GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. Note: You will need to download both GTK+ Runtime Environment and The Gimp installers. Install GTK+ before installing The Gimp. Version 2.4 includes a new icon theme, scalable brushes, revised selection tools, new color menu, full-screen editing, new crop tool, improved printing, red eye removal, perspective clone, lens distortion and various other improvements.Editor's review of The GIMP Pretty things up a bit The volunteer developers of The GIMP have been working hard to develop a polished, user-friendly, and freely distributed image editor. Although the separated palette windows may disturb those users who are used to more traditional layouts, your comfort level should grow exponentially as you discover how pain-free the program is. The latest update is robust enough to have earned a full-point upgrade, although it's merely a jump from 2.2 to 2.4. One of the most powerful general-purpose image editors around, the upgrades make the GNU Image Manipulation Program eminently comparable to Photoshop. Older features include channels, layers and masks, filters and effects, tabbed palettes, editable text tools, and color operations such as levels. New improvements include scalable brushes, revised selection tools, a new color menu, full-screen editing, a new crop tool, improved printing, red eye removal, perspective clone, lens distortion, and more. It even has regex-based pattern matching for power users. The application provides professional tools that can stand against the big boys without the hefty price tag. Even the installation process has gotten simpler, with no need to download and install the GTX Runtime Environment separately. Extremely powerful and easy to work with, GIMP is ideal for both amateur and pro photographers, Web designers, or anyone who wants to create and edit professional-quality digital images on a budget.

Album Creator lets you create online albums from your digital photos using unique and highly professional Flash and HTML theme templates. You can customize the existing templates, create your own, or download additional ones. The program also includes editing tools for enhancing your photos, removing red-eye, adjusting colors, and applying watermarks. It supports EXIF and IPTC data, so you can add EXIF/IPTC information as an image comment or as an image title. Album Creator Pro includes a simple FTP client that lets you upload the finished album to your Web site. You can choose among several Flash themes and a variety of HTML templates, each unique and sophisticated. Additional features include lossless rotation and direct importing of photos from your digital camera. Version 3.5 fixes some bugs.Editor's review of Album Creator Pro This program helps beginners create an attractive Web-based photo gallery in both HTML and Flash formats. It only took us several minutes to design a photo album. The interface is stylish and straightforward, but it has one drawback: Its gray font on the gray background makes it a chore to read. The HTML and Flash templates are quite flexible, and you can even design your own if you know HTML and XML. You also can find about 50 more templates on the developer's site. FirmTools Album Creator Pro allows you to easily apply other themes to existing albums and offers basic editing capabilities. For example, you can adjust the color, resize images, crop shots, and remove red-eye. FirmTools Album Creator Pro will be of use for folks who want to create a simple Web gallery without learning HTML.

Picture Resizer is an easy-to-use utility for batch resizing of JPG pictures and photos. Drag and drop JPG files or folders with JPG files on the application icon and they will be resized and saved next to the originals. Size of the output pictures is controlled by the name of the application. To generate 200 pixels images, simply rename the application to PhotoResize200.exe. The tool is using high-quality resizing method, where color of each pixel is a weighted average of all covered pixels from the original image. Linear interpolation is used when zooming in. The algorithm is optimized to work with gamma-corrected pictures. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Virtual Album Maker Standard allows you to organize, protect and share your personal photos as a 3D album, giving you the impression that you turn the pages of a real album. The program, in practice, is a very easy to use software, providing you the possibility to add music to your album. It creats an album as a stand-alone .exe file, which does not require from the reader any viewer for presentation. Virtual Album Maker Standard can provide you with photo slide shows for making, if you wish, a virtual album screensaver. Most importantly, you don't have to be a computer expert to use this program. If you can operate a mouse, then you can easily make your own digital virtual 3D presentations, that provide the impression of a real album. Version 1.34.2587 optimizes photo processing engine, adds widescreen options, and makes album generating easier.

