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AceDesign 1 Pro (Free to try, $70 to buy - Windows) - offers outstanding performance, a simple interface, and unbeatable cutting-edge tools. Create striking Web graphics with ease. Exploit the power of layers and the flexibility of vector tools. Do the impossible with filters and special effects.

Acme TraceART (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows) - provides professional and fast transform functions from raster drawing into vector format; it can be used in various engineering drawings including architectural, mechanical, geological, GIS, electrical drawings etc.

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Alias SketchBook Pro™ (Free to Try, $129 to Buy, Windows) - is a business and personal productivity tool that transforms your Tablet PC into a digital sketchbook, available anywhere, any time.

Ascii picture designer (Free to Try, $28 to Buy, Windows) - Create your own ascii graphics. This tool can help you to make your own ascii graphics easily!Only need to darw shape on canvas

Canvas 8™ (Free to Try, $400 to Buy, Mac and Windows) - A unique cross-platform precision illustration solution that integrates award-winning Sprite technology, photo editing, page layout, presentation, and Web graphics capabilities.

CeledyDraw (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) - is draw and publishing software for small businesses and home users.

ClearBoard (Free to Try, $49.95 to Buy, Windows / Linux) - ClearBoard is a handy tool that magically converts a photo of a white board, a flipchart, a piece of paper, or any drawing on a relatively uniform background into a crystal clear image as if you were actually drawing on a computer. ClearBoard is designed from ground up with the latest and most sophisticated image processing technologies.

Deep Paint® (Free to Try, $99 to Buy, Windows) - An advanced paint application for graphics professionals that offers a unique painting experience to digital artists.

DRAWiT(Free to Try, $18 to Buy, Windows) - is the full-featured Windows shareware drawing program that combines the best features of graphics, word processing and desktop publishing packages together

Draw Magic (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) - For all your diagramming, flowcharting and drawing needs.

DrawPlus 6 (Free to Try, $85 to Buy, Windows) - Its unique combination of simple-to-use drawing aids and high-end capabilities means that whether you're new to drawing and graphics software or an experienced DrawPlus user, you'll find that this amazing new version has everything you need to create your best graphics ever!

EasiSketch (Free to Try, $5 to Buy, Windows) - A simple, yet fun, sketching program. Just move the mouse to draw, shake the screen with right mouse to clear.

EmbeddedVectorEditor - (Free - Windows) - The incredible shrinking vector graphics editor, only 73K bytes.

e-Paint (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - Own the affordable paint application that will give you total, ruthless domination over your graphics without requiring that you spend the next six months reading its manual.

iDraw (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Mac) - is a powerful, yet easy to use, illustration and animation program for Mac OS X.

Image Broadway ® (Free to Try, $69.95 to Buy - Windows)- A World-class Image Editor, Very Easy to Use and Affordable!

Image Constructor 1.2 (Free to Try, $19 to Buy, Windows) - Image Constructor helps you to create picture in form of texts and small images over some background with picture or gradient fill and import them to graphical files.

Jasc® Paint Shop Pro® 7 Anniversary Edition ($99 to Buy, Windows / Mac) - The complete graphics and photo editor for home and business

Mayura Draw (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows) - is intended for scientists and engineers for creating technical illustrations.

NaturePainter Digital Canvas (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) -is a software program that makes it easy to practice painting whenever inspiration strikes!

NeoPaint (Free to Try, $60 Download - Windows) - is a full featured artist's studio for Windows that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. Includes an excellent screen capture feature, animated GIF editor, icon editor, special effects, natural media painting tools, and more.

Object Paint (Free - Windows) - is a simple (object) drawing program.

PageFocus Draw (Free to Try, $15 to Buy, Windows) - An easy-to-use application for drawing, labeling, and documentation.

Painting (Free to Try, $20 to Buy, Mac) - is a simple yet powerful graphics application by Sarwat Khan. It's quick to launch and easy to use. Use it whenever you need to make a quick graphic, or whenever you feel artistic.

Photo Artist (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) - Create an exciting work of art from any ordinary photograph in minutes. Whether you prefer Impressionist paintings, charcoal sketches or an elegant watercolor, the Professor can help anyone create a work of art - absolutely no experience required!

PicMaster (Top Pick)(Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - The multi-talented PicMaster promises you quick and easy image editing.

PictureMore (Free to Try, $50 to Buy, Windows) - With PictureMore, You can paint, retouch, convert, animate image, composition, trimming, change color tone, change color mode, display capture, print, and do other. The frame transparency overlapping function will definitely satisfy your purposes.

Pixopedia 24 (Free to Try, $35 to Buy, Windows) is a new approach to image editing and painting, animation and video editing. You can perform almost any action through brush movement.

rainbowpainter (Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Mac) - Open your eyes to a new world of image editing!

RETAS!Pro (Free to Try, $199 to Buy, Windows) - is the Award-Winning 2.5D digital animation production system which puts all the power and flexibility of professional creativity at your fingertips: digital drawing, pencil test, line trace, ink & paint, compositing & special effects.

Silhouette graphics art (Free to Try, $249 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - software for Macintosh and Windows instantly converts black and white or colour bitmap images into vector designs ready for use.

