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45 Best Freeware Design Programs

July 20th, 2007 · 40 Comments

In a previous post I gave you a list of 85+ Free Killer Resources Every Designer Should Know, which had a great response. Now, in the same line, I have smashed 45 Freeware Design Programs among literally thousands and thousands. It was a great quest, and it was worth it.

No, it won't replace your fancy CS3, nor Flash, nor 3D Studio Max.
(Remember, we are getting something for nothing :)

Some of them are pretty decent alternatives, not only for those who are not willing to spent some big Bucks, but also for those who need some specific tasks done, like resizing a batch of picture without needing to run the almighty Photoshop.

Personally, I also find them quite useful when friends & family or clients (or any non graphically skilled person) ask to do minor/boring tasks (like reducing a red eye). Well, you can hand them one of this apps that can do the trick with a minor learning curve so they will be pleased and you will be relieved.

Hope you can find some gems among them.

Image editing

  • The GIMP 2.2.13

The Gimp

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product.

Note: You will need to download both GTK+ Runtime Environment and The Gimp installers. Install GTK+ before installing The Gimp.

Overview | Download

  • GIMPshop 2.2.8

The Gimp Shop

GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

Overview | Download

  • Picasa 2.7

Transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images, all with this easy-to-use product. Watch Picasa automatically organize all your pictures into elegant albums by date. Having all your photos in one place means no more time wasted searching for folders or files. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums. Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), removal of red-eye, and enhancing–even switching from color to black and white. Create slide shows set to your MP3s. Integration with Picasa's free Hello instant picture-sharing software lets you share hundreds of photos in seconds and chat in real time.

Download Picasa with the Free Google Pack

  • Paint.NET 3.08

Paint.NET

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Overview | Download

  • ColorPic 4.0

ColorPic

Ever tried using a color picker on a high resolution monitor? It's impossible. That's why this color picker has a magnifier attached. Grab palettes of up to 16 colors at once and use four advanced color mixers to select a spectrum of possibilities.

Overview | Download

  • Magnifier 3.0

Magnifier
Ever needed to see what's going on the screen down to the pixel level? That's where the Magnifier comes in. Simple and easy to use, the Magnifier is always handy for when you need to see all the details. Magnifier has the following features: no popup adverts or spyware, easy to use with any other program, resizable magnification area, adjustable zoom factor, overlay a grid.

Overview | Download

  • Easy Thumbnails 2.91

EasyThumbnails
Create thumbnails and scaled copies of all your images. With Easy Thumbnails, you can find and process images individually, in groups, or in whole folders using a simple file selector and built-in image viewer. Use slider controls to rotate images and adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, and other attributes. Thumbnails can be created in any existing folder or a new folder, and you can identify them clearly by adding a prefix or suffix to their names.

Overview & Download

  • FastStone Photo Resizer 1.4

FSResizerScreenShot

FastStone Photo Resizer is a free image converter and resizer intended to enable users (especially digital-camera owners) to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text, and watermarks to images in a quick-and-easy batch mode. The application supports major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, and PNG. Drag-and-drop mouse operation is well supported.

Overview | Download

  • ImageDiff 1.0.1

Image Diff

ImageDiff is a pixel by pixel image comparison tool. ImageDiff allows you to compare two images side by side, and see a difference mask showing you the exact pixels that have changed. Features include: Compare images of different formats, including JPG, GIF, BMP, and TIF, PNG. Compare images of different proportions and imageDiff will scale and calculate the difference automatically.

Overview | Download

  • IrfanView 4

irfanview
IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.

Overview | Download

  • FastStone Image Viewer 3.2


FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

Overview | Download

  • Alch Icon Suite 1.2


Alch Icon Suite is a powerful icon editing studio this small application is extremely easy to use and has a range of effects that can be applied to icons, not only can you edit any (16 X 16, 32 X 32, 48 X 48, 64 X 64) existing windows icons you can create your own icons fast and effectively.

*Update* 7/22/2007
Users  have reported the  presence of the  virus  "win32 adload.aw" in this program. Download for this app is not supported any more. Thanks for the help.

Overview | Download

Ilustration

  • Inkscape 0.45

inkscape
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more.