Photo Pos Pro allows you easily create, edit, enhance, print, and manipulate your digital photos and computer graphics, and easily create eye-catching graphics. Though the Photo Pos Pro photo editor is a powerful program, it contains an extremely user-friendly interface enabling you to work intuitively. The software includes complete help system, free step-by-step tutorials and Hundreds of pre-made photo frames, patterns, textures, styles and shapes--all to accelerate your work and make it fun and easy. The software supports many image file types, transparent GIF's and PNG's, multiple-image printing; tabbed workspace; advanced enhancing, editing and computer graphics; special effects; layers, masks, script and batch tools; a batch converter and Web development tools. Version 1.60 includes new Real-Time graphics render engine and improved Texts and Text Over Path tools.

EASIS Screenshot comes with a very intuitive control panel that allows you to understand the functionality in seconds. Capture your screens in different ways like rectangles, roundrects and more. Save your captures in popular file formats like bmp, jpg, png, psd, pct, or eps. Use the feature to insert your screen captures automatically and directly in popular office applications. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Simple controls let you play with yours fantasy ant creativity. One click Random button makes it easer to find effect for you. Compatible with most images editing software. You can apply plug in with selected area of image or just to entire image size. Save and Open functions makes possible to share plug in presets with yours friends or other users of Mezzoforce Ice plug in. Version 2 has enhanced processing speed. Loading size increased 1000x1000 px.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plug-ins. Version 3.22 adds a new Reduce Noise effect.

Reshade now offers its innovative image enlargement technology in the new stand-alone application. Easy to use automatic settings for beginners and advanced controls for professionals make Reshade the perfect choice for anyone. No other image resizer on the market (Photoshop and third parties included) provides not even close the control level that reshade does. This allows accurate, high quality and realistic enlargements at any zoom factor. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Corel PhotoImpact X3 combines full-featured photo editing with inspiring photo projects and amazing digital art to make digital photography and image creativity fun, fast and easy. Easy & Fast ExpressFix Mode: Automated enhancements and easy-to-understand options put the tools you need at your fingertips! Instantly fix exposure, color, and composition. Beginners like the simplicity, experienced users like the efficiency! Take Your Photos to New Places Use easy wizards to create fun photo projects and gifts. Choose from over 200 customizable templates for a wide range of ways to share your pictures. Collages Comic strips Calendars Greeting cards Create Amazing Digital Art: Paint realistic looking clouds with the cloud pen, Enhance your photos with creative filters, and draw and paint like a pro.Version X3 includes Corel Painter Essentials 3 Full Version, Slideshow Prep Wizard, and new crop tools.

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 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 touch 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 including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.Version 3.4 adds RGB adjustment to "Enhance Colors" and enhances built-in batch convert tool.

With a comprehensive set of features, Comic Life gives you numerous ways to explore your creativity - liven up holiday snaps, tell a story, even create how-to guides. Its so easy, you and your dog will be making comics and emailing them to family and friends in minutes. Want a more authentic-looking comic? Now you can apply filters to your photos to make them look printed, hand-drawn, painted and even 'night vision', among others. 16 included filters expand your creative palette and making ordinary photos.

Take control of your photo collection. Browse photos based on camera data such as model, date taken, etc. Includes eMail and Website generation, used to communicate photos and data to clients or family. Database benefit: Key data once, use it over and over for years to come for finding photos and including photo data in emails and websites. Tracks view counts for popularity sorting. Provides interesting graphical reports on your collection. Surprisingly simple interface. ShareJunkies.com says "The interface of DBGallery is simplicity itself, a really intuitive easy to understand interface." In summary, it's a whole new and addictive way to search, use and enjoy a photo collection. Photos may be added from offline CDs, or DVDs(stores only small images but provides full features). Has QuickView Cards for showing photos and data as your mouse hovers over thumbnails. Supports a multi-client/server environment.Version 2.6 adds a watermark option for exported/shared photos and improved logical views.

