Image Editors

Image Mender enables you to remove undesirable objects, lines or blemishes from your digital images with a few easy steps. All you have to do is mark the object to be removed and click a button to start the automatic removal process. In many cases this produced acceptable results that did not require further editing - especially if the object was small. With larger objects however, the program often failed to deliver a clean removal, a problem that could not be addressed, since the software lacks any setting that would allow you to fine-tune the process.

FaceDub enables you to create funny head swapping effects by transferring the face from one photo and inserting it into another one. The program offers a step by step wizard that helps you to select the face area and adjust the transferred face to match the light levels and color environment of the original image. The result can then be saved to various formats for online sharing, emailing, printing and more. FaceDub is easy to use and, provided that you use suitable images, can produce fairly realistic results.

Amazing Photo Editor allows you to view and edit your digital images. It includes all the standard editing tools as well as a variety of effects and filters to chose from. The program supports more than 50 image formats, and also allows you to convert your images between formats. Amazing Photo Editor also includes a GIF animation editor and can convert AVI to animated GIF and vice versa. Other features include batch conversions, skinned interface, screen capture and more.

Wizardbrush is a fun painting and image editing software, that allows you to create custom painting, using a variety of artistic brush styles and effects, such as water-color, oil-paint, chalk, magic wand, inserted clipart objects and more. You can create a drawing from scratch or draw on top of existing images that can be imported from a file or Twain source. You can also make basic image adjustments (color, brightness etc.), sharpen portions of an image and apply a variety of filters.

IconCool Editor is a powerful icon editor to edit icons, cursors and web graphics. It comes with all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, GIF, JPG, BMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and WBMP image files. In addition, it offers more than 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, Color Balance... as well as 20 image effects, including Linear Gradient, Redial Gradient, Rectangular Gradient, Wave, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, Noise, Arbitrary Rotation and more. IconCool Editor is also a smart image capturing tool can be used to capture images of various sizes from desktop or any other software. You can convert images in 25 formats to icons, You can extract icons from EXE, DLL, ICL, OCX or any other files and then edit or re-save them. In addition, it offers a 100-level Undo/Redo function, support for non-standard icons sizes and more. Supports XP and Vista icons.

IconCool Studio Pro is a complete solution for 32 bit icon editing and creation. In addition to icon and cursor formats, it also supports editing of GIF, JPG and PNG image files. The program includes standard image editing tools, as well as a variety of filters and effects. Other features included support for Vista icons, PSD plug-ins, Animation GIF Builder, integrated icon search feature and more.

MakeUp Pilot is a simple image correction tool, that is designed to remove and correct small skin blemishes and other defects from digital portraits. The software is very easy to use, mostly due to the fact that it lacks any options or configurations - just point the cursor at the blemishes and click to remove them, one by one. MakeUp Pilot is extremely simplistic, and will probably not appeal to more advanced users, as there are much better values available that offer touch-up as part of their much extended feature set. If you`re in a hurry and have money to burn, give it a try, otherwise we`ll suggest to try some others first.

Photo Vector is a tool for designers and graphic artists to cleanup, make fast corrections, reduce the number of colors and vectorize images. Is especially useful to edit designs on textile, fabric, vinyl, jacquard, carpets, mats, embroidery and other materials. With one click a color raster image can be converted into scalable vector artwork with any desirable accuracy depending on chosen settings. Bitmap and palette editing tools enable one to enhance processed images manually. Photo Vector produces special photo effects increasing and/or changing impression created by photos converting them into vector pictures that look like impressionist art. Compatible with with Jasc Paintshop Pro and a useful add on to Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw etc.

Imagelys Picture Styles is a graphics editor, designed to create seamless backgrounds, wallpapers, textures and similar artwork. It allows you to combine multiple layers with adjustable transparency, using a variety of sample textures and image effects. You can create variations of a texture, create/edit masks, apply filters and more. Other features include standard image editing tools, web export, convert any image into a seamless pattern, image warping, flare effects and more.

Passport Photo enables you to create and print your own passport pictures from digital photos. It includes a cropping tool that assures that your image is compliant with USA, EU, UK and Brazilian requirements for passport photos, and you can also create your own specifications for other countries. You can either print the photos directly on your printer, or save it as JPG file that can be developed as 4x6 by any print shop (and then cut). Other features include image adjustments, resolution check, photo preview and tips for shooting passport photos. The trial version adds a watermark to the prints.

BetterJPEG is a photo editor that was specifically designed to avoid re-compression loss when editing and re-saving photos. Usually every time, you open, edit and save a JPG file, it loses some quality due to re-compression of the file. BetterJPEG however only re-compresses the parts of the image that have been changed, allowing you to perform various operations with minimal or no quality loss at all. The features include lossless rotation, flip, crop (free or fixed aspect), lossless text insertion as well as red eye removal and more. The support for EXIF data as text insertion is pretty handy, as it allows you to enter information directly from the EXIF data into the image (e.g F-stop, date, exposure etc.) which can be used for reference or in combination with copyright notices.

