Aviary Photo Editor is a straight forward and concise graphics editor for Windows 8. It doesn’t have the level of effects and customization as Photoshop or GIMP, but is intuitive enough for novice users. Aviary Photo Editor is powerful for a free app and will be a practical, no frills addition to your library.

Features

Aviary Photo Editor contains several staple features found in most image software. You can change a picture’s orientation, crop, or adjust contrast and brightness. Aviary Photo Editor has filters and effects to uniformly change hue or create lighting. These filters can be applied multiple times, further magnifying the intensity. Overuse of Aviary Photo Editor’s filters will quickly make pictures appear surreal or haunting.

There is a sticker option to add rasterized images such as hats, ties, and arrows. However, all of these stickers are so blatantly cartoonish that they contrast any photo, regardless of filtering. Aviary Photo Editor contains text and drawing tools, but the lack of feathering and limited color palate will generally result in unbelievable images.

Finally, Aviary Photo Editor has tools to remove red-eye, whiten teeth, and add blemishes. These tools have rather large diameters, making it difficult to precisely edit on smaller images. Aviary Photo Editor is better for fast and simple jobs rather than detailed projects.

Usability

Aviary Photo Editor’s layout is unusual for a photo editor. The image you’re editing in placed in the middle of the screen with the utility bar underneath. The most obvious omission is a lack of zoom or scrolling an image. This makes it very difficult to properly edit small images, or apply detailed editing to larger ones. Aviary Photo Editor's drawing tools only have six sizes, with the smallest size generally being too big for most jobs.

Aviary Photo Editor’s strong point comes from it other tools such as crop and sliders. The crop tool is separated into a three by three grid, making it easy to see just what will be included and cut. If you don’t wish to draw out an area you can also quickly select a preset dimension.

Brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness are all controlled by large sliders. Using these will offer a preview of the applicable adjustment. It’s very easy to back out and cancel any changes you’re not happy with. You don’t need to save or name any images as each job is saved automatically.

Quality

Aviary Photo Editor’s appearance matches other Windows 8 Modern UI apps. Large rectangular icons are presented against a dark gray background. As more edits are saved they will appear in a grid on the right. You can scroll through this to easily compare images or find what you’re looking for. The quality of finished images depends on the original image. Even without any save settings images are compressed into small size PNG files.

Conclusion

Aviary Photo Editor is a good editing tool for novice users that want to edit quickly. It lacks the detailed precision of other photo software, making it unsuitable for complex projects. If you want to simply crop, adjust levels, or change orientation and want good compression Aviary Photo Editor will prove to be a handy app.

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The application allows creating from elements of Web pages as banners, backgrounds, headings, buttons, navigation panels, textures to whole professionally executed Web sites. Application can be used for photo processing. You can to use about 200 graphic filters and transformers for this. Adjustment of colors is carried out simultaneously on 12 parameters. The program provides effective methods for selection of image area and application of graphic filters to selected area. Unique method of raster transformation let you to create portraits on base of photo. Images Generator can be used as images storage. Distinctive feature thus is that not only a rectangular raster of the image, but also color of transparent points of a raster is stored.

In Images Generator the small sizes and convenience of using are combined with ample opportunities. Such characteristics are provided by new following methods. Program let you to use a plenty of the built-in shape templates and to create unlimited amount of custom shape templates. Vector and raster images are used together with trajectories. The vector image in points of a trajectory can change the sizes and angles of turn. Unique method of transformation of rasters let you to enchance photo.

The program can be useful to any users of graphics such as designers, artists, schoolboys, students and science officers.

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Photoshop users already know the popular graphic design tool already comes with a lot of great filters and effects. Plugins can give you even more options for image customization though, and that's exactly what Melancholytron does.

From Flaming Pear Software, developers of other plugins like Flexify and LunarCell, Melancholytron gives you a lot of different options to change the feel and appearance of your photos.

Users can change the color and tone of images with Melancholytron. You can even subdue an image's color in order to direct a viewer's focus to a specific area in your photo. This is not only an effective marketing tool for creating gorgeous ads but also makes your photo look even more professional, no matter what level of photographic background you possess.

If you want to give your images a nostalgic or subtly melancholic appearance, give Melancholytron a try.

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As long as you have some degree of artistic talent, it's possible to give your digital photos a creative new look by applying effects to them. DreamLight Photo Editor is a program dedicated to helping you do just that, and adding special effects is as easy as opening a photo, then viewing the preview of an effect before selecting it to apply it to your image.