Overview | Download

  • SmoothDraw NX

SmoothDraw

SmoothDraw NX is an easy yet powerful freehand drawing tool. It's a limited yet free version of SmoothDraw. It produces the most smooth and expressive stroke through your tablet. It also smoothes mouse input for who don't have a tablet.

Overview & Download

  • SPRAY vector generator 0.1

Spray

SPRAY vector generator is intended to produce helper objects for vector illustration software like Xara X, Corel Draw, Adobe photoshop. You can easily generate huge number of circles with random position, fill, outline color; random paths, grids, and rays. You can place generated objects thru clipboard at your favorite illustration app. Developed for Xara X but also works with Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator.

Download

  • SMN v5.1 ParticleDraw

ParticleDraw

ParticleDraw is a novel windows drawing program powered by a state of the art general system simulation engine. The brushes are dynamic systems of particles with interesting behaviours, which you can completely customise. Each brush is intricately tuneable with many underlying physical parameters and one can construct arbitrary systems of particles and use these as brushes.

Overview | Download

InsightPoint
InsightPoint creates sophisticated illustration and layout for Web and print. When it comes to spell out and share your ideas, in text and in graphics as well, InsightPoint is the fastest and easiest way to get you there. Built on top of XML technologies, comprehensive object-oriented vector design tools, trivial learning curve, and smooth drawing experience.

Overview & Download

Authoring Tools

  • Serif DrawPlus 4.0

Unleash your creativity with Serif's powerful drawing and graphics software - at no cost! You'll be amazed how easy it is to create high quality graphics and animations without having to spend hours designing or pay for expensive training.

Overview | Download

  • Project Dogwaffle Free

This is a free program for the PC developed in VB by special fx artist, animator & novelist Dan Ritchie and made available for free downloading and use (but not for resale without express written permission - please contact Dan if you wish to include a copy of his software with your commercial products). Any non-commercial distribution is fine; that includes placing it on cover CDs with magazines and books.

Overview | Download

  • AmitySource Userbar Generator


AmitySource Userbar Generator is an easy-to-use program for generating unique and attractive userbars. With it you can create nice-looking userbar within five minutes and without any technical or artistical knowledge. It has everything you need for creating personal userbars: you can choose colors, special effect, pattern, a glow effect, an overlay image for your composition. AmitySource Userbar Generator allows to save the created userbar in different popular formats.

Overview | Download

  • Terragen 0.9.43

Terragen

Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage in its development, Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use.

Although Terragen is a continually evolving work-in-progress, it is already capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation.

Download | Overview

  • uMark Lite 1.1

uMark Lite enables you to add a text or image watermark to your digital photos. You can choose from 9 pre-defined watermark placements, set a custom font, size, and color, as well as opacity level. The freeware version can batch process up to 50 images in a single run. The watermarked images are saved in a new folder, so your originals remain unchanged. 50 images at a go, adds uMark Lite watermark.

Overview | Download

Animation

  • TouchArt Sampler 017

touchart

TouchArt Sampler is a great way to learn the art and skills of performing live visuals and VJing. TouchPlayer and 21 interactive 2D and 3D animations (synths) are included in this sampler. Touch lets you manipulate visuals in real-time, giving you control of various parameters like lighting, color, textures, motion, video playback, and composing. Play some audio and you can sync visuals to the BPM.

Overview & Download

  • Synfig Studio 0.61.05

Synfig Studio is a vector based 2D animation program. It is designed to be capable of producing feature-film quality animation. It eliminates the need for tweening, preventing the need to hand-draw each frame. Synfig Studio features spatial and temporal resolution independence (sharp and smooth at any resolution or framerate), high dynamic range images, and a flexible plugin system.

Overview | Download

  • AnimPixels 1.1

AnimPixels

AnimPixels is an animated movie software specialized in Isometric Pixel Art. Use your own movie components, or download them from the Web, to create a original pixelized animated movie. Download the free AnimPixels animation software. No evaluation period or limited feature.

