All the photo editing programs listed here with their latest version/edition for free downloading.
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PhotoScape
PhotoScape was launced just 3 years back and it has gained a lot of popularity as a freeware photo editing program among (tech) users and critics for many good reasons. It supports RAW and almost all common image formats, i.e JPEG, PNG, and GIF for animated images.Loads fast and good for moderate level use. Not for very advanced photo editing.
Irfan View
IrfanView comes with plug-in support (for image, video and music files), as well as an image explorer as a desktop shortcut for thumbnail views of the images. Irfan View is a very simple, yet powerful, potent, and popular photo editing program for free of cost. It supports all common and major types of image formats.Its light weight, fast, easy and versatile !
Paint.NET
Paint.NET was initially intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software(as stated by its developers).Paint.NET has recently evolved into a simple yet powerful image or photo editing program & supports mainly all the image formats.Its for Windows only and is available as a freeware.It supports layers, history, and has an action manger.
Photo Pos Pro
Photo Pos Pro as the name suggests is a more advanced image editing software program than the others described above. It has many interfaces and in built image editing features.It has many image editing tools including layers and history features. Use Photo Pos Pro as an advanced image and graphics editing powerful tool. All this is free of cost !
GIMP
GIMP is much more powerful and professional image editing program. It has got all the advanced editing tools that could be required for any graphics designer, web master, or any professional photographer.You can use channels, layers, masks, filters, tabbed palettes, editable text tools, perspective clone, and color operations for photo editing.
Fast Stone Image Viewer
Fast Stone Image Viewer is a popular and powerful advanced image editing program. It supports many popular photo file formats.Has many powerful photo editing features and uses multiple interfaces for image editing.Supports dual monitor configurations .and multiple program skins, image EXIF metadata support, batch processing, slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support. Free Download Fast Stone Image Viewer
Photobie
Photobie is a freeware program for digital photo editing. It has many features, tools, animation options to offer you for image editing in depth.. Photobie supports thousands of Photoshop filter plug-ins. You can also create/edit high quality GIF animations with this.Photobie comes with an ideal screen capture tool. It can also generate high quality PDFfiles for best printing output. Operating System:
WindowsXp/2003/Vista/server08/07 Download Photobie Digital Image Editor
Pixia
If you are looking for a drawing as well as image editing software then Pixia could be in your favorite list.Free digital software with unlimited support for 10240by10240 pixels layout. Amazingly, you can ‘undo’ 100 times with this editing software.Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/Xp/Vista/NT Download Pixia Digital Photo Editor
InkScape
Inkscape is an excellent photo editing program . Its an open source program for Vector Graphics editing. This is not for beginners- an expert level editing program.Inkscape also supports Craetive Commons meta-date, node editing, bitmap tracing, layers, XML editing. Truly, Inkscape is a power packed digital image editor. Operating Systems :Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT. Free Download Inkscape Photo editor
Xn View
Xn View is a powerful and fast graphics browser.It provides lots of useful digital photo editing tools. It can read more than 400 file formats. Some good features includes,Transition effects, Screen capturing, TWAIN for scanner and digital cameras, file operation. Supports all the common and advanced file formats, e.g .-GIF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, TARGA, multipage TIFF, camera RAW, JPEG 2000, MPEG, AVI, QuickTime. EXIF,etc.
Operating Systems : Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT/2000 SP2
