FREE: Adobe ImageStyler MAC CD javascript effects, web image picture editing graphics suite software tools

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Adobe ImageStyler 1.0 is the powerful new Web graphics software for the creative business user. ImageStyler's flexible toolset puts creativity and cool Web features in the hands of the non-design professional.

Explore graphical styles and apply dazzling effects to text, shapes, and images. Produce JavaScript rollover effects, image maps, and optimized graphics in a few quick steps. Then batch-create Web graphics to transform ordinary Web layouts into extraordinary Web pages instantly. Creating Web graphics is simplified with ImageStyler. From content creation to Web publication, Adobe tools work together to streamline your Web workflow.

Good HTML support, formatting power and an object-based approach enable occasional users to add impact and consistency to their Web site graphics.

Adobe certainly took a long time to realise that its existing photo-editing tools weren't ideal for web graphic creation but it has definitely taken the lesson to heart. Hot on the heels of ImageReady the company has released another dedicated Web graphics program, ImageStyler. Although both programs share the same end goal - the creation of GIFs and JPEGs for inclusion on web pages - their approach is fundamentally different. Whereas ImageReady is a bitmap-based application focused on optimizing existing images, ImageStyler is an object-based application designed to create images from scratch.

As such, rather than painting and retouching brushes, the ImageStyler toolbox offers object-based tools. At first, the range on offer looks very weak with just four main shapes - rectangles, ovals, rounded rectangles, and polygons - together with simple text. In fact these are only the beginning with hundreds of different pre-designed symbols from arrows to splash symbols available from the floating Shapes palette...

For Mac (Power Macintosh: OS 9 or Below)