Image Processing

Instant Gallery Maker (formerly Express Thumbnail Creator) is a powerful, yet easy to use tool, which lets you create image galleries ready to be published on the Web. The program features a wizard-style interface, which makes it manageable and easy to use for virtually anybody, including those, who have no idea of HTML and image processing. Creating a web site is as easy as pressing a few buttons and letting Instant Gallery Maker do the rest of the job. If you are not satisfied with your new image gallery appearance, you can easily customize every single detail. The program comes packed with a number of website templates and you can easily create your own and save them for future use. Instant Gallery Maker recognizes all popular image formats and uses advanced algorithms for resizing images and creating thumbnails. If you have some knowledge of HTML, you can customize absolutely everything, including page layouts and style sheets or add links to outside pages and more.

Any Image allows you to convert one file or many files using the same quick, three-step procedure. Select your images by file or folder, select the conversion options and process the files. The program has been optimized for both conversion quality and speed. and supports all of the more common image file formats. Any Image not only allows you to convert between graphics formats, but also to apply several image processing operations like resizing (by factor or to fit), undithering, sharpness control, color saturation, brightness, contrast and bias control as well as rotation and mirroring. The trial version will only convert the first image in a batch.

ImageConverter Plus is a powerful tool for graphic files viewing, editing and converting. It consists of two parts - a graphics editor (works with multiple files at a time) and a Windows Explorer shell extension. The graphics editor reads and processes graphic files and can also create and execute task for image batch processing. The shell extension provides a quick image preview, full information about graphic files and one-click image conversion. Batch processing, renaming and converting features will greatly save you time and ease your work, especially if you work with huge amounts of graphic files. The program reads 18 graphic formats (BMP, DIB, RLE, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PCX, DCX, TGA, DXF, EPSF, FPX, WMF, IMG, WPG, PCD and FMF) and converts images into 10 formats (BMP, TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PCX, DCX, TGA, EPSF, FMF).

PixConverter is an easy to use image processor, that allows you to resize and rename your images based on different templates, that can be customized to your needs. You can process a list of images, or an entire folder at once and choose from various (optional) renaming features, color changes, sizing and even add image or text watermarks. The program comes with ready-to-use, yet customizable presets for converting images for email use, web publishing, CD distribution and more. In addition, it also includes a gallery wizard to create picture thumbnail galleries. The program is very user-friendly and easy to use, well suited for beginners, as well as more advanced users. It supports JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF and a few other formats.

Bibble is a tool for processing raw photos from professional digital SLR cameras. It enables you to view and adjust RAW image settings, apply sharpening, color corrections, white balance adjustments and more, before developing the raw file into a TIF or JPEG file. The interface is customizable, though needs some getting used to, and allows you to adjust image display and toolbars to fit your workflow. Bibble uses an efficient system of work queues, print queues and batch queues that allow you to quickly process images based on custom defined settings that include output format, output folder, quality and various other options. This allows you to quickly generate proofs from selected images, and develop full size TIF images by simply adding photos to a different batch. Bibble provides a high level of customization, which can be a little confusing at first, but once you understand the concept it is indeed quite efficient. Additional features include IPTC support, tethered shooting, Photoshop Plug-in (included), advanced file renaming and more. Supports all the newest DSLRs.

AV Bros. Page Curl Pro is a Photoshop and compatible plug-in, that allows you to apply advanced curl and fold effects to your images. It provides full control over every aspect of the effect, with options to use 3D rotations and perspective distortions to the image, apply shadow and light conditions, texturize, transparency and much more. All changes can be previewed in real-time and the settings can be saved to quickly apply them to other images. AV Bros. Page Curl Pro leaves nothing to be desired when it comes to image curling.

Digital Beauty allows you to create perfect portrait photos from your digital pictures. It provides a 5-step wizard that lets you erase spots and blemishes on the face and clean the skin to give it a smooth appearance by single click. In addition, it can automatically fix exposure problems and enhance the skin color. You can preview different color and exposure settings and select the picture that looks best. Very easy to use, very good results!

Graphics Converter Pro is an easy-to-use and powerful batch image viewer and graphics converter, that can import 500 graphic formats and export 100 formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG and many others. The program comes with 50 image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, Color Balance and more as well as 12 image effects, including Flip, Wave, Noise, Arbitrary Rotation and more. In addition, Graphics Converter Pro includes a simple screen capture tool and a slideshow feature.