Strichzeichner (Free - MacOS9X / Windows) - This is a small painting Program especially for generating metallic surfaces. It will help you to draw a front view of the desired surface.

StudioArtist (Free to Try, $380 to Buy, Mac)- Intelligent-Assisted Painting and Drawing Resolution Independence

StyleSkin (Free to try, $34.95 to buy - Windows) - Styleskin is dedicated template driven interface design
software which enables anyone to easily design their own graphics. Simply layout your template using the provided shapes, choose your colors and style and almost instantly you have your very own unique skin. It is useful for designing web sites, program interfaces or skins, promotional graphics, 3D text, 3D buttons or any number of other uses.

TraceLine v.1.0 (Free to Try, $80 to Buy, Windows) - Converts images to editable vector outlines. The traced result can be exported to any program that accepts wmf, emf or Adobe® Illustrator® file formats.

TwilightBrush (Free to Try, $200 to Buy, Mac) - the all-in-one photo editing paint program. TwilightBrush excels at taking your creativity to a new level. Our wide range of easy to use tools will bring out your creative side, whether you're a professional or just learned how to draw.

Ultimate Paint (Free to Try, $40 to Buy, Windows) is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation.

Vector Studio 2.0's (Free to Try, $129 to Buy, Mac / Windows) - suite of Adobe® Illustrator® plug-ins brings designers a balance of stunning creative filters and everyday tools to make artwork creation simpler and more enjoyable.

Wizardbrush Arcangel (Top Pick, Free to Try, $25 to Buy, Windows)- Make you a great painter.

ZBrush (Free to Try, $399 to Buy - Mac / Windows) - is an award-winning 2D and 3D image creation and processing tool, powered by a real-time rendering engine. Based on unique "Pixol" rendering technology, ZBrush enables artists to paint an image with depth -- applying both 2D and 3D effects in one integrated, real-time workspace

Zoner Draw 4 (Free to Try, $69 to Buy, Windows) - helps you quickly and easily draw graphics that meet your widest possible needs.


May 7
Adobe InDesign Plugins Part 2 - Mega List of 120 InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 Plugins
Part 2 of a 2 Part series on Adobe Indesign Plugins. Have you been looking for a way to add some extra somethin' somethin' to your Adobe InDesign documents? Well, then you are going to love this list of Adobe InDesign plugins, along with a summary of what each of these plugins can do for you. Some of these plugins will be useless to you, while others will feel like they were sent from heaven just for you. Many of these are plugins that will save you tons of time and tons of cash, so don't forget to bookmark this list.


May 7
Adobe InDesign Plugins - Mega List of 120 InDesign CS, CS2, CS3 Plugins
Have you been looking for a way to add some extra somethin' somethin' to your Adobe InDesign documents? Well, then you are going to love this list of Adobe InDesign plugins, along with a summary of what each of these plugins can do for you. Some of these plugins will be useless to you, while others will feel like they were sent from heaven just for you. Many of these are plugins that will save you tons of time and tons of cash, so don't forget to bookmark this list.


Apr 27
Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers
Best Graphic Design Career and Business Books - Ultimate List of Books for Freelancers & New Designers I decided to compile a list of the best graphic design career and business books collected from reading people's favorites listed on forum posts and blogs. I came up with the following graphic design career and [...]


Apr 26
Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]


Apr 22
How to Choose the Right Fonts for Your Graphic Design Projects
How to Choose the Right Fonts for Your Graphic Design Projects By Lois Knight Feminine, masculine, serif, san serif, Script, Block, or one of the many custom type sets out there! It is enough to drive the sanest of graphic designers bonkers! Where do you look and how do you choose from the multitude of [...]


Apr 16
Designing A Catalog From Conception To Completion - A Catalog Design Tutorial
Designing A Catalog From Conception To Completion By Elle Phillips, Elle Phillips Design We are very excited to have Elle Phillips guest write for us this week. Please visit her fabulous portfolio to see more of her wonderful work. You will find that this catalog design article is very well written, informative, and extremely helpful. [...]


Apr 14
Logo Design Creation Process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer - Angela Ferraro-Fanning
We are very excited to have Angela Ferraro-Fanning guest write for us this week. Please visit her fabulous portfolio to see more of her amazing work. Many of you will find that she is a graphic designer that is very talented and experienced. She wrote this article to guide you through her own [...]


Apr 11
What Are The Different Types Of Printing - A Basic Guide to Printing for Graphic Designers
What Are The Different Types Of Printing? Not all printing companies are created equal. There are those that are able to give you full color printing for your marketing collaterals. Still there are printing houses that offer excellent offset printing to provide you a cost effective print job, hence, bigger savings. Whatever kind of printer [...]


Apr 8
Demystifying Form and Function in Graphic Design Projects
By Lois Knight This is at the very heart of every good design, but what is it, and why do we need to remember it? As the rule suggests, this rule comes in 2 parts. What makes up the concept and who is going to see it? I can see that was clear as [...]


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How to Create an Effective Print Advertisement - Tips for Graphic Designers
How to Create an Effective Print Ad ? The Unconventional Wisdom of an Ad Maverick Before writing this article, I perused the web looking to see what ?experts? had to say about the subject of print ad design. The general consensus is to play it safe. Pshaw, I say! True [...]