Free photo software

Free photo software

Photo software, imaging, scanning, anything to do with graphics...

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
This is excellent software.

VueScan - free download of vuescan software - VueScan gives you improved color accuracy and color balance, increases your productivity and saves you money: VueScan can make your existing scanner work as well as a brand new scanner.

ImageWalker -
Very fast image viewing, managing and thumb-nailing utility. It can also generate web pages and contact sheets.
ImageWalker allows you to manage your image files visually. It simplifies the process of viewing, cataloguing, and publishing digital images. Its features include; web page creation, thumbnail generation and printing, batch image conversion, slide show and screen saver.
[Windows95/98/NT]

We'll be working our way through this list and adding our comments about this software. If you've used any of them then let us know what you think.

Create web buttons and menus using a simple UI. [Win32]
Photodex Corporation - http://www.photodex.com/
Download a free trial of CompuPic, the Digital Content Manager for all your graphics, photos and pictures. Use this software to view, edit, e-mail, catalog, and manage digital photos, images, sounds and videos plus create digital greeting cards.
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
High performance warping and morphing software for Windows 95/NT/+.
Jans Graphics Collection - http://jansfreeware.com/jfgraphics.htm
A GIF animator, a scriptable painting program, and an image converter.
Reptile - http://www.sausage.com/reptile.html
An excellent webpage background generator. It allows you to easily produce many combinations of wavy, bubbly, organic, big, small, wide, narrow, rough or smooth texture background graphics. Clean simple to use interface has near zero learning curve.
Zoom - http://digilander.libero.it/important/zoom/eng/index.html
Program that allows the user to continuously see in a window parts of the screen which the mouse moves on in customisable magnified size; it also provides a facility to capture and resize those parts. Site includes a general description, screen shots, and previous versions.
Pixia - http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
A painting tool available in Japanese, German, and English.
Digital Camera Enhancer - http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
Automatically balance and reduce the noise in your images. Also balance the color and the midtones, zoom in and out, and preview the changes before applying them, freeware.
Natural Resources Database - http://www.nrdb.co.uk/
The NRDB is a free GIS tool for developing and distributing environmental databases. Support for polygons, coordinates, numeric and text based data.
AnaBuilder - http://anabuilder.free.fr/indexEN.html
Java program for the creation of anaglyph-type stereoscopic photographs.
JR Screen Ruler - http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools/jruler.htm
Tool that allows the accurate measure of anything on the computers screen. Useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters. Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP
Photo2Web Publisher - http://www.ph2web.com
Program to publish photos on the web. It creates thumbnails, resize photos, and generate HTML pages.
Aros Fractals - http://www.arosmagic.com/Fractals/default.htm
A hi-res, true-color fractal generation program for Macintosh and Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT.
Engauge Digitizer - http://digitizer.sourceforge.net/
Tool converts an image file showing a graph or map, into numbers. The numbers can be read or sent to a spreadsheet. Works in Windows and Linux.
Geodesic Domes - http://www.applied-synergetics.com/ashp/html/domes.html
DOS and Windows utility for generating the coordinates of a geodesic dome or sphere.
zegraph - http://www.zegraph.com/
A tool for scientific data visualization and yet can be used to create 3D arts in a broad scope. It uses OpenGL as the rendering engine and Z-Script as the scripting language.
Peter Bone - http://www.geocities.com/peter_bone_uk/software.html
Batch image thumbnailing software, image color editor, image to ASCII art text converter.
Tempest Solutions - http://www.klingebiel.com/tempest/
Free white paper and software utilities for managing collections of digital photos and audio/video files. [Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP]
PicPerk - http://www.picperk.com/
Free image viewer and editor.
Photo Sorter - http://www.photo-sorter.com
Organizes digital images into groups of pictures quickly and easily.
SWBCapture - Screen Capture Utility - http://www.softwarewithbrains.com/swbcapture.htm
Includes screenshots, instructions, a general description, and has an optional registration fee.
Basilio - http://www.geocities.com/fcueto/
NovaMatic is freeware that allows you to create the cosmic graphic effects on existing bitmap images. Site is in Spanish and English.
ScreenPrint32 - http://www.provtech.co.uk/software/screenprint32.asp
Screen capture and printing utility. Images may also be saved in various file formats. Registration is free to home users.
Capture A ScreenShot - http://www.popdrops.com/freescreencapturesoftware/
A simple screen capture tool that allows one to capture the last active screen, full screen, or selected area.
Xentient Thumbnails - http://xentient.com/products/thumbnails/
A utility for replacing the generic icons of image files with thumbnail icons of the actual image. [Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP]
PCGrapher - http://www30.brinkster.com/pcgrapher/
Tool for creating 2D and 3D graphs using Gnuplot, especially suited for LaTeX users. Output can be eps, pdf, metapost, or latex formatted file.
JM Soft - http://www.geocities.com/jsoftw/
JPEG Packer2 for creating photo albums or slideshows, and SplitJoin32 utility to split big files into smaller ones.
Plot Digitizer - http://plotdigitizer.sourceforge.net
A java program used to digitize scanned plots of functional data. Includes an automatic digitization feature. [MacOS X, Windows, Linux]
VCG-Best - http://www.geocities.com/vcg_vinoth/
Image format designed for archiving images losslessly in a more compact way than any other Image format. Source code available for research or educational purpose.
Pseudo Solutions - http://biphome.spray.se/baxtrom/imageenhance.htm
Image Enhance image editor for Windows. It features support for bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners. Apply different filters and effects or design your own filters.
Free Digital Photo Editor - http://freejpegeditor.com
Simple application for creating portraits suitable for uploading to dating-sites. The photos can be rotated, resized and clipped in easy steps.
Pictoscope - http://www.cancellieri.org/pictoscope_index.htm
Image viewer that displays images in four different forms normal, full screen, slide show, and thumbnails. Product overview, documentation, screen shot, and download.
Magical Glass - http://freestone-group.com/magg.htm
Magnifier for editing pixels in graphic editors, resides in the system tray. [Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP]
Jdatestamp - http://jdatestamp.sourceforge.net
A program for lossless date imprint on JPEG pictures using EXIF info from a digital camera. Program source and binary for Windows, Linux, MAC OS-X, Solaris and FreeBSD available for download.
Clipper - http://www.hot.ee/mardu123/clipper/
Screen capture utility that supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and Bitmap formats.
sankaku - http://www2f.biglobe.ne.jp/%7enotchi/softwares/sankaku/sankaku.html
Ceates an unfolded tetrahedron image from a cylindrical projection image. Also converts a two dimensional image into a picture with four sides, a tetrahedron.
Cd Cover Site - http://cdcover.altervista.org
A program to create audio and video covers. Supports CDDB, multilanguage functions, and print preview. Source code available.
Screen Capture - http://www.compoundev.com/screencapture_product.htm
Software for capturing images for documentation. A captured image is stored in the clipboard for a future processing by any of the available tool.
WStar - http://www.propix.hu/share/WStar/WStar.html
Freeware program generates patterns with lines and circles. Source code available.
Free Buttons - http://www.freebuttons.homestead.com/
Reviews and downloads of several pieces of Windows software for making button graphics.
Kiddo - http://www.snowytree.com/
A free drawing program for children or adults.
Photos processor - http://weilee.home.comcast.net/shareware/
Allows one to resize all images in source folder and save the results into another folder with one single action -- drag and drop.
Photo Album Helper Monkey - http://mconsta.home.mindspring.com/pahm/
A Java 2 application that can create and maintain web based photo albums.

