The program includes 18 different effects that change the visual attributes of the photo like contrast and brightness.

XnSketch isn't a photo editor, though. It's more of an effects program to add a different look to your pictures.

If you want to add cartoon or sketch effects to your photos, XnSketch is a good option.

Download XnSketch 1.14 (64 bits) in Softonic

Edit photo and apply cool filters and effects

They include many features in one place, such as digital photo manager and simple photo editor with a lot of filters and photos edit compatibilities.

Who have large photo collection and want to make it simple and easy for use, and who want to apply some cool filters to photo fast and easy

Download Photodali 0.7.2 in Softonic

3D view option for the image folders (carousel-like view mode). Many additional details can be stored in the internal database and linked to the actual photo files.

home users, photographers, photo lovers. Anyone who want to keep their additional details linked with the photo files.

Download BonAView 1.5.0 in Softonic

Convert all videos in one software without quality loss, convert video to iPhone/iPad/iPod/Android/Tablet/... The Special functions: Convert any videos (computer video / web video / camera video /...) Batch conversion - 10X faster speed Simple operation - 3 steps convert your video to 100+ formats

Must-have Video Software to Organize Your MKV M2TS AVCHD AVI MP4 YouTube Videos, whatever who you are, if you need video conversion, this is right choice.

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1. Simple and easy to use. 2. Very clean and user friendly interface. 3. A wide range of filters is available. 4. A preview of how your picture will look with each filter applied is available.

Anyone who loves to make photos and looking for a quick and easy way to add filters and give their pictures a professional editing touch.

Download Picture! Editor 1 in Softonic

Also a powerful video conversion software

Put text watermark to video. Put image watermark to video. Put shape watermark to video. Provide time line editing for set animated watermark. Video effect. Watermarking videos in batch mode. Video conversion. Video snapshot. Auto updating.

Did you worried your video will be unauthorized using and sharing? Aoao Video Watermark Pro will protect your video' copyright

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Animated Wallpaper Maker is all-in-one solution for customizing your desktop background with amazing animations effects. It contains an editor that allows you to add animation to standard windows wallpaper (supporting all common image formats) and a built-in player replaces the static windows background with an animated one. The wallpaper animation requires minimum system resources and can be disabled/enabled at will.

No special skills or programming knowledge is required to us our software. You don’t need to be a studio artist or graphic designer.

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Viewing

While the viewing functionality is a no-brainer, FastStone Image Viewer comes with a range of methods with which to browse pics. First off, there is the standard file browser that displays thumbnails of your images with a preview window for the file that is currently selected. FastStone Image Viewer also offers an option to check out individual pictures in full-screen. When you're in fullscreen, remember, you'll also have access to the full range of FastStone Image Viewer tools.

Editing

However, FastStone Image Viewer goes beyond simply displaying images. You can perform quick edits to really bring out the best in your pics, such as adding a stylish frame that acts as a mask to reduce the sharp edges or, if you happen to be working with 3D, FastStone Image Viewer also offers a very effective bump map option that will serve you well for texturing. There are of course the standard tools of brightness/darkness adjustment, sharpness/blur, grayscale, red-eye removal and more.

Batch tools

Further great features come in the form of batch rename and convert options. These could prove invaluable to many web developers looking for a quick way to prepare their PSD files for the web. With the inclusion of these batch functions, it would have been good has FastStone Image Viewer pushed the boat out even further with an option to apply batch effects, for example to brighten up a group of photos that were taken in a dark space but alas, it's not there!

Looking for faults with FastStone Image Viewer is like looking for the corner of a circle, although if you insist on nitpicking, you can say that in the thumbnail browser view dragging and dropping should be possible for moving files. However when you realize that it is possible to drag and drop with the left nav bar that argument looses its legs.

There's healthy competition in the image viewer arena, but thanks to the innovative features of FastStone Image Viewer the bar has been raised to new heights.

Download FastStone Image Viewer 4.8 in Softonic

Photo editing

Massive photo editing tools like Photoshop are great, but some find them too heavy and complicated for everyday usage. PicPick is definitely a better choice if what you need is just a simple image editor. With PicPick you can easily perform simple photo editing tasks, including brightness, contrast and color adjustment, grayscale, blur, pixelate and other special effects.

