Freeware graphic and image editing tools

Picasa 2 - Picture Simplicity - http://www.picasa.com/

Find and enjoy the pictures on your computer in seconds.

A free software download from Google.

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. And Picasa makes it a snap to share your pictures - you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, instantly share via Hello TM (in sub script), and even post pictures on your own blog.


GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program - http://www.gimp.org/

The GIMP is the 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, in many languages.


IrfanView - one of the most popular viewers worldwide - http://www.irfanview.com/

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.


Brush Strokes Image Editor - http: /www pabird.supanet.com/~pabird/freesoftware/brushstrokes/

Brush Strokes is a free graphics editor with many of the features of a professional product. You can edit images fom a variety of formats (GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, TARGA, AVI); create images for websites; create and view GIF animations; adjust colours in photos; apply filters, rotations and transformations; use magic wand selections; use any picture as a brush or fill pattern; blur images; sharpen images; use frames from videos; capture frames from video cameras... and much more. You can download the free version and have a go yourself. It is very easy to use and lots of fun.


Meesoft Image Analyzer - http://meesoft.com/

Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.

Features:

Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment
Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc.
Deconvolution for out-of-focus and motion blur compensation (see below)
Easy red-eye removal
User specified filters in spatial and frequency domain
Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images
Scanner, camera and printer support
File format support:
Read/write BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX, JPEG and JPEG 2000 images
Read RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files
Morphological operations
Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, Lab, YCbCr, YIQ and PCA
Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation
Math expression module for creating and transforming images and advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver
Plugin system for adding more specialized features. (Available at the site)
Plugins include: Microscopic imaging, 3D modeling, Batch processing, Fractal interpolation, TIFF reader, Extended JPEG import, PCA Color Stretch


DeKnop - http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/software/software.htm

DeKnop (dutch for "The Button") is a graphics editor that is designed to let you create buttons for your web site without requiring any graphic design experience. Besides it's easy to create 3-fold-buttons for your Neobook (copyright NeoSoft Corp.) projects. User interface in Nederlands, Français, Español, Galego, Magyar, Català, Polski, Chinese, Czech, Russian, Italiano and Slovensky and Aide en Français (see home page).


FocusViewer - http://www.focussoft.net/ - Windows 98/ME/2K/XP/2K3 Server

FocusViewer provides complete solution for digital photos. You can easily view, organize, fix photos, and prepare size/quantity and sum up price before sending to local photofinisher. You can select different slideshow modes and starting point, set wallpaper with a calendar, make screen capture by means of delayed schedule or hotkeys and create contact sheet as an index of a number of photos. When fixing photos, you can easily rotate, crop, resize, add about 20 photo effects and remove red eye, and email photos to friends afterwards. Photo format can be automatically converted to JPG format to reduce file size if you like. Preview before printing helps you to make good arrangement.

Special attention has been given on preparing photos for printing service. It's easy to customize photos by freely cropping and shrinking. Print Prepare function will list available print size for each photo for your choice. You can key in unit price and quantity for each size of photo and get the idea of total expense before exporting and sending to local photofinisher.


VCW VicMan's Photo Editor - http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm

VCW VicMan's Photo Editor is a versatile image editor with an intuitive interface and a wide variety of features. This powerful application is user friendly, offering simple image editing, high productivity and easy customization.

Now you don't have to fork out hundreds of dollars for a quality image editor. This award-winning application is freely downloadable and comes with a wide range of essential features for both novice users and professional designers.


x2 studios LiquidIcon XP Editor - http://www.x2studios.com/index.php?page=products&id=11

A full featured, freeware icon editor suite for the Windows platform that includes features such as icon extraction, multi-icon resource creation, cursor creation, and mutliple graphics effects built-in.


Image Viewer - http://www.uticasoft.com/

Image Browser Arctic from Uticasoft

Image Browser Arctic is an image-viewing program. It will automatically search your computer for any kind of image file. It also allows you to convert one or multiple files into the following formats: BMP, JPG, JP2, ICO, TIF, TGA, PCX, PNG, GIF or grayscale. Create a slide show with synchronized audio.

Requirements: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP


Just Right Click Greeting Card [863kK] W9x/2k/XP FREE - http://www.justrightclick.com/products.html - This small utility lets you turn your digital photos into greeting cards with a couple clicks.

XNView - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/endownloadwin32.html

A utility for viewing and converting graphic files - freeware for private non-commercial or educational use - XnView for Linux, FreeBSD are FREE also for commercial use

Import about 400 graphic file formats
Export about 50 graphic file formats
Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
IPTC, EXIF
Resize
Copy/Cut/Crop
Adjust brigthness, contrast...
Modify number of colors
Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, ...)
Apply effects (lens, wave, ...)
Fullscreen mode
Slide show
Picture browser
Batch convert
Thumbnail create
Screen capture
Contact Sheet create
Multi-page file create (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
TWAIN support (Windows only)
Print support (Windows only)
Drag & Drop support (Windows only)
44 languages support (Windows only)
And many many other things...


Easy Graphic Converter (v1.20) FREE - http://www.etrusoft.com/graphic-converter/

Easy Graphic Converter is a powerful and easy-to-use graphic converter, image converter and thumbnails maker utility that can covert image files and make thumbnails. It a 32-bit software program that runs on Microsoft Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows ME Operating Systems. And it's a totally Free tool

Easy Graphic Converter can both import and export images in the following formats:

Windows Bitmap (*.bmp, *.dib)
GIF (*.gif)
JPEG (*.jpg, *.jpeg)
Portable Graphics PNG (*.png)
ZSoft PCX (*.pcx)
Adobe PSD (*.psd)
Targa (*.tga)
TIFF (*.tif, *.tiff)
Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
Windows Enhanced Metafile (*.emf)

Easy Graphic Converter can make thumbnails in two ways:

Best Fit
Exact Size of specified width and height

Or simply export images the same size as the original ones.

Easy Graphic Converter is a batch converting tool. You can convert batches of different formats images to one type of image in one time. It supports auto name.