GifCam is a handy and reliable application designed to record the screen and to convert the recordings into GIF format. It supports to define the recording frame rate, to select the color quality, to add a text in frames, capture the cursor and much more.
Great for demonstrations, how-tos and bug testing.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder (if "Save Settings On GifCam Path" checked in "Customization") |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch GifCam.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | ScreenToGif, LICEcap |
What's new? | See: http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam-7-0/ |
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__philippe
on 2018-01-13 11:23
GifCam v5.5 ßeta 5-JAN-2018 is out (new version since v5.1 OCT2015)
portablefree
on 2022-07-06 17:03
Updated to version 7.0 (2022-06-02, 2022, June, 2nd)
__philippe
on 2022-07-07 10:04
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Belatedly discovered a Gifcam quirk in the Win XP version...:-( |
Photoscape is an all-in-one photo software that lets you fix, arrange, and enhance your photos. It includes a wide range of tools, including a viewer/editor, batch renamer, RAW format converter, animated GIF maker, collage generator, paper print, splitter, contact sheet, and more. Includes a meta-data viewer for camera model, software version, DPI, etc. and file renamer that lets you for example change file names to the date the camera gave them. A "Paper Print" feature even lets you print out customizable lined, graph, or various different calendar/planning documents.
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Runs on: | Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
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Similar/alternative apps: | RW Paint |
What's new? |
Full changelog at http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/history.php |
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Maatje
on 2013-03-15 15:32
quote @tc: You can stop the intro photo by editing photoscape.cfg, and turning intro.photoOn from on to off. You could also edit the url, to point to a local image
webfork
on 2013-08-19 19:33
Although I've moved over to freeware options for most things I do, I've maintained use of Microsoft Photo Manager for years when working on my own photo collection. Today however, I was on a machine without it so I got PhotoScape up and found I actually prefer it.
webfork
on 2015-02-26 23:23
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Every few months I discover something new and cool with this program. Animated GIF tricks, photo edit functions, framing tricks, and photo collages. Today it was dragging and dropping an image onto the program icon and seeing the wealth of edition, annotation, and symbol tools available. |
Blender is a powerful, integrated 3D creation software suite with character/solids modeling, animation, rendering, rigging, shading, motion tracking and post-processing tools. It lets users create high quality 3D graphics, movies and replay real-time, interactive 3D content. Its features can be extended with a variety of plug-ins, scripts, templates and more.
Cross platform (Mac, Linux). The program has been used for a wide variety of functions, including VFX, video edition, modeling etc.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
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What's new? | See https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference/Release_Notes |
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webfork
on 2012-04-28 23:06
Added a note about films because I watched that Sintel short film created with Blender, which was in some areas even better than the work Pixar and Dreamworks are putting out commercially.
Checker
on 2012-10-03 18:17
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Watch Blender's fourth Open Movie "Tears of Steel" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6MlUcmOul8 |
Krita is a painting program made by artists to make concept art, texture and matte painters, illustrations, and comics. It uses a wide variety of customizable brushes as well as drawing aids for shapes, straight lines, as well as layers, masks, and more. The interface is also customizable and can be modified to both light and dark themes.
The program also supports animations, textures and more.
Krita Portable is a portable wrapper for the program.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | GNU GPLv3 |
How to extract: | Download the self-extracting EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch KritaPortable.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | MyPaint |
What's new? | See: https://krita.org/en/about/krita-releases-overview/ |
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Stephen Leibowitz
on 2019-12-13 10:17
KritaPortable_4.2.8.paf.exe from PortableApps automatically installs both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Krita:
Stephen Leibowitz
on 2021-12-28 08:56
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The Krita Portable package at PortableApps.com includes the last 32-bit version (4.4.3) and the current 64-bit version (5.0.0). Not surprisingly, it can be placed on portable storage. When it is run, the wrapper chooses the Krita version that matches the bit size of the Windows OS. Users should be aware of file compatibility issues between the two Krita versions. |
RealWorld Paint is an image, photo, and animation editor that includes support for layers and layer styles, photo retouching, and vector layers. Also supports Photoshop plugins, animated GIF and PNG formats, and a variety of downloadable extras including plugins, layer styles, brushes, etc.
The program includes a basic screen capture program, and can import/export to Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET editors. A command-line interface is available for exact coordinates when drawing shapes and an in-place calculator for use with simple expressions (like "256/3") when setting filter parameters.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes. The embedded Internet Explorer control writes some files (cache) and some registry entries. Do not open the Online page within the app to prevent this. File thumbnails are stored in %TEMP% folder. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RWPaint.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | GIMP, PhotoFiltre |
What's new? | http://www.rw-designer.com/paint-versions |
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kiwichick
on 2011-10-12 05:36
Links to the website and download don't work
billon
on 2016-05-07 04:48
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You can always try latest (unstable) version - http://download.rw-designer.com/latest/RWPaint.zip |
ScreenToGif is a feature-rich recording program for screen, webcam and whiteboard. The program is customizable, includes hotkeys and recordings can be edited and saved to animated GIF, APNG or video formats. You can control frame-rate, snap the recorder to a window, add text/objects, and denote mouse-clicks and key-presses. The editor can also modify existing GIFs and includes resize, crop, flip/rotate, captions, progress bars, borders, watermarks, transitions and more.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft .NET 6.0 Runtime (if installing the Light version) |
Stealth: ? | No |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MS-PL |
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Similar/alternative apps: | GifCam, Instagiffer |
What's new? | See: https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif/releases |
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__philippe
on 2017-08-15 19:05
ScreenToGif would be even better, if it was not for its unwieldy Net Framework 4.6.1 addiction
webfork
on 2017-09-08 03:15
The editor for this program just gets better and better. I've really enjoyed seeing it's progress over time.
portablefree
on 2022-07-06 16:54
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PhotoLapse converts a sequence of JPG files into a compressed movie, originally created for making time lapse-style movies.
NOTE: Site offline, linking to softpedia.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the EXE to a folder of your choice. Launch PhotoLapse.exe. |
UnFREEz takes any number of separate GIF images and creates a single animated GIF. It supports automatic interlacing, transparency detection, and available looping and configurable animation delay.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP |
Writes settings to: | None |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware/Open Source |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch UnFREEz.exe. |
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Kevin
on 2010-11-11 21:06
It worked. Simple but great. Thanks
Foot
on 2014-09-14 03:17
Version 2.1 tested successfully in Windows 7 (Professional, 32 bit). Tiny neat tool.
tomcat
on 2014-12-21 08:09
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Is this program stealth (no writing at all to registry) or does it write some entries to the registry? Has anybody checked it? |
APNG Anime Maker is a program to create animated PNG files.
Note: Visiting the website and reading the "How To Use" section is recommended.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the RAR package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch APNG Anime Maker.exe. |
AnmanieSMP is a graphics morphing/deforming software similar to Photoshop's "Liquify" function or Kai's Power Goo. Can also export morphed pictures as animations.
The program is no longer being developed. Although the website is in German, the program is in English by default.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | avifil32.dll - this is already on most Windows systems, but not necessarily all. |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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Onesimus Prime
on 2009-12-24 06:59
You can see more screenshots and examples of its functionality by searching for "AnmanieSMP" at http://images.google.com/
Kermode
on 2010-02-11 23:47
Its one of those annoying programs which opens its windows on the desktop.
Kermode
on 2010-02-12 06:45
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By open on the desktop I mean "open on the desktop" - most PC programs open a 'master' window, and all child windows open inside it - so if you minimize the main window they all minimize. |