Overview | Download

  • UnFREEz 2.1

UnFREEz is a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images. What makes this program unique from its competitors? First and foremost, UnFREEz is freeware, which means you may use it forever without paying a cent or feeling the slightest bit guilty

Overview & Download

3D Modeling & CAD

  • LOOXIS Faceworx 1

LOOXIS Faceworx creates a 3D head out of two standard 2D photos. You need two well illuminated pictures; one from the front (mugshot style) and one from the side.

Overview | Download

  • Bryce 5.5

Bryce

Create breathtaking realistic 3D landscapes and animations with DAZ 3D Bryce. The easy user interface simplifies the design process for a novice or the seasoned professional. Start out building or importing a landscape as impressive as the Grand Canyon. Populate it with buildings, people or any other object you create or from the extensive DAZ 3D library. The Light Lab provides you robust control over your sunsets, moonlight nights or high-noon ambiance.

Overview | Download

  • Blender 2.44


Blender is the open-source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. It is available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License

Overview | Download

  • Google SketchUp 6.0.277

Google Scketch up

Google SketchUp is a free, easy-to-learn 3D-modeling program with a few simple tools to let you create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects, and even space ships. You can add details, textures, and glass to your models, and design with dimensional accuracy. .
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Overview | Download

3D Canvas

3D Canvas is a real-time, 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates a drag-and-drop approach. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives or created using 3D Canvas's object-building tools. Creating an animated scene is as simple as positioning the objects within your scene for each point in time in your animation. 3D Canvas will ensure the resulting animation runs smoothly.
Version 7.0.1.2 adds support for Windows Vista.

Overview | Download

  • 3D Box Shot Maker

3D Box

3D Box Shot Maker is an easy and FREE tool to virtually design quality box shot as your software box cover. It is important to present a professional boxshot to attract your potential customers to take a closer look at your products. An impressive box shot will make your software outstanding, and easily defeat your competitors at the start.

Overview | Download

  • Alibre Design Xpress 9.2 SP1

Alibre Design Xpress

Alibre Design Xpress 3D solid modeling software delivers the features you need to get started with 3D design and tackle projects for your business or workshop. Alibre Design Xpress is a rich and capable 3D solid modeler for creating parts, assemblies, and 2D drawings.

Overview | Download

Flash Tools

  • Flash Slide Show Maker Professional 4.31

Flash Slide Show

Flash Slideshow Maker is an ultra slide show Flash tools that helps you display photo album and slideshows on your own web site. With dozens of preset themes, you can easily make XML driven photo galleries for website. Flash Slideshow Maker is a template based Flash authoring tool, you don't need to know anything about XML or FLASH coding, there are only three simple steps to build a Flash photo slideshow. Each template can be customized, so the slideshow can easily be styled to match your own website design.

Overview | Download

  • LiveSwif Lite 2.1

Live Swift lite

LiveSwif Lite 2 is a free Flash maker that lets you create Flash movies, buttons, or banners quickly and easily. It provides several classic vector-drawing tools, including Freehand, Curve, Shape, Spline, Contour, and an in-place text editor. LiveSwif is a typical, keyframe-based animation system. Based on the capability of drawing tools, it provides a path-motion and transform-motion tool. In setting a new position, angle, size, or color in keyframes, LiveSwif will blend the in-between frames automatically. The setup package contains 500 library components.

Download

  • Sothink SWF Catcher for IE

Sothink SWF Catcher for IE
Sothink SWF Catcher for IE is a free and useful extension to Internet Explorer that enables you to save multiple Flash based charts, presentations, e-cards, games and Flash movies in it at one time. The small size allows it embedding in IE by just adding a new button. With only few clicks you can store your favorite Flashes easily.

Overview & Download

  • The Font Thing 0.8

The Font Thing

Browse installed and uninstalled TrueType fonts, viewing sample text, individual characters, and detailed font information. Easy font-management functions let you install, uninstall, print, copy, or delete any number of fonts at once. You can even store your own notes with them, filter them according to type (serif, sans serif, and so on), and group them into collections for convenience. This version lets you choose your font colors, set up drop-down lists of standard text samples, rename font files to avoid conflicts, and load fonts temporarily for use without installing them.

