PaintStudio Lite 1.2 is a simple and easy to use freeware image viewing/editing application. With PaintStudio Lite 1.2 you can enhance the look and optimize the size and appearance of images for use in documents, presentation, web pages and others.

Features:

• File format support : Bitmap (*.bmp), JPEG (*.jpg , *.jpeg), GIF (*.gif), PNG-8 or 24 (*.png), TARGA (*.tga), PCX (*.pcx), Windows Icons (*.ico), Win32 Enhanced Metafile (*.emf) and Windows 3.1 Metafile (*.wmf).
• Alpha-blending : Blending of image with optional combination of background color, mask image and/or tiled background image.
• Anti-aliasing : Various filter to control image quality when scaling or stretching image. Each filter will provide best result in different situations.
• Text layers : Anti-aliased texts with adjustable blending factor(opacity) with background image.
• Special Effects : Many special effects to enhance the appearance of image. i.e. blur, sharpen, emboss, twirl, waves, etc.
• Adjustable Optimization : Optimization of image to JPEG ,GIF or PNG is adjustable to achieve desired file size and image quality.
• Active preview of optimized image : When adjusting optimization levels, optimized image is directly displayed on the screen so you can see the difference of each change and decide the best image quality versus the file size.

Portable GIMP is the popular the GIMP image editor packaged as a portable application, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities.

It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

A free Open Source image editor that is similar to the popular Adobe Photoshop. Specifically, GIMPShop is a version of the GIMP that has been edited to be more user-friendly for Photoshop users.

The terminology and menu structure are adapted to look and feel more like Photoshop, and other adjustments were also made to make the GIMP more usable. In the Windows version, the Deweirdifyer Plugin has been used to place all of the various windows into one nesting window, so it will act more like a single program that multiple little programs.

Also the menu structure and terminology are adapted to to look and feel more like Photoshop.

NOTE: To make the Photoshop shortcuts work you have to start GIMPshop once (to create the .gimp-2.2 user dir). Then close it and run the pskeys.bat from the install dir or run the link in the startmenu group.

PhotoPlus 6 is the fun photo editing software that brings professional image editing to everyone with just a few clicks of the mouse.

This popular photo editor is for web, email, print. Import from cameras, scanners. Read, write many file formats.

Full featured: Photoshop plugins, animation, layers, editable text, extensive shaping and masking tools (freehand, smart shapes, font based), slicing and web image maps (automatically generates matching HTML), resize, web image optimization, etc.

Requires: Registration which is free.

Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Features:

• Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow
• Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
• Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
• Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
• Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
• Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
• Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
• Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
• Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
• Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG

What's New in version 3.1:

• Added 'Splitter' screen that divides a photo into multiple parts.
• Added 5 film effects such as Cross Process, Velvia, Provia, Portra and Agfa.
• Improved 'Mole Removal Mode'.
• Added 'Cellophane' filter.
• Added 26 pencil icons.
• Added 22 real picture icons.
• Added 11 balloons.
• Added new naming rules (time field) in 'Batch Editor' and 'Rename'.
• Support Chinese and German too.
• 'Raw Converter' supports K25, KDC, SR2, SRF.
• Minor GUI improvements.
• Minor bugs fixed.

Inkscape is an open source SVG editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc. Supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, node editing, svg-to-png export, grouping, and more. Its main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully XML, SVG, and CSS2 compliant SVG drawing tool.

What's New in version 0.46:

• Paintbucket tool
• Tweak tool
• 3D Box tool
• Live path effects
• Color management
• New SVG filters and UI
• Native PDF and AI import
• XAML import/export
• Open Clip Art Library integration (import/export)
• Stock patterns
• Bitmap editing extension effects
• Full on-canvas gradient editing
• Engraver's Toolbox in the Calligraphic tool
• Touch selection
• Dockable dialogs
• Command-line access to verbs
• Snapping made usable
• "3D" / axonometric grid
• Angled guidelines
• Conversion of objects to guidelines
• Significant speed and interactivity improvements
• Hundreds of smaller features and bugfixes

Tux Paint is an Open Source (free, and free to copy and redistribute) drawing program for young children (ages 2 and up).