FrameShow allows you to easily frame your digital photos, using a large collection of realistic and stylish frames. You can resize the photo or frame, using sliders and browse the frame gallery by category to find a frame that matches the picture and purpose. The image can then be saved to file in popular formats, embedded in your desktop wallpaper (cool), sent via email or printed. Additional frames can be downloaded from an online gallery.

NeoPaint is an image editor that offers a variety of paint and photo retouching tools, custom brushes, 2D/3D shapes, soften, sharpen, special effects, masking, textures, color separations, stamps, multi-level undo, rulers, grids and gradients and more. The program also includes an image browser and a screen capture capture utility. NeoPaint offers mostly standard features, lacks support for layers and comes with a rather dated interface.

STOIK Imagic is a digital photo editor, aimed at non technical users, that offers many popular tools and techniques to improve, correct and retouch your images. It uses a step-by-step approach that lets you adjust colors, brightness, remove scratches and red-eye effects, and more. You can also get creative and add frames, text or apply special effects like page curls, deformations and more. STOIK Imagic also includes features to edit video files, create calendar pages, convert images, print album pages and more. The program allows you to perform many basic and advanced image corrections and effects, without the learning curve of a full featured image editing suite.

SnapTouch is an easy to use image viewer and editor that is useful for basic photo editing, including rotation, cropping and resizing of images. You can also add comments, insert t a timestamp and organize images in collections. The images can be processed individually or in batch mode for all images in a collection. SnapTouch is easy to use and suitable for novice users, however it only offers the most basic image editing options.

AAA Logo Software is a very powerful, yet easy to use program to create highly professional logos from a set of customizable templates, custom fonts, and thousands of high quality design objects and clipart that come ready-to-use with the software. You can design a logo from scratch, or use one of the base templates to get started. The base concept can then easily be customized in every aspect. The program uses an intuitive WYSIWYG editing approach, that allows full control over the design, without requiring you to have any editing experience. Don`t be fooled by the rather generic name, the program produces some very impressive designs, that can easily measure up against many professional logo designs.

Turbo Photo is a very easy to use yet powerful image editing/processing software that is designed for digital camera owners. It offers professional image enhancement options without requiring you to have any technical knowledge of digital imaging. The program starts out with a wizard dialog that ask you "what is wrong with your picture?" and offers you to choose the option from an example dialog. From then on, it takes you step by step through correcting or enhancing your image while constantly offering you previews of possible options as well as the original to compare to. You simple select which suggested version of the image looks best or adjust the settings to further improve it. In many cases, you will be able to turn an average photo into a great one within a matter of minutes while others may need some fine tuning, which can be easily done, regardless of your experience. Exposure, color, composition, sharpness, and the contrast can be easily mastered and controlled by you. If you are a more advanced user, you can use the manual adjustments and bypass the wizards to totally control the photo quality. Turbo Photo offers many types of enhancements, including color balance and HSB mode adjustment, noise reduction, skin beautification, rotate, crop and much more. The skin beautification mode allow you to instantly remove blemishes by simply clicking on them, soften the skin tone and more. In addition, you can add frames, insert text, batch edit and print, view slideshows and more. Turbo Photo can automatically select the best format for the file when you re done. The program supports JPG, TIFF and other formats as well as EXIF. It allows even complete newbies to create perfect pictures and provides plenty of features to satisfy even advanced users.

Photo Pos Pro is an image editor that offers a variety of features for image and photo enhancing, digital photos and image editing, computer graphics, painting, and drawing. The program supports all popular image formats, as well as import from digital cameras and scanner. Features include support for layers, histogram adjustment, automatic corrections, frames, special effects, filters, rich text tools and much more. Advanced users can also create script procedures to combine and automate image processing. Photo Pos Pro also includes a built-in image browser, as well as batch processing features, brushes (including clone brush), as well as all standard editing tools, including Unsharp Mask for advanced sharpening of your photos. Despite all the advanced features and professional interface, the program comes with a remarkably low price tag. Give it a try!

Vextractor allows you to transform raster images into vector formats by building centerlines and outlines. It can be used for vectorizing of charts, maps, schemes, logotypes and other similar images. It features recognition of arcs, circles and orthogonal lines as well as polylines smoothing, noise filtering and more. Supported input raster formats are BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPEG, PCX and TGA.

Diagram Studio allows you to quickly and easily create flowcharts, business and technical diagrams, schemes, plans, family tree and more. It comes with many features like automatic formatting and routing, rotation, customizable toolbars, graphics import and export, curves, flexible text, as well as a categorized library of drag and drop symbols. Diagram Studio also supports Object Linking and Embedding in Windows as an OLE Server, which enables you to use the drawings in other Windows programs. Creating new charts requires no artistic talent, since you can simply drag and drop any of the read-to-use shapes into the workspace and choose from various connectors to associate them. Each object can be further customized in color and size and you can also import your own images, if needed. The finished charts can be exported as web page, graphic file, or even as PDF document. Additional features include intelligent link updates, diagram templates, built-in image editing, Object Explorer and more.

