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Flame Painter is a paint and particle effects program that you can use to create original artworks, add light effects to existing photos and artwork, or create impressive (or subtle) backgrounds. Flame Painter

Kinemac is a 2D and 3D Real Time Animation Software for the Mac.It is relatively easy to use and there are a variety of uses that you can put it to, such as 3D animated logos or intro animations for your presentations or vacation videos. Kinemac 2

Comic Life 3 is a program that can (as its name implies) create comic book pages. But that’s not the only thing that it can create. Comic Life 3 can also be used to make various Certificates, Trading cards, Yearbooks, Travel logs, Newspapers, etc. Comic Life 3

The Red Giant Universe is a community that has a library of effects and transitions for professional editors, visual effects, and motion graphics designers. These effects and transitions work in applications like Final Cut Pro X, Motion, After Effects, and Premiere Pro. I will be using/testing it with Final Cut Pro X. Red Giant Universe

Audio Hijack will record audio coming from the System or from any application, including VoIP calls from Skype and web streams from Safari. According to Rogue Amoeba: “If you can hear it, you can record it”. Audio Hijack

Chaotica is a fractal art application that creates digital art from mathematical algorithms. If your eyes are glazing over, know this, Chaotica is fun to use and there are an infinite amount of fractal designs that it can create. They are gorgeous! Chaotica Studio 2

SpriteIlluminator is a Normal Map Editor for dynamic lighting and special effects for Sprites (two-dimensional images that are integrated most often in 2D video games).  SpriteIlluminator

PaintX is a Final Cut Pro X plug-in that lets you paint brush strokes right onto your video. This can be used to remove blemishes on skin, paint out unwanted objects such as power lines or antennas, apply digital makeup, warp and stretch part of the video, or repair scratched video. PaintX

Smart Photo Editor is a photo editing tool which comes with many preferences that you can tweak to adjust the colors, contrast, etc. of your photos. It also comes with thousands of effects that you can apply to your photo. Smart Photo Editor Studio

Keep track of all of your possessions for insurance claims, to designate which items go to your different heirs, etc. Home Inventory 3

The problem with SSD drives is that they have a finite amount of erases and rewrites that they can handle. When they reach this limit, their performance can begin to degrade, or they can stop working entirely. Lifespan keeps track of your SSDs or oth- er flash storage’s remaining life… Lifespan

AliveColors is a photo editing program that also has a full set of painting and drawing tools. It has been designed to support the needs and user levels from the beginner to the pro user. AliveColors 2

Looking for a full-featured, reasonably-priced desktop publishing program? Swift Publisher from belightsoft.com might be just right for you Swift Publisher

TechTool Pro is a full featured diagnostic and repair utility that can check your software, hardware, and peripherals for problems. If TechTool Pro finds problems with your Mac, it will let you know and will provide straightforward advice on how to proceed. TechTool Pro 13

Exposure is a full featured image editor that has many options and presets that you can use to adjust the look of your photos. It is both easy to use and powerful. It comes as a standalone program and as a Lightroom or Photoshop plug-in. Exposure X6

PortraitPro Body Studio 3 is a full body editor that will help you shave off those extra pounds in your photos. It can be an invaluable tool for professionals. They can use it to tweak the look and shape of their models. PortraitPro Body Studio 3

Have you ever had a time when you needed to enlarge a small photo to fit a larger frame or make it large enough to hang as a poster on the wall? Did you get the dreaded blurriness or stair-step pixelation when the image was enlarged? You aren’t alone. This is a problem for a […]

Neat Image is a program that removes digital noise from photos but leaves the details untouched. Neat Image can make images look sharper with- out degradation of image quality (which is usually inevitable with noisy images). It works with photos from cameras, scanned negative and positive films as well as scanned printed photos. Neat Image […]

Color Finale 2 is a professional color grading and image processing plug-in for Final Cut Pro X. It was created for videographers, editors, and Colorists (both hobbyist and Pros). It contains a complete professional color tool set familiar to professional Colorists. Color Finale 2

Akvis Chameleon is a photo collage program. Though it can make a tradi- tional collage (with overlapping pho- tos), Akvis Chameleon can do much more than that. There are five differ- ent “Modes” that you can choose from – each giving you completely different results. Akvis Chameleon 10.3

