Name
Description
URL
Adobe Photoshop (M, W)
$650. Excellent, all-purpose image editing program.Version CS2 includes Image-Ready, Adobe's Web graphics program
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ demo available
Adobe Photoshop Elements (M, W)
$80. A remarkably robust, consumer-end version of the excellent Adobe Photoshop
Windows: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel/
Macromedia Fireworks
$300. A specialized graphics program for creating Web images
http://www.macromedia.com/software/fireworks/ demo available
Macromedia Flash
Basic: $400; Professional: $700. For creating Web animations.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/ demo available
Paint Shop Pro (W)
$80. Corel. (Previously a software program from Jasc Software.) Image editing program for Windows.
http://www.corel.com/ demo available
GraphicConverter (M)
$30. Thorsten Lemke's image editor for Macintosh. Reads and writes an incredible array of graphics formats, including Progressive JPEG, GIF89a (Animated), etc.
http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/graphcon.htm demo available
LView Pro (W)
$40. Popular shareware graphics program.
http://www.lview.com