IMAGE EDITING  

Windows XP or Later

Corel
Paint Shop Pro Photo X4

Image Editing

   Passionate photographers will find more to love in Corel PaintShop™ Pro X4. With easy-to-use editing tools, a streamlined workspace and exciting pro-level effects, this is photo-editing software that lets you get the look you want, every time. Retouch photos in an instant. Or dive into creative features that let you create breathtaking compositions. Then share your best photos online with just a click. It’s the perfect match for your DSLR camera! .

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Windows XP or Later

Corel
Paint Shop Pro Photo X3

Image Editing

   Corel PaintShop Photo™ Pro X3 gives you the power to easily organize, edit and share professional-quality photos. Accelerate the way you download, sort, and rate your media with new photo management tools, including the new Camera RAW Lab. Make photo improvements faster in the enhanced Express Lab, or go further with powerful new editing tools. Change the composition of an image without distorting the background with the new Smart Carver. Create amazing photo books and projects, upload to Flickr®, Facebook® or YouTube™, print or share by email. Combining single and multi-photo editing tools, online sharing and simple HD video integration; your entire digital workflow is now available in one high-performance package.

For more information | Tutorials | Updates

Windows XP or Later

Adobe
PhotoShop
Elements 10

Image Editing

   Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 software program delivers powerful photo editing options that make it easy to create extraordinary photos, quickly share your memories in Online Albums and unique print creations, and automatically organize and protect all your photos and video clips.

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Windows 2000 or Later

GIMP

Image Editing

   GIMP is a very powerful GNU image manipulation program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, and in many languages.

You will need to download the 'GTK+ 2 runtime environment' for GIMP to work, it is located on the same page as the main download.

For more information | Tutorials

Windows XP or Later

Paint.net

Image Editing

   Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#.

For more information | Documentation

Windows XP or Earlier

Ultimate
Paint LE

Image Editing

   Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats and Twain compatible scanners. You can easily print your image, setting its size, position and orientation.

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Windows XP or Earlier

Photoscape

Image Editing

   Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. It also allows you to View your photos as a slideshow, batch edit multiple photos, make one animation photo with multiple photos, Print portrait shots, carte de visite and passport photo sizes, divide a photo into multiple parts and make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame.

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Windows XP or Earlier

Serif
PhotoPlus SE

Image Editing

   PhotoPlus SE is a remarkable image editing program that enables you to create, manipulate, and enhance photographs, bitmap graphics, and web animations. All the tools you need are provided along with handy hints to enable you to achieve totally unique results.

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Windows 2000 or Later

Phantas-
magoria

Image Editing

   Phantasmagoria is a fun, light-weight image editing application. The main focus is to apply effects to images, along with the basic editing that might be required after a sub-par shoot. In other words, what most of us actually need.

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Windows 95 or Later

Twisted
Brush
Open Studio

Image Editing

   TwistedBrush has more than 5,000 brushes available, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more.

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Windows 2000 or Later

Photobie

Image Editing

   Photobie is popular freeware image editor for Windows.

Photobie is built upon .NET framework 2. It has all general photo editing and painting features. It is a perfect screen capture tool for you to do screen capture and editing in one place. It is also a perfect digital scrapbooking tool that allows you to apply embellishment, masking and templating easily and efficiently. And it is a perfect animation tool that allows you to create GIF animation efficiently. It supports many embedded filters as well as Photoshop free 8bf filters. It supports user customized brushes, textures, masks and regions.

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Windows 2000 or Later

Lightbox

Image Editing

   Lightbox 2.0 Free version is a limited version of Sagelight 2.0.  It features the same UI and easy-to-use Quick Edit Mode controls. If you just want to adjust your picture and make it look great without all of the extras of Sagelight, then Lightbox 2.0 free version is a good choice. Lightbox 2.0 Free version has earned awards (see the main page), and contains the same core real-time engine of Sagelight, allowing you to control many different aspects simultaneously, giving you an intuitive feel for editing your image.
 

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Windows XP or Later

Serif
PanoramaPlus

Panorama Editing

   Serif's PanoramaPlus Starter Edition, is 100% free and allows you to create panoramas both horizontal and vertical. It automatically and seamlessly joins pictures together with a resolution of up to 3000 x 3000 pixels and then allows you to export them as .jpg files.
 

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  PHOTO MANAGEMENT  

Windows XP or Later

VisiPics

Duplicate Photos

   VisiPics is a quick and easy to use program that finds and deletes all your duplicate images.

VisiPics does more than just look for identical files, it goes beyond checksums to look for similar pictures and does it all with a simple user interface.


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Windows XP or Later

Zoner

Photo Management

   Manage, edit, and share your photos faster and more easily than ever before! This free software is the new way to work on your pictures with less hassle and more fun than you've ever seen.

