Paint and Creation Tools
Corel Painter Essentials 3
This digital painting program packs much of the artistic punch that you'd get with Corel's $220 Painter IX.5--but for just $80. You'll have fun using different types of virtual implements, media, and paper to create original digital artwork. Basically, the package amounts to a useful and varied sampling of the much wider array of tools available in Painter IX.5. Painter Essentials 3 also lets you turn ordinary digital photographs into suitable-for-framing "paintings." Video tutorials ease the learning curve.
Microangelo Toolset 6 The latest version of this $50 bundle of tools for creating, editing, and modifying icons and cursors adds support for Windows Vista's high-resolution icons and image compression. Use it to search for icon and cursor sets, to modify or replace existing icon libraries, or to create new libraries from scratch. (It's easier than you might think.) You can animate them, too.
Color Detector 1.01 Take the guesswork out of duplicating colors that you find on the Web. Run this small, free, stand-alone color picker program, click anywhere on the screen, and Color Detector will return the RGB values and HTML hex code of the pixel you clicked on. Just like that, the perfect color you found now belongs to you.
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