Falco Auto Image supports a comprehensive environment for professional designers and graphics producers to create unique images. Capture images from Web camera and scanner. Load and adjust images, save in different formats. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Free Image Viewer & Editor can as well play AVI video files and some type of audio files. There are many tools around doing that, but the aim of this freeware is to be a small and handy tool doing what it says and running also as a standalone exe file. IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for JPEG and TIFF files. Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation. Recursive directory slideshow to view all files in a directory and it's subdirectories. Print Preview with image positioning by dragging. Live configurable Red eye removal tool. Live audio / video time shift slider (to fix out of sync. videos). Zip extraction (context menu entry available). Version 1.3 improves Windows Vista compatibility.

Coloriage allows colorizing old B&W photos from you family archives, replacing colors in color photos, achieving artistic efffects by making partial colorization or selective desaturation. It's very easy. Indicate the desired colors by the stroke of the brush; the program does the rest of the work: recognizes the object's border and tailors the new color to the grayscale tones of the initial picture. Version 5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Ashampoo Magical Snap is a screen capture tool with powerful and intuitive editing capabilities. It enables you to capture virtually anything on your screen all or part of program windows, websites, the desktop and anything else displayed on your computers monitor. Then you can use the editing tools to enhance the screenshot and turn it into a really attractive image. Interactive guides show you how to perform every operation. All features are also so simple to use that you can get results really fast. For example, the unique Mouse Tools editing tools display their options next to the mouse pointer so that you do not have to search in menus. You have to try it to appreciate it, Mouse Tools are truly cool and make image editing amazingly easy. Highlights: Capture windows with off-screen content or capture: Entire text documents; Entire spreadsheets; Entire web pages and websites; Full support for multiple monitors; Full support for Windows Vista. Version 2.3 adds Scrollwheel in Edit-Mode scrolls now the same way as a browser does, adds new languages.

No bad photos - promise by Noromis PhotoLab. Process all your photos in a batch and enjoy your digital memories. Noromis PhotoLab is the first photo printing software that lets you transfer photos from your digital camera, automatically enhance, and then print at home in just two mouse clicks. Built-in intelligence automatically adjusts exposure, contrast, color balance, saturation and sharpness, and automatically fixes red eyes - individually for each photo or in a batch. Fine tune adjustments, crop, rotate, refine skin appearance, and reduce digital noise. Noromis PhotoLab always preserves your original photo, and applies modifications in the correct order, ensuring lab-quality results. You can even go back and undo almost any change in any order. When printing, choose the photos and print size, pick one of the multiple layouts that bets fits you desired print and paper size and Noromis PhotoLab scales photos and chooses the best layout for perfect, professional prints. Version 2.20 includes print stage sharpening enhancements.

Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is powerful photo editing software for digital photographers. The program is filled with everything from easy automatic photo fixes to precision editing tools. It even includes a built-in Learning Center to help new users get started right away.Version X2 adds new features including an Express Lab, Graphite workspace theme, HDR photo merge, new layer styles, visible watermarks, picture tubes and picture frames, black and white film conversion, new and improved makeover tools, and a new Crop to New Image feature.Editor's review of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo Powerful, flexible photo editor Despite a slightly annoying installation process, version X2 (read: 12) of Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo continues to offer the same high performance and full feature set of earlier editions. The digital image-editing program will fit the needs of many photographers and designers. A well-designed and intuitive interface offers easy access to all of your digital images, and the individual components--such as tool selectors, palettes, and layer windows--can be dragged and dropped anywhere on the screen. Excellent one-click photo adjustments such as Smart Photo Fix or One Step Noise Removal will be godsends for photographers with busy schedules. One of the most noticeable updates in X2 is the new graphite workspace theme, which gives the app a slick, 21st century look. A tabbed interface makes switching between photos a breeze, and the library organizer is available as either a palette tool or another tab in the image browser. The organizer is one of the strongest features of Paint Shop Pro Photo, and a new Express Lab feature makes batch editing even easier. We did notice a CPU slowdown when using the organizer with large libraries, but otherwise the application was quite stable, even when editing very large BMP files. A new Learning Center provides contextual help for specific features, but we found searching the regular help topics to be more informative. The installation is the most disappointing part of the trial. It requires registering for a free Corel account, which in turn requires a valid e-mail address. Adobe uses the same practice, but it's an annoying trend. You should also note that within the "Advanced" installation setting, Paint Shop Pro Photo is automatically set to become the default application for all your major image-file formats. Once you get Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 installed and working on your machine, you'll find a very powerful photo editor and organizer that is quite easy to learn and use. A full 30-day trial gives you plenty of time to determine whether or not you'd like the full version.

