Online Photography tools
www.blibs.com/editor/ to add Warhol and other effects to your photos.
Picnik is a really easy to use, and really responsive web browser based image editor. It offers basic image correction, some special effects, resize and rotate. For quick adjustments or a bit of fun, it is great. Who needs photoshop!? www.picnik.com
www.iaza.com is a FREE image manipulation website. The interface is simply a list of text based options. It has some interesting special effects.
www.webresizer.com is a FREE online image resizer. It can add a border to the uploaded photo and perform some basic colour correction.
www.reflectionmaker.com is a FREE online image manipulation tool. It adds a modern reflection to the bottom of an image.
Web Design
(Mac) This website is created using Rapid Weaver from Real Mac Software. It costs just £19.
(Mac) CSSedit from macrabbit allows you to edit the CSS for your website. £17.
(Mac / Win) Simple Viewer is a photo gallery tool for web creation. The galleries produced are very slick. www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/ - FREE
(Mac / Win) Autoviewer s a free Flash image viewer. AutoViewer is designed to display a linear sequence of images and captions. www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/autoviewer/ - FREE
(Mac / Win) PostcardViewer is a free Flash image viewer. The interface is based on the real world metaphor of a set of postcards shuffled onto a surface. www.airtightinteractive.com/projects/postcardviewer/ - FREE
(Mac) iPhoto Export 1.7 - a one stop shop for making SimpleViewer galleries from iPhoto. www.hagus.net £ Donation
(Win) WebPlus 6 - Desktop publishing style interface and powerful automated website templates www.freeserifsoftware.com - FREE
FTP
(Mac) Transmit - Allows you to upload websites to your server. £21
(Mac) Cyber Duck - Allows you to upload websites to your server. - FREE
(Mac / Win) CuteFTP - Allows you to upload websites to your server. Win version £21 Mac version £16
Audio Editing
(MULTI) Audio editing software for Mac, Windows and Linux - Audacity. - FREE
(Mac / Linux / Win) The Levelator irons out differences in recording level between different speakers. www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator - FREE
Podcasting
(Mac) Podcast Maker is a tool for Mac OS X that makes podcasting simple. potionfactory.com £16.25
(Mac 10.4+ / Win) Podcaster www.kudlian.net/products/podcaster/ £16.25
(Win) Podium from Softease www.podiumpodcasting.com is very easy to use. From £59
(Mac) Voice Candy www.potionfactory.com/voicecandy/ Record your voice with 8 different effects $12.95 (£6.90)
DVD Riping
(Mac / BeOS) Handbrake can rip the film material back off recorded DVDs to allow for sharing or editing - handbrake.m0k.org. - FREE
Animation
(Mac) iStopmotion animation software from Boinx.com £39.95
(Mac) I can animate - from Kudlian Soft - £30
(Win) Stop Motion Pro - from Kudlian Soft - £39
(Mac / Win) Frames www.tech4learning.com/frames/index.html - $44.95 (£24)
(Win) Pivot Stick Animator is an excellent way for children to get into animation. www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html - FREE
(Mac) Pixen - from www.opensword.org/Pixen/ - FREE
(Win) Webcam Timershot lets you take pictures at specified time intervals from a webcam www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx - FREE
(Win) JPGVideo www.ndrw.co.uk/free/jpgvideo/index.html - FREE
(Mac / Win) Quicktime Pro www.apple.com/quicktime - £20
(Mac / Win) Flipboom http://kids.toonboom.com/ - £16
Video / Digital Projects
(Mac) iLife suite from Apple - 6 outstanding packages - bundled free with every new Mac. £25 educational rate for separate purchase.
(Mac) Final Cut Express HD 3.5 - High end HD DV editing from Apple www.apple.com/uk/finalcutexpress - £129 education rate.
(Mac) Boinx iVeZeen, you can record movie clips in various formats. www.ivezeen.com - $14.95 (£8)
(Mac) Videocue is an auto-cue application to help you create movies of you reading your words aloud www.varasoft.com/products/videocue/. - $39 (£21)
(Win) MoviePlus 4 - Budget video editing software - www.freeserifsoftware.com - £19.99
360 degree Quicktime VR movies
Create 360 degree Quicktime VR movies with DoubleTake http://echoone.com/doubletake/ £11.76
Webcam
(Mac) Evocam - Streaming video software - www.evological.com/evocam.html - $25 (£13) download
(Mac) EyeSight - Webcam publishing software - www.klieme.com/EyeSight.html - FREE
Slideshow
(Mac) Boinx FotoMagico Slide Show Software www.fotomagico.com - $79 (£42)
(Win) Microsoft Photo Story 3 - Make slide shows (NOT CROSS PLATFORM COMPATIBLE) - FREE
(Mac / Win) PhotoToMovie www.lqgraphics.com - $49 download.
