16 Free Image Editor Resources
If your on a budget or just don’t like parting with your money, you can still find some good free software and save yourself a bundle. Listed here are 13 excellent image editors available for free download and my 3 favorite online image editors, also free of charge!
Image Tricks
Image Tricks is a free application to edit and generate images. It uses Mac OS X Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects. The artwork can be used as a background, web-design illustration, for print materials, and more.
Image Magick
Image Magick is a software suite for image manipulation and display, supporting close to 100 image formats. Used to create, edit, and compose bitmap images from the command line or via programming interfaces. Images can be cropped, resized, and combined, effects can be applied, and text, polygons, and curves can be added.
Photo Filtre
A complete image editing and effects package, that will not only amaze you with features but also the fact that it is free (for personal use). Its many features rival some commercial packages, it allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve.
Paint.Net
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 on-line community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Photoscape
An amazing photo editing software for fixing and enhancing photos. Here you have a really excellent suite that includes just about everything you need to view, optimize, edit, print and have fun with your photos, all for free!
Inkscape
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. It includes a surprisingly powerful set of tools for creating graphics from scratch, or for editing existing graphics or photographs. You’ll find numerous drawing tools, the ability to create layers and combine them, and more.
Photo Plus
PhotoPlus is an amazing photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance digital photos, even web animations. It has all the features you will need for importing or creating bitmap graphics and with built-in support for TWAIN scanners and cameras makes it easy to bring in your own photos.
Picasa
When you install this application, it immediately scans your system for photos and collects them into a single library. It also offers several basic photo editing functions, including color enhancement, red eye reduction and cropping. Other features include slide shows, printing and image timelines, all with this easy-to-use free product.
FastStone
This Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden tool bars.
Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter and more..
Visualizer
Visualizer Photo Resizer is an image utility designed to help you batch resize images in order to create presentations, upload them on to your Web page or quickly send them via email. It is designed to handle all your photos and graphic documents (JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, PSD, PSP). The software will even allow you to embed a text watermark in the batch process.
Irfanview
A fast and compact graphic viewer for Windows with many supported file formats and features. It can edit, convert image files and play video/audio formats. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
Photobie
Software for photo editing, scrapbooking, animation, screen capture etc. Free for personal use with no Pro upgrade to pay for, the image editing software combines features that amateurs can use with advanced tools professionals will appreciate.
Online Editors
Web-based image editors seem to be popping up everywhere, these are my three favorites in order of preference:
FotoFlexer
FotoFlexer is the most advanced, user-friendly, 100% free on-line digital photo editor. It imports and exports with media networking sites and performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software.
Splashup
Splashup is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With all the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
Picnik
Picnik makes your photos fabulous with easy to use yet powerful editing tools. Tweak to your heart’s content, then get creative with oodles of effects, fonts, shapes, and frames. It’s fast, easy, fun and no registration required!
CSS Menu with Dynamic Submenu
A nice pastel color menu with a dynamic submenu which appears when you select a link in the main menu, using CSS and some lines of javascript code. The result is like this:
Download the source code and images from woork blogspot to reuse it in your pojects.