Norbert's Place

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Thomas Paine

Look at you in war... There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Mark Twain

Graphics

Digital Camera Filters

Digital Camera Enhancer - DCE

Free DCE reduces noise and automaticly colour balances your digital photographs. The program works best if your picture is somehow off due to bad lighting conditions (indoor, shadows and so on).
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/dcenhanc.zip

ColorCastFX

Having problems with your landscape photographs? The grass looks dark, almost black, the shadows too heavy, however on the day they were taken the light conditions were great... ColorCastFX works on any picture where fill-in flash was not used and the camera underexposed the front objects.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/ccastfx.zip
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/castfx.htm

CleanSkinFX

CleanSkinFX smooths the skin tones of the subject while preserving all the details and crispness of hair, eyes and background. The image must be well balanced to begin with, so use ColorCastFX to prepare the image.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cleanskin.htm
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/cskinfx.zip

FilterSIM

Go back to the time of photographic film... To the time of Color Correction and Light Balancing filters. With FilterSIM you can simulate the usage of Kodak Wratten Color Correction filters on your digital images.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.htm
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/filtersim.zip

B/Works

B/Works is for creating old fashioned B/W images, Sepia or Duotone coloured images.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/bworks.htm
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/bworks.zip

HotPixels Eliminator

You wanted to try a night shot with your digital camera but you see tiny white dots, all over the place. These 'dots' are hot pixals.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/hotpixels.htm
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/hotpixels.zip

Graphic Design, Paint and Vector Drawing

Inkscape

Free Corel Draw Alternative... Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
http://www.inkscape.org/
http://www.inkscape.org/download.php

Project Dogwaffle

Project Dogwaffle is a program for digital artists who love to draw, sketch, animate and paint.
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle
Free Version
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/free
PDF Manual
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/help/PDHelp-pdf.zip

Serif DrawPlus

Graphic Design and Vector Drawing Software. Must register (free) to get a Serial Number.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/

Image and Photo Editing Software

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program
Free Photoshop alternative for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Installer and Help Files are SEPARATE downloads, so remember to download both.
http://www.gimp.org/
Downloads
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

Photobie

Photobie is a complete image editing software customized for photo retouching. Photobie is free to use and to distribute.
http://www.photobie.com/

Photoscape

Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
http://www.photoscape.org/
http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php

PixManager 1.1.1.0

Start managing your photo collections with PixManager by Wondershare.
Download PixManager 1.1.1.0
pixmanager_111.exe

Serif PhotoPlus

Image and Photo Editing Software. Must register (free) to get a Serial Number.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/photoplus/

3D Modeling

Blender

Blender is open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
www.blender.org
www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

SketchUp

SketchUp is software that you can use to create 3D models of almost anything you like. Available for Windows & Mac
http://www.sketchup.com/
Free Version
http://www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-make

Utilities

AMP Font Viewer

Views ALL fonts whether installed or not installed.
http://www.ampsoft.net/utilities/FontViewer.php

Extended Character Map

View the entire character set of a particular font.
Download - Last Freeware Version
Download ext_character_map_1_4.zip

HandySnap

With HandySnap you can capture any part of your screen.
Download - Last Freeware Version
Download handy_snap_0-5.zip

IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphics viewer/editor for Windows. Recommended. Do not forget to download the plugins for it as well.
http://www.irfanview.com/
https://www.irfanview.info/files/iview457.zip
https://www.irfanview.info/files/iview457_plugins.zip
https://www.irfanview.net/plugins/irfanview_adobe_8bf_plugins.zip
https://www.irfanview.info/plugins/8bf_tools.zip

jpgQ - JPEG Quality Estimator

Want to know the quality of your jpeg images? jpgQ will tell you.
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/jpgq.htm
Download
http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/JpgQ.zip

OpenStego - Digital Watermarking

OpenStego allows you to embed an invisible watermark into your photographs. OpenStego provides robust digital watermarking capabilities such that the watermark strength is not easily reduced when the watermarked image is resized, cropped or some other minor modifications are done. As it is written in pure Java it should run on all platforms supported by Java - Windows, Mac and Linux.
http://www.openstego.com/
Project page on GitHub
https://github.com/syvaidya/openstego
Downloads
https://github.com/syvaidya/openstego/releases