FastStone Photo Resizer is a free image converter/resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag-and-drop mouse operation is also well supported in the program.

Main features:

• Convert and rename images in batch mode
• Resize, crop, change color depth, apply color effects, add text and watermark.
• Rename images with sequential number
• Support folder/non-folder structure
• Load and save settings
• Mouse wheel support

Download FastStone Photo Resizer 2.6 in Softonic

Imagine spending the whole weekend taking lovely pictures of landscapes... only to arrive home and see that the skyline in some of them is completely tilted.

Don't worry, there's an easy way to fix it. Simply use Rotation Pilot and restore the horizon to its original position while keeping the same image quality as the original photo.

This is how it works: load the picture and draw a line with your mouse along the horizon (the tilted one, not the one you'd like to have). The program will automatically rotate the picture to the desired position. If there's any cropping or smoothing needed, you can also enable those options and let Rotation Pilot do the job, though the cropping will obviously affect the borders of the original photo. The program also includes rotating, resizing and mirroring options for further photo edition.

With Rotation Pilot you can easily fix visual slopes and tilted horizons in your digital photos.

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Dynamic Photo HDR is based on a still relatively new technology but it's an important one and one that's getting more and more focus from developers.

According to the developer, this is an ideal tool for those who have taken a photos but the image that they get is not the one that they imagined. The software can adjust photos so that any imperfections, distortions and focus problems are smoothed out as easily possible. It features very powerful Auto-Aligning, Manual and Auto-Assist Aligning of images with something called "Pin Warping" that can correct all various types of misalignment, including camera roll, pitch or yaw. Ever had a ghost type object appear on your photos? Dynamic Photo HDR can completely eliminate ghosting of moving objects. In addition, it features a series of tone mapping procedures that can create a whole range of images - from smooth photographic tone mapping to very dramatic images.

This is still very much a developing technology but it has the potential to improve your photos in a dramatic new way. Take it for a test drive and see for yourself.

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DxO Optics is widely recognized as being one of the best tools around to enhance your photos. It works with a wide range of both DSLR and Prosumera cameras and lenses. The application is not meant to be a photo organizer but you'll find it others a simple way of searching through your library of pictures and selecting the ones to edit.

DxO Optics is built on a straightforward process where you select, organize, process and then view your picture. You can perform a number of advanced retouching effects including removing camera noise, optimizing color or correcting perspective. DxO Optics lets you really zoom into pictures and correct details.

We did find the installation process a bit lengthy, yet the program itself takes no time to launch. It's also good to know that it comes with the DxO Optics Pro plugin for Photoshop.

A powerful solution to enhance images, DxO Optics Pro is the perfect complement to any photographers digital arsenal.

Download DxO Optics Pro 5.0.4 in Softonic

Comic Life is a really fun application with which you can create comics out of your photos and images.

What I enjoyed most from the application is how easy it is to work with. With this type of program, you're looking to play around and Comic Life feels just like that. You can quickly drag and drop your images onto the interface, arrange them in order onto a page, drag bubbles and then enter your text.

Comic Life offers many shapes, forms and text lettering with styles reminiscent of the best cartoons and comics. All can be extensively customized to your taste from the style attributes tab on the right. I also quite liked the choice of filters, with which you can give a different aspect to your photos, like turning them into a scene from Sin City. If you don't want to get carried away into editing, Comic Life also features loads of page templates and themes that you can start off with.

Importing pictures onto the screen 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.

The only little downside to this app is that it sometimes uses up a little too much RAM.

Very intuitive and loaded with features, Comic Life is a great way to have fun with your pictures. It has all the bubbles, styles and fonts you'd expect to make good looking comics. Highly recommended.

Download Comic Life 1.3.4 in Softonic

Despite having possibly the strangest name in the history of software, Qtpfsgui is actually a very powerful digital photography tool that allows you get the lighting of your images just right. The application is used to adjust the lighting of images taken at different exposures in order to make them consistent with each other, using HDR technology. Given three images - one over-exposed (say, -2), one normally exposed (0) and one under-exposed (+2), the application will automatically fuse the images in order to ensure the correct exposure in each picture.

This is a technique that would require you to be an expert in photography in the real world, and all the lighting and exposure adjustments you'd have to make would drive you crazy. Qtpfsgui offers a range of clay/tone mapping filters to help you further enrich the quality of your pictures. These include: Fattal, Ashikmin, Durand, Drago, Pattanaik, Reinhard'02 y Reinhard'04. Overall, Qtpfsgui is a near-faultless app, available for free, for uniting three images and further enhancing them with filters. What's more, this can all be done with the minimum amount of effort on your part.