There are dozens of different filters to choose from in DreamLight Photo Editor and all are clearly divided into different categories. One of the best things about DreamLight Photo Editor is the fact that you can apply as many effects to the same image as you please, giving you the ability to get very creative (though, of course, it's easy to go overboard sometimes).

Annoyingly, the Undo feature in DreamLight Photo Editor only removes the last effect you applied, so we often found ouselves having to restart if the combination of filters we added didn't look right. Despite its name, DreamLight Photo Editor doesn't actually include any image editing tools, meaning that you'll still need to use an external graphics app to process any other changes after you've added the effects.

It's much easier to use than Photoshop, but if you have the Adobe app already then you certainly won't need DreamLight Photo Editor.

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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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You can export your business card to popular image formats or print out on paper. The program can print on paper of various formats and can place cards on paper in the most economic way. For example, it can print up to 12 business cards on an A4 sheet and up to 24 cards on A3. Also the program can print at 300 dpi and 600 dpi, and can save layouts for printing at 1200 dpi.

Personal version is good choice for individual users - sole traders including entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors, psychologists, freelancers, etc. Enterprise version is the best option for professionals and companies, including commercial usage.

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iClone is a full-featured 3D animation editor that enables you to create three-dimensional scenes with the program's library and your own photos.

The program features a slightly overloaded interface that may scare you off if you're not used to 3D edition environments. Fortunately, iClone includes a few templates and default models you can use in your first projects, while the rest of extra material is only available in the full version.

iClone lets you take control over the whole animation project. You can customize not only the characters and their movements, but also the background and any other objects in the scene, as well as the different camera perspectives and light sources.

All the work in iClone is done through the program's menus and toolboxes either side of the interface. These menus change according to the tool you select on the top tab bar. Results can be previewed in a handy player, right in the center of the program's main window. When you're done, you can easily share your creation because iClone offers quite a few possibilities to export it.

In all, iClone is a complete 3D animation editor, though it may take you some time and effort to learn how to use it and obtain good results.

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Whileother digital photo tools offer a jungle of capabilities and options,TalaPhoto makes it exceptionally easy to print your photos on yourown printer and organize them into easy to navigate web pages.

Full frame digital photo printing on any color printer Easily zoom, position and crop using simple controls Onscreen page view lets you easily fit the photo to the page Image level adjustments enhance improperly exposed scenes EXIF decode shows a wealth of camera data about each photo Project file saves your changes but never modifies your original photos Single command builds entire HTML folder for all photos in a project Supports annotations and background textures and colors Scrolling thumbnail list and main image display on same web page for easy navigation Runs on MacOS 9, Mac OSX and Windows

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Change Each Game With Impressive 500+ Tile Sets!. Select from hundreds of eye-popping tile setsNo one gives you more! For added fun, you can even create your own tile sets!

. Never Ending Background Choices!. Choose from 2,500+ breathtaking backgrounds, or import your favorite family or vacation photos for an infinite number of background choices!

. Exclusive Animations Put Your Mahjongg in Motion!. Watch the tiles dance with each matched pair, then reveal cool animated backgrounds as you clear the board.

2,500+ Backgrounds. 500+ Mahjongg Layouts. 500 Unique Tile Sets. For Added Fun, Create Your Own Mahjongg Tile Sets Backgrounds and Layouts!. 20 Exciting Games to play!

. Solitaire. Two Player. Memory. Shisen. Waterfall. Arcade. Speed. Tournament. Freefall. Countdown. Nanjing. Online. Sap Tim Pun Plus 7 More Ways to Play!

. Exclusive Animated tile sets and backgrounds add more fun to your favorite game!. System Requirements:WINDOWS 98/ME/XP. Pentium III 500 MHz or compatible.

128 MB RAM. 1 GB free hard disk space. DirectX 9. 0c. 32 MB DirectX 9. 0c compatible video card. DirectX 9. 0c compatible sound card. mouse, LAN or Internet connection required for online play.

mouse, LAN or Internet connection required for online play.

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The Photo Combiner will let you perform many operations which include (but are not limited to) making sketches, rotating the picture, adding a mask, embossing, resizing, adding a frame, changing the overlay order and text, and a lot more.

The Photo Combiner has all the necessary custom tools you will need to make sure that the output you make will be anything you can think of making.

The program will be useful when you want to create wallpapers for yourself, and your creation can be shared via email so that you can make one for your personal contacts.

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Target any brightness-range or color-range and use the softness slider to seamlessly integrate your editing into the photo. Power Retouche Photoshop plugins are also for Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Fireworks and other graphic software or photo software for photo editing, restoration or retouching.