WinWatermark enables you to add text and/or image watermarks to your digital images. It supports all common graphics formats (including JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc.) and can create transparent watermarks with optional drop shadow effects, customizable font, color and rotation angle. You can add multiple watermarks to an image in a single process and also save your watermarks a project files. Other features include file renaming and format conversion, image rotation, EXIF support and watermark preview.

RasterVect enables you transform raster images into a several vector formats. The raster drawings can be imported from a file or directly from your scanner. You can choose from different recognition methods, fine-tune the parameters and then run the recognition engine which will convert your raster image to vector. RasterVect includes a variety of Vector, Raster, Object and Mask tools that allow you to edit the drawing before exporting it to vector format (DXF, WMF, EMF, EPS or AI). The resulting vector drawing can be imported by most CAD applications.

Able Batch Converter enables you to process lists or folders of images. You can convert them to a different format, add image effects, resize the output images, apply color corrections and sharpening, crop images, swap color channels and more. The actions can be combined into a single processing step and also saved as action lists for later. Able Batch Converter supports more than 90 image formats.

Batch It! Ultra is an automated batch imaging editor which, that allows you to resize, rename, rotate, slice your images and more. You can also create thumbnail galleries, add captions and acquire images from a scanner. The interface displays a before and after version of the image, so you can see exactly how the selected operations will effect your image. Additional features include several resizing methods,watermarks, autorun.inf creation for CD image galleries and more. Batch It! Ultra supports reading of JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM, GIF, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, WMF, FAX, PSD, PDD, PSP, CUT and PCD and writing to JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM and GIF format.

Image Comparer allows you to scan selected folders or drives and find duplicate images, or images that are very similar. The program can find all similar images even if they are in different formats (e.g JPG and TIFF versions of an image). It presents you with a list of the files found, as well as a side-by-side comparison, and you can decide to copy, move, or delete one of the copies. In addition, the program can also automatically mark the image that appears to have a higher quality, making it easier for you to decide which one to get rid of (if any). Image Comparer supports JPEG, J2K, BMP, GIF, PCX, PNG, TIFF, TGA, ICO and CUR formats.

ReaConverter Pro is an image batch processor that allows you to apply various image operations to large numbers of pictures at once. The program is easy to use and allows you to combine multiple actions into a single process. For example, you can resize a folder of images to half the original size, change the color depth, apply a watermark and add a prefix to the file name - all in a single step. Each action can be tested on a sample image , so you can see the effect it will have on your images. ReaConverter Pro can also create thumbnail images, convert between formats and save selected parameters.

Zoner Photo Studio is an image management solution that allows you to import, edit and publish your images to the web or CD. It includes most common editing tools, including red-eye removal, cropping, image corrections, effect filters and more. In addition, it offers features to archive your pictures based on their EXIF picture information, publish them to a HTML gallery (nice templates included), print them, email or create a picture CD with integrated viewer. Additional features include image conversion, batch processing, resizing, integrated burning and FTP, slideshows, Video CDs and more.

Stacker is an image processing software that enables you to manipulate groups of images and apply a series of actions to them, including resizing, drop shadows, image frames, watermarks, color corrections, contrasts adjustments and more. You can combine multiple actions into a `stack` and save them to be reused later. The program also offers a several post-processing options enable you to automatically compress the processed files into a zip archive, create a basic image gallery, upload them to your Flickr account or send them by email.

Ideal Photo Sorter enables you to automatically sort, copy and move your photos (an other media files) based on existing EXIF/IPTC and many other photo tags. The program uses a user defined source folder from which the files are copied or moved and then sorted into a folder structure based on various criteria, including camera model, date and others. You can choose from several pre-configured schemes or create your own. All you need to do is place your new files into the source folder, start Ideal Photo Sorter and the program will automatically process them according to the rules you have set. Other features include support for ZIP and RAR files, file renaming rules, duplicate processing and more. Even though the program is primarily designed for processing image files, it can also handle any other type of file, including audio, video, text and others.