Download Qtpfsgui 1.9.0 in Softonic

Zoner Photo Studio includes all the tools you need to make the most of your digital photo collection.

This comprehensive suite covers every necessary step in photo managing, from extracting pictures from your digital camera to sharing them online. You can view the whole photo directory in thumbnails and double-click on any of them when you want to see if in full screen. Plus, if any of your photos needs optimization, you can also use Zoner for that, as it features tools to balance color, correct gamma values, resize images or even remove that undesirable red-eye effect.

Besides acquiring and optimizing, what I liked most about Zoner Photo Studio was the wide variety of publishing options the program includes for photos. From using your favorite shot as a desktop wallpaper to creating a DVD slideshow to enjoy your pics on TV, there are a bunch of really interesting possibilities, such as creating a web gallery, a customized calendar, a panoramic photo or even a 3D image, to name a few.

To be honest, the only drawback to Zoner Photo Studio is its clunky interface, although fortunately it can somewhat be fixed with skins. The real problem is that there are so many windows, sub-windows, panels and menus (especially when creating photo albums) that it feels confusing and overwhelming, to say the least.

Zoner Photo Studio gives you everything you need to view, optimize, share and enjoy your digital photos.

Download Zoner Photo Studio 9 in Softonic

Sometimes a slight color change is enough to turn a standard photo into a great picture. This is precisely what you can do with B/Works, a simple photo editing tool that enables you apply color and light effects to your photos very easily.

The program features a basic interface – so basic it doesn't have any help or configuration settings at all. But the truth is that you don't need any of those either. Simply load the photo you want to work with and begin experimenting with all the filters included in B/Works.

There are plenty of them available, from a plain black and white effect to a high contrast duotone filter that will add a dramatic touch to your image. You can see how each filter actually looks like on your photo, but only in two ways: either 1:1 view or fit window size.

One last tip: once you find the right effect for your photo, remember to save it with a different name. Otherwise the original file will be overwritten.

B/Works is the easiest way to apply special filters to your pictures and obtain amazing results in no time.

Download B/Works 1.0 in Softonic

I often get intimidated by image editing programs because they're usually so rich in features that it just becomes overwhelming.

PhotoFiltre Studio was a pleasant surprise however making basic retouching and editing of images easy and accessible. It allows you to perform simple or advanced editing of an image and apply a vast range of filters. Everything is managed through the toolbar with which you access the standard filters. It also has a "layer manager" which controls all the advanced brushes, nozzles, red eye remover plus other useful tools.

The filters are easy to use and for anyone not very familiar with using them, PhotoFiltre Studio provides an excellent introduction into what they can do for you. Many provide simple functions such as changing the brightness, contrast, dye, saturation and gamma levels etc. However, there are also some much more impressive filters such as those that create watercolour, pastel, indian ink or mosaic effects.

It also features tools for more adventurous users such as vector filters that allow you to manipulate images into rectangular, ellipse, triangle, rhombus and rounded rectangle designs. If you're new to image manipulation or editing, or are just lost when it comes to using filters, PhotoFiltre Studio will make you feel much more at ease.

Download Photofiltre Portable 2.6.7 in Softonic

IncrediFace is a fun and easy to use application that enables you to create incredible, humorous and funny shows.

Put your face or your friends and family into movie posters, famous people, objects, animals and hundreds more. Add animation, funny quotes, speech bubbles (callouts), sound effects, voice and background music. It is great for creating photo gift, greeting card, or even practical jokes. Have fun with your digital photos and share your smiles and laughs!

Take a look at what this program has to offer:

• Add animation, sound & voice
• Add background music
• Over 200+ ready to use templates
• Create & share your own templates
• Send shows via email
• Burn shows into CD
• Create screensaver and wallpaper

Download Incrediface 1.5 in Softonic

RawShooter premium 2006 is a product that sets new standards for DSLR workflow. Whether you are a busy professional with demanding clients or an amateur balancing your photography with the pressures of work and family life, time is your main enemy. RawShooter | premium 2006 is designed to minimize the time spent at your workstation, giving you the best quality output and the fastest and simplest workflow of any similar product on the market today. RawShooter | premium 2006 contains a lot of technology with core functionality.