Video Plugin
(Mac) Weather reporting for iLife and Geography from Kudlian Soft. £29 single user.
Video Conversion
(Mac) Visual Hub from Techspansion. £13
(Mac) iSquint is an iPod video conversion app www.isquint.org
(Mac) Flip4Mac WMV Player Pro allows you to import Windows Media video and audio for editing or conversion to other QuickTime format www.flip4mac.com/wmv.htm - $29 (£16)
(Online) http://vixy.net/ Convert online flash video to other formats to view off-line.
(Online) www.zamzar.com/ Convert online flash video to other formats to view off-line.
(Mac) EasyWMV can be used to convert or resize wmv http://www.easywma.com/wmv/
Audio Conversion
EasyWMA allows you to convert wma, wmv audio, asf and ogg vorbis files to aiff, mp3, m4a or wav on your Mac www.easywma.com/
Sound Grabbing
(Mac) Wire Tap Pro from Ambrosia Software. Sound grabbing & recording package. - $19 download.
(Mac) Record any audio with Audio Hijack Pro www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijackpro/index.php - $32 (£17)
(Mac) Soundflower http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower - FREE
Screen Motion Capure
(Mac) Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software. Screen motion grabbing package. - $69 download.
(Mac) IShowU from shinywhitebox.com Software to capture and record video from your screen into a Quicktime movie, in realtime. - $20 (£11) download.
(Win) Captivate from Macromedia. Screen motion grabbing package. - £269
(Mac) Display Eater reversecode.com/displayEater/displayeater.html - $17 (£9)
(Win) CamStudio www.camstudio.org - FREE
Text / Script Editing
(Online) Google Docs - online wordprocessor - access your files from anywhere. http://docs.google.com/ - FREE
(Mac) Text Wrangler from Bare Bones Software - Text editor for web scripting - FREE
Music Creation
(Mac) Garage Band - Apple FREE with every new Mac as a part of iLife.
(Win) MAGIX Music Maker 12 deluxe - Magix - £49
Painting & Graphics
(Online) http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
(Mac / Win) Artrage is a natural media paint package which has a free version. It's a really lovely program. Ambient Design - FREE
(Mac / Win) Adobe Photoshop Elements - £59
(Win) Revelation Natural Art by Logotron - £55
(Mac / Win / Linux) Gimp is a photo-editing / digital paint package www.gimp.org - FREE
(Mac) Seashore is an open source image editor for OS X http://seashore.sourceforge.net/ - FREE
(Win) Paint.Net Photo-editing / Digital paint package. www.getpaint.net - FREE
(Mac) Picturesque special effects for websites - www.acqualia.com/picturesque/index.html - $19.50 (£10.39)
(Win) PhotoPlus 6 fix and enhance photographs, bitmap graphics and even create web animations. www.freeserifsoftware.com - FREE
(Win) Image Resizer enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click. www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx - FREE
Online Photo Sharing and Storage
(Online) www.flickr.com
Drawing / Vector Illustration
(Mac) Lineform is a vector drawing program. Winner of a 2006 Apple Design Award. www.freeverse.com/lineform. $79 (£42) download.
(Win) DrawPlus create high quality graphics and animations. www.freeserifsoftware.com - FREE
(Mac / Win / Linux) Inkscape is a vector drawing program. www.inkscape.org - FREE
Planning / Ideas
(Online) Brainstorming application at www.bubbl.us/ - FREE
Note Taking
(Mac) Notebook 2.0 from circusponies.com is very useful when it comes to keeping notes about video projects or websites. - £21 Education.
Page Layout / DTP
(Mac) Comic Life from plasq.com - Allows you to create comic style pages for print and movie creations - from £14.30
(Mac / Win / Linux) Scribus DTP package with export to PDF capability www.scribus.net - FREE
(Win) PagePlus SE makes desktop publishing intuitive, productive and fun. www.freeserifsoftware.com - FREE
(Mac) Posterino - collage poster creation http://zykloid.com/posterino/ - $24.95 (£13.30)
Quiz and Crossword
(Mac / Win) Crossword Forge allows you to easily make and share classroom style crossword puzzles and word search puzzles. www.solrobots.com/crosswordforge - £26 download.
(Mac / Win) Quiz Press - make your own quizzes that you can put on the web or print out. www.solrobots.com/quizpress/ - £26 download.
Library
(Mac) Catalog, browse, and share all your books, movies, music, and video games with Delicious Library. www.delicious-monster.com/ - $40 (£29)
Label maker
(Online) www.acme.com/labelmaker/
Clip Art
D.K. (Online) http://uk.dk.com/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/home.html
[Note - All prices were correct when added to the list - They should be treated as a guide only]