Image Editors

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.

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 graphic editors. Logo Design Studio can import and export in all popular formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, WMF, BMP, PDF and more.

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.

Microsoft Digital Image is a complete digital imaging suite that combines image management and photo editing along with the ability to create narrated Photo Stories that can be viewed as video clip on your computer or portable device. The image library allows you to import and organize your photos with keywords and labels, assign personal ratings, mark photos for touch-up or further processing, send resized versions by email, and more. The included photo editor offers a wide range of easy-to-use image editing functions to improve and enhance your photos, remove red-eye effects, adjust colors and resize your images. It also includes photo repair and touch-up tools that enables you to remove wrinkles, blemishes, spots and other imperfections. Other features include sharpening, levels and curve adjustments, text insertion, panorama stitching, camera phone auto-fix, noise reduction and more. Microsoft Digital Image provides a straightforward interface that is easy to use even for novice users, yet powerful enough to accommodate advanced users as well.

AutoImager is a full-featured batch image processing and conversion application. The program is easy-to-use and thanks to it s interface-driven concept, you dont have to understand programming or even scripting in order to perform the advanced batch conversion and processing tasks. It offers support for more than 90 image formats, as well as an extensive array of customizable image enhancement, editing, and processing operations. AutoImager also offers complete command-line support with more than 125 configurable command-line choices. It offers dozens of processing filters, including auto-trim, resize, resample, crop, brightness, contrast, unsharp mask and many others. All effects can be adjusted and previewed in a before/after display before they are processed.

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.

Focus Photoeditor is a graphics and photo editing solution that offers for painting and retouching as well as image processing. It includes customizable brushes, more than 30 Filters/Effects/Deformations, gradients patterns, painting, magic wand and many other standard and advanced features. Focus Photoeditor also supports layers and offers a light studio to apply effects like Elliptic Hotspot, Supernova and others.

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.

Adobe Photoshop is the world-standard image-editing solution for print and the Web. It expands its scope to bring you innovative artistic tools and enhanced Web features, plus software for advanced processing of web graphics. The program offers hundreds of high-end tools, functions and features including task automation and batch processing and much more. It comes with Adobe ImageReady, a package of tools for refining and preparing Web graphics. (Tryout version does not allow you to save, export or print artwork.) Adobe requires you to sign-up for an account before downloading the trial version.

Quick ePics is an easy to use, yet powerful tool for preparing and optimizing your images. It can be used to process single images or multiple images in a batch, all at once or one at a time. It provides full "What you see is what you get" control over every image in the batch. You can see all changes in real-time as you make them without changing the original file. The image, as well as the displayed file size, size savings, and download time are immediately and dynamically updated as the compression level is changed or other aspect of the file are edited (color levels, size, brightness etc.). A handy peek button, allows you to quickly switch between the original image and the optimized version, so you can easily identify even the smallest compression quality losses. Additional features include send email, copy or drag to other programs (e.g FTP client), thumbnail options, batch renaming with support for prefix/suffix, cropping and more. Quick ePics Batch can also create backups of your batch images, so you can be sure that you always have a copy of your original images. The program can just as well be used as an image editor for single images.

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.

CBN Selector is an image editor to re-color your digital images and instantly preview the changes. It is mostly intended for buildings and interior design and provides color choices based on selected building materials (paint, stucco, sealant, grouts, coatings, and pre-colored manufactured building components etc.), however it can also be used for interior design projects, clothing and more. It offers color wheel selections, color harmonies, favorite color organizer, Monitor Calibration utility and more. The program also integrates with an online order option that enables you to quickly order paint based on the selected colors (optional). The re-colored images can be save in JPG or BMP format and you can also generate a full report, including the picture and color choices.

