I have hand picked the best downloadable free picture editing software. Some of these image editing tools are cross-platform, making them available for PCs, Macs and Linux type computers.
Picasa
Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.
Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!
The built in editor is more than robust enough for most casual users and includes basic color correction, cropping, and a variety of special effects
GIMP
The GNU Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop replacement that doesn’t have “quite” as much functionality but it’s excellent for free. It comes installed by default on many Linux distros and is also available in Windows. Worth a look.
Paint.net
A really good, lightweight alternative to Photoshop. It offers layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful tools. The download is around 2mb too so absolutely worth a look – I use this when Photoshop is playing up.
http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html
Inkscape
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.
ImageMagick
A lesser known application but it offers the ability to “create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (about 100)”. Use it to “translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and B?zier curves.”
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
Artweaver
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.
http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
XnView
XnView is software to view and convert graphic files, apparently really simple to use and supports more than 400 graphics formats.
http://perso.orange.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html
IrfanView
IrfanView is also one of the popular free software that allows the user to edit images with the basic image editing tools. Irfan Viewer works with Windows operating systems only. It also provides specific options for printing your photos. All in all a decent software that you can easily download and use to edit and print photographs.
PhotoPlus SE
Although the software was a paid one earlier, now you can download a completely free and fully functional version of PhotoPlus SE. This software provides a wide variety of features ranging from an export optimizer, image slicing and image maps, selection tools, smart shapes, editable text, third-party plug-in support, red-eye removal tool, and photo enhancement tools.
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/photoplus/
ImageForge
ImageForge is free software that allows image editing with painting and editing tools. One notable feature of this software is that it allows the users to import files from the dig cams and the scanners. While editing it also allows you to select from a wide range of special effects filters. Once you are done editing your photographs, you can create photo albums and slideshows using ImageForge.
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
PhotoScape
Photoscape is a free image editor for Windows that you can use to fix and enhance your photos. Its main features are resize, crop, adjust brightness, auto contrast, whitebalance, sharpen, blur, noise reduction, red eye removal, and a lot more. You can also batch edit your pictures, create animates GIFs, and capture your screen.
Imgares
Imgares is a Windows-only image editing software. To start editing pictures in batch mode, just drag&drop your selected images and choose what you want to do: you can resize and rotate your photos, add text, change light and contrast, and also create AVI slideshows. Free to download and use.
http://www.konradp.com/products/
Phantasmagoria
Phantasmagoria is a free Java-based image editor that runs on Windows, Mac Os X and Linux. It supports a wide range of image formats, and lets you easily edit and improve your images with a lot of effects.
http://www.develderby.com/phantasmagoria/
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Popularity: 5% [?]
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Nice post i think this post is very helpful for me thanks man.
That is a comprehensive list. Are you aware of any such video editing software for mac? I wish to include subtitles for the video.
Thats a nice list. I don’t use much softwares for editing images, I use Adobe photoshop (offline) and pixlr (online)
I think Photoshop is still the best though it’s not a free application
Picasa 3 is ma favt…It’s simply awesome
Same to me, Picasa is always my favourite. Never try others before. Thanks for sharing so much other image editing tools.
Yeah Andre
I used GIMP and Irfanview to and they are also best but not better than Picasa
Seems like a lot of you are recommending Picasa… I’ll give a try
I’ve used Photoscape and Photoplus before
What I liked most from Photoscape is that you can instantly create animated GIF files by combining pics.