Paint.NET is free image editing 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.Version 3.10 adds two new effects, support for the DDS file type, and some performance tweaks.Editor's review of Paint.NET Don't 'shop it - Paint.NET it! If all you want is a quick image retouch, Photoshop is overkill. Paint.NET, on the other hand, is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, resize images, adjust colors, and create collages. Paint.NET supports common image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others--but not high-resolution RAW files. There are enough basic and intermediate effects and features to keep image-tweakers happy, though the red-eye removal tool is notably weak; those images may require manual attention. Unlike most free image editors, Paint.NET supports layers and has an actions manager. The pleasing interface boasts semitransparent windows for ease of use. Version 3 fixes many old quibbles, including a convenient thumbnail manager for handling multiple image editing, and improved program graphics. Paint.NET is far more advanced than Microsoft Paint, and given its free price, it's a must-have for anyone needing to fix images.

Snapter lets you use a digital camera as a scanner. The software automatically crops, stretches, flattens, and process pictures of business cards, documents and whiteboards into improved, more usable forms. Snapter works with images of documents such as receipts, print-outs, posters, CD cover, paintings, notebook, book pages, whiteboards, and business cards.

PiXpert is designed to let you perform common image-processing tasks on groups of images as efficiently as possible. Manipulate images one at a time or take advantage of PiXpert's powerful batch processing mode to process a whole group of files at once. Rotate pictures at any increment of 90 degrees, flip pictures (create mirror image) vertically and/or horizontally, scale pictures by a set percentage, scale pictures to a specific size (for creating icons or thumbnails), or convert pictures from any supported format to any other supported format. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

Like magic, ArcSoft Panorama Maker® 4 Pro turns any series of overlapping photos into a gorgeous panoramic image in just seconds. Panorama Maker Pro creates horizontal, vertical, 360, and tiled (4x4) panorama images, and also provides extensive RAW format support. The program does most of the work for you by automatically selecting an entire group of pictures with one click, automatically organizing the photos into the proper order, then seamlessly stitching the photos into a panoramic masterpiece that can be cropped, straightened and previewed full-screen. It also allows users to manually align the stitching points and adjust the stitching path to create seamless results. Version 4.2.9.73 allows tile stitching, adding frames and text and copyright information.

SnagIt is the screen capture and editing software that lets you add stunning effects and helpful instructions--to anything you see on your PC screen. Immediately improve communication by capturing & illustrating your points. Get professional results without the hassle of a hard-to-use editor. Enhance images with all the powerful editing options you can imagine.Version 8.2.3 supports sending screen capture directly to your favorite apps.Editor's review of SnagIt Take your best shot Capturing screenshots may not be glamorous, but at least SnagIt makes it simple. SnagIt lets you capture any part of your screen, from a partial image to the entire contents of a scrolling window. You can grab images of Web sites and software applications or pictures from scanners and digital cameras. You even can capture video and record screen action in AVI format. Editing tools let you manipulate and enhance captures using effects (such as Brightness, Hue, and Saturation), filters, and borders. You can add arrows, substitute colors in the captured image, or create dark or light backgrounds with a single click. Version 8 adds several interactive features, such as saving Web pages with HTML links, adding hot spots and rollover states to objects and areas, and exporting files in SWF and PDF formats. This program outdoes itself in features, so figuring out the menu structure may take a while, but the GUI additions in version 8 are a welcome addition. Unfortunately, the latest update is just as slow to start as the last version. Even with its package of powerful options, we found SnagIt flexible and easy to use. Balloon tips, wizards, and an online video tutorial make it simple for beginners, and its sophisticated capabilities will satisfy advanced users.

