Software For Photo Editing

PhotoFiltre

2011-03-05T17:24:00.000-08:00

PhotoFiltre is a complete image editing and effects package, that will not only amaze you with features but also the fact that it is free (for personal use). It comes with many features that rival some commercial packages, as well as additional add-on that can be downloaded from the web site. PhotoFiltre offers all the standard editing features (selection, clone brush, paint brush etc.) as well as a large selection of image effects, photo masks, image adjustments, thumbnail browser and much more. The program also supports batch processing to apply filters, sizing, adjustments and transformations to a large number of images at once. PhotoFiltre comes with modern, well designed interface and is well suited for everything from simple resizing to advanced photo editing.

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Irfanview

2011-03-05T17:00:00.000-08:00

IrfanView (pronounced EarfanView) is an extremely fast, small and rock-solid program for editing digital images. IrfanView has been developed by Irfan Skiljan, a Bosnia-born software developer, who has kept it free, ever since the first version was released to the public. IrfanView's popularity is rising by the day - since 2003, it is consistently being downloaded over 1 million times every month!

IrfanView is updated periodically, with new features being added on, based on user feedback and global trends.

IrfanView has many firsts: it was the first Windows-based graphic viewer with Multiple (animated) GIF support, one of the first graphic viewers with Multipage TIF support and the first graphic viewer with Multiple ICO support. In the words of its creator, "IrfanView is trying to create new and/ or interesting features in its own way"

The screenshot at the top shows the IrfanView Home Page - click to browse it. It is a measure of IrfanView's popularity, that it is downloadable from a number of 'mirror sites' across the world, including the redoubtable CNet.com, TUCOWS.Com, SoftPedia.com, Software.com, etc! Despite its features, the core of IrfanView is packed in under 1.5 MB, with its plug-ins coming in at another 7.5 MB...

IrfanView serves almost all our digital image editing needs at WellOiledPC. We love it for its speed, ease of operations, simplicity and rock-solid stability. So if you have a collection of digital photographs crying out to be edited/ touched up, look no further!

Here is a listing of some of the features of IrfanView:

Supports a wide number of image file formats (Complete listing of supported file formats at http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm)

Multi language support

Thumbnail/ preview option

Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.

Toolbar skins option

Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/ SCR or burn it to CD)

Show EXIF/ IPTC/ Comment text in Slideshow/ Fullscreen etc.

Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters

Fast directory view (moving through directory)

Batch conversion (with image processing)

Multipage TIF editing

File search

Email option

Multimedia player

Print option

Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/ TIF

Change color depth

Scan (batch scan) support

Cut/ Crop

IPTC editing

Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)

Capturing

Extract icons from EXE/ DLL/ ICLs

Lossless JPG rotation

Unicode support

Many HotKeys

Many command line options

Many PlugIns

Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"

No registry changes without user action/ permission!

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PhotoPlus Starter Edition

2011-03-03T17:53:00.000-08:00

The ultimate free photo editing software!

PhotoPlus Starter Edition is the amazing free digital photo editing software from Serif. This version is 100% free and is yours to keep so Download it now and start editing and enhancing your photos straight away.
Let’s take a look at what you can do with this free photo editing software.

Import and edit common image file formats
Straighten photos and crop to common print sizes
Repair old and damaged photos
Remove red eye, smooth skin, whiten teeth and more
Remove unwanted objects from pictures
Adjust levels, curves, brightness, contrast and more
Paint and blend with artistic brushes

Quick & Simple Fixes

Easily fix all the common problems you have with digital photos from any camera. Remove red-eye, crop & straighten images, change the brightness & contrast and more.

Powerful Repair Features

Bring old and damaged photos back to life with PhotoPlus Starter Edition’s tools for repairing scratches, removing blemishes, erasing creases and people (or objects) plus many others.

Creative Tools and Features

Explore your creative side with amazing effects and adjustments. Create sepia images, adjust hue & saturation, make a single colour ‘pop’ on a black & white photo, use brushes to blend in adjustments and much more.

It’s so easy to use!

Whether you’re a seasoned professional interested in a simple editing program for quick fixes or you’re completely new to digital image editing and want to enhance your photo collection without expensive software, you’ll find PhotoPlus Starter Edition a pleasure to use and easy to learn!

An easy-to-navigate interface with pop-up tool tips
On-screen ‘How To’ guides
Stunning one-click effects
A friendly and active online community

There’s so much more!

With PhotoPlus Starter Edition, you can also:

Create categorised photo albums
Backup your pictures
Import, edit, and export Adobe Photoshop files
Make pixel-perfect edits and adjustments
Edit photos without overwriting the original image
And lots more!

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AnyPic Image Resizer

2011-02-28T20:10:00.000-08:00

AnyPic Image Resizer allows you to convert, resize and rename hundreds of images files in one time with a few mouse clicks. It supports the most popular image formats: JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PSD, GIF, TGA, RAW, and almost all image formats. It's a fast and easy-to-use image conversion tool for both amateur and professional photographers to deal with digital photos, with one click your digial photos will be just right for the Web, blog, e-mail, photo printing, Facebook, MySpace, mobile phone. It's a totally free program.

Features

Automatic, Fast and Easy

Convert hundreds of images with just a few mouse clicks.
High speed processing.
Whether you are a professional or new to photo programs, you can operate this program freely and easily.

Support Hundreds Formats

AnyPic Image Converter supports the most popular image formats: JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PSD, GIF, TGA, RAW, and almost all images. It provides a lot of parameters adjustment for each format then the quality of converted images is regulated.