 

It provides a simple interface, with one-click saving, thumbnail browser loading, and automatic reloading of the last picture when you start back up. It´s also entertaining, with a helpful cartoon character and fun sound effects.

Tools include brushes, lines, shapes and a big eraser. The ´Rubber Stamp´ tool provides access to countless drawings and photos which can be placed in the drawing (like a child´s stickerbook). The ´Magic´ tool includes over a dozen special effects.

Tux Paint has been translated into nearly 20 languages, including Spanish, French, German and Italian. It´s available as source code, Windows installer, Mac OS X archive, and as packages for Linux (Debian, Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.)

View the Changelog for version Tux Paint 0.9.20.

The award-winning DrawPlus 4 is the user-friendly drawing program that opens up a whole new creative world. With its amazing combination of powerful functionality, simplicity and professional quality output, this free drawing software will give you the results you want – fast!

• Animation Mode
• Advanced Graphic Functions
• Border Wizard
• Transparency Effects

1. What versions of Windows does DrawPlus 4 work on?
DrawPlus 4 works on Windows 95/98/98 SE, 2000, Me, NT 4.0, and XP.

2. What types of formats does DrawPlus support?
DrawPlus supports industry standard bitmap and vector formats including: JPEG, BMP, EMF, WMF and PNG for the Web.

3. Will I be able to animate my drawings and logos?
Yes. You can enhance your home, clubs or business website with animated GIF’s or create high impact animations for your multi media presentations. Plus with the power of QuickShapes and Wizards you are able to turn out Web animations in no time using advanced features like onion skinning, backgrounds, overlays, and frame management that are very simple to apply.

4. Is DrawPlus 4 a vector drawing program?
Yes. DrawPlus 4 is a vector drawing program, which means the drawing is in editable layers. On top of that DrawPlus is also a graphics design program that allows you to create logos, high quality print graphics, artwork, drawings, animations, labels and much, much more.

5. Can I create a certificate with DrawPlus?
Yes. The integrated Wizard Technology allows you to personalize your certificate with just a few clicks of the mouse or create your own from scratch. DrawPlus is perfect for creating awards, certificates, and other documents for recognition of special occasions.

Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.

Blender has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of Three Dimensions. Use it to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations, business graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces. You can easy build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves & keys) are well implemented.

Download the Stable version. Blender for Windows 2.45.

imageN makes it easy to acquire, view, edit, organize and publish digital images.

Features include:

• A multi-window image viewer and basic image manipulation functionality
• Supports 32-bit Photoshop® or compatible Filter plug-ins, including Agfa´s PhotoGenie plug-ins
• A built-in Web Server that makes images immediately available on the Web. It does not require you to maintain HTML files. Publish images on the Web and use your web browser to view and print images and thumbnails.
• A database that keeps track of images. The database contains small pictures (thumbnails) of each image file. It´s fast and capable of holding thousands of thumbnails. Option to export image information to a SQL database.
• A unique, uncluttered user interface. Exceptionally fast image viewer and editor, ideally suited for processing large images created by modern digital cameras.
• Digital camera support. Download, upload, process and rename images. Add date/time/exposure stamp to images. The program supports JPG (EXIF, CIFF, JFIF/APP12), BMP and PNG file formats.
• Photoshop plug-in filter support. View, edit and create Filter Factory plugins.
• Lossless JPEG transformations: rotate, mirror, crop and add comments.
• High quality image re-sampling and rotation. Image corrections: brightness, contrast, histogram, levels, RGB, HSL, Gamma, ICC profiles and more.
• Add voice annotations to images, create AVI movies from still images, create image collections on CD-ROM.
• Built-in Web server: integrated with the image database, it does not require you to maintain HTML files. Publish images on the Web and use your web browser to view and print images and thumbnails.

PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives PhotoFiltre a robust look.

This is the full version which also contains masks, selections and patterns.