SmartDraw is an easy to use drawing software that allows you to create professional flowcharts, organizational charts, timelines, network diagrams, business process management diagrams, floor plans and more - all without any artistic skill required. The program allows you to simply drag and drop selected symbols into your design and automatically arranges and aligns them for you. The drawings can be saved as projects, printed or exported as GIF, JPG, or HTML. SmartDraw includes extensive image libraries with over 50,000 ready-to-use symbols and templates that you can use in your charts. Additional features include colors, borders, and presentation effects as well as compatibility with Microsoft Office products and much more.

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.

Xara WebStyle - a quick and easy way to produce customized Web graphics, no artistic skill and no complicated software required. Simply modify the ready-made vector graphic templates - specifically 2D and 3D headings, bullets, dividers and backgrounds (the advantage of using vector graphics is that they lose no quality when you modify them, for example change the text, the size, the color and texture).

Banner Maker Pro allows you to create professional looking graphics such as banner ads and buttons. Simply follow the tabs at the top of the program to go step-by-step in the graphic making process. A wide variety of options are available for text manipulation such as angling text, wrapping text around a circle, gradients, and 3D effects. The program also comes with a collection of ready-to use banner backgrounds that you can use to get started and then customize them using the manipulation tools and effects. Shapes and text can be dragged around as you proceed to create your banner graphic and Banner Maker Pro also offers support for creation of animated banners. Once finished, the file can be saved as GIF or JPG.

FaceFilter Studio is an advanced photo editor that offers professional photo enhancement features that make digital photo repair simple and convenient for pros and home users alike. The program offers some amazing features that take advantage of 3-D muscle-based photo morphing technology to modify facial expressions, and FaceFilters to enhance expressions, remove common skin blemishes, smooth wrinkles, sharpen and improve facial structure. FaceFilter Studio uses a step-by-step interface that provides easy to use controls to apply the desired changes, as well as a large collection of facial templates, that can be used to change facial expressions by mood, or also to create some funny, yet realistic, effects. The results are stunning and look very professional.

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.

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.

FunPhotor is a fun software that allows you to create professional looking image blending effects. You can insert faces into provided templates, put your face on a dollar bill, make James Bond look like your sister, put grandma in a space suite and much more. The program provides a large collection of ready-to-use templates, and you can also easily create your own from any photo. FunPhotor does not require any graphical expertise, as it offers a step-by-step interface and easy to use controls to adjust the inserted image so that it matches the template in size, position and color.

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.

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.

The most complete, all-in-one image and video solution currently available. Allows for fast viewing, editing, and management of all your image and video formats! Read and write support is provided for over 70 formats! Over 100 advanced image manipulation and processing features are present. All the standard features are provided (crop, resize, resample, rotate, print, zoom, flip, mirror, etc.). Advanced features include: batch format conversion, advanced thumbnailing and thumbnail browser, GIF animation creation, GIF to AVI and AVI to GIF conversion, video editing, video creation / decompiling, video conversion, context menu previewing, 2000+ special effects, Photoshop plugin support, picture index creation, slideshow capabilities, 3D text / shaping, image overlaying, icon editor, optimization, capturing, TWAIN acquisition, filters, photo retouching, image combining, image to HTML macro conversion, color correction, object drawing, region processing, streaming Internet graphics and video, icon extraction, image management (delete, rename, copy, move, zip, etc.), create self-extracting EXEs of images, video processing capabilities, image palette support, mailing, wallpaper set, image information, and much more!

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.

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.

Full-featured graphics program for image creation, retouching, viewing and manipulation. All popular image formats are supported. Image acquisition from Twain compatible scanners. Flexible brush handling which encourages creative drawing - similar to what Deluxe Paint has. Basic features include resizing, rotating, flood filling, text operations and a lot more. Multiple Undo/Redo, total control over file parameters, save optimization panel to help you optimize your JPEG, PNG and GIF images. Tools for retouching and enhancing photos: comes with more than a hundred stunning plug-in image filters and special effects. Adobe plug-in support is also provided. You can send your images via e-mail directly from UP or create HTML pages with image thumbnails. The program has several skins.

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!