Portable Graphics and Design Category

FastStone Portable Image Viewer is a Free, fast and user friendly image browser, converter and editor. It houses many cool features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, and even musical slideshow creation with transitional effects. FastStone Image Viewer supports BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA and popular digital camera CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG Raw formats.

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FotoSketcher is a Free photo editing tool that can be used to manipulate pictures to make them appear that they have been hand drawn or sketched by an artist. It can convert your photo's into either black and white or color drawing or painting. FotoSketcher is easy to use and image conversions only take seconds to perform. This application requires roughly 2MB for complete stand alone portable software installation.

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FastStone Photo Resizer is a portable image editing tool that can be used to easily convert and resize images. In addition it can also be used to rename, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images all via the easy to use GUI applet or simple drag and drop operation. Edit single images or bulk edit in batch mode many images (resize multiple images) at once. The FastStone Photo Resizer requires 1.37MB of disk space for installation. If you deal with images, this is an essential tool to add to your portable USB flash drive collection.

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Pivot Stickfigure Animator tool can be used to create simple stick figure animations. These animations can then be saved as animated gifs. Some basic stick figure animations are included to help get you started using Pivot. This tool can be run directly from a portable USB flash drive.
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XBlender is based on Blender (Popular Open Source 3D Creation Software) but contains a wrapper to allow a user to run it directly from a portable USB device. With XBlender, you can model, shade, render and create all kinds of 3D graphics and effects. Best of all, XBlender is Free Open Source 3D Creation Software that can be stored on a portable USB device.

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Portable Scribus is a stand alone, USB flash drive installable version of Scribus, the very popular open source free desktop publishing tool. This portable application makes for a great alternative to Adobe PageMaker and can be used to create professional looking documents, PDF files, newsletters, magazines and much more.

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XnView is an free image viewer and graphical file converter. It can import close to 400 different graphic formats and can export around 40 different formats. XnView offers it's user the ability to apply filters, effects, resize images and modify number of colors as well. It also supports batch processing, allowing the user to resize a group of images at once. Best of all, XnView can be run from a USB device.

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Icon Sushi is another icon creation tool that can be used to convert images to icons and vice versa. It also supports Windows XP 32bit icons, Windows Vista large icons, multiple icons and more. Icon Sushi can open ICO, BMP, PNG, EXE, PSD, ICL and DLL files and can convert files into ICO, ICL, PNG or BMP.

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Inkscape is an FREE Open Source portable vector graphics editor that sports drawing tool features typically found in applications like Adobe Illustrator, Xara X, CorelDraw and Freehand. Some key SVG features include, shapes, paths, text, clones, blending, transforms, gradients, patterns and grouping. Inkscape can be stored and run directly from a portable USB device and should be a part of every graphical editors collection.

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CatchColor is a handy little FREE portable application that can reveal the Hex value of any pixle displayed on your screen. Once the Hex value of the color you have selected is revealed, you can import or copy the Hex value to another applications or attribute it directly into code such as html. CatchColor is perfect for those that dabble with graphical art work or Website design and need to be able to color match parts of their work.

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Now you can create and edit icons portably while on the move. IcoFX is a simple and very easy to use icon editor. It is a great portable solution that contains over forty effects for icon creation, extraction and editing. IcoFX was also designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.

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KompoZer Portable is an advanced html web page editor that is made to run directly from a portable device. KompoZer is based on and is a fork of the Nvu editor but addresses many of the bugs found in Nvu. This application is easy to use assuming that you have used html web page editors like dreamweaver or frontpage before.

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