Designing Usable & Visually Appealing Web Sites

Great list of rules of thumb for Designing Usable & Visually Appealing Web Sites.
created by Wayne Neale and Cindy McCombe from Kodak.
http://acm.org/sigchi/chi97/proceedings/tutorial/wn.htm

DreamWorks Shrek2 rendering QA

Hector Yee, who also works for DreamWorks animation, has published at SourceForge, the image comparison component he used for testing Shrek 2 renderer engine.
Perceptual Image Diff (pdiff) - an image comparison utility that compares two images using a perceptual metric.
That is, it uses a computational model of the human visual system to determine if two images are visually different, so minor changes in pixels are ignored.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdiff

Photo management applications

here are some samples:

Apple iPhoto
http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto

Adobe LightBox
http://www.lightboxsoftware.com

Adobe Photoshop Album
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum

ACD Systems
http://www.acdsee.com/products/acdsee/

Microsoft Research
AutoAlbum
A System for Browsing Through Personal Digital Photographs
http://research.microsoft.com/~jplatt/autoalbum/

PhotoTOC
Automatic Clustering for Browsing Personal Photographs
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?pubid=1053