Semi-transparent Software

SnowScape is a PhotoShop plug-in for creating piles of snow, dirt, sand, gooey, slimy stuff, blood and similar effects to your (semi-)transparent images. You can specify where you want the snow to appear, how sticky it should be, allowing you to control whether the slopes should be smooth or jagged, and of course how much will have to be falling down. You can even change the color and apply noise to create effects nothing like snowfall.

SkinCrafter.Net component is an optimal GUI skinning solution for any C#, Managed C++, VB.Net projects. It allows you to create a customized interface for your .NET applications with smooth and easy skinning for all standard Windows controls. Your end-user applications can now include shaped, semi-transparent and attractively colored controls.

Wallpaper Sequencer is a state-of-the-art wallpaper manager for Windows. Semi-transparent wallpaper calendar with various skins. Use this tool to create collections of your favorite wallpapers and eutomatically change them on each Windows startup or at specified time intervals. Other Wallpaper Sequencer features include support for Windows XP visual themes, ability to control wallpapers with hotkeys etc.

AniSprite is an advanced high-performance sprite animation library for Microsoft Windows. Selected features are semi-transparent masks, alpha-channel mixing, automatic hit testing (collision detection), integration with frame animation libraries and curved (spline) paths. Full source code is available.

Puts picture with frame on your desktop. Frame can be semi-transparent or mouse insensitive. You can put virtually unlimited number of frames. Frame you put will determine the shape of the window where the picture is put.The program can be adjusted to start itself every time you log in. Easy for back up. Script files for advanced users. Frames setting can be easily exchanged with other user. All settings and frames are written in text files.

TransWin is a tiny yet powerful tool to make any window on your desktop to be transparent. You can set any window to be transparent or not, you even can set the Start Menu and the task bar to be transparent. It supports to set the transparency value for all or any of the transparent window. Supports to add the program path to force all the windows created by aprogram to be transparent,or add filter to make all matched windows to be transparent.

enable Virtual Desktop includes: multiple monitor support, customizable desktop size, hotkey desktop switching, mouse and window selectors, fully customizable appearance. Customise the mini-window via semi-transparent display, titlebar control, both Taskbar and SysTray icons, Always on top and Autohide facilities, contents mode (exact miniature replica of your desktop), desktop themes and global hotkeys.

Easy Watermark Creator is an easy-to-use tool for adding visible watermarks to your pictures and photos. Watermarks can contain text (phrase, file name, file number), image, date (current values or from EXIF) and can be solid or semi-transparent. You might use this software for protection from unauthorized use of your pictures on the Web, as an image constructor, to draw a texture on your pictures, etc.

Martin's Transparent Windows adds a transparency option to the system menu of all programs, making it possible to obscure any window on your desktop. People looking over your shoulder, want to use MSN descreetly in the office... use transparent windows to set the transparency to anything from 0 - 90%. Similar to the new Aero Glass feature of Windows Vista

Quick Shell adds options to the system menu of all windows to make them always on top, transparent or collapse them to the title bar. Also, menus can be made transparent. For Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP.