The most outstanding feature of this photo editor is its seamless integration with Windows Explorer, which means it adds a whole new command group to image file context menus. These commands enable you to launch Photo! Editor's main tools straight away, without having to open the program first.

As for the tools included in Photo! Editor, it's a pretty basic program. That said, Photo! Editor works perfectly fine for small retouching tasks such as optimizing colors, removing red eye or even clearing someone's skin of spots, wrinkles and other slight imperfections. Other tools included are a resampling/cropping utility, some really cool light effects and a caricature tool to apply a hilarious morphing effect to your photos.

The only drawback to Photo! Editor is that there's no way to browse the folder's contents using thumbnails. This means that if your photo file names are not descriptive enough, you'll have to click on them one by one just to find out which picture they correspond to.

Photo! Editor is the perfect choice for those who are looking for a simple, lightweight and easy-to-use photo editor to fix their digital images.

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PhotoShine's biggest problem is its interface, which is hard to navigate, doesn't resize properly, and just looks a old-fashioned. Improvements here would make the app much, much better. If you can get past this, though, PhotoShine is packed with loads of features, frames and scenarios that will allow you to personalize your photos for almost any occasion you can imagine.

To use PhotoShine, just hit the green folder icon and you can open your photos. Once they're in, you can re-orient, resize and move them, as well as applying some color effects, like gray, old and sketch. Some of PhotoShine's effects are better than others, though, so check them all out before saving.

Where PhotoShine really stands out, however, is in its effects, frames and other features. There are bunches of them for you to play with, organized into strange-sounding categories called things like Baby, Simulation and Magazine. The great thing about PhotoShine, is that simply clicking on the effect is enough to insert your image very accurately - it detects people and faces very well, and even if it doesn't, you can change them by double-clicking again.

PhotoShine's effects are certainly not to everyone's taste, but if you're looking for some fun for your photos, it's worth checking out.

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Introduction

PhotoFiltre is a relatively small application and unlike Photoshop, will install and launch very quickly. The interface, loaded with all the features and options, can be confusing at first glance but you'll soon get used to it. The right side is composed of the shape and drawing tools and an optimizable color palette. The top bar has all the essential image editing and modification options. PhotoFiltre sadly doesn't let you customize the interface and choose your favorite tools.

Features

Among all the image modification tools, of particular usefulness is the quick contrast/hue and saturation buttons because you can check out the effects and immediately and easily correct the image if you're not satisfied with its quality. If you trust PhotoFiltre, you can also let it adjust these parameters automatically.

Like any self-respecting image editing application, PhotoFiltre includes the most widely used filters to transform your image, but if you need to make really significant changes, you'll find yourself limited. Furthermore, unlike Photoshop, PhotoFiltre doesn't include layers, making it more challenging to work on different elements of the image separately.

Like the excellent free image viewer Irfanview, PhotoFiltre covers the majority of image formats and can batch process and convert images rapidly. PhotoFiltre has five different zoom options yet they seem to be more or less similar. The magnifier is probably less precise than the drop down percentage pane, and the auto zoom adjusts the image’s size according to PhotoFiltre's window size.

The image explorer is located at the bottom of the screen, and if you set it according to your image file you'll be able to quickly preview all your pictures. However, if you work with multiple image files, it can quickly become confusing, as you’ll have to open up an explorer tree pane every time to look for your pictures.

PhotoFiltre contains all the essential tools and options to edit and optimize pictures.

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This update improves stability and responsiveness for Adobe’s flagship product.

The fixes and enhancements included in the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Update focus on avoiding occasional crashes that may ruin your work, and also on optimizing management of multiple layer images. The Print menu is also improved.

To install the Adobe Photoshop CS3 Update, make sure you know where your copy of Adobe Photoshop is installed. You’ll also need to temporarily disable your antivirus software.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Update brings a bunch of optimizations, fixes and enhancements to Adobe’s popular photo editor.

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Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer is a free application that allows you to open (but not edit) PowerPoint files.

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer is easy to use and allows you to view fully-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions.

This viewer also supports opening password-protected Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and allows you to print presentations opened in it.

Once you've installed it, all you need to do is browse to the file that you want to open from the file menu.
It only opens presentations in full screen mode which is a bit annoying but you can navigate slides by right clicking on the current slide. Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer supports the full range of PowerPoint file extensions including .ppt, . pptx, . pptm, . pot, . potx, . potm, . pps, . ppsx and . ppsm. When you've opened one file, it should automatically open others as the default viewer for PowerPoint files.

Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer is all you need to open PowerPoint files without having to go to the expense of installing PowerPoint itself.

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Funny Photo Maker allows you to make amusing additions to your photos - or from one of two sexy ladies provided as an example. Simply click the + button and you'll be able add a number of image formats from your PC. You then need to select one of Funny Photo Maker's effects. These are divided into three categories - Frames, Face fun and Artistic.

In themselves, Funny Photo Maker's effects are pretty good. The frames are funny, there are a good selection of famous and amusing scenarios under Face fun, and the artistic effects - although basic - will keep you entertained. The problem, however, is that they are almost impossible to apply well.

Funny Photo Maker allows you to edit your images slightly so you can focus on the important parts of the photo, but it rarely maintains the edit when you add the effects. The same goes for when you don't edit the photo - there's no intelligent face ID here - it just plops the effect over your photo, changing the resolution however it sees fit. Although you can get lucky with a good match, most of the images are stretched and warped, and look terrible - even the ones included by the developer as an example!

If you want to have fun with your images, try Photo Frames & Effects, Pixlr-o-matic or Polarfox - they're all much better options.

Funny Photo Maker looks good in theory, but in practice, it is really badly finished and does nothing for your photos. Look elsewhere.

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Overview

This is usually a trick for Photoshop experts, but now with FotoMix you can also create that illusion, even if you have no idea about how to use Adobe’s editor. The program has been especially designed to help you achieve this effect in the easiest way possible.

Interface

FotoMix features a simple interface divided into several tabs, each for a specific purpose: select background image, select foreground image, create a composition with them and add up some final touches.

Features

Using FotoMix is really simple: all you have to do is select the background image, the foreground person or object you want to use and apply one onto the other. Then simply erase the redundant background in the Composition tab, and polish the result in the Touch up tab. The resulting image can be embellished with a frame and saved in several different graphic formats.

FotoMix is a handy tool for photo composition that doesn't require any graphic editing skills. On the downside, more advanced users will find it annoyingly limited: the tools are too basic, and there’s no undo function when you’re mixing the foreground and background images.

FotoMix is an easy-to-use photo editor that lets you create image compositions without any editing skills.

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Returning from a big vacation or a memorable event, you've probably taken a ton of pictures to remember it by. Printing them all off and framing them is a costly endeavor that hardly seems worth the time, money and effort. Instead, a lot of people might want to create a collage of pictures instead. Many pictures in one convenient and artistically designed setting - what could be better?

Picture Collage Maker will let you do this quickly and easily. There are hundreds of collage templates to choose from, ensuring you'll likely find the perfect one for any occasion. Picture Collage Maker includes professionally drawn templates with varying layouts for placing photos, as well as a multitude of different backgrounds for your collage. You can even choose different paper sizes and whether you want it to be horizontally or vertically oriented.

On top of traditional collages, Picture Collage Maker also lets you make scrapbooks, posters, event invitations, and even calendars and greeting cards. Picture Collage Maker comes ready with lots of different masks, picture frames, font types and clipart you can use to further decorate your creations, which is a nice feature. You can also very easily print out or email your final products to family and friends.

If you're a beginner, no worries either. Picture Collage Maker comes complete with a wizard that'll take you through the creation process step-by-step. The only real complaint some users might have is that Picture Collage Maker can be a bit of a drag on resources. If you have too many things open at once, prepare for the program to run slowly.

For a fully comprehensive collage making tool though, Picture Collage Maker is a fantastic choice.

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Being an AIR application, Pixlr-o-matic is really nice to look at. Photo editing is divided into three steps. Firstly, choose a filter from the options in the red section, then a secondary effect from the blue area, and finally a frame in the yellow area. You can move back and forth through these stages as often as you want, using a photo stored on your computer, or one taken directly from your webcam.

Visually, Pixlr-o-matic really impresses. The interface includes the app's workbench. The filter area is really cool, with a developing tray with fluid that ripples as you move the cursor over. It's really eye-catching, and also happens to be very easy to use - the perfect combination!

Pixlr-o-matic has limited sharing options - you can save your masterpiece to .jpg or share them on imm.io, Pixlr's own image sharing service. We would have really liked to see a little more social media sharing, or better options for customizing and tweaking your own effects, inclusions that would make it close to perfect!

For quick, free effects for your photos, Pixlr-o-matic is a great-looking option.

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In fact, Collage Maker makes it seriously easy with the Auto-Collage function - all you have to do is add the selection of photos you want in the collage, choose the effects, and press Generate. Before you know it, you'll have a beautiful collage that you can edit further - if you want - and then export, email, set as wallpaper or print.

There's no end to the ways you can personalize your Collage Maker creations - you can change the photos, background colors, add text or a huge variety of fun stamps. You'll be able to preview your collage before you finish and, of course, there is a good help file in case you get stuck.

Unfortunately, some of Collage Maker's basic features are a little tacky. Many of the templates are downright ugly, while the interface is old-fashioned. Improvements to Collage Maker's Stamp Mode are supposed to be one of this version's major attractions, but the feature isn't very user-friendly.

Even so, Collage Maker is a good starter collage creator - it's easy to use and has loads of effects and templates that will allow you to transform your photos in a flash.

Collage Maker is a good, simple way of making homemade collages.

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In fact, PIXresizer is the perfect app if you want to make very simple changes to your photos before posting, viewing or sending them online. For example, you can use the app to change the photo size (to presets or custom), alter the file format (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF) and optimize for emailing and posting.

PIXresizer isn't very flashy, and apart from these functions - and a few other options you can enable, such as saving EXIF data - there's not much more you can use it for. That said, it's free and does its job very well, so if you often need to change the dimensions of your photos, it's a very handy tool to have lying around.

PIXresizer allows you to work with single files or in batches of folders. The two options are under separate tabs, and you'll be able to see a preview if you use the multiple files option.

Quick, simple and does exactly what it says on the tin, PIXresizer is an excellent tool.

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To begin with, Easy Photo Effects doesn’t even require installation. Also, it’s dead easy to use. Simply launch the EXE file, load up an image and select the effect you want to apply from the program’s menu: black and white, sepia, tilt-shift, movie, colored grid and many more.

Each filter included in Easy Photo Effects has its own customizable settings, which you can easily tweak to obtain different results. The final image is displayed on the program’s interface, and can be undone with the Reset button or saved as JPG or BMP.

Easy Photo Effects is very easy to use and can achieve quite attractive results, but needs to improve its interface and usability. We also missed having an undo option to remove effects individually, rather than restoring the whole image to its original state.

Despite a few minor flaws, Easy Photo Effects is a great alternative to apply nice-looking effects to your photos without extensive photo editing knowledge.

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This application is super-easy to work with. In fact, using it feels more like playing around - you can drag and drop your images onto the interface, arrange them onto a page, drag over speech bubbles and enter your text.

Comic Life offers bunches of shapes, forms and lettering with styles reminiscent of the best cartoons and comics. All can be customized from the style attributes tab on the right. We also liked the filters, which lets you give a real atmosphere to your photos, like turning them into a scene from Sin City. Comic Life also features loads of templates and themes that you can start off with.

Importing pictures into Comic Life is easy, as you'll only need to drag and drop them from your desktop or pick straight from the preview pane in the application. Even more, you can use your webcam or DV camera to take snaps and post them immediately into your comic strip. This is a paid app, but you’ll be able to try Comic Life free for a while – and it’s well worth it!

Very intuitive and loaded with features, Comic Life is a great way to have fun with your pictures - highly recommended.

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The complete set of tools included in Adobe Fireworks helps you design and create pretty much any element that could be used on the web, from a simple button to a complex website layout.
Plus, the new version has extended its boundaries beyond the computer web browser, and lets you work for other devices as well, such as kiosks and smartphones.

Adobe Fireworks CS6 introduces some new features such as Clean CSS code extraction from designs and web pages, Improved CSS support, New jQuery Mobile theme skinning support, Quicker access to color, Improved performance and API access.

Naturally, Adobe Fireworks works in perfect harmony with other Adobe apps, which means you can import and edit Photoshop or Illustrator images, or copy and paste objects from Dreamweaver.

Despite being considered a minor app in the Adobe suite, Adobe Fireworks CS5 remains a helpful complement to create graphically spotless websites and online apps.

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If you want to make your photos just that bit more fun or pretty, but don't want to be messing around with things like layers and saturation, you should check out Photo Frames & Effects without delay. This little app is lovely to use. It's easy to find your way around, looks good, works perfectly and has plenty of help.

Over 60 effects

In so far as effects and frames, Photo Frames & Effects can offer you over 60. You'll see them divided into Edit, Effects and Filters in the left-hand side of the window, and then sub-divided into further effects. You can preview every change, and either revert to your original, or keep the new one.

Easy to use

When a Photo Frames & Effects effect has different variations, you'll see them at the top of the interface. You can click through these easily, seeing which looks best with your photo, and at every step you have the option to revert back to your original image. You can then print or save your Photo Frames & Effects creation.

Make your photos stand out with minimal effort with Photo Frames & Effects.

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Whatever you think about Flash, there's no doubt that it's a very rich and immersive way of enjoying Web content. Via a familiar file explorer, Adobe Flash Lite can access SWF data in both the internal memory and in external cards.
All of the common player functions such as Play, Stop, Pause, and Rewind are available from a menu at the side of the screen.
Adobe Flash Lite provides you with ability to watch Flash movies without any additional software on your Pocket PC.
My only criticism would be that the poor user interface could have been given a little more attention in order to make it a little more user-friendly.

If you're still having problems accessing Flash content on your Windows Mobile device, you could try installing Adobe Flash Player instead.
Adobe Flash Lite is an essential download for your Pocket PC if you want to enjoy all the riches of Flash online.

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