Picture/Image Programs

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The Gimp

The GIMP is an image manipulation program that was originally created for the Linux Platform. This is really a GREAT program, that REALLY could be compared with programs like Adobe Photoshop and CorelDRAW. In fact what these programs can do, the GIMP can do.

Vicman's Photo Editor

With this free easy-to-use image editor, you can turn snapshots into works of art, as well as draw your own images using its built-in image enhancement functions. Select a pencil, brush, or eraser and set its size, shape, and transparency. Other features allow you to select colors with an eyedropper, paint colors in a gradient, and add plain or antialiased text to any picture. The program supports more than 20 image formats. The distortion tools offer more than a dozen variations of twirls, waves, rotations, mirrors, and ovals, and even a fish eye effect. Use the trilinear filters to blur your image, create 3D extensions, and sharpen the image. Supports Adobe Photoshop compatible filters and includes a lot of preinstalled plug-ins. Installation contains animated tutorials.

XnView

XnView is an image viewer and multimedia player. It supports more than 300 file formats (PiNG, Jpeg, Targa, Tiff, Gif, BMP etc) It also supports animated gif, multipage tiff, multi-image icon, animated Jif, and mpeg, avi, wav & aiff files.

IrfanView

IrfanView is an image viewer/converter with too many supported file formatsto list. Features include: Thumbnail option, preview option, drag & drop support, slideshow, fast directory view (fast moving through directory) and much much more.

Photo Filtre

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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Graphic Workshop

Graphic Workshop Professional is the image management package for Windows. It features multiple browser windows, batch processing, drag and drop, thumbnails, Pentium-optimized functionality and a lot more. Whether you'd like to browse your image collection and view pictures, convert between formats, print your graphics as hard copy, acquire images from a digital camera, maintain a sophisticated keyword database, decode pictures from the Internet, process and fine tune your photographs...