Project Dogwaffle is paint software for the PC with built-in, user-defined, animated & fractal particle brushes. A companion to your 2D+3D web authoring or animation tools, or as your first step into virtual art and matte painting with mouse or tablet, it is here for you to paint, sketch, animate and paint... almost like on the real thing, but without the mess or occasional spill! Draw Anime, enjoy nature painting, edit photos & digital images, add special FX to CG animations, do professional post work, and create fantasy art. For developers and VB programmers there´s also a free SDK to extend Dogwaffle with more filters and plugins.

Dogwaffle version 1.2 is a new product based on the powerful achitecture of Dogwaffle 2.0. We´ve created a light, yet powerful tool for artistic expression. We felt that the aging free version (1.11b) was in need of an update, since it was written for earlier operating systems and we wanted our new users to have the speed and power of our newer software architecture.

Dogwaffle 1.2 is not just a stripped-down demo of our software - it´s a fully functional version with some new features too. It is not save-disabled, there´s no time-limit, no registration needed.

For users who want to get the full power of Project Dogwaffe, we offer the commercial version at a low price. In it, you will get even more power with advanced features, more filters, more special FX and more animation support.

We feel that version 1.2 is a great free tool for artists who are just getting started, and for seasoned professionals alike.

Thanks for painting, and thanks for waffling!

Use Zoner Draw 3 to create powerful leaflets, illustrations for documents, business cards, price tags, letterheads, postcards, signs, blueprints, greeting cards, and more.

Zoner Draw 3 features:

• Standart graphics tools, including stars and polygons
• Can fit text to curves, Rich-text editor, Text styles
• Integrated table tool
• Multi-page documents, master pages
• Object blending
• Transparency
• Integrated scanning tool
• Bitmap editing functions
• Support for Adobe plug-ins
• Larger documents (up to 2.5 x 2.5 meters) can be broken into multiple pages and then printed
• Anti-aliasing
• Imports WMF, DFX, ZBR, PCX, TIF, WPG, MAC, TGA, ICO, BMP, JPG, PNG, BMI and HPGL
• Export to WMF, PS, PCX, TIF, WPG, MAC, TGA, BMP, JPG, PNG and BMI
• Thanks to the new SmartFresh technology, the screen is refreshed in the background, making your work many times faster.

The Zoner Draw package includes:

• Zoner Draw 3 - vector graphics editor
• Zoner Media Explorer 3 - multimedia files exploring tool
• Zoner Viewer 3 - viewer for graphic files
• Sample clipart gallery

Photobie is an Image Editing software with most features similar to Photoshop plus advanced screen capture and photo frame editing features. With photobie screen capture you can prepare presentation very simply. Photobie has simple user interface.

Furthermore, if you have MS Word and other software that create specific graphics or art fonts, then with Photobie you can simply capture it and paste it to any image. Photobie supports multiple-layer image retouching for advanced image editing.

Starting at version 2.8, Photobie now supports thousands of Photoshop filter plugins (.8BF).

Features:

• General Photo editing tool - resize, rotate, flip, color balance adjust (includes brightness, contrast, saturation, cool-warm color, gammar, alpha); copy, cut, paste, paste as new image, crop (done by combining copy and paste as new image); selection (includes rectangle, square, oval, circle, polygon, free hand selection tool as well as Magic Wand too), you can select complex region by using selection modes such as Single, Union, Exclude, Intersect and XOR, you can also invert the selection. Much more.
• Flash Player - Fancy player allow user to play list of flash files (.swf) repeatly and selectively.
• Gif animation - create gif animation with/without transparent in a simple way.
• Image format supported:
  • Bmp, Png, TIF,
  • Gif --- support transparent hight quality encoding Gif.
  • Ico --- can save image as true color Icon with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 16x16 sizes.
  • Jpg --- support various encoding quality (1--100)
  • Pob --- Photobie specific multi-layer image format. format used to keep the work in progress for future retouching.
• Multi-layer features - support unlimited layers; layer merge, flatten; whole layer copy, paste, clone within current image or cross images; much more.
• Painting features - draw shapes as rectangle, square, oval, circle, line, dash line, polygon, free hand, curve, it support gradient color; fill shapes as recangle, square, oval, circle, polygon, free hand, it support gradient color, much more.
• Text editing - Support most system fonts; High quality text; Gradient color support; 3D text effect;
• Screen Capture - Support Screen Capture hotkeys, you can setup up to 8 hotkeys for screen capture, you can set the hotkey to capture full screen or active window, more.
• Framing - Photobie simplifies the digital photo framing process. You can design your favorite frame template and then apply to other photos quickly.
• ... and much more.

Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software.

Some of the features:

• Reads/writes BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX and JPEG2000 images.
• Reads PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files.
• Scanner and printer support.
• Built-in conventional and adaptive filters.
• User specifided filters in spatial and frequency domain.
• Retinex filter for reducing shadows and increasing local contrast
• Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation.
• Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, YCbCr and YIQ.
• Morpheological operations.
• Resize, rotate, crop and warping.
• Math expression module for creating and transforming images.
• Easy red-eye removal.
• Noise reduction.
• Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment.
• Test of methods for automatic image processing.
• Plugins available - see the programs website.
• Download includes a simple 3D modelling plugin.

Simple vector graphics editor for creating flowchart, diagrams and slide shows.

Features:

• Customizable template object palette.
• Import/export WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, MNG, and PCX images.
• Simple graph plotter to plot mathematical expressions.
• Advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver.
• MeeSoft Image Analyzer integration for bitmap image editing and extended file format support.
• Uses compressed file format for minimizing drawing file size.
• Slide show viewer.
• Spellchecker.
• Online help

PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, image morphing, composing and authoring images, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path ,and the most common editing techniques. Paintstar has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well.

Features:

• Full suite of painting tools including paintbrush, pencil, eraser, airbrush, filter brush, color retouching, blur/sharpening,smudge,and cloning. Many customizable brushes, texture, gradient, and 26 methods of combining modes suppported.
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear, perspective,flip,and wrap. Auto antialias supported.
• Image Morphing supported. With this technique, you can create a sequence of intermediate frames that seamlessly transform one image to another and generate output in a form of gif animation or image file sequence.
• Gradient Fill tools include linear,radial,square,conical(symmetric),conical(asymmetric) and shapeburst. Multiple colors supported.
• Selection tools including rectangular, elliptical, free, fuzzy and paths. Add, subtract, invert, antialias and feather selections supported.
• Zoom 10% - 2000% display, and show grid supported.
• More then 30 File formats supported include JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, BMP and many others.
• Color conversion supported include several different dithering methods and palette options.
• Alpha channel (transparency) supported.
• Displays Histograms (RGB, HSV, HSL, CMYK).
• Displays EXIF information. EXIF 2.2 supported.
• TWAIN supported for scanners and digital cameras.
• Multiple Layers, 26 methods of combining modes suppported.
• Multiple Paths supported. You can add,delete,insert point to the curve and adjust point in the curve just like vector drawing programs such as Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.
• Multiple Undo and Redo supported.You can set up the number of Undo´s from 3 to 99.
• More than 100 Filters/Effects.Application of 3x3 filters supported.
• Screen capture supported.You can capture selected or fixed regions of the desktop, as well as active windows or individual controls (menus, dialogs etc.), which can be easily selected by an on-screen indicator which outlines the area to be captured.
• Displays thumbnail of selected image in Windows Explorer context menu just like ACD System Picaview.

Freeware art studio to create or edit images, .avi animations and picture albums. Produce great results with your own pictures and photos.

Features:

• Clipart brushes
• Soft brushes
• Scatter and Spatter
• Special Effect Filters
• TWAIN scanner & device support
• Color-replacement
• Gradients and Patterns
• Crop, Enlarge, Resize, Resample, Skew, Rotate by Degree
• AVI and BMP filmstrip animations
• Tools to produce slide shows
• much more