EyeBatch is a powerful and intuitive batch image processor. The program supports most popular image formats as well as full transparency and EXIF, and comes with over 50 functions built in - including resizing, converting, text and image overlays (watermarking), image slicing, autocrop, color levels, and much more. You can preview each of the effects and see what your original image will like like before you apply any of them. EyeBatch may be used for single or multiple image processing (batch processing). Additional features include conditional IF statements,Enhanced text watermarking, Input filtering and more. The program is perfect for preparing images for the web and making thumbnails. It has a great interface and is suited for pros as well as beginners.

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.

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.

Photo Shaman is an image processing software that allows you to (batch) resize your images to create thumbnails to be used in web galleries. In addition to the optional resizing, you can also add masks, image frames, rotate your pictures and add bevel or shadow effects. Photo Shaman can also create HTML image galleries based on a selection of templates. The interface is easy to use, the features are basic but the program generate quality output files.

The MagicImageMarker is a watermarking tool for your bmp and .jpg images. It can take any bmp or JPG (wmf, tiff, png) image and add it to an existing image. You can specify the position, transparency level as well as a transparent color. MagicImageMarker also supports a batch mode, that allows you to add the same logo to multiple files, e.g. your entire photo collection. The batch mode supports the creation of file name prefixes, format conversion and compression level. The program also offers an internal scripting language that can be incorporated with some of the features. Additional features include a banner maker, color effects, text annotations and thumbnail creation.

Smart Converter is a multipurpose program for viewing, converting and editing of your images. It offers various effects, and filters that can be applied to your images, as well as resizing, color effects, distortions and more. All operations can be performed on a single image or in batch mode, allowing you to process entire folders at once. In addition, the program offers a slideshow mode, screen capture, file renaming, cropping, adding text, image rotation and an option to set pictures as desktop wallpaper. The program supports more than 100 image formats.

PhotoMark lets you create and apply watermarks using your brand name, logo or text. You can specify the position of the watermark, select the transparency level and preview it on a sample file. Finished watermarks can be saved and optionally applied in batch mode to entire folders, sub-folders of images. Additional features include optional image conversions to JPEG and BMP. You can also add multiple watermarks to a single file or optionally tile the mark across the entire image.

TIFFAssembler allows you to quickly and easily assemble multi-page TIFF files from existing images by simply dragging and dropping. It supports all major TIFF compression styles and input image formats, including BMP, JPG, PSD, GIF, PCX and others. You can adjust the output settings for each included image individually (or batch) - this includes rotation, dpi settings, size and more.

E-Mage is a fully customizable image batch processor. It can automatically execute user-defined set of operations for many images at once. Using this tool you can resample, rotate and flip your images, change their brightness and contrast, apply convolution filters (e.g. blur, sharpen), trim edges, place your logotype on every image, etc. E-Mage Processor makes batch processing of images much easier and can save you from a lot of routine work. All you have to do is to choose desired operations, set up their parameters and sequence of performing. Embedded sorting feature and flexible name changer make it possible to arrange your images by names, while JPEG compression algorithm helps you to save on disk space required for your image archive. The program is very flexible but only provides a moderate selection of available operations.

Aicbit program can search your hard drives, CD-ROMs, floppy and other media for the images. Supporting of thumbnail view and full preview of found images, batch image converting to another graphical format and batch image resizing, file copying/moving/erasing. Also some effects can be applied to great number of images at once. The program autodetects the most of known graphical formats so it is not need to tell the program in what format an image is. The current version supports EXE, DLL, CPL, EMF, WMF, CUR, ICO, BMP, JPG, GIF, TARGA, PNG files.

DropWaterMark is an easy to use tool to add a watermark to your images. You can select a single images or apply the mark to an entire folder of images at once. Images can be replaced or recreated in a new folder, allowing you to leave the originals untouched. The watermark can be placed and rotated anywhere on the image and you can either use simple text or another image file (company logo etc.) or both. Additional features include optional image borders and watermark transparency.

ClickPic adds right-click options to image files in Windows Explorer. It offers a small thumbnail preview directly inside the right-click menu, as well as handy options to quickly resize images, convert between JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF, rotate and rename images. After installing ClickPic, simply right click on any image(s) and select the ClickPic menu item.

ReaJpeg allows you to both convert and edit images from most commonly used raster and vector graphic formats to JPG format. In addition, you can resize, crop, rotate, add borders, change colors and change the file names of the processed images. All operations can be performed in batch mode and the configurations can be saved, so that the same settings can easily be applied to a different batch. All modification can be instantly previewed with the built-in display.

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 an