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The user will be able to master gifs with transparent backgrounds. In addition, the image can be made slightly transparent to correct layers and graphics by using the brightness range selection.

Additional features include a sticky list manager, the ability to set alpha blending to any window, and has auto scroll and auto shrink. This application can make all the windows transparent or the user can select specific windows.

The Power Retouche Photoshop plugins are also compatible with Paintshop Pro, Corel Draw, Illustrator, Fireworks, and other graphic software or photo software for photo editing, retouching and restoration.

Transparency WIN software program is a good tool for designers and developers who want to have control over the level of transparency of each of their images for purposes of design and overlay.

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And first impressions are everything. In most cases, your products cover design is also your point of purchase display, so the better and more professional it looks, the better chance you have to make the sale.

Until now, if you wanted a professional rendering of your software box cover, your book cover, CD cover and other similar packages, you either had to hire a professional photographer or create an illustration of your design in an expensive, and difficult to use 3D application.

Easy-to-useCover Professional has changed all that. This reasonably priced utility lets you turn your illustrations or photographs into a virtual rendering of your package complete with your choice of background, photorealistic shadows and even elegant reflections.

And the best part is it's incredibly easy! Specify the image for the front, sides, and top, determine the angle and background color, and press Render.

Cover Professional does the rest. In minutes! Let Your Imagination Run Wild! Cover Professional lets you create professional looking virtual covers, books, cards, screenshots.

Choose one of the options presented in the program, set the angle and background color, adjust the light, shadow, and reflection and press Render.

It is as simple as that. You see the changes you make in real-time in the preview window. Cover Professional lets you create high definition images on most PCs.

And when you are done, save the final image in a wide range of the most popular file types. Perfect for your website, or for the highest quality professional printing.

And did we mention it's really easy? High-quality and Fast RenderingMost 3D software requires a lot of time to render the final image. Our special technology, which uses a powerful visualization algorithm, produces a photo-realistic, 3D clear image of your product instantly!

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You can also compile a redistributable Wallpaper Changer application using your Patchwork project to attract your home page visitors. The program provides detailed control over the appearance of the seamless collage.

You can set transparency for individual images, rotate them, change layers, apply various filters and more. It also comes with a shuffle feature, that will create a random collage from your images.

The results can be exported to image file, printed, set as wallpaper or even compiled into a wallpaper changer application that can be used to distribute your custom creations.

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All that while saving 33% off the regular prices. Tilt-Shift-FocusWith Tilt-Shift-Focus you can easily edit photos to create fake miniatures, enhance or change the depth of field and focus area of your picture, orprecisely soften details.

Fake miniature and depth of field can improvethe visual and artistic quality of your photographs and you can do all thatwith just a few clicks in Tilt-Shift-Focus editor.

ColoratorColorator removes specific colors from your images. This allows you to highlight certain important parts of a picture. Imagine blue eyes, red lips or colorful flowers in front of a black white background.

Or remove anoying objects in a non-destructiveway by turning them gray. Colorful persons or objects on top of gray backgrounds or vice versa. This is a technique often used in moviesor commercial photography.

Give it a try! Social Avatar Helper ProThe Social Avatar Helper is a tool that helps you create your avatars or profile pictures for social websites like facebook or twitter.

All you have to do, is to load a picture, select the part you want to use, add a little effect or filter and then save it. A profile picture for your most important accounts.

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With Auora Website you get 4 Flash website templates with 3 themes each, that is 12 different styles! plus you get an easy-to-use software where you can change background and wipe colors, change the music or record a voice over, replace images with your own or use the special screen capture feature.

Change main text font, color, size and much more. Easily create PayPal e-commerce links and be selling your products online in minutes. It is as simple as point and click.

Create and manage multiple projects. No programming knowledge required. You can also use the Theme Editor to change the look-and-feel of the templates to suite your needs.

Templates are used as websites but they can also be used as online electronic brochures, e-commercials, presentations, newsletters, resumes, photo albums, the list goes on.

Add and delete pages, create search engine meta tags. Our unique software makes it so easy. When you have finished building your new Flash website, simply drag-and-drop your files to your server using the in-built ftp program.

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My Buddy Icons includes more than 160 original icons and 100 website links for buddy icons. My Buddy Icons allows you to customize your buddy icons with 20 image filters or combine your favorite icons with many background images, and then send them into your AIM.

My Buddy Icons can import images of 25 image formats, so you can easily convert your photos or pictures to buddy icons. IconCool Editor -IconCool Editor is a powerful and user-friendly tool for editing icon or small web graphics.

