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40 Mac Freewares and Open Source Software for Web
Designers
Although popular Adobe Creative Suite software or paid software as such are essential
tools for web designers, not everyone can afford them or nor they need to buy it. Someof the free applications are really powerful, time saving and gets the job done. In this
article we have complied 40 best freeware and open source software for web designers.
This is first part of the freeware and open source software complication. The second
part will have essential free windows software for web designers. Please note that
GIMP, Pixelmator, Transmit or Cyberduck and popular software are excluded
intentionally because there have been numerous post about them.
Image Editors and Utilities
1. ArtRage 2
The ArtRage 2 starter edition is free, it is a easy to use, stylish painting software.You can also access some tutorials on how to how use an create artwork withArtRage.
2. Image Tricks
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Image Tricks is a free application for editing and generating images. It uses Mac OS X
Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced
visual effects.
3. ImageMagick
Although the name sounds similar to Image Magic, this is a totally different application.
ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images.
4. Picasa for Mac
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Picasa for windows was available for while. Now the mac user can also enjoy Picasa.
Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had,Eliminate
scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more.
5. Free Ruler
Free Ruler is a free screen ruler for Mac OS X. Very useful if you measuring the widthof height of something such a logo or anything in your webpage. A horizontal and
vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously.Independent resizing
of rulers, from 200 pixels to 5000 pixels in length.
6. OSX Image Resizer
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Performs one simple task in a fast and easy to use way; resizing a large number of
images quickly on your computer. The software allows you to resize a collection of
images from 10 to 10,000+.
7. LiveQuartz
A simple and powerful photo editor for Leopard. LiveQuartz has all the essential tools:
The drawing tools (brush, lines, rectangles, ovals), the duplication tool, the eraser tool,
the new background eraser, the gradients, the layer moving arrow, the text tool, the
CoreImage tool, the rectangle and lasso selections, the hand, and the magnifying glass.
8. ExifRenamer
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ExifRenamer allows you to interactively control the renaming process. You can have a
file preview and can add a prefix, suffix, change the name or can add a time difference:
9. Paintbrush
Open source free paint and Bitmap Image Editor for Mac OS X . It is a replacement for
windows Paint application.
10. DrawBerry
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With DrawBerry, you have all the possibilities the vectorial drawing offers you in a
free, easy to use and powerful application. If you don’t need applications such
Illustrator or Inkscape and you want to create some simple (or less simple) illustrations,
DrawBerry is for you.
11. Pencil
Pencil is an animation/drawing software . It lets you create traditional hand-drawn
animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open
source
12. blueMarin
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An open source application for the digital photo workflow, the blueMarine project will
provide you an all-in-one tool for managing your photos, from the shoot up to the
archiving and beyond.
13. Seashore
Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS X’s Cocoa framework. It features
gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple
layers and alpha channel editing.
14. Colorate
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Colorate is a utility for creation of harmonized color palettes and color schemes, aimed
from hobbyist to professional designers.
15. Pixen
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. Pixen is like a very powerful
MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all.
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16. Goldberg
Goldberg is a freeware image and movie viewer with image editing capabilities and
support for applying QuickTime and other effects In my opinion there is not too many
features to work with beside the QuickTIme effects.
17. Chocoflop
ChocoFlop allows you to edit your photos or design stuff using Apple’s CoreImage
technology. It takes advantage of the power of your graphics card (GPU).