Screen capture

But PicPick isn't just an image editor: it's also a full-featured screen capturing tool with which you can capture the image on your monitor in several ways: full screen, active window, user-defined area and more. Plus, PicPick can work with several documents simultaneously and captures can be triggered with customizable keyboard shortcuts, which makes it even handier.

Other tools

PicPick has a selection of othet tools that you're not going to need every day, but when you do find yourself with a need to, say, pick a specific color on your screen, magnify something, or use a virtual whiteboard to "draw" on your screen. There are 7 of these tools, and although quite niche, they're a nice touch.

PicPick is a lightweight yet full-featured image editor and capturer, perfect for simple daily image editing tasks.

Download PicPick 3.2.4 in Softonic

You can work both with single images one by one or in batches Preview the final result at all times in the program's interface More than one frame and graphics layer can be added in one step More than 670 filters and effects is supported Light and color adjustment is supported Polaroid frame is supported Save your framed images in popular formats for use on your projects

Professional non professional photographers, you don't have to understand programming or even scripting in order to perform the batch conversion and processing tasks.

Download photo frame editor 2 in Softonic

Professional and mid-range photo cameras offer support for RAW format, a kind of digital negative that lets you tweak the images with great control and flexibility in order to obtain the perfect result before saving it to JPG. And now with Adobe Camera Raw you can work on RAW images directly in Photoshop.

Adobe Camera Raw is a Photoshop plug-in that launches automatically every time you open a RAW file in Photoshop. It enables you to work on the original image with plenty of tools, all conveniently organized in several tabs: basic adjustments, tone curve, grayscales, split toning, lens corrections, camera calibration and more.

While using Adobe Camera Raw, you'll be able to see the results of your adjustments in real time in the preview pane, and also take several snapshots along the editing process, and save custom presets for later use.

Adobe Camera Raw is very easy to install. Simply unzip the archive and copy the 8bi file into the Program Files/Common Files/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CS4/File Formats folder. The only con is that it's only compatible with Photoshop CS4.

Adobe Camera Raw is a handy plug-in that lets you view and edit RAW images in Adobe Photoshop.

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Unlike other HDR tools, which give you enough time for a coffee break while processing your images, Picturenaut features an HDR generating engine that runs independently from the user interface. After choosing three or more images with different luminance values, the program processes them in just a few seconds, and creates a first HDR composition.

Once you’ve obtained this HDR image, you can modify the exposure value with a slider on Picturenaut’s interface, and also try several different tone-mapping methods included in the program to check which one suits your composition best. The best thing about Picturenaut is that it displays the result of all these tweaks in real time. Plus, you can extend Picturenaut’s functionality with plug-ins, though these must be downloaded manually from the developer’s website.

Other features included in Picturenaut are the ability to align images automatically, balance colors and remove ghosts when combining into the final HDR photo. The program can work with RAW files but doesn’t save to JPG.

Picturenaut is a surprisingly fast HDR photo editor, with several tone-mapping methods, support for RAW formats and other interesting extra features.

Download Picturenaut 3.2 in Softonic

What is Lightroom?

If you're not familiar with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, it's a photo processing app that's designed to be used by professional photographers for the post-production of batches of photos, and it's often used in conjunction with Adobe's seminal app, Photoshop.

The new interface

This latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom looks great. It's divided into seven sections - Library, Develop, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print and Web- which let you easily flit between different stages of management, processing and presentation. There's also some awesomely configurable options, running from how the app looks to how it acts, before and after processing. There's only one thing - the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom interface is vast, and to get the most from it, you'll need a large screen.

Photo management

The upside to using a dedicated photo processing app is the ease with which Adobe Photoshop Lightroom allows you to see, categorize and manage your photos. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is no exception, with a great import features and options, and, new to this version, location-based organization. You'll find the tools to manage this function under Map.

