PhotoDemon is a portable and relatively small – less than 17MB unzipped – image editor which happens to be open source too. Most, if not all, features expected when working with images are present here. Plus there is also a Batch process mode available via the File menu (or Ctrl+B). A film strip area shows all open… Continue reading PhotoDemon Is A Full Featured Image Editor
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ToolWiz Pretty Photo: Fun, Feature-Packed Freeware Image Editor
ToolWiz Pretty Photo (Version: 1.5) is a freeware image editor with lots of features that place it very high when compared to other free, shareware and expensive editors. ToolWiz Pretty Photo supports the more common picture formats and can also do screen captures. Screen captures, available from the File menu, are rectangular ones created with… Continue reading ToolWiz Pretty Photo: Fun, Feature-Packed Freeware Image Editor
LazPaint: Open Source Graphics Editor
LazPaint (Version: 4.8) is open source and is a good and very capable alternative to any full featured image or graphics editors. Some of its features are listed below using its menu as a reference and the images attached to this review highlight a few of them. LazPaint can do multiple undo and redos and… Continue reading LazPaint: Open Source Graphics Editor
PhoXo: Freeware Mini Photoshop
PhoXo (Version: 7.1 tested) is a lightweight but capable photo or image editor. It packs a good set of features into its 4MB download. One of the ways the developer describes it is that is a ‘mini Photoshop’ and that is not far from the truth. Going through its menus it is easy to see… Continue reading PhoXo: Freeware Mini Photoshop
My ViewPad Is A Simple Graphics Viewer
My ViewPad (Version: 4.1.0 build 16212 tested) is a freeware image or graphics viewer that is also available for Mac and Linux. It supports over 100 formats, many of them both read and write. These include the common .jpg, .psd, .tiff, .raw, .ico and .gif formats to less common ones like .tga (Targa), .wmf (Windows… Continue reading My ViewPad Is A Simple Graphics Viewer
Freeware Shorts: PixBuilder Studio (Image Editor)
PixBuilder Studio (Version: 2.1.1 as of this post) is a capable image editor. It has many features of those much more expensive than it. PixBuilder Studio’s features include the typical brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, color balance, auto levels, (background and foreground) fill and more but also support for layers (including rasterize and combine), gradients, masks… Continue reading Freeware Shorts: PixBuilder Studio (Image Editor)
Freeware Shorts: Kestrel GX (Photo Editor And Organizer)
Kestrel GX (Version: 1.2.1 as of this post) is an attractive photo editor that also helps organize photos into one or more databases. It supports many image formats including JPG and others but also Photoshop’s PSD format and RAW formats. Photos can be arranged into PDF albums to share easily with others. The usual edits… Continue reading Freeware Shorts: Kestrel GX (Photo Editor And Organizer)
Hornil StylePix: Feature Packed And Freeware Photoshop Alternative
Hornil StylePix is an impressive Photoshop replacement that is not only freeware but is only 1.5MB in size. The layout is similar to that of the expensive Adobe product. Not unlike other free Photoshop alternatives it supports a lot of the features or functions of the much bigger product and does them reasonably well. Hornil… Continue reading Hornil StylePix: Feature Packed And Freeware Photoshop Alternative
Who Needs Photoshop When You Can Have Fotografix!
Fotografix is very much a mini version of Photoshop with its similar menu structure and a good number of (perhaps more basic) features familiar to Photoshop users. It even supports Photoshop’s PSD image format and of course imports them with layers intact. Looking at its menu Fotografix’s features are as follows: The File menu contains… Continue reading Who Needs Photoshop When You Can Have Fotografix!
RealWorld Paint.COM The Complete Image Editor
A relative unknown amongst the image editing freeware choices RealWorld Paint.COM is a surprisingly powerful and useful application. It is described by its author simply as Web-graphic-master’s tool of choice RealWorld Paint.COM makes it easy, barring the advanced functions used by true graphics professionals, to scale the heights of the standard Photoshop. RealWorld Paint.COM is… Continue reading RealWorld Paint.COM The Complete Image Editor