Giveaway: Сrazy Talk Animator 1

CrazyTalk Animator is a revolutionary animation suite with all the necessary tools to easily create pro-level animation. CrazyTalk Animator's stage is a 3D layered 2D studio where you can drag and drop actors, props, scenery and images or video directly to the stage for scene setup. Create actors from any photo or illustration and CrazyTalk Animator's innovative Actor Creator wizard. Bring actors to life with automatic facial animation and innovative puppeteering motion. Drag-and-drop to build sets with scenery and props. Film and direct all the action with camera and time-line tracks for complete 2D.



Download link available today:  
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/crazy-talk-animator-2/

Crazy Talk Animator review: http://www.3dtotal.com/interview/262-crazytalk-animator-2-review-by-jahirul-amin

Free alternatives:

• Opentoonz 
• Synfig
• Pencil2d

Giveaway: Ashampoo Photo Optimizer and AV Music Morpher Gold

Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 2016 is a user-friendly application for optimizing and editing your photos. Various 1-click settings and the intuitive menu structure make this program ideal for beginners. Optimization is fully automatic and can fix color and lighting defects at the click of a button.
The program includes all common image editing features plus batch-processing support. The backup feature allows to undo all modifications if required. The integrated live preview lets users see all modifications in detail. Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 2016 focuses on the essentials to keep the program handling intuitive and comprehensible.

Highlight summary:

	Use 1-click image optimization
	Cut out image elements
	Resize images
	Watermark images
	Adjust brightness / contrast / color / saturation / gamma settings
	Rotate and mirror images
	Remove red eyes
	Apply image aging effect
	Apply color effects
	Sharpen or blur images
	Batch-optimize and edit photos
	Apply median effect
	Reduce image noise

Download link available today:
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ashampoo-photo-optimizer-2016/

Free Alternatives

• Zoner Photo Free free limited edition PRO vs. Free edition comparison;
• PT Photo Editor free - PRO vs Free edition comparison;
• Rawtherapee - free open source;
• Digikam  - free open source;
• Photoscape - free;
• Photo-editing software, Lightroom alternatives - dedicated page on my blog.

AV Music Morpher Gold is an ultimate music editor that can provide all the mixing features you will ever need. Along with a well-designed user interface, the program aimes at turning any humble PC into a fully fledged recording studio with easy-to-use yet powerful audio tools. The features include a virtual DJ for simple DJ tasks, a new Converter module for converting your tracks to any audio format, Morpher module for editing and mixing with professional effects, our famous patented Voice Remover and Voice Extractor, a ready-to-use CD Burner, and many other useful tools.

Download link available today: 
https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/av-music-morpher-gold/

Giveaway: PT Photo Editor Pro 3.2

PT Photo Editor is an efficient application designed to edit photos like a professional in an easier and faster way. You can easily correct color cast and exposure problem, remove imperfections, do quick selective editing and much more.
Key Features:

• Easy to use editing tools such as blemish removal, red-eye correction, clone and heal tool;
• Pro-quality adjustments: white balance, exposure, contrast, clarity, auto-levels, hsl, noise reduction and more;
• One click effect presets;
• Easy and smart selective editing way;
• Full-time 16-bit processing and full color managed;
• Lightweight

Download link available today: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pt-photo-editor-3-2/

Tutorials:

• http://www.photo-toolbox.com/product/photo-editor/user-guide/#TAB 
• http://www.photo-toolbox.com/product/photo-editor/tutorial.html#TAB 
• http://www.photo-toolbox.com/product/photo-editor/user-guide/#TAB

Free Alternatives:

• Zoner Photo Free -  free limited edition - PRO vs. Free edition comparison;
• PT Photo Editor free - PRO vs Free edition comparison;
• Rawtherapee - free open source;
• Digikam  - free open source;
• Photoscape - free;
• Photo-editing software, Lightroom alternatives - dedicated page on my blog.

 

Giveaway: Tipard Blu-ray Player 6 and Filter Forge Pro

Tipard Blu-ray Player 6.1

Tipard Blu-ray Player can work as a multifunctional Blu-ray player. It professionally plays Blu-ray Discs (an internal or external Blu-ray Drive is needed), folder and iSO files, even the latest-released Blu-ray movies. Moreover, it can be used as a common media player to play video and audio file in the format of MP4, MOV, MKV, AVI, TS, MTS, M2TS, FLV, MP3, AAC, AIFF, FLAC and more. It has lossless video/audio effect even when you play 1080p and 4K videos.
What’s more, it allows you to set audio track and channel to enjoy perfect audio quality. Optional video playing size (half/normal/double) can be adjusted to fit your screen. This software with simple interface and easy guide brings you greater experience compared to those portable Sony, Samsung or LG Blu-ray player.

Download link available today:  https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/tipard-blu-ray-player-6-1-2/

Filter Forge 4 Pro

Filter Forge is a program allowing computer artists to use and build their own filters – seamless textures, visual effects, distortions, patterns, backgrounds, frames, and more. The key features of Filter Forge include a visual filter editor and a free online library of over 11,000 user-created filters to which anyone can contribute. It works as a standalone application or as a plugin under a number of hosts.

