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… You’ll also enjoy dual-monitor support, smart updates and many of the other award-winning functions of StudioLine Photo Basic. All that – and it’s free.

Developer: H&M Software
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 57.4 MB
Download StudioLine Photo Basic 3.50.43 link

The panorama creation software Autopano Pro is the most spectacular breakthrough in automated picture stitching in recent years.

• First software to automatically detect pictures belonging to a panoramic photo.
• First software to really correct color and exposure variations between source images.
• First software to perform HDR stitching from bracketed images.

But that’s not all! Autopano Pro is incredibly fast. It will take your workflow and productivity to new heights.
Autopano Pro is extremely efficient, even in the most difficult cases. And, at any time, you can take control of all software automations to achieve perfect results. Put it to the test!

Developer: Kolor
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 9.0 MB
Download Autopano Pro 1.4.2 link

openCanvas4 is a computer graphics software program that enhances the drawing and painting experience. It has extensive features great for the experienced artist, and is simple enough for artist at any level to use.

You can not only draw the image but also learn and exchange the ideas by openCanvas’s event playback feature and its user community. openCanvas will expand your creativity easily and efficiently.

The event playback function:
The event playback feature is one of the excellent functions on openCanvas.
If you like drawing, you must have thought at least one time how the image is drawn.
Using the “Event File”, the artist can record their drawing session and play it back to view how artwork is created exactly.
It is very simple. You can check out the exact sequence and techniques on your PC just by downloading the event file from OpenCanvas User Community.
Moreover, openCanvas4.5 has enhanced event function with additional features of “Event (Log)”, “Wait (Time)”, and others, and it is extremely easier to use it now.
New openCanvas 4.5 would be the great tutor and helps you to find new discovery.

Smooth and fine sensation of drawing with Pen Tablet:
In openCanvas, fine pen pressure of the pen tablet is sensed, and you can feel detailed and smooth drawing.
Since there are variegated drawing tools such as brush for smooth and fine line and pen of the watercolor style, various drawing expressions are possible.

Developer: System Products
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.9 MB
Download openCanvas 4.5.11e link

Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simple enough for the novice. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has more than 3,000 brushes, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more.

TwistedBrush Pro Studio runs on all versions of the Windows operating system and is designed for all realms of digital art including natural media fine art, photo retouching, photo composition, photo cloning to turn your photos into the look of hand painted artwork, mandala art, patterns, manga, even 3D like painting with the incredible blob modeling tools.

Developer: Pixarra
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 15.0 MB
Download TwistedBrush Pro Studio 15.48 link

XnView is an efficient multimedia viewer, browser and converter.

Come to discover XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use ! Support of more than 400 graphics formats! It’s free, so do not hesitate!

XnView has the features:
Import about 400 graphic file formats; Export about 50 graphic file formats; Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support; Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support; EXIF auto rotation support; IPTC editing; Resize, rotate, crop support; Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support; Adjust brightness, contrast; Auto levels, contrast; Modify number of colors; Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, …); Apply effects (lens, wave, …); Fullscreen mode; Slide show with effects; Batch convert, batch rename; Create WEB page easily; Screen capture; Create contact Sheet; Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF); TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only); Print support (Windows only); Drag & Drop support (Windows only); Compare image side by side; Filmstrip layout; 44 languages support (Windows only); And many many other things; No Adware, No Spyware.

Developer: Pierre-e Gougelet
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 5.6 MB
Download XnView 1.94 beta 3 link

VSO Image Resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, import or organize photos. Whether you want to send, move, shrink or enlarge a single picture or a whole batch, Image Resizer will do the job in one click.

How to resize images : The VSO free image resize software organizes your photos by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos.

With this free resize image software, you can create e-mail friendly versions of your images, load them faster, move them easily from folder to folder, change their format, edit large numbers of image files/batch image resize and thus save space on your hard drive. Using high resolution 1600×1200 for creating wallpaper or file-sharing you can save your memory. VSO Image Resizer can also change file names using a template and you can add your own watermark with transparency support. VSO Image resizer is integrated into the Windows explorer shell, right click on your pictures and start working on your pictures!