PhotoLine 32 is a full featured image editor with support for text, vector and image layers. In addition to the standard editing features like painting, cloning, filtering, blending and flood fill it offers many special effects like swirl, shadow, glowing, distort, morphing, 3d projection and many dynamic layer effects. It supports 16 bits per channel, CMYK and Lab as well as color management with ICC profiles. The include image browser supports IPTC and EXIF data display and editing, batch conversion, HTML gallery output, batch renaming and more.

PhotoELF is a photo editing suite that includes a variety of image editing and processing features. You can use it to resize, compress and enhance your images, add masks and frames, text overlays, remove red-eye effects and more. The program also offers file renaming and management features, as well as a thumbnail browsing mode, slideshow and HTML gallery creator. Other features include options to add watermarks, import photos from your camera, and print multiple photos on a single page, using customizable layouts.

SPX Graphic Editor is a basic image editor, mostly intended for simple editing or enhancing of existing graphics. It includes a set of standard image editing tools, as well as a variety of image filters. The program is mostly useful for enhancement of screen captures, and offers several filters that are specifically designed for that purpose, including a drop shadow option, spotlight and magnify, as well as an option to add text annotations. Even though the program is mostly useful for enhancement of screen captures, it does not include any screen capture capabilities (as most other graphic editors).

RGBmachine is a basic photo editing program that is designed for quick RGB adjustments on a series of photos. The program loads all the images in a specified folder and allows you to adjust sliders for Brightness, Contrast and RGB values, as well an option to remove red-eye effects, then save the image and move on to the next one. RGBmachine uses a lossless editing approach that does not cause losses in shadows and highlight areas of the images. The program also includes a basic cropping option.

ArtRage is a unique painting software, that lets you draw on virtual canvas, using virtual drawing tools and produce a realistic (digital) painting. You can experiment with metallic paint for gold leafing, sprinkle shiny glitter, fill in large areas with the paint roller, and generally paint, smudge, and smear your way to your very own masterpiece. It even comes with a virtual water glass to dip your paint brush... and can load an image of your choice to use it as virtual tracing paper for your painting. The interface is nicely designed and provides maximum work space while keeping all tools and option easily accessible. You can use ArtRage with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet, or even a TabletPC. The paintings can be saved or exported to JPG, BMP, PNG or Photoshop PSD format. The free trial version has some of the advanced features and painting tools disabled. If you do not require those features, you can use ArtRage for free - the trial version does not expire.

STOIK Picture Man is a graphics and photo editor for digital retouching and editing of your images. It provides a rich set of retouching and enhancement filters, built-in special effects, and painting capabilities with support for multi-layering, scripting, and automation via macros. Additional features include Channel processing (RGB,R,G,B,H,V,S), Web export tools, Deformation effects, support of pressure-sensitive tablets and much more. Unlike most graphics editors, Picture Man allows you to apply filters by using a brush instead of selections or global (but you can do that as well). The program includes an extensive array of filters and enhancements, as well as advanced calculators and some automatic tools to correct scratches, dust, noise, red eyes and other defects.

Inpaint enables you to remove undesirable objects from your digital photos. It analyzes the selected area and attempts to fill it with pixels that match the surrounding area of the object to be removed. The program produces good results with objects on plain backgrounds or simple patterns (sky, sand, concrete, grass etc.) but failed to perform with more complex backgrounds.

PhotoArtist lets you turn your photos into beautiful artworks. It offers a selection of painting styles that can be applied to your original image, using brushes of your choice. You can mix paint different paint styles and combine effects to create a custom work of art. Unlike with regular filters, PhotoArtist only applies the effect to the brushed area of the image (but can also apply it to the entire image), which enables you to easily blend the original image with the available filters.

Professor Franklin`s Instant Photo Artist enables you to transform your digital photos into stylish art, that can be used for greeting cards, calendars, web publishing or printing. Simply load the original images and use the generated outline as a base for your painting. The program offers a variety of painting techniques and tools (charcoal, watercolor, airbrush etc.), as well as pre-configured painting styles based on popular artists or publishing methods. You can apply the painting style by simply moving your mouse over the image areas and watch the image transform into digital art. Professor Franklin`s Instant Photo Artist can save your results in several image formats, and also supports high resolution printing.

Logo Design Studio is a full featured design tool to create custom logos for various uses. You can import your own graphics or start from scratch. The software includes a large library of high-resolution objects including spheres, signs, swooshes, shapes, images, flags, base elements, sports, alphabet art and industry-specific graphics, that can be customized and combined with your own creations. Logo Design Studio supports layers, shaped text, opacity adjustments, drop shadow effects, special effects and much more. Also included are several logo templates that you can use as a starting point for your own design. The program enables anyone to create professional looking logos without the learning curve or investment of high end gra