Redeye AutoRemover is a patent pending, Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology based image processing software system for removing red eye artifacts in digital photograph. Because of its AI based engine, the process of removing red eyes becomes totally automatic in that there is no human intervention at all. The software carries out all the tedious work of identifying redeye locations and adjusting the artifact pixels. The algorithm is highly optimized, with detection rate above 90% when false alarm rate being 1-2%.

Photo Pos Pro allows you easily create, edit, enhance, print, and manipulate your digital photos and computer graphics, and easily create eye-catching graphics. Though the Photo Pos Pro photo editor is a powerful program, it contains an extremely user-friendly interface enabling you to work intuitively. The software includes complete help system, free step-by-step tutorials and dozens of pre-made photo frames, patterns, textures, and shapes--all to accelerate your work and make it fun and easy. The software supports many image file types, transparent GIF, multiple-image printing; tabbed workspace; advanced enhancing, editing and computer graphics; special effects; layers, masks, script and batch tools; a batch converter and Web development tools.Version 1.4 improves the image browser., among other improvements.Editor's review of Photo Pos Pro A powerhouse photo polisher If you need an extremely powerful photo and image editor with an enormous load of features, you'd do well to check out Photo Pos Pro. It's important to note that, during installation, you should take care not to associate all image types with the program. Most of the software's features are accessible via buttons at the main screen's top and upper left. Reading the detailed tutorial is almost a must, as this photo editor has many features too advanced and specific for a novice. For example, when working with a complicated tool such as Layers Properties, the program generates a separate window, and you must click to expand it. As its name implies, Photo Pos Pro is a good tool for professional image editors in terms of both features and interface.

Create thumbnails and scaled copies of all your images. With Easy Thumbnails, you can find and process images individually, in groups, or in whole folders using a simple file selector and built-in image viewer. Use slider controls to rotate images and adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, and other attributes. Thumbnails can be created in any existing folder or a new folder, and you can identify them clearly by adding a prefix or suffix to their names. Easy Thumbnails is versatile, giving you eleven resampling filters for the best possible results. The program supports right-click commands and command-line switches for generating thumbnails seamlessly from other programs or within Windows Explorer. Version 2.91 adds support for GIF and LZW TIFF files, full support for multi-user and network environments, as well as Windows Vista.

Cartoonist is an image editing tool that lets you add a touch of humor to your digital pictures. This compact and easy-to-use program enables you to create sophisticated caricatures applying warp effects in a matter of minutes. Whether you are a professional designer or a computer novice looking for some fun, make the best use of your creativity or just relieve stress by warping images of your friends and celebrities. Version 1.3 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

Light Artist is a unique image editing tool that lets you add realistic lighting effects to your photos and create 3D effects. By adding multiple light sources of different color and intensity, you can create various ambient illumination effects, boost color, make dull, and unexciting tints warmer or brighter, highlight any image areas and modify the color scheme of an image changing the overall impression it produces. Version 1.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

ImageExpress is enterprise software to create, edit, and compose digital images. It converts thousands of images with specified properties by creating same folder structure. It crops, chops, resizes, rotates, rolls, shears images. It converts images to monochrome and grayscale. It adds border color and frames to images. It writes text with chosen font, color, size at specified location on image. It draws shapes (arc, circle, ellipse, line, polygon, rectangle, and round rectangle) on images. It supports over 100 formats.It supports 41 User Interface Languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese and Welsh. Version 1.0.2 adds new user interface and Vietnamese language.