IconCool Editor has all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, GIF, JPG, EMF, WMF, TGA, TIF and WBMP image files. IconCool Editor has a special function: It can send the edited icon back to My Buddy Icons easily.

IconCool Editor can create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with a alpha channel, now you can easily create the wonderful semi-transparent XP icons.

IconCool Editor has 50 image filters and 15 image effects, including Blurring, Diffusing, Linear Gradient, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects and more.

IconCool Editor can convert images in 25 formats to icons. You can extract icons from any files and then edit them. You can export icons to ICO, ICL, GIF, JPG, PNG, WBMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and TIF images.

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My Buddy Icons includes more than 160 original icons and 100 website links for buddy icons. My Buddy Icons allows you to customize your buddy icons with 20 image filters or combine your favorite icons with many background images, and then send them into your AIM.

My Buddy Icons can import images of 25 image formats, so you can easily convert your photos or pictures to buddy icons. IconCool-IconCool is a powerful and user-friendly tool for managing, extracting, converting and distributing icons.

An icon library with dozens of sample entries is included and accessible through a tree-style organizational system, allowing you to categorize icons and create new libraries within them.

You can search icons in the library by keywords. It allows you to view icons within files and save them as ICO, CUR, GIF, JPG. You can also convert images from 25 formats to icons.

IconCool also includes a large directory of 400 icon web sites with which you can find more than 200,000 icons and allows you to edit, delete, and add site information.

IconCool Editor-IconCool Editor is a powerful and user-friendly tool for editing icon or small web graphics. IconCool Editor has all the functions for creating and editing ICO, CUR, ANI, GIF, JPG, EMF, WMF, TGA, TIF and WBMP image files.

IconCool Editor has a special function: It can send the edited icon back to My Buddy Icons easily. IconCool Editor can create and edit icons for Windows XP in 32-bit color depth with a alpha channel, now you can easily create the wonderful semi-transparent XP icons.

IconCool Editor has 50 image filters and 15 image effects, including Blurring, Diffusing, Linear Gradient, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects and more.

IconCool Editor can convert images in 25 formats to icons. You can extract icons from any files and then edit them. You can export icons to ICO, ICL, GIF, JPG, PNG, WBMP, EMF, WMF, TGA and TIF images.

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The pages may be set up to display text descriptions of each image, thumbnails, or both. Pictures may be forced to display at smaller sizes, so that users with low screen resolutions can see the complete image without having to scroll down.

Includes built-in FTP utility for publishing work. Also makes an excellent general image viewer, including a slide show mode for hands-free review, and a normal / full screen view toggle.

Pages may include any background color or graphic, custom copyright or other identification notice, email link, and a custom link back to a starting page.

If desided, an autorun. inf file will be created for CD ROM distribution. The autorun output may also include WaverlyStreet's free stand-alone CD ROM front-end, CDB.

EXE, which allows even machines with no browser installed to view your pictures. Pages may even be set to automaticaly rotate (like a slide show) in the viewer's web browser!

Wha's New? - Now comes with an updated version of the self-contained web browser CDBrowser - no more problems with some large graphics not displaying.

- Fixed the list and master page note editors so that they will display special characters correctly. - Improved the random option for the internal slide show mode - no picture is viewed twice until all have been displayed.

- Added a What's New? function which reminds one to check this page for updates from time to time. We are rolling this out in all programs so that we can stop sending out our occasional email newsletter.

the risk of being labeled a "spammer" is just too great these days. - Changed the configuration, help, and (default) data file locations to conform to the standard Windows My Documents arrangement.

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The simplest way to breathe new life into your desktop is to give it a decent wallpaper but even a static paper can get boring after a while.

Adolix Wallpaper Changer is a free tool which helps configure your desktop wallpaper easily to change automatically. You can use any image as long as it's in JPG, GIF, PNG or BMP format. Adolix Wallpaper Changer comes with a simple and intuitive control panel to customize your desktop wallpaper allowing you to change the size, position, transition style and other little tweaks.

The Adolix Wallpaper Changer control panel itself is user friendly and there's not much to it. One particularly useful feature in Adolix Wallpaper Changer is a "playlist" editor which allows you to create playlists for your wallpapers in much the same way as you would for a music application. This is great depending on your mood or who is using the computer allowing you to set up different profiles for each. The time period of changes in Adolix Wallpaper Changer is entirely up to you and you can add a few snazzy background images for your photos. In Adolix Wallpaper Changer, everything can also be controlled from a system tray icon rather than having to go through your control panel.

A free and easy way to freshen up your desktop, Animate Adolix Wallpaper Changer will make the best of your photo collection.

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