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[Offer] PD Particle 9 - Powerful image editor/digital painting app now free

RetrogustoRetrogusto
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This is a powerful image editor that stems from its big brother PD Howler, essentially that minus video and animation. Still very rich in features. As the name suggests you can create images by using particle brushes.

More info: https://www.pdhowler.com/Particle_9.htm

Link to app download is broken on original website, but can still be accessed via Wayback:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190309150151/http://www.squirreldome.com/Download/Particle_9_RC033.exe

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  • TMTGTRTMTGTR
    Thanks for the upload tip.
    FWIW I got curious on the dead link. They do have it on their main server:
    https://www.pdhowler.com/Download/Particle_9_RC033.exe
    Downloaded it and did byte compare with archive(dot)org version and they're identical.

    Did it by taking your exe part of the link (Particle_9_RC033.exe) and swapping with howler exe link part: Howler_2023_0100.exe and it came right up.
  • TalkOrBellTalkOrBell
    Looking about the site it appears they are taking a hit from AI pretty much like anyone else...

    PD Pro is my favorite painter & the whole series has been about digital painting then later into the 'Puppy Ray' engine & beyond... Animation has been in there too from early on I think version 2...

    The primary dev Dan Ritchie who is quite brilliant has been a LightWaver for decades even wrote some plugs for LW 5.5...

    Last version I could get to work in XP was Howler 9.6... 11 would not work but I don't like the Howler GUI with shit mounted all the way around the GUI... Favorite version is PD Pro 3.5 quite a powerhouse I have injected many extras into it... It doesn't use PS plugs but it does not need them... Here's just some of the windoids open-




    it can also communicate with ArtWeaver 0.5.5 all send/receive function is from the ArtWeaver side which will read the buffer from either PD Pro or PD Particles... Here I read buffer from PD Particles-




    Into ArtWeaver... This only works with the original freeware versions of ArtWeaver from 2008-


  • TMTGTRTMTGTR
    Howler 9.6... you say? =)
  • RetrogustoRetrogusto
    Man, I completely forgot about Artweaver, that was also a great tool. And it looks like good old Photoshop 7, peak Photoshop UI.
    Free version 0.5.5 Portable can be found here btw:
    https://web.archive.org/web/20081112114034/http://www.artweaver.de/direct/Portable-Artweaver.zip

    Speaking of Photoshop, which used to have some rather great 3D tools built in (which could even be animated) some years ago: PD Howler still has all that.
  • TalkOrBellTalkOrBell
    Yeah, Old ArtWeaver is nice & sparse... Good job on sourcing the version, by installing the DogWeaver plugin it will capture the buffers from either PD Pro or Particles...

    Photoshop 7 pretty good, I use photoshop 5.5 as I have all the extensis plugins for it which install into the shell which back then would've been $1,200 of plugins... It's not a great painter but has tight connector to Deep Paint 1.0b which is great painter... Actually one of the best besides PD was Procreate Painter 7 which was formerly MetaCreations then Corel made Painter 8 & SIMPLIFIED the brush engine!... Anyways PS 5.5 very lean on space as well as extensis plugs all very lean then to bloat out like a blimp when becoming 'OnOne Software' what a sad joke... If I need a feature of some later PS I'll just use a portable...

    Back to PD Pro each version is a bit different... I like the 3.5 & it has animation, animated brushes, bring in a video to rotoscope, etc... Next version I have is 8.2 which I like better than 9.6...

    It takes a long time to master PD, Some years ago I downloaded the YT videos covering upto 9.6 & filled several DVDs with still many questions unanswered...

    Here's another if you don't got... LView Pro 2006... High influenced by the JASC PSPs been given out free used to be $$$...

    There's a serial on that page you gotta save=

    https://lview.com/

    Hard to believe it's 20 years old now...

    I have serialed version of Chrome-Imaging Photonyx v1 from 1998... Pretty cool expensive image editor big plus of it is reading the image formats from all the 3D soft back then as they were supposed to be read... They only lasted a few years...

    BTW... In many ways starting about version 9.5 Photoline was better than photoshop in many ways...
  • TMTGTRTMTGTR
    edited November 9
    Hi Retrogusto (and TalkOrBell).
    Firstly thanks for the kind word on Au301. :)
    I combed the archivedotorg pages and could not find any that contained a download to portable past v5.1.5. So I gotta ask how you found that great link?

    That said, I searched around and found a Portable v0.5.7 which claims to be free:
    https://portable-artweaver.softag.com/
    https://softradar.com/portable-artweaver/0.5.7/
    https://allportablecollection.blogspot.com/search/label/Artweaver Portable 0.5.7

    You guys would know better. Is this portable free v0.5.7 a thing?
  • TalkOrBellTalkOrBell
    Yeah... I think that 0.5.7 was the very last freeware version... don't think there was much difference from 0.5.5 & 0.5.5 was first for PSD support....
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