IMAGING
SOFTWARE
Adobe's Photoshop - The grandfather of image editing and
manipulation. (Mac and PC)
Adobe's Illustrator - The most popular vector imaging
editing and manipulation software. (Mac and PC)
Adobe's Flash - Extremely sophisticated and widely
adopted program for authoring interactive web content.
The format is ubiquitous across the web and makes heavy
use of graphics, video and text. (Mac and PC)
Lemkesoft- Graphics
Converter- The
poor man's version of Photoshop on the Mac. This is a very
mature and popular graphics editing package that is
relatively inexpensive. (Mac)
PC Free Graphic
Applications -
Good list of free Windows compatible graphic editing
software (PC)
IMAGE MANAGEMENT
SOFTWARE
iView
MediaPro (soon to
renamed Expression Media) - The premier photo database
management software (also organizes other types of media
such as video). (PC and Mac)
Photo
Mechanic- Popular
high end photo management software package (PC and Mac)
Aperture
- Apple's high end photo
management software (Mac)
iPhoto
- Apple's excellent photo
management software (Mac)
Lightroom
- Adobe's professional photo
management software (PC and Mac)
Picasa- Google's photo management software (PC)
Portfolio - Powerful image organizing and
database publishing software for large photo
collections. (PC and Mac)