11view
Publisher's description: "11view is a free, fast and easy image viewer and converter with several special features. It shows, prints and converts images with the highest possible quality. Special features include: numerous viewing options, loading-time interpolation, color management options, gamma correction, extended batch converter. Plus standard features: file management tools, the high-quality Print function, the Acquire function, the Send by E-mail function."
Supported OS: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT.
Get the program:http://www.stratopoint.com/products_unsupported.htm
Chasys Draw IES
Publisher's description: "Chasys Draw IES is a suite of applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer) and a RAW camera file processor (Chasys Draw IES raw-Photo). The whole suite is UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors, touch-screens and pen-input devices."
Supported OS: Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT.
Get the program: http://www.chachaslab.com/chasys_draw_ies.php
FastStone Image Viewer
Publisher's description: "An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TGA and camera raw files. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more."
Supported OS: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7.
Get the program: http://www.faststone.org/
GIMP
Publisher's description: "Customizable Interface. Each task requires a different environment and GIMP allows you to customize the view and behavior the way you like it. Starting from the widget theme, allowing you to change colors, widget spacings and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox. The interface is modulized into so called docks, allowing you to stack them into tabs or keep them open in their own window. Pressing the tab key will toggle them hidden. GIMP features a great fullscreen mode allowing you to not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using the most of your screen estate. Photo Enhancement. Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools. Eliminate lens' barrel distortion and vignetting with a powerful filter but a simple interface. Digital Retouching. GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it's not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone. Hardware Support. GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow! File formats. The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. The architecture allows to extend GIMP's format capabilities with a plug-in. You can find some rare format support in the GIMP plugin registry. Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB (MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH. To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps."
Get the program:http://www.gimp.org/
IrfanView
Publisher's description: "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7."
Supported OS: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT.
Get the program:Paint.NET
Publisher's description: "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."
Supported OS: Windows XP/Vista/7.
Get the program: PhotoScape
Publisher's description: "Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
Key Features. Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow. Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming, clone stamp. Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos. Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo. Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo. Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo. Print: Print portrait shots, carte de visites(CDV), passport photos. Splitter: Slice a photo into several pieces. Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it. Color Picker: Zoom in on images, search and pick a color. Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode. Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG. Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper. Face Search: Find similar faces on the Internet."
Get the program: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php
Photo Pos Pro
Publisher's description: "Photo Pos Pro allows you easily create, edit, enhance, print, and manipulate your digital photos and computer graphics, and easily create eye-catching graphics, beautiful collages, greeting cards, business cards, website designs, buttons and much more."
Get the program: http://www.photopos.com/Photo-Pos-Pro-Image-Editor.asp
Pixia
Publisher's description: "Pixia is a great drawing and image editing software but totally free. It supports unlimited layers, 10240*10240 pixels layout, effect plug-ins(also accept Photoshop's plug-ins), undo 100 times. Also can working with your TWAIN devices(eg. Scanner or Digital Camera and Digitizer."
Supported OS: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT.
Get the program: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/
XnView
Publisher's description: "XnView is a utility for viewing and converting
graphic files. Import about 400 graphic file formats. Export about 50 graphic file formats."
Supported OS: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/NT/2000 SP 2.