1. PhotoScape.
PhotoScape is a photo editing software that is easy and fun. These applications can be used by beginners to improve and enhance the image display. This application also serves as a viewer, to see the photos and slideshow.
As an editor, this program has the ability to zoom, adjust brightness, white balance, backlight correction, frames, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing, to the crop, filters, red eye removal, blooming. You can combine various images into one picture frame. In addition, you can also design an animation from a series of photos of your collection. Not to forget that there are RAW converters capable of converting files to JPEG RAM.
Download PhotoScape, here.
2. High Quality Photo Resizer.
High Quality Photo Resizer is an easy-to-use freeware for batch resizing of digital photos. With High Quality Photo Resizer you may make high quality small photos for publication on the internet or to send to friends and family. This software offers two methods for you to choose to resize the photo - Normal and Enhanced.
It´s freeware but it supports many input formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF. And it supports 8 output formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, TGA, WMF, EMF. It also enables you to add up to 37 effects (Sharpen, Mosaic, Tweak RGB, Colorize, Spray, Emboss, Blur, Gray Scale, Negative, Soften, Swirl, Tile, Wind, Contrast, Noise, Anti Alias, Fish Eye, Flip Horizontal , Flip Vertical, High Pass, Neontrace, etc.) to your photos.
Download High Quality Photo Resizer, here.
3. PhotoPerfect Express.
PhotoPerfect Express will help you fix photos quickly and easily. You just simply select the option to optimize display of instant photographs. Overall, PhotoPerfect Express is an freeware that maximize your photos well and optimally without spending hours in front of the monitor, just simple clicks in 3 steps.
There are some basic tools to improve the color, contrast, lighting, noise, and the red-eye effect. The latest version fully supports the TIFF file format. In addition, you are given the ease in improving the color, contrast, and saturation of the photo.
Download PhotoPerfect Express, here.
4. IrfanView.
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer. 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 10+ 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, Multi language support, Thumbnail/preview option, Paint option (draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.), Toolbar skins option, Slideshow , 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, Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.), Capturing, Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, Lossless JPG rotation, Many PlugIns, No registry changes without user action/permission, and much much more.
Download IrfanView, here.
5. Photo Toolkit / Photo! Editor.
Photo Toolkit / Photo! Editor is a powerful, Photo Toolkit is an application for editing digital images in a relatively quick and easy. By clicking the Red Eye Remover is a photo that has red-eye effect can be immediately repaired to make it look normal. The color of your photos can be opaque light
Photo toolkit also includes several unique tools to improve images such as whitening teeth or make objects photos smile. You can use the editing features automatic or manual way. This application increases the size of the resolution of an image to be printed or decrease the size to upload on the web. There is a special plugin to create thumbnail images for the gallery on your website.
Download Photo Toolkit Photo! Editor, here.
6. TinyPic.
TinyPic is an automatic file resizer. It selects an optimized balance between file size and image quality. The files will be reduced to 20-80kB with a minimum of Quality loss. The main purpose is to shrink pictures for emails, and the user interface is so easy to use that anybody can use the program.
The pictures will be resized and saved again. You can select different ways to preserve your original pictures :
- Save to the same folder with extended name (i.e. K1024_oldname.JPG).
- Save to a subfolder (i.e. K1024\).
- Override the original files (!) Be careful: the original files will be lost.
The result files have a size which is suitable for mailing. TinyPic automatically selects the best compromise between quality and size without asking the user too much questions. The files will be shrinking to 3-10% of the original size without a too big quality loss.
Download TinyPic, here.
7. GIMP.
GIMP or GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editor application that is designed with an open source base. Although the free application, GIMP can be the best choice of the user, because the features that have not failed. Compared with Adobe Photoshop may be less perfect, but the ability of these applications is growing every year.
GIMP originally built only for Linux systems but, now reach users windows. This graphical applications can be used to design a simple design to cultivate professional-style photos. For installation, required plugin, which is GTK +2.
Download GIMP, here.
8. FastStone Photo Resizer.
FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.
Features FastStone Photo Resizer :
- Convert and Rename images in batch mod.
- Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text and watermark.
- Rename images with sequential number.
- Support folder/non-folder structure.
- Load and save settings
- Mouse Wheel Support
- Optimized performance in Windows Vista
- And Much more.
9. FxFoto.
FxFoto provides a single tool for automatically organizing, editing, enhancing, annotating, e-mailing, printing, uploading, and archiving your digital photos. An animated navigator displays photo thumbnails of all your pictures by topic, and photos can be organized and searched with user-specified keywords. FxFoto Standard Edition is freeware and includes red-eye correction, lighting and image enhancement, blemish removal, feathered rectangular or oval cropping, photo frames, text effects, and a powerful clone brush.
FxFoto Standard edits and saves standard photo and image files. The Deluxe Edition upgrade also creates and saves animated slide shows, collages, and scrapbook layouts using advanced creative effects, cropping shapes and stitched multi-photo panoramas, all with the same download. The Media Edition upgrade also saves Flash, MPEG, MP4, and PDF formats.
Download FxFoto, here.
10.Studioline Photo Basic.
Studioline Photo Basic is freeware, yet it offers most of the functionality and features of expensive top-line graphics packages. Its dialog-based controls and ample assistance make it easy enough for beginners to use, yet it packs enough features to satisfy professionals.
It works in Vista and Windows 7 and has a 30-day trial, but registration is free and enables updates. Studioline Photo Basic gives you an and easy way to edit your digital photos. Import from camera, scanner and all popular file formats. The image archive is a central database to conveniently categorize your images and add keywords and descriptions. Full IPTC and Exif support. 30 professional image tools to improve exposure problems, red-eye effects, color tones, etc. Photos can be printed, emailed or uploaded as web galleries. CD/DVD writing included.
Download Studioline Photo Basic, here.
All free software. So, please select Best Freeware Image Editor for download above that you think is the most complete and easiest to use its features.