Save time, money and effort while sharing and storing your live photos. Take advantage of the BEST photo compression method available on the planet. Quickly and easily unite any number of photos into highly-compressed, easy to post or e-mail, albums and rich slideshows that can be viewed on any computer without installing any helper software including Love2Photo itself. Feel the love from your family and friends when they receive these fast-loading albums 2 times faster, view and print it directly from the Web or local media with just 1 mouse click on any computer. Let people focus on the beauty of your photos and not the way of opening them. Stop suffering the disappointment of not being able to share your best photos with others because of limited message size. Click your mouse and Love2Photo will automatically compress photos selecting the best compression routine to fit email size restrictions. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

The ultimate photo software suite comprising of all imaging tools under one hood--image editing and enhancements, batch processing, batch conversion, retouching, metadata editing, raw conversion, rich multimedia documents and various image utilities. Generate all kinds of documents possible with your photos in batch--image documents for print, web, wireless, archive, JPEG 2000, multipage TIFF/PDF, animated GIF, Web album, video, screensavers, greeting images, slide shows, and ASCII photo. Batch processing of tasks and batch conversion to files are intrinsic part in the design of BatchMany. Supports more than 100 file formats including all major camera RAW formats with special setting for RAW formats. Version 3.1.0.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

PhotoBuilder is an efficient tool for image processing, image merging, card making with special effect. PhotoBuilder can smoothly blend two or more pieces of images together.We add pen-draw, more filters, and textures in 6.0 version. Artistic frames and lovely cookies can be added to your pictures easily. Version 6.1 updates modify magic pen, add tips for button, remove bugs.

Image Grabber screen capture software is designed for the user who needs a convenient and easy to use tool for capturing and manipulating snapshots of Windows screens. This program allows you to easily capture screen images from your favorite Internet WebPages, desktop applications or any other image that can be displayed on your computers screen. You can then save captured images to a clipboard and paste them into other applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, or you can save the captured image to a file (BMP, JPEG, GIF PNG, or TIFF) for later use. Cropping and resize features allow easy manipulation of images for final use. Version 3.0.1 adds a Web page capture feature. This feature captures and saves entire Web pages. The ability to add text caption has also been added.

View your favorite digital photos on the pages of an elegant 3D photo album or on the walls of a beautiful virtual art gallery. Watch your photos while you work or play, enjoy them as your default Windows screen saver, and use them to automatically change your wallpaper. Touchpoint Gallery works with photos stored on your computer, as well as images coming directly from Internet sources like Flickr, Flickr Search, and RSS Feeds. There are a variety of 3D designs to choose from, and more on the way.

Easy SlideShow lets you turn your favorite pictures, together with your favorite music, into a great SlideShow, all with an intuitive user interface. Now everybody can make their own SlideShows and share them with family and friends. With Easy SlideShow, simply select your pictures, organize them and select transition effects. Choose your favorite music, and within minutes, your SlideShow is created.

PanoramaStudio creates seamless 360 degree and wide angle panoramas from sets of photos. The software combines the automatic creation of high quality panoramic images with extensive post-processing features for advanced users in an easy and clearly arranged user interface. The automatic assembling contains an enhancing and blending of the photos as well as an automatic detection of focal length and lens correction. To achieve best stitching results the profiles of more than 800 digital cameras are already stored in the internal database. Besides perspective correction, automatic exposure correction, and automatic cropping, there are image-processing filters for optimizing the panorama and a hotspot editing tool for virtual tours included. The output options include the most common image file formats, interactive QuickTimeVR and Java panoramas, screensavers, and an integrated poster printing function.

