Freeware and Full Pc Downloads

PhotoFiltre

PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustmentsto an image and apply a vast range of filters on it.

It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.

The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives PhotoFiltre a robust look.
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista

Paint.NET
Image editor with layer support

Paint.NET used to be something of a complicated, high-end tool, but over the past year it has been transformed into a serious contender for the best image-editing software around. Despite a raft of powerful features, this latest version of the program remains easy to use and boasts excellent performance with fast response times.

There are a number of automated image optimisation tools integrated into the program such as colour adjustment, red-eye removal and conversion to black-and-white or sepia, but more advanced tweaks allow full manual control. Unlimited levels of undo, support for layers, a range of filters and a unique thumbnail preview when multiple images are open mean the program is suitable for all levels of ability and remains easy to navigate.

But it's not just the tools that make Paint.NET impressive: the interface itself is something to behold. Clear, well-sized buttons provide access to a wide range of options without looking cluttered or messy. A number of floating panels house layer, colour and history information, and when not in use they become slightly transparent so as not to distract from the image you're working on – hold the mouse over one and they will fade back into full view. Touches like this make the program an absolute joy to use

Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Last Updated 28 August 2008
Win XP/2003/Vista
Mac OSX (see web site)

Inkscape
Source vector graphics editor

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more.

It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented developmen
Win 2000/XP/2003
Mac OSX (see web site)
Linux (see web site)

Photoscape
Photo editing suite

Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Key Features
Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow
Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JP
Win 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista

The GIMP
Graphics editor and image manipulation

The 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.

GIMPShop
GIMPshop was designed to specifically ease the transition for Photoshop users. Initially, while the functionalities of GIMP and Photoshop largely overlap, window layout, options, tools, and menus have evolved independently and are quite different. This causes frustration for people who want to switch from Photoshop to GIMP or vice versa. But the latest version of GIMPshop looks and feels much more like Photoshop. Its menus, windows, tools and options are modified match the structure and conventions of Photoshop.

Last Updated 21 August 2009

Download Gimpshop here ( 8MB windows installer )
Win XP/Vista
Mac OSX (see web site)
Linux (see web site)

Artweaver
Freeware program for creative painting

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.

Artweaver Features
Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
A wide variety of adjustment settings to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes.
Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support).
Transparency and Layers support.
Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
Editable text layers.
Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
History function to und/redo last editing steps.
Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver Standard).
Support for many languages through language files

Win 2000/XP/Vista

IrfanView

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
Multi language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
Toolbar skins option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Fast directory view (moving through directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Multipage TIF editing
File search
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Unicode support
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and much much more

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01

Brush Strokes is a free graphics editor with many of the features of a professional product. You can edit images fom a variety of formats (GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, TARGA, AVI); create images for websites; create and view GIF animations; adjust colours in photos; apply filters, rotations and transformations; use magic wand selections; use any picture as a brush or fill pattern; blur images; sharpen images; use frames from videos; capture frames from video cameras... and much more.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Ultimate Paint

Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. On this page you can download different versions, see what extras UP gives you compared to other paint programs, take a look at its cool plug-in effects.
UP supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats and Twain compatible scanners. You can easily print your image, setting its size, position and orientation.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Project Dogwaffle

Project Dogwaffle is a full featured paintbox application inluding natural tools, realtime filters, image warping, gradients, and more. The program is primarily designed for "unnatural painting" and includes realistic artist tools, paper, and media styles. It offers custom and procedural brushes and fill types as well as realtime image processing filters. Dogwaffle supports many file types and supports multiple levels of Undo, alpha channels and seemless textures. The interface can be extended with the use of plugins.
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP

ArtRage 2

ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. You can run ArtRage on a normal Windows machine with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet. Even better, running ArtRage on a TabletPC takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.
Win 98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Mac OSX (see web site)

Pixia
Powerful graphics editor

Pixia is the English version of a popular Japanese painting and retouch software for full color graphics. It supports mask, layer and many other editing functions. You can use your own customized brush tips and even use an image file as a brush tip to create unique effects. Its user-friendly interface is suitable for beginners as well as experts. Pixia supports the most common editing techniques and presents a user friendly interface.
Win Me/2000/XP/Vista

Photobie
Image editor with layer support

Photobie is an image editor that offers all the standard editing and paint tools, as well as image layers and Photoshop (.8bf) plug-ins. The developer did not put a lot of effort into the interface design, but sure crammed a lot of features under the hood, that are normally not found in free image editors.

The program includes screen capture tools, an image browser, a GIF animation tool and a Flash layer, as well as photo frames, channel adjustments and more.
The documentation is somewhat lacking but an active support forum can help you along if you run into problems.

Photobie is a .NET windows application, .NET framework 1.0 or higher must be installed.

Win 2000/XP

AvancePaint
A good Microsoft-Paint replacement

A complete paint program designed with an intuitive user interface that makes AvancePaint easy to learn and use. It’s powerful enough to suit the advanced user and yet simple enough to please the beginner.

Open unlimited number photo´s or pictures and unleash your artistic talents as you will discover the advanced and powerful but easy to use graphical options!

A complete set of 20 photo-realistic filters and more then 40 textures are included.

Features:
Easy to use yet powerful
All functions of MS-Paint
Zoom
Powerful color settings
Size
Masks
Draw arrows in one click
Open JPG, JPEG, GIF, BMP, WMF, EMF, DIB, ICO files
Open as many photo´s as your memory allows!
Cut/copy/paste between photo´s
Darken, lighten, sharpen, soften, blur, replace colors, blend, transparent gif etc...
WYSWYG fonts
Multiple undo´s
Borders
Print preview
User definable rounded square corners
Rotate
Many symbols included
Uses only 2Mb diskspace

Version 2.0:
New: Draw advanced Polygons - move points, color, thickness etc...
New: Draw Advanced Bezier curves - move points, color, thickness etc...
New: Twain compatible! (Eztw32.dll)
import images/pictures from your scanner, cam etc. any twain compatible device!
New: Pencil now also acts as an Eraser when right mouse-button is pressed
New: 5 new pencil color mixes (user selected color, grayscales, pastel pink, blue, yellow

Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista

StudioLine Photo Basic 3
Manage and share your digital images

StudioLine Photo is powerful and easy-to-use management and editing software for digital photos. Images can be imported from camera, scanner and all popular file formats.

The image archive is the central database where you conveniently categorise your images and add keywords and descriptions.

Standard IPTC and Exif tags are fully supported. Thirty professional image tools are included to improve exposure problems, red-eye effects, colour tones, etc. Photos can be printed, emailed or uploaded as web galleries. CD/DVD writing is included.

Add descriptions to your images, send photos per email in just the right size, print high-quality copies, display slide-shows, publish web-galleries, safe-keep your images on CD or DVD.

Requires free online registration after 30-days

Win 98/NT/2000/XP