Graphics And Photo/Editors
shareware ($35}
Axialis IconWorkshop
Axialis IconWorkshop is a powerful tool designed to create, extract, convert, manage, and redistribute Windows XP Icons. It has a fully integrated workspace that permits you to work efficiently and create professional icons in minutes.
open source
Inkscape
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.
open source
Paint.NET
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful...
freeware
IrfanView PlugIns
IrfanView PlugIns package offers additional file formats and effects for IrfanView.
shareware ($50}
Ashampoo Photo Commander
Ashampoo Photo Commander is an all-in-one application for organizing, editing, sharing and presenting photo collections with additional audio and video playing and management capabilities. All the photo editing tools you need are included. Enhance your images with the one-click optimizer. Remove the red-eye effect, adjust colors, contrast, hue and many other parameters, resize, crop, rotate, add a wide range of special effects. After editing you can then use the integrated creativity tools to turn your...
freeware
Microsoft Photosynth
Microsoft Photosynth is a technology from Microsoft Live Labs that will change forever the way you think about digital photos. This software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.
freeware
Microsoft Visio 2003
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains new features and significant security enhancements, in addition to stability and performance improvements. Some of the fixes included with SP2 have been previously released as separate updates. This service pack combines them into one update.
freeware
Blender
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.
freeware
PhotoFiltre
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 it a robust look.
freeware
Multiple Image Resizer .NET
Multiple Image Resizer .NET is an easy to use and attractive image processing tool that allows you to process individual images or entire folders of images at once. You can resize, add borders, overlay text and/or rotate and flip images and dynamically preview the results for each. The processed files are saved to a new, user-specified directory and can optionally be renamed to a combination of the original name and/or numbers. The program handles a variety of input and output image formats including...
commercial demo
Nikon Capture NX
Capture NX releases not only the power of Nikon's Electronic Format (NEF) files; for the first time it makes JPEG and TIFF processing and editing elegant and easy enough for any photographer to implement. There are no complicated procedures - Nikon's new interface provides intuitive access to all of the tools you need. Make you photographic possibilities endless and realize the power of your imagination with Capture NX.
freeware ($35}
Chasys Draw IES
Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation and vista-style icon support (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter) and a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer). The whole suite is Vista UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors.
commercial demo
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the efficient new way for professional photographers to import, select, develop, and showcase large volumes of digital images. So you can spend less time sorting and refining photographs, and more time actually shooting them. Its clean, elegant interface literally steps out of the way and lets you quickly view and work with the images you shot today, as well as the thousands of images that you will shoot over the course of your career. Because no two photographers work alike,...
open source
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children. It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program. It provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative.
shareware ($87}
5DFly Photo Design
5DFly Photo Design enables you to create photo books, calendars, greeting cards, baby announcements and other artwork from your digital photos. It offers a variety of template designs to get you started, and you can also create your own templates from scratch. The program offers a WYSIWYG editing interface with support for image layers and drag & drop positioning. If you want additional control over your pictures, you can also apply image adjustments, frames, drop shadows, color conversions and other...
shareware
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Adobe Photoshop introduces the next generation of image editing with powerful new features that offer something for every user. Delivering the broadest and most productive toolset available, Photoshop helps you explore your creativity, work at peak efficiency, and achieve the highest quality results across all media.
freeware
Google SketchUp
Google SketchUp is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects - even space ships. And once you've built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.
shareware ($99}
Paint Shop Pro
Paint Shop Pro takes image editing to a new level of functionality and ease of use. Designed for users who want control, power, and flexibility, Paint Shop Pro delivers the tools you need to easily capture, create, enhance, and optimize your graphics projects.
shareware ($30}
Aoao Watermark
Aoao Watermark is a professional watermark creation software. It helps you add image and text to anyone of your pictures, protect your pictures' copyright and make your images more special. It is not only watermarking tool, but also an useful and simple photos processor. It can add frame for your photo,crop and resize image size that you need,batch rename,adjust image quality,and support many kinds of picture form. Aoao Watermark supports batch, too. For example, you want to add your sign to three...
freeware
StudioLine Photo Basic
StudioLine Basic is the premier solution for image management, archiving, editing and sharing, which has been earning glowing reviews by publications around the world. A sophisticated image management solution complete with image editing and many ways to share your photos.
shareware ($50}
Box Shot 3D
Box Shot 3D is the ultimate solution for virtual cover design. With Box Shot 3D high-quality software box, ebook cover or 3d screenshot can be created in just a few mouse clicks. It allows to create software boxes, ebook covers or 3d screenshots. Reflections, lighting, shading supported. Rendering to JPEG and PNG formats. Transparency supported for PNG.
freeware
Fotosketcher
FotoSketcher is a free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.
freeware ($15}
Bytescout Watermarking
Bytescout Watermarking is an effective wizard-based images (JPG, PNG, GIF) watermarking software. Protect your images within a seconds with elegant text or image watermark label.
open source
The GIMP
The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
freeware
RIOT - Radical Image Optimization Tool
RIOT - Radical Image Optimization Tool is a free program designed to efficiently optimize images for the Web. Saving images for web/email/other media with the best compression ratio and quality is a difficult task if you donâ??t have the right tools. Choosing the right format then choosing the right parameters are the key factors of smaller files. Previewing the resulting image and the projected filesize will help the user choose the best settings. This kind of image optimization software is often...
shareware ($28}
Kaleider
Kaleider manipulates images to emulate various Kaleidoscope, Mirroring, 3D Mirroring and Funneling effects. It is a capable graphics tool for people who are interested in symmetry, tiling, tessellation and mosaic patterns, with controls for manipulating images and tiles. Effects can be shifted interactively with the mouse, essentially re-rendering the same effect based on different relative positions within the source image, allowing you to experiment with the results and decide when a picture suits your...
freeware
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools
Pro Photo Tools allow you to add, change, and delete common metadata properties for digital photographs. You can place photos on the Live Earth map and then drag them to the right location. The GPS information will be stored back into the photos. If you have a GPS device, can load track route files from the most popular formats (NMEA, GPX, and KML) and see them on the map. Then you can place your photos on the track route. Again, the GPS info will be stored into your file. When you have the right GPS...
freeware
Microsoft Image Composite Editor
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution. Then save your stitched panorama in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats.
freeware
Hornil StylePix
Hornil StylePix is a graphics editing program with a number of advanced features. Stylepix is an acronym for "Style Pictures". This means your pictures with nice style. It has intuitive user interface. It is designed to control the selected functions easy and conveniently. Even if you have no experience, you can easily learn how to edit image and retouching your photos. As a result, Hornil StylePix's intuitive UI reduces your time to work. To better speed editing, it is designed to focus on light and...
freeware
UnderCoverXP
UnderCoverXP is a free program to easily print CD covers. It supports JPEG, Gif, PNG, and Bmp formats and can automatically scale front covers, back covers, front + inside, inlays, DVD Boxes, Playstation covers and CoolBela LD001 labels to the correct sizes. Other types can be easily added via an configuration file.