Overview | Download

  • FontHit Font Tools 0.2.5

FontHit Font Tools

FontHit Font Tools is a manager that allows you view, preview, install, uninstall, print in color, customize size and text of the previews, browse your hard drive for fonts, create your own folders that you can drag fonts into, convenient and automatic categorization, drag-n-drop to add font files (even folders and zip files with fonts) to the preview list, and character map. You can also search the Web for fonts and font-related Web pages

Download

  • FontRenamer 1.0

FontRenamer

FontRenamer renames TrueType font files (*.ttf) with the real name of the typefaces. Simply select a folder of font files and click Rename button. 'Arial bold italic.ttf' instead of 'arialbi.ttf' or 'Brush Script.ttf' instead of brushscn.ttf'. FontRenamer is available in English and German languages (auto detection).

Overview | Download

  • FontInfo 1.1

FontInfo
Plugin creates new PDF file which contains font names, parameters and recoding tables ToUnicode and xlatTable. Version 1.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements or bugs fixes.

Overview | Download

Useful Tools

  • Digital Image Tool 1

Digital Image Tool
Do you take any photographs, own a digital camera or work in multimeda or design?
This user friendly tool was created specifically to batch process images quickly, applying flexible resizing methods, rotation, cropping, scaling, watermarking, renaming and more. As a multimedia designer Digital Image Tool has come in very handy…..we made it originally for use in-house but decided to put a little more effort into the program and release it for free to the public!

Overview | Download

JR Screen Ruler 1.4

Jr Screen Ruler

From the developer: "The JR Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters."

Overview & Download

  • Quick HTML Color Picker 1.0

color

Quick HTML Color Picker is a free Windows color picker tool. With Quick HTML Color Picker, you can easily pick any color from the screen. You can preview the color, use mouse or keyboard to select the color you wanted, and get the color in RGB and HTML format. You can cancel a capture by "Esc" key or right-clicking. Supports saving HTML color value to clipboard automatically.

Overview | Download

LS Screen Capture 1.0.2

LSscreenCapture

LS Screen Capture, this small application proforms a small but needed function. It captures your desktop in several handy ways. Capture the entire desktop screen, the entire desktop work area, capture using your mouse by creating a rectangle, capture an entire window, the entire window work area, capture any active window with key stroke (Ctrl + F2).

Overview | Download

ScreenHunter 4

Screenhunter

Wisdom-Soft ScreenHunter is a free screen-capture tool for you to easily take screenshots. ScreenHunter can capture a full screen, an active window, the client window, or a rectangular area. It automatically saves captures in BMP or JPEG format, so you don't have to stop each time you capture, and you can capture as many as you like. It also can save captures to the Clipboard to be copied to other programs, such as Motion Studio and Word. ScreenHunter has a selectable hot-key capture (F1 to F10) and delayed capture, and uses virtually no system resources on standby. ScreenHunter freeware version has no expiration date and can be distributed free of charge.

Overview | Download

CutePDF Writer 2.6

CuteFtp

Portable Document Format (PDF) is the de facto standard for the secure and reliable distribution and exchange of electronic documents and forms around the world. CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional quality PDF documents with just a push of a button.

Overview | Download

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40 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Gary // Jul 21, 2007 at 9:29 am

    One heck of a job and I know it wasn't easy rounding these up and posting them. Thanks a bunch, keep rockin

  • 2 Kirby // Jul 21, 2007 at 10:47 am

    most of these sites are very useful, thank you ^_^

  • 3 SHLOMI // Jul 21, 2007 at 10:57 am

    WOW, GREAT WORK
    I STUMBLE YOUR SITE AND INTENT ON COMING BACK
    THANKS

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  • 5 gakkaman // Jul 21, 2007 at 1:44 pm

    nice! I will use deffinitly the 3d and animation ones! Ink scape for illustration is allready my fovurite, i use it also for commercal projects - and I'm satisfied. Thanks again!

  • 6 Torley // Jul 21, 2007 at 2:01 pm

    I never even heard of some of these before and they sound quite useful! I've been looking for new art tools to enjoy. Thanx a lot for taking the time to put this together, I hope it benefits many!

  • 7 Blackx // Jul 21, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    Great job! Although I know many of free graphics programs, I still made some significant discoveries on this page.