FxFoto provides a single tool for automatically organizing, enhancing, annotating, e-mailing, printing, uploading, and archiving your digital photos. An animated navigator frame displays photo thumbnails of all your pictures by topic, and photos can be organized and searched with user-specified keywords. FxFoto Standard Edition is freeware and includes red-eye correction, lighting and image enhancement, blemish removal, feathered rectangular or oval cropping, text effects, and a clone brush. The Deluxe or Creative Edition upgrades also create animated slide shows, collages, and scrapbook layouts using advanced creative effects, cropping shapes and stitched multi-photo panoramas, all with the same download.Version 5.0.066 features Windows Vista compatibility, XP/Vista style dialogs, improved deluxe edition feature trials.Editor's review of FxFoto This powerful image editor earns kudos for its impressive feature set. Before it launches, FxFoto offers to scan your PC for images and gives you the option to view a detailed tutorial. When we first saw the cluttered interface, we were wary, but we figured out how to perform all the actions in no time. FxFoto has just about every image-editing tool most folks will need. You can automatically or manually improve shots, remove red-eye and blemishes, apply a number of effects, add frames and borders, correct colors, and alter white balance. FxFoto supplies a standard set of drawing tools and lets you add captions to any of your shots. The handy zoom tool provides a great deal of control over magnification. Once you've tweaked pictures to your liking, you can create a slide show with transitions, though you can't add your own music or narration unless you upgrade to the pay version. You also can design a photo collage and share it via e-mail, burn it to CD, or upload it to one of several sharing sites. Best of all, FxFoto is totally free, making it a fine pick for almost anyone.

PhotoStudio Darkroom features non-destructive image processing tools for adjusting white balance, exposure, de-noise, hue and saturation, brightness and contrast, and curves and levels, and for applying color effects such as black & white and sepia. A complete set of lens and chromatic correction tools for fixing barrel, pincushion, and perspective distortions and color fringing issues are also included. ArcSoft is automatic red-eye removal and spot and patch removal technologies have been integrated into the program, letting users perform common blemish removal functions in one click. A "recipe" feature lets users apply the processing performed on one image to other images with a single click. PhotoStudio Darkroom provides broad RAW format support including Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Adobe DNG, Sony, Kodak, Olympus, Pentax, Ricoh, Leica, FujiFilm, Sigma, Mamiya and Epson. It also allows users to import photos directly into the application from a camera or removable drive.

nEO iMAGING is an imaging processing software enable everyone achieve professional result in just few clicks. Its easy-going interface is backed by sophisticated algorithms and techniques. No matter you are a user need basic touching, or a Web publisher looking for professional result but don't have time on imaging process, or a serious photo amateur has lots of images need auto batch processing, you all can find value in nEO iMAGING.

InAlbum helps you turn your digital photos and video into stunning photo albums. It's fun, quick, and easy. Simply start by choosing from ready-to-use templates or custom templates, which let you combine, mix, and match background animations, buttons, photo frames, fonts, and transition effects. Decorate with animated clip art, text animation, GIF animation, speech bubbles, sounds, MP3 music, and even your own voice. You can publish a photo album as a Flash file, an AVI video file, HTML, an executable file, screensaver, or wallpaper. Burn it to CD or DVD/VCD (playable on TVs), send it to friends and family by email, or host it for free at your 100MB Personal InAlbum Web site.Version 3 adds several key features such as video import, powerfull DVD menu editor, high quality DVD movie output, and text animation.Editor's review of InAlbum Deluxe Transform your digital photos Despite a few minor flaws, InAlbum still stands as one of the better slide-show creators we've gotten our hands on. The program's interface is both attractive and easy to navigate. Five step-by-step tabs walk you through the process of collecting photos, selecting or designing templates, editing images, decorating the show, and adding music. You can alter brightness and contrast, as well as choose from a boatload of effects such as fish-eye, mosaic, and twister. In our tests, the program did just fine with JPEGs and GIFs, but wouldn't accept BMPs. InAlbum lets you decorate your show with whimsical icons, such as bullhorns and Dracula teeth, and you can use either your own MP3s or the bundled audio files as a soundtrack. The latest version includes video import and DVD creation features, allowing you to mix home movies and photos. When you're all done, you can save your creation as a screensaver, a Flash clip, HTML, or an EXE file. Due to this program's ease of use and strong feature set, we think shutterbugs of all stripes will really enjoy InAlbum.