Download link available today: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/filter-forge-4015/ 

Giveaway: Particle 9 and PD Howler 8.2 Home Edition

Particle 9 is an art program with unique foliage painting tools, along with more traditional natural media. It is a small and light app, and a feature-rich desktop program. It features drawing with art tools like airbrush, bristle brushes, and watercolor, particle based foliage and natural phenomenon, and creation of shapes like curves, boxes and ellipses, that can be filled in a variety of ways. The interface is simple and easy to learn, and all the features are easy to access.
Particle 9 is based on Howler, a media suite all-in-one paint program, with many additional features, such as painting on animations with other animations, creating and animating 3D landscapes, working with visual effects, and much more.

Download link available today for Particle 9:   https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/particle-9/

Project Dogwaffle Howler

A paint program like no other. Project Dogwaffle Howler lets you paint with a large number of natural media styles as well as unique medias like particle foliage, animated brushes and more. Tablet devices are fully supported.
There are advanced painting modes such as symmetry painting. There are a large number of filters that operate in real-time and full-screen. Also provided are video and animation tools such as a timeline, keyframer, batch scanning, cleanup, exposure sheet, rotoscoping, and motion tracking.


Download link for Project Dogwaffle Howler:
http://thebest3d.com/howler/download/home-edition/index.html

Penny Paint

Penny is a Spline based drawing and painting engine, developed by Dan Ritchie, and which was first introduced with Project Dogwaffle version 2.1

Penny Paint is an alternate paint engine expanding Project Dogwaffle's capabilities with Spline smoothing of mouse strokes. It is included for free with most versions of Project Dogwaffle, including PD Artist and PD Howler, and also as a free add-on by download for PD Particles. If you still use the older versions such as PD Pro 3, 4, 5 or similar, there is Penny Paint for that too.

Great for cartoonists who have a fast hand with the mouse or their graphic tablet and who  still want their line art to remain perfectly smooth, i.e. without jagged corners, this paint engine uses Spline interpolation between the sampled mouse/tablet points, so it looks perfectly smooth without line segmentation no matter how fast you draw your lines. It's perfect for artists with a fast hand, or those used to perfectly smooth lines seen in some vector drawing products. Here you can get the same results - with raster based drawing tools. It looks like vector lines, without the hassles of,...well, vector lines.

Note that if you want true vector objects, at least temporarily, you can use the Linear tool in Howler. There you deal with control points through which you define the smooth Spline or Bezier curve. Not here in Penny. With Penny, you immediately draw into the raster image. But it looks perfectly smooth, antialiased and scrisp as could be. Plus, there are some very cool extra options such as transparency, feathering or paper texture controls.

Download link for Penny Paint: http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/penny/download.html

Free alternatives:

• Krita 
• Gimp 

Google Nik Collection is Now Free

The Nik Collection is a set of image enhancement tools and photographic filter plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Lightroom and Apple's Aperture.
Photo enthusiasts all over the world use the Nik Collection to get the best out of their images every day.
The Nik Collection is comprised of seven desktop plug-ins that provide a powerful range of photo editing capabilities — from filter applications that improve color correction, to retouching and creative effects, to image sharpening that brings out all the hidden details, to the ability to make adjustments to the color and tonality of images.
Starting March 24, 2016, the latest Nik Collection will be freely available to download: Analog Efex Pro, Color Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro, Viveza, HDR Efex Pro, Sharpener Pro and Dfine.
Download Google Nik Collection for free

Giveaway: Zoner Photo Studio 17 PRO

The only photo software you will ever need. It is a user-­friendly Windows software, that brings every feature you need in a single package. From importing photos onto your PC to organizing a photo archive, editing, sharing, and RAW files support. Almost every Zoner`s feature can be applied to batches of photos. For example, you can apply frame to 1000 vacation photos at once, resize them the size you need for a photo album, saving you time.

Features:

• Importing: Right as you're downloading your pictures to your PC, you can tag them, rotate them to match camera rotation (EXIF), back them up, and more.;
• Managing: Give photographs a rating from 1­5, colored labels, descriptions, and more. Drag­and­drop them onto an integrated Google Map to GPS­tag them, so you'll know exactly where your photos were taken even years from now. Then find any photo you need in seconds, even among thousands of others;
• Editing: Dozens of photo editing and retouching features: cropping, resizing, straightening, local edits, exposure and color fixes and more. A Quick Edits panel helps you fix a picture in moments using just a few sliders. The Editor also offers dozens of creative Quick Filters and other creative tools like HDR, Tone Mapping, 3D, panoramas, cartoon, lens flare;
• Sharing: Share straight from Zoner to Facebook, Flickr, and more, including Zoner's own Zonerama: the first truly unlimited gallery;
• RAW: An improved, faster RAW module with start-­to-­finish processing of your DSLR's RAW files, with lots of practical perks such as RAW+JPEG stacking.

Download link available today: https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/zoner-photo-studio-17-pro/

About.com review ****: http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/productreviews/ss/Zoner-Photo-Studio.htm  
Download.com review****: http://download.cnet.com/Zoner-Photo-Studio/3000-2192_4-75186165.html

Zoner free Android photo app: http://www.zoner.com/en/zoner-photo-studio-for-android 
Google play - Zoner Android photo app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoner.android.photostudio 

Free Alternatives:

• Zoner Photo Free -  free limited edition - PRO vs. Free edition comparison;
• Rawtherapee - free open source;
• Digikam  - free open source;
• Photoscape - free;
• Photo-editing software, Lightroom alternatives - dedicated page on my blog.