The Live Home 3D Pro program is great tool for designing or decorating a house or a room. It allows you to quickly move from a floor plan to an interior (kitchen layout, furniture placement) or exterior (materials, windows, dormers, roof shape selections).  Live Home 3D Pro 3.8

Nisus Writer Pro is a full featured word processing program. Nisus Writer Pro 3

Snap Art will produce images that look like they were made by a human, not a computer. Snap Art uses sophisticated algorithms to simulate a wide array of brush strokes – from small to large. Snap Art

Cinema Grade is a Color Grading plug-in for Final Cut Pro X, Adobe Premiere Pro, or DaVinci Resolve. What is color grading? It is a process of improving the appearance of an image or video by changing vari- ous attributes of an image such as contrast, color, saturation, etc. Cinema Grade

Affinity Publisher is a desktop publishing program from Seirf (Europe), Ltd., makers of Affinity Photo and Affinity Design. Affinity Publisher lets you create, publish and share electronic or print-ready documents and publications. Affinity Publisher

Create  fancy headings, banners, logos, icons, or buttons. Art Text 4

Neat Video is a filter designed to reduce noise and grain in digital video. It can also reduce spots, dots, and lines of relatively large size Neat Video 5

LandscapePro Studio Max is a program that you can use to adjust the look or mood of your landscape images. Its approach is very different than other image editors. LandscapePro has you identify different parts of you image by labeling them. Then it uses advanced image recognition technology to detect the different features in your […]

LaunchBar is a program that helps you quickly access your documents, applications, bookmarks, contacts, search engines, etc. without having to use the mouse or go to the Dock. Instead, you type a quick key combination to bring up LaunchBar (which is around a 1 X 3” rectangle that appears toward the top of the screen) […]

Amadine is a vector graphic design program. A vector image is different from the typical art program’s Raster image which uses paint brushes to create the design using pixels. Vector graphics are created using Bèzier tools which create smooth curves consisting of linked anchor points along a path to create a shape. Amandine

Explosion is a program that you can use to add particle and sand explosion effects to your photos, thus creating striking visual effects. Akvis Explosion

GetSTOMP is a Final Cut Pro X plug-in that gives you Dynamic Text animations and typography. Meaning you can add text titles to your videos that flips, twirls, explodes, moves in and out of frame in various ways. GetSTOMP

Exposure X5 is a full featured program that has many options and presets that you can use to adjust the look of your photos. Exposure comes as a standalone program and as a Lightroom or Photoshop plug-in. Exposure X5

There are all sorts of problems that can cause you to lose your important documents, all of your family photos, etc. So what is the solution? A diligent backup program.  Get Backup Pro 3

Prizmo is a software package that turns your iPhone or your digital camera into a scanner. On top of that, it has tools that let you straighten pictures taken at an angle, and it has OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools to convert your photographed or scanned images of text into editable text that can be […]

Polaric’s GetBullets plug-in adds 30 Bullet Point and Title templates to Final Cut Pro X. They are designed to highlight and organize your information in an easy to read format. GetBullets

You can use PortraitPro Studio Max 19 to make photos of men and women more handsome or beautiful. It can also help remove years from our face by soothing over wrinkles, removing spots or blemishes, etc. PortraitPro Studio Max 19

Morph Age is a program that will Morph images together – similar to the morphing faces in Michael Jackson’s old Black and White video. In addition, Morph Age will Warp (deform) a single image – treating it like clay that can be pushed and pulled to distort its image. The resulting morph/warp can be saved […]

GetWall Opener is a Final Cut Pro X plug-in that you can use it to make eye-catching “Media Grid” intros for your videos. This is a wall that is covered in a grid pattern. Each grid is a “Drop Zone” where you can drop an image or video. GetWall Opener

Scrivener is an program for writers of all kinds – from amateurs to professionals. It has a wide variety of features to accommodate different purposes, including novels, screenplays, academic papers and dissertations, general non-fiction, journalism, blogging, and much more. It’s a ring-binder, a scrapbook, an outliner, and a text editor. Scrivener