It's made for everyone, and will make you feel like a pro.

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Windows XP or Later

Microsoft
Photo
Gallery

Photo Management

   With Photo Gallery, it's a snap to get your photos and videos from your camera to your PC. Find your favorite photos and share them with friends and family. Make your great photos look even better, and create impressive panoramic photos too.

Windows Live Movie Maker and the slide show feature of Windows Live Photo Gallery are not supported on Windows XP.


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Windows 2000 or Later

Google
Picasa

Photo Management

   Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You can drag and drop to arrange your albums and make labels to create new groups. Picasa makes sure your pictures are always organized. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips.

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Windows XP or Later

Snapact

Photo Management

   Snapact is an easy-to-use photo management application for acquiring and viewing photos. Snapact allows you to organise photos into albums or Tag photos with text for easy indexing.

The one thing that makes Snapact stand out from the crowd is its simple integration with Snapacts online community, allowing you to quickly and easily share your photos with others (Free Snapact account required).

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  PHOTO TOOLS  

Windows XP or Later

Luminance
HDR

(High Dynamic Range)

   Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a goup of tools to help produce HDR images.

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Windows 98 or Later

Photomatrix
Pro 3

(High Dynamic Range)

   Photomatix Pro is a stand-alone program that creates and processes HDR (High Dynamic Range) images, and runs on Mac OS X and Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista.

The trial is fully functional and never expires, but applies a watermark to images produced with one of the two Tone Mapping methods and four of the six exposure blending modes.

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Windows 2000 or Later

FotoMorph

Image Morphing Tool

   Morphing is an animation technique in which one image is gradually turned into another. FotoMorph lets you make incredible morphs in minutes!

You've seen them in the movies and on TV, and now you can create them yourself.
Turn a friend into a tiger. Watch your child grow into an adult. Unleash your imagination with the power of FotoMorph.

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Windows 2000 or Later

FotoMix

Image Merging Tool

   FotoMix is a versatile program that allows you to crop, resize, rotate, mix and manipulate different pictures, to create a wide variety of images.

Create photo montages or remove, add or alter backgrounds.

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Windows XP or Later

Microsoft
I.C.E.

Image Composite Editor

   Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

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Windows XP or Later

Microsoft
Photo Story 3

Photo Slideshow Tool

   Photo story allows you to create slideshows using your digital photos. You can add stunning special effects, soundtracks, your own voice narration or personalize them with titles and captions. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures.

Windows Validation required to install.

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Microsoft
Pro Photo Tools

Photo Tools

   Microsoft Pro Photo Tools provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images—including RAW captures. The current version enables you to quickly geotag your photos, view and edit metadata, and more, leveraging the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local.

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  IMAGE VIEWERS  

IrfanView

Image Viewer

   IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer. It's simple for beginners but powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home).

IrfanView is also free for educational use (schools and universities) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.
 

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Windows 98 or Later

Fast Stone

Image Viewer

   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 touches the four edges of the screen.

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Windows 2000 or Later

Exif-O-Matic

Exif Viewer

   Exif-O-Matic allows you to view and extract the meta-data stored within digital photographs.

This information includes the make and model of camera used to take the picture, the exact time the photo was taken, the exposure, f-stop, iso and much more!

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Windows 95 or Later

DifiaPro

RAW Image Viewer

   Free RAW Viewer  is an image viewer with built-in slideshow viewer. Designed to support RAW image formats (CR2 and CR formats), used by popular professional digital camera such as Canon EOS series, as well as popular image formats such as: JPEG, GIF, and BMP. The program offers a thumbnail browser and a full preview of the selected image.

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  PHOTO SCREEN SAVERS  

John's
Background
Switcher

Photo Screen Saver

   JBS sits in your system tray (down by the clock) and changes your background at the time interval of your choosing. You tell it where to get pictures from and how to show them – maybe you just want to see one photo at a time or maybe you’d like to see a ‘Snapshot Scrapbook‘ of photos thrown across your desktop. It’s up to you and you never know what’s coming next!

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PhotoCafe

Photo Screen Saver

   PhotoCaft is a photo screen saver with a difference, it can scroll panoramic images across multiple monitors, offers multiple layouts, effects and if you point PhotoCafe to a place on the internet it will scan for photos, collecting titles and descriptions from RSS feeds as it goes!
 

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Google
Screen Saver

Photo Screen Saver

   Google Photos Screensaver turns your computer into a digital picture frame that lets you: Display photos from your PC and photo-sharing sites, Stay connected to friends and family with photo feeds, Watch cinematic slideshows with the new Pan & Zoom transition, and Flip through photos with easy on-screen controls.

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