A must have for every PC user, addictive to the senses. PhotoPlayer 6 un-matched features enables you to zoom freely over the entire image by only moving the mouse and its wheel and without clicking any buttons, quickly discover new images in the same image, one click create new images from the same image, watch movie like or the fastest slide shows available in the market no matter how large were the image files, Auto adjust large images to maintain slide show speed, and read books saved as images with amazing ease and clarity in addition to many other rich features. PhotoPlayer 6 gives playing images on every personal computer a new meaning. Version 6.07 has a minor logical change when in internal message mode save and rotate are disabled.

This image retouching program allows you to adjust an image and apply filters. Filters allow you to adjust brightness, contrast, dyed, saturation, gamma correction, and also artistic filters include watercolor, pastels, Indian ink, pointillism and puzzle effect. PhotoFiltre uses two types of selection tools. The first type uses automatic shapes - rectangle, ellipse, triangle, rhombus. The second type is a lasso and polygon tool. They both allow a customized form by drawing a shape by hand or using a series of lines. Every selection can be saved as a separate file.

The frame has matts and frame. You can add texture to the matt that feels like rough paper or cloth, and you can change the thickness of matts. You can save your picture together with the frame you made.

Image Minimizer is a light and fast programs that Change Quality, size and format of any picture that you want. You can input any picture file you want in 'Image Minimizer' with one easy drag and drop or with right click and 'Send to'. You can resize many picture in the same time.

FotoMaps is a new flash photo gallery that lets you put your photos on a map. Choose any map you like, and then place each photo at the exact location where it was taken. This geographical context gives your photographs more meaning. FotoMaps lets you explore your photos in a fun 3D environment. Navigating the map is as simple as clicking where you want to go. You can zoom in or out and drag the map to different regions. Plus get a caption with the location, photographer and date of each photo. FotoMaps is easy to use and update, requiring no knowledge of Flash or coding. Anyone can make a FotoMap and anyone can view it. Plus, we've got step-by-step instructions if you get lost along the way. To add photos to your gallery, you add a few lines of information about your photos to an external XML file and upload this file along with your photos. Your FotoMap updates automatically to include the new photos.

ABC Amber ICL Converter is an advanced tool to extract icons from your ICL (Icon Library) files and convert them to any graphics format you wish (BMP, WMF, EMF, ICO, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PCX, PCC, DCX, PBM, PGM, PPM, and TGA). The software supports more than 50 languages and can be run from a command line.

PhotoPlus 7 is the indispensable tool that allows easy creation, editing, and enhancement of photos, bitmaps, and animations. Ideal for use with a scanner or digital camera, PhotoPlus 7 combines high-end functionality with total ease-of-use. PhotoPlus 7 has all the features needed; from importing or creating pictures and animations, through to manipulating colors and effects all the way to final export. It's perfect for enhancing Web sites, animations, digital photographs, and multimedia presentations.

Cool Paint is a painting software for drawing and image editing with more than 40 realistic painting tools and a vast picture gallery containing 1,000 pictures. It provides various paintbrushes such as pencil, airbrush, watercolor brush, mark pen, crayon, and pigment tube. In addition, you can create special effects on your images and photos with many fantastic painting tools including fairy pocket, geometrical shapes, color fill, filter, and magic bar. This painting software gives you the power to edit pictures with professional image processing techniques such as color adjustment, layer modification, darkroom processing. It supports all typical graphic formats including GIF, JPG, JPEG, PCX, PNG, PSD, TIF, FLY, TGA Version 2.6.0.1 fixes some bugs.

Rikisoft EasySnap is a powerful and easy-to-use free screen capture software. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions. Automatically save you captured image to various format.