Batch Conversion

Convert multiple image files from different formats to desired format in one time with a few mouse clicks.

Time-Saving Profile

Profiles are a collection of settings used to convert graphics files from one format to another and/or modify them.
With only a few mouse clicks then you can capture the images you desired.

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Photoscape, an easy way to show creativity

2011-02-28T19:50:00.000-08:00

Photoscape provides the means to pour out the creativity in dressing the images. It is easy to use, free too.

Be creative with photos, drawings, and illustrations will feel exciting when assisted with an easy to use application. More fun anymore if we do not have to pay to use.

PhotoScape is a graphics editing solutions that meet two criteria. Easy and cheap - even free.

If you view the functions offered, PhotoScape are complete. There are at least thirteen feature that we can use to process and enrich the photo display. Access to all these features can be easily accessed from the home page application.

The most common feature is the Viewer. Here, we can see a collection of images on the hard disk. In addition, we also can examine EXIF metadata file pictures as well as running a slide show. The interface is familiar because it displays the hierarchy of folders and thumbnail images, similar to Windows Explorer. Unfortunately, his thumbnail, we think, a bit too small. In fact, size has a maximum.

Other features look more interesting, there Splitter to split an image into some parts like puzzle pieces. However, square-shaped pieces can only be because the distribution of images is based on the number of rows and columns. In fact, it would be exciting if the developer provides another template, such as triangles or curves.

Also try the Combine function to juxtapose multiple images at once vertically or horizontally, Screen Capture for screen capture screenshots, and Print to manage printing photographs on one page.

Photoscape also offers facilities that make it easy for fans of photography, that is, RAW Converter. As a result, we no longer need to bother looking for another application to change the format of the digital photograph "raw" if you want to be processed through Photoscape.

However, three feature our favorite Photoscape is the Editor, Page, and Animated GIF. The reason we describe in more detail in box-box below. But, in general, the three functions that are able to accommodate the desire of creativity that we have.

Editor
Starting from one photograph, PhotoScape can enrich it with additional effects and beautiful graphics. The options were very abundant. Starting from editing, contrast, color effects (sepia / gray / black and white), framing, until the addition of objects in the form of text, text balloons, and funny pictures. Time to have fun and freeing the imagination.

Page
Want to put some photos at once in a page? PhotoScape allows it through this feature. There are dozens of formations that contain between 2-25 photos. Just choose a template it, then drag-and-drop photos to the desired position. But, prepare appropriate image size. You see, once inserted, pictures can be edited again in order to fit the existing space.

Animated GIF
Some photos are combined in a single file, will appear one by one sequentially in the range of time (similar to a slide show or animation). This is what can be generated through this feature. Simply stacking sequence of photos you want to display, set period of time, and if you want, set the transition effects antarfoto. Voila! Be a GIF file that can "move".

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FastStone Photo Resizer

2011-02-28T05:13:00.000-08:00

FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.

Features

Convert and Rename images in batch mode Support JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF and JPEG2000 Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text, watermark and border effects Rename images with sequential number Search and replace texts in the file names Preview conversion and renaming Support folder/non-folder structure Load and save settings And much more...

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FastStone Image Viewer

2011-02-28T05:03:00.000-08:00

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, retouching 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. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG).

Features

Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
Support of many popular image formats:

True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
Powerful image editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/colors/curves/levels etc.
Eleven re-sampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
Image special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens
Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images
Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
Histogram display with color counter feature
Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
Print images with full page-layout control
Create fully configurable Contact Sheets
Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
Acquire images from a scanner
Versatile screen capture capability
Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
Offer portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
Configurable mouse wheel support
Support multiple program skins
Support dual-monitor configurations
And much more...

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Picasa by Google

2011-02-28T04:57:00.000-08:00

Picasa by Google is one of the easier programs we reviewed: it’s intuitive and well designed. Picasa also has the best price tag: FREE. Download from your camera or browse folders from the hard drive or a removable device. View thumbnails of your images. In full view, add captions, remove red–eye, crop, rotate and enhance.

Picasa is incredibly easy to use. New features such as the Retouching tool make getting rid of blemishes easy. Also, their new Redeye button in the basic fixes tab is able to locate the red eyes in the picture and adjust appropriately.

There are three convenient tabs for editing:

Basic Fixes: These are buttons that work in one to two clicks to remove red-eye, crop, auto color, auto contrast, straighten and fill light photos.
Effects: Designed to help you turn a gray sky blue, brighten colors and add photographic filters. There are 12 effects to choose from in Picasa including Sharpen, Sepia, Black and White, Warmify, Film Grain, Tint, Saturation, Soft Focus, Glow, Filtered B&W, Focal B&W, and Graduated Tint.
Tuning: Here are the most advanced editing features to fix contrast and remove color cast. Select from Fill Light, Highlight, Shadows, Color Temperature, and the Neutral Color Picker.

Bonus Features

"I'm Feeling Lucky": Takes the guesswork out and enhances photos automatically
Geotagging: Tell Picasa where you shot each photo, and view them on a 3-D globe in Google Earth
Text Tool: With this new feature you can add text to any picture, edit the text, and place it where ever you want on the picture.
Picasa now has a simplistic movie making feature using the short clips you’ve captured with your digital camera.

Assign keywords to your photos and then use Albums to organize just the way you want to. Albums are virtual groupings of photos that only exist in the Picasa software. Like a playlist, you can create combinations of any photos in an album or use a single image in multiple albums without taking up extra space on your hard drive. If you delete photos in albums, or whole albums, the original picture files will be untouched.

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