.

I'm certainly more forgiving of the small guys, but I'd hope that the major vendors can get it right.

Tell me to shut up if I'm just being cranky...

[cmpm]

there is a video demo for it.
It's over an hour to watch though.

http://download.sket...etchUp_Live_demo.wmv

[cmpm]

Takes a while to download I guess.
All I got was 'no video' for about 3 minutes and got tired of waiting.

The link is from here.

http://www.sketchup.com/?id=2

[tomos]

I'm certainly more forgiving of the small guys, but I'd hope that the major vendors can get it right.

Tell me to shut up if I'm just being cranky...

-Renegade (March 22, 2008, 11:19 AM)

Takes a while to download I guess.
All I got was 'no video' for about 3 minutes and got tired of waiting.

-cmpm (March 22, 2008, 11:32 AM)

reminds me a while back trying to get a sense of Adobe Lightroom - not a decent screenshot in sight at it's homepages - all videos that were painfully slow to load and painfully slow once running too...