Editors

VicMan's Photo Editor - http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm
A powerful, award-winning application with a skin-based interface, an excellent feature set, and support for more than 30 file types.
Open tUME - http://members.aol.com/opentume/
A versatile 2D map editor designed to place tiles on maps.
i.Mage - http://www.memecode.com/image.php
Simple and fast free graphics editor with a split view zoom and basic graphics file support. Supports 8, 16, 24 and 32 bit images in any resolution. [Win95/NT/BeOS x86 r4]
Photo Wizard - http://www.americansys.com/photowizard.htm
Import images and retouch them, add special effects, crop and resize, enhance the colors, brightness, remove the red eye.
Theme Creator Pro - http://tcpro.lasyk.net
A powerful tool designed to create, edit, browse and manage themes for Sony Ericsson mobile phones.
BPaint - http://website.lineone.net/~angusmarthur/bpaint.htm
Easy to use bitmap graphics program for the PC. Written in Blitz Basic by Angus Arthur.
Brush Strokes Image Editor - http://www.pabird.supanet.com/freesoftware/brushstrokes
An image editor with many features including GIF animation.
mad god's Tiny Hut - http://www.angelfire.com/magic2/madgod/
Editor for Wizardry 6, Wizardry 7 and Wizardry 8 games.
Paintlet - http://www.jdever.com
Easy-to-use online graphics editors for Java.
eMage - http://www.geocities.com/emage2003/
Graphics editor for DOS, features such as flood fill, pattern fill, and pattern spray.Provides information on opening bitmaps, handling mouse events in DOS and some graphics algorithms in a programming context.
Free Book Cover Creator - http://www.cnetcs.com/ebc/index.html
A box and book cover creator.
iICO - http://www.mintrasystems.com/products/iico/
Icon editor for Windows that can handle both icon and cursor files, plus the semitransparent icons in Windows XP.