Now you, too, can have the very same software that resides on the hard drives of actual Webmonkeys!

Color Finder  get it >>
Platform: Mac, Power Mac
Cost: Free
Company: Acme Technologies
A freeware utility that translates colors into their hexadecimal values.

Color Picker  get it >>
Platform: Win 3.1 or higher
Cost: Free
Company: Vector Development
Another freeware utility that translates colors into their hexadecimal values.

ColorServe Pro  get it >>
Platform: Any
Cost: Free
Company: Dale Lee, Brian Hall, Steve Johnson
A Web-based tool that translates colors into their hexadecimal values.

DeBabelizer  get it >>
Platform: Mac, Power Mac; Win 95, NT
Cost: US$291.95 (Mac); US$291.95 (Win); US$56.95(Lite version: Mac only)
Company: Equilibrium
A necessary tool for Web production in general, and palette optimization in particular. DeBabelizer turns those images that eat up a lot of space into images that don't use as much.

Fireworks  get it >>
Platform: Mac, Power Mac; Win 95, NT
Cost: About US$327.95
Company: Macromedia
Great for creating vector graphics for the Web.

Flash 4  get it >>
Platform: Mac, Power Mac; Win 95, NT
Cost: About US$246.30
Company: Macromedia
Creates vector-based animations that are scalable and bandwidth-efficient.

Fontographer 4.1  get it >>
Platform: Win, Mac
Cost: US$268.95
Company: Macromedia

Freehand 8.0  get it >>
Platform: Win, Mac
Cost: US$307.95
Company: Macromedia

GifBuilder  get it >>
Platform: Mac
Cost: Free
Company: Yves Piguet
A highly useful and simple tool for making GIF animations. Also useful for converting between image formats and simple image editing.

GIF Construction Set  get it >>
Platform: Win 95, NT, 3.1
Cost: US$20
Company: Alchemy Mindworks
Animate your graphics nice and fast with this GIF animation software and its Animation Wizard that almost does the work for you.

Illustrator 8.0  get it >>
Platform: Win, Mac, Unix
Cost: US$310.99
Company: Adobe

Image Ready  get it >>
Platform: Win, Mac
Cost: US$194.95
Company: Adobe

Mapedit  get it >>
Platform: Win 95, 3.1, NT; various Unix flavors
Cost: US$25
Company: Boutell.com
Creates server-side image maps for the Windows environment. Supports GIF, JPEG, and the new PNG-format.

Photoshop 5.0  get it >>
Platform: Win, Mac
Cost: About US$549
Company: Adobe
The standard for desktop image design. With its battalion of effects and tools, Photoshop leads the industry in graphic manipulations.

Wired Digital offers Hotwired Wired News, Wired magazine online, Cocktail, The Rough Guide, HotBot, NewsBot, LiveWired, and Suck.

Copyright © 1994-97 Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.