Full support for drag & drop, shortcuts, cursor sensitive hints and tips, scalable thumbnails, customizable background color and directory management including creation / rename (individually or batch) / deletion and defining favorites. Image adjustment tools are provided for white balance, exposure compensation, dynamic range (fill light), shadow and highlight contrast, hue & saturation, sharpness, detail extraction, noise supression (both low frequency and color). Effects of slider based adjustments will be shown on the Dynamic Preview, no matter what the magnification.

Download RAW Shooter Premium 2006 1.0.0.51 in Softonic

Photo! Editor, previously known as Photo Toolkit, is a basic retouching tool with which you can fix and optimize your digital images in a couple of clicks.

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

As for the tools included in Photo! Editor, like I said it's a pretty basic program, that is, this is no free Photoshop. That said, the truth is that Photo! Editor works perfectly fine for small retouching tasks such as optimizing colors, removing red eye effect or even cleaning someone's skin from spots, smooth 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 I found in 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 editing tool to fix their digital images.

Download Photo! Editor 1.1 in Softonic

PTLens is an excellent application to correct or add distortion to your pictures.

You'll be able to apply a fish eye effect, modify perspective, chromatic aberation and vignetting. PTLens also lets you correct barrel-pincushion distortion on a wide range of camera models. It doesn't seem to allow you to add new models though. Adding effects is really easy thanks to sliders and you can immediately see the changes in the preview. You can also simply disable an effect you don't want by unselecting it.

The program's interface does feel a little clunky, and you wonder why the directory is on the right, instead of next to the preview. We appreciate that a Photoshop plugin for PTLens comes in the installer though, as many photographers prefer working straight in Photoshop. The plugin will work exactly as the standalone application.

Despite the slightly unintuitive interface, PTLens is an excellent tool for correcting image distortion. Recommended for any serious photographer!

Download PTLens 8.7.4 in Softonic

Wire Pilot is photo retouching software especially designed for the removal of annoying wires in photos. The software allows you to remove wires, posts, antennas and other unwanted linear objects from a photo. It enables you to do so with far more ease and accuracy than using Photoshop or other image manipulation software.

Wire Pilot is very simple to use. You simply place the cursor on the line you want to remove and using the mouse wheel or cursor keys, set the cursor size and position on the line you are about to remove. You so this until the background color within the cursor circle matches the one of the object as much as possible. Simply use the mouse button to remove the line and then repeat this procedure along the corrected object.

Note that if you prefer to use this software within your favourite graphics program such as Photoshop or Elements, you can do so as a plug-in. This is a handy piece of software that makes life a lot easier than using traditional photo apps although it can still end up removing things that you don't want it to.

Download Wire Pilot 3.0.4 in Softonic

I'm only an amateur photographer who takes photos in JPG format with a simple compact camera, but I know professional photographers sometimes prefer to work with the RAW format, which allows further processing.

Being a more professional-oriented format, RAW images require special software applications like Capture One Pro. This complete photo viewer and editor lets you manage your RAW images with ease. It features an interface divided into three different sections (system directory tree, folder contents preview and image preview) and also includes a complete analysis of each selected photo.

With Capture One Pro you'll be able to tweak exposure, white balance, focus and other values in your RAW images and then save them in other formats (the program also works as a RAW converter). Each time you apply a change to the image you'll be able to preview the result in real time.

Capture One Pro is by no means a standard photo editor for standard users. It's a special software tool that's been specifically designed for advanced photographers, which means you may find it a bit difficult to use. Also, bear in mind that Capture One Pro is not compatible with all RAW formats, so you better check if your camera is supported before using the program.

With Camera One Pro you can view, tweak, edit and convert your RAW files in a professional working environment.

Download Capture One Pro 3.7.8 in Softonic

Adding water effects or ripple effects to videos is one of the coolest ways to give your videos an extra touch of class.

Sqirlz Water Reflections allows you to add rippling pools of water, rain or snow effects, to images or AVI videos. The pools can be any shape and you can define several factors such as the wave size, perspective and water transperency. You can also change the ripple shapes and wave details plus even add snowflake effects and add depth to other ripple effects. Unfortunately, there are not a large amount of output format options to choose from. Animations can be saved as Adobe Flash files, animated GIFS, AVI video clips and for images, bitmap, JPEG, PNG and TIFF files. The latest release has added some extra effects which are quite interesting which include general rainfall and glossy reflecting areas of water in cincentric circles. Some of the effects you can create are truly stunning - check out the developer homepage for a few examples - although it can take some time to render photos correctly, it's certainly wrth the effort.

