kuttakumar
International Coach
For those who cannot afford to buy Photoshop and PaintshopPro here are some free decent Image Editors. They may not be as good as Photoshop but still they look decent enough to be used.
Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.0
ImageForge
QFX8
Web Album Generator
Satori PhotoXL 2.29
Ultimate Paint
Link:http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
GIMP
Pixia 2.4
VicMan's Photo Editor
Serif PhotoPlus 5
Image Enhance
Painter 25
Font Magic
ImageN
Source: GH-Gold
Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.0
Link:http://www.pabird.supanet.com/Edit images from 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 and transformations, magic wand selections, use any picture as a brush or fill pattern, blur and sharpen.
ImageForge
Link:http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imw_d.htmlFreeware paint and image-editing tool featuring soft brushes, scanner support, crop, resize, rotate, special effects filters, gradients, patterns, and more.
QFX8
Link:http://www.qfx.com/Scroll down for the Free Shareware version. It combines the features of both a paint and a draw program in a single integrated graphics environment. QFX makes it easy to build complex layouts with impressive speed by utilizing an object-oriented paradigm, complete with floating layers, transparent and soft edge masking, multiple complex effects and real time photographic compositing. Also supports Photoshop plugins, TWAIN scanners and digital cameras.
Web Album Generator
Link:http://www.ornj.net/A great freeware that will automatically thumbnail your images and make a thumbnail image index for the web. Very easy to install, use, and configure.
Satori PhotoXL 2.29
Link:http://www.satoripaint.com/Select Downloads (or better still, wait for the top banner to change to the download) for this Professional-level software, that supports unlimited layers plus you can import Photoshop PSD files. Free, but in order to run the program longer than 10 days, you must obtain a free code from Satori's Web site.
Ultimate Paint
.Freeware and shareware versions. Plenty of features plus loads of plug-in filters and supports most of the popular image formats... certainly worth downloading and trying out, judging by the reviews
Link:http://www.ultimatepaint.com/
GIMP
Link:http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/Now a very popular open source image editor originally developed for the Unix platform. Download the latest Windows release and get the latest news on its development.
Pixia 2.4
Link:http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/Something different, a free painting and touch-up program from Japan. This is the English version.
VicMan's Photo Editor
Link:http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htmAward winning full-featured free software with special effects and the ability to create your own.
Serif PhotoPlus 5
Link:http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/photoplus/default.aspThe free version of this software, a fully functional image editor featuring an export optimizer, editable text, image slicing plus image maps, selection tools, smart shapes and image enhancement tools.
Image Enhance
Link:http://biphome.spray.se/baxtrom/imageenhance.htmA free image editor that features support for bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners. You can digitally enhance your images by applying different filters and effects, like sharpness, contrast, grayscale, invert, logaritmize, find edges, old photo and more. You can also design your own filters.
Painter 25
Link:http://www.jansfreeware.com/jfgraphics.htm#painterA free image editor featuring backdrops, effects, and filters, banners, GIF and JPEG optimizer, airbrush, textures, clone, morphing, mirror, flip whirl and more. Check out all the other free graphic software on this page too.
Font Magic
Link:http://www.mattcawley.com/fontmagic/Create 3D texts, animations and logos for your web pages using normal TrueType fonts. Add material characteristics to text, work with wireframe or fully textured images plus other features.
ImageN
Link:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000031599Makes it easy to acquire, view, edit, organize and publish digital images. Batch conversions: resample and rotate images, apply Photoshop filters and much more.
Source: GH-Gold
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