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  • 9 mrk // Jul 21, 2007 at 5:21 pm

    Can't believe you missed out inkscape

  • 10 Blog and Web // Jul 21, 2007 at 8:08 pm

    Los 45 mejores programas gratuitos de diseño…

    En snap2objects hicieron una recopilación de los 45 mejores programas gratuitos de diseño. Estos programas están divididos en edición de imagen, ilustración, herramientas de creación, animación, modelación 3d y CAD, herramientas flash y herrami…

  • 11 gregor // Jul 21, 2007 at 8:52 pm

    hm, nice list, but all those pictures are just saying "photobucket.com bandwidth exceeded"..

    little boring, isn't it?

  • 12 Joe // Jul 21, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    I'm not seeing any indication that Bryce 5.5 is free.

  • 13 sameer // Jul 22, 2007 at 4:40 am

    this will definitely help to keep the web more and more beautiful.

    i loved the article.

  • 14 mao // Jul 22, 2007 at 5:08 am

    @gregor Images working now :) sorry for the inconvenience guy
    @mrk Indeed inkscape is in the list check the first item in Illustration :)
    @joe Bryce 5.5 free download is not at the official site, is at download.com provided at the download link.

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  • 17 Napolux // Jul 22, 2007 at 6:33 am

    Thanks for sharing these resources ;)

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  • 20 Travis // Jul 22, 2007 at 10:44 am

    Why do you waste my time with a bunch of PC software? Especially when design is traditionally a Mac dominated field!! I only saw two indications cross platfor compatibility in this article.

    For those who are Mac users, Gimp, GimpShop, Inkscape, Terragen, Synfig, Bryce, and Blender are Mac compatible. Synfig is even available for Linux users. And for those apps that are not compatible, fear not. There are comparable, most likely superior apps out the for us Apple lovers.

  • 21 Nikola // Jul 22, 2007 at 12:05 pm

    Thanks for the list, it is great. Do you know of any JavaScript image editor, GPL or similar licensed?

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  • 23 Chris M // Jul 22, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    You forgot Xara Xtreme, which is available now as open source for Linux, Mac and Windows. I think it meets or beats InkScape.

  • 24 Spencer Lavery // Jul 22, 2007 at 12:27 pm

    Seems a bit odd to have an article about 'Design Programs' with mostly Windows apps listed.

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    In "Alch Icon Suite 1.2″ is a virus

  • 27 bob // Jul 22, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Great list of free software! Impressive!

  • 28 queequegbr // Jul 22, 2007 at 2:20 pm

    Great Work! Thanks a lot.

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  • 30 Ninja // Jul 22, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Personally, I think PrimoPDF is way better than CutePDF writer. CutePDF never really did it for me.

    And what about Wink? Debug Mode's Wink is a great screen capture software.

  • 31 Ninja // Jul 22, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    Also beware of Alch Icon Suite. It comes with DollarRevenue adware bundled in. I found that if you delete the opt file that's in the zip, no dollarware stuff is asked to be installed nor does it seem like it will install, you are taken to the direct Alch Icon Suite install

  • 32 Woeful // Jul 22, 2007 at 3:03 pm

    It's nice to see two of my favorite tools listed: GIMP, and FastStone Image Viewer. Together these two wonderful free tools make a decent poor man's Photoshop!

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  • 35 resetblog // Jul 22, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    GREAT LINK

  • 36 Jean-Michel // Jul 22, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    There are some excellent command-line programs that are not listed:
    - ImageMagick which offers a collection of image manipulation utilities, especially useful for building thumbnails, resizing many files, or knowing the dimensions of a picture without opening a big program: http://www.imagemagick.org
    - jpegtran which can rotate JPEG images without decompression/recompression, so with no data loss
    - POV-Ray which is one of the best raytracers around : http://povray.org

  • 37 Robert // Jul 22, 2007 at 4:24 pm

    Hi , upon installing Alch icon suite, my Comodo anti-virus program detected a trojan named win32 adload.aw. i thought i'd let you know. regards, Robert.

  • 38 Nacho // Jul 22, 2007 at 4:34 pm

    Muchísimas gracias muy interesante y útil.

  • 39 Cidinho // Jul 22, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    Haha, he said "some gems among them". Some?

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