This is the Freeware Graphics App that is a good Challenger for Photoshop and other commercial programs but FREE!
You'll find it a little quirky with it's menu system, but it does a heck of a job retouching photos and creating new work
It's Totally FREEE Software and highly recommended

This is the Commercial Freeware Application from Serif.. "PhotoPlus 6 is the perfect choice for editing and enhancing your digital images and photos for print, E-mail and the web."
Again it's highly recommended

This is another Commercial Freeware App from Serif. 3DPlus 2 can help you add a new dimension to your web site graphics, presentations and desktop publishing projects."

This Freeware 3D App just blows people away with it's power and precision. How can you get a free program like this?! Easy just click the image and it's yours FREE no bull.
Highly recommended

QUOTE "An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, e-mailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more." And yes it's FREEE Software.

Download GIMP Graphics App

SERIF PHOTO-PLUS

SERIF 3D-PLUS

BLENDER 2.44

FastStone Image Viewer 3.2

This is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use)Viewer for graphic Images, Audio and Video.
Supporting the most file types of any free Viewer.

The original and still the best free Viewer

POV-Ray

SERIF DrawPlus 4 has all the power and tools you need to create attention-grabbing logos, striking text and artistic masterpieces.

SERIF DRAW-PLUS

This is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

IrfanView

Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer

This site has a lot of good animated text for you to download and their all free.
Thanks again Rick for your efforts

3danimatedtext.com

IrfanView

ArtRage 2.5 Starter Edition

ArtRage has quite a few little bonuses.
It will let you import PSD Files, Paint with oils, pencils, Gold Leaf, fairy dust and filters.

PhotoShop Tutorials

DVD Shrink
copy movies
Download FREE

Dragon Medical + Legal Transcription & Voice Recognition Software Link
Dragon Naturally Speaking by Nuance - formerly ScanSoft, Medical & Legal Transcription and Voice Recognition software