If you want to impress friends with your photos or just have a very unique photos collection, Squirlz Water Reflections produces stunning results.

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FotoSketcher is probably the fastest and easiest way to add a sketch effect to your pictures. Therefore it's perfect for those of you who don't dare use Photoshop yet and simply want to add some spice to your photos without much fuss.

FotoSketcher doesn't even require installation. Simply run the program and select the picture you want to sketch. The process will begin immediately, without having to press any button, and the result will be displayed side to side to the original picture, which is great for comparison. Also, the sketch effect can be done either in color or in black and white.

On the downside. FotoSketcher doesn't include any configuration features. It only allows you to tweak edge threshold and intensity by means of a couple of sliders, but I missed the possibility to adjust light, contrast and above all color, as the sketched pictures tended to be too lightly colored.

Apply a sketch effect to your photos in no time. No artistic skills required!

Download FotoSketcher 1.5 in Softonic

While advanced image editing tools such as Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro are great for fine-tuning your photos and making sure they look gorgeous, not all of us have the time to tinker around with all the various palettes, tools and menus.

If you've got a bunch of digital photos that you quickly want to optimize then PicJet Studio could become your new best friend. The software comes with a range of tools that will automatically make adjustments to your pictures when you drag and drop them onto the corresponding tool's icon.

The editing tools in question are 'Collage', which automatically adds two images together when you drag them in; 'Converter', which transforms a picture from one format to another; a 'Stamp' tool for quickly adding text to an image: and a 'Resizer' to help you make an image fit to specified dimensions without any fuss.

PicJet performs all of these tasks remarkably quickly, and almost the instant you commit the file to be changed, the new version of it will appear in the save location. What I like about this process is that the app doesn't overwrite the original file. Instead it adds a tag onto the filename indicating what's been done (e.g. a file called 'image' would prompt a file called 'image_resize' to be created when resizing.

Ultimately this is a tool for performing very quick adjustments to files. There are only four adjustments you can make and you won't find any advanced editing tools or advanced effects in here.

But if you want a quick way to convert, resize, stamp or create collages from your images, PicJet does the job without any fuss - and for free!

Download PicJet Studio 2.6 in Softonic

The problem with many image editors is that they're large and cumbersome or they can0t edit batches of programs in one swoop.

This is not the case with GIMP which is an excellent batch processor for images and files that allows you to perform a whole host of functions with batch image processing in mind. If you need to manage a large number of photos and rename them all or at least change their location, then you'll certainly find some use for this program. One of the advantages is it allows batch processing of thumbnail resizing which allows you to specify a particular width or height or define fixed image dimensions. You can then superimpose text onto these thumbnails or photos (useful to stop copyright infringements). If you need your photos in a variety of formats, then you can also batch convert pictures to GIF, JPG, PNG, BMP, MIFF, TIFF, PCX or TGA. Best of all, you're not restricted to one format at a time . you can select a whole bunch and then specify what format you want certain ones to change into. The icing on the cake is an FTP client which, while not exactly sophisticated (or particularly reliable in terms of maintaining connections), allows you to upload your photos to the net as quickly as possible directly from the application.

A very useful tool for anyone that has to process batches of photos at the same time or needs a very lightweight photo and thumbnail processor.

Download BIMP (Batch Image Processor) Lite 1.62 in Softonic

Turbo Photo is a solution for all the digital camera owners. It consists of two parts: Turbo Photo Album and Turbo Photo Editor. Most of the touch up work and management tasks can be easily done with simple operations. Moreover, the powerful functions can bring you more enjoyment and help create great artwork.

Turbo Photo Album is the photo management and batch edit software of Turbo Photo. With Turbo Photo Album, you can easily manage, view, print and share your photos. Turbo Photo Editor is an "easy to use" but powerful image editing/processing software designed for digital camera owners.

Turbo Photo will help you make excellent photo artworks. All of its functions and features aim to solve the most frequent problems of digital photography caused by the digital camera itself. With Turbo Photo you can master and control what creates a great photo such as exposure, color, composition, sharpness, and contrast. The simple user interface is easy to use. At the same time, professional functions will attract the confirmed photographer.

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