Developer: Vso-Software
License: Shareware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4.8 MB
Download VSO Image Resizer 2.0.1.7 link

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

Developer: FastStone Soft
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4,1 MB
Download FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 Beta link

WildBit Viewer is compact & fast image viewer with slide show and editor. Eye catching interface within blazing fast folder, file list and thumbnail viewer. Viewer includes also Image Info with Image EXIF meta data JPEG and TIFF support and IPTC (IIMV4) information (like PhotoShop file info) from JPEG and TIFF, Thumbview has changeable views, sorting and thumbnail predefined sizes for fast thumbnail size setting.

WildBit Viewer also includes shell toolbar, you can drop your favorite folder there and use it as an organizer. It also includes image compare. In Compare you can compare images side-by-side. In Favorites you can save list of favorite images and load list later on and you can create custom show in to Slide Show also that list you can edit with Custom Show List Editor. With Slide Show you can view images within 172 different transition effects. Slide Show includes now multi-monitor support for fast switching between two monitors. WildBit Viewer supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF and TGA (about 70 formats).

Developer: WildBit Software
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 7.4 MB
Download WildBit Viewer 5.2 link

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality. The source code is available under the terms of the MIT License.

Developer: Paint.NET Team
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 1.5 MB
Download Paint.NET 3.31 link

Fresh View gives you the ability to organize and view multimedia files (images, audio, video). Watch movies, listen to music, and view graphics in a slide show. Image files in a folder can be displayed using a number of views, including a thumbnail view that lets you quickly see what your images are without having to open them.

With Fresh View you can convert graphics from one type to another, print, and even create an HTML album. This easy-to-use software supports 86 different formats (more and more added regularly). Below are the list of some currently supported by Fresh View formats:

Image formats:
* Windows Bitmap (*.bmp), Windows Metafile (*.wmf,*.emf), JPEG Image (*.jpg,*.jpe,*.jpeg,*.jfif), CompuServe GIF Image (*.gif), Portable Network Graphic Image (*.png), Tagged Image File Format Image (*.tif,*.tiff), Photoshop Image (*.psd,*.pdd), TrueVision Image (*.tga,*.win,*.vst,*.vda,*.icb), Run Length Encoded Bitmap (*.rle), Device Independent Bitmap (*.dib), GFI Fax Image (*.fax), Encapsulated Postscript Image (*.eps), ZSoft Paintbrush Image (*.pcx,*.pcc), Word 5.x Screen Capture Image (*.scr), Alias/Wavefront Image (*.rla,*.rpf), SGI Images (*.sgi,*.rgb, *.rgba, *.bw), Portable Pixel Map Image (*.ppm), Portable Gray Map Image (*.pgm), Portable Bitmap Image (*.pbm), Autodesk Image (*.cel,*.pic), Kodak Photo-CD Image (*.pcd), Dr. Halo Image (*.cut), Paintshop Pro Image (*.psp)

Audio Formats:
* WAVE Audio (*.wav), MP3 Audio (*.mp3), MIDI Audio (*.mid, *.midi, *.rmi), Vorbis Ogg Audio (*.ogg), AIFF Audio (*.aif, *.aifc, *.aiff), AU Audio (*.au), ProTracker Mod Audio (*.mod, *.mdz, *.nst, *.m15), Module Lists Audio (*.mol), Zipped Mod Audio (*.mdz, *.s3z, *.xmz, *.itz), ScreamTracker Mod Audio (*.s3m, *.stm, *.s3z), FastTracker Mod Audio (*.xm, *.xmz), Impulse Tracker Mod Audio (*.it, *.itz), MultiTracker Mod Audio (*.mtm), Octamed Mod Audio (*.med), Other MOD Audio (*.wow, *.669, *.far, *.okt)

Video Formats:
* AVI Video (*.avi), MPEG Video (*.m1v, *.mp2, *.mp2v, *.mpa, *.mpe, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpv2)

Icon Resources Formats:
* Windows Icon (*.ico), Windows Cursor (*.cur), Animated Cursor (*.ani), Icon Library (*.icl), Executable File (*.exe), Dynamic Linking Library (*.dll)

Developer: FreshDevices
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 2.3 MB
Download Fresh View 7.46 link