Photo processing

In version 4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, Adobe's self-stated aim has been to "extract more detail from highlights and shadows, make a wider range of targeted adjustments, and easily share your images and video clips on social media and photo sharing sites". It certainly provides some interesting options to do this, including highlight and shadow recovery, white balance features and local noise/moire tools. This is in addition to all the usual editing tools, which are present and easy to apply.

Presentation options

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom really excels when it comes to presenting your photos and passing them on. You can email directly from this new version, as well as sharing with a variety of social networks and photo sharing sites. The Book feature is also new, allowing you to create a variety of beautiful photo books from templates. This complements Adobe Photoshop Lightroom's Slideshow option, giving you even more scope for creating en eye-catching and imaginative end product.

Video management

In this version, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom really ramps up video support, further increasing its versatility. This means that you can make even more complex edits to video clips, as well as easier video publishing.

Conclusion

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 is an exceedingly promising piece of software. It can look complicated - and even overcrowded - on first glance, but once you become more familiar with app, you'll see everything adds up to offering you one of the most comprehensive photo processing apps around.

Download Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.4 in Softonic

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The fotor brings an interesting combination of manual adjustments, with options up to quite complex - the Cornerstone adjustment, for example, is not found in most similar editors - and the possibility to modify the image the way you prefer. The major highlights of the application are the quantity and quality of filters: are dozens of options that combine quality with virtually any photo. And it support opacity control for the effects,Balance scene lighting,manual adjustments,social sharing

The Fotor is an image editor that brings medians options: he is not professional, but can serve very well who want to edit photos quickly getting creative and interesting results.

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With Wondershare Video Editor, you simply import video and sound files into the Media window, and then drag them onto the time-line below. Here you can edit your files, adding sound, effects, trasitions between scenes and credit sequences.

The basic editing and transition tools are good in Wondershare Video Editor, allowing you to quickly and easily stitch together a video from clips. The additional tools - effects, text and intro/credit are very basic. They don't allow for much creativity, and they give you pretty cheap looking results.

If you're looking for an easy way to edit videos, but aren't ready for Premier, Wondershare Video Editor is a good place to start. It may lack subtle features, but its essential editing tools work well and can give you good looking results.

Download Wondershare Video Editor 3.1.1 in Softonic

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.

Download Aviary Photo Editor 1.0 in Softonic

Edit your pictures and improve their look with Soft4Boost Photo Studio. Crop, rotate, zoom pictures. Adjust color parameters such as balance, brightness, contrast and saturation. Remove minor defects - red-eye effect, tiny imperfections. Reduce image noises and use the Deblur tool feature to sharpen or soften object shapes. Select between a set of pre-made effects to make your pictures look like old faded photographs or create stylish monochrome black-and-white pictures. Work with various image formats such as JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF, etc.

Soft4Boost Photo Studio is a part of Soft4Boost.com package. Register once at soft4boost.com and work with all tools from the Soft4Boost.com package.

Soft4Boost Photo Studio is powerful multifunctional software offering a complete set of image editing tools. It contains anything a digital camera owner might need to correct or enhance their photos. Any user will enjoy the ultimate convenience

Download Soft4Boost Photo Studio 3.2.1.241 in Softonic

Features

Being part of the Windows Live Essentials suite, Windows Live Movie Maker has to be installed through the Essentials package installer. Also, bear in mind that this version only works in Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Usability

Windows Live Movie Maker is dead easy to use. All you have to do is import the photos and videos you want to use, select the background music and add some titles and end credits if you want. The program displays extra buttons on the title bar that gives you access to configuration settings for video, music and text respectively. As regards effects, you also have plenty to choose from: transition effects, animations, zoom and pan, and also visual effects that will spice up your images.

Quality

When your video is finished, you can save it in different formats and sizes, depending on where you plan to use it on: computer, high-definition TV screen, mobile device, instant messaging client, etc. Windows Live Movie Maker also includes the option to upload it directly to YouTube, Facebook, SkyDrive and Flickr. The only drawback is that Windows Live Movie Maker saves videos to one single format: WMV.

Conclusion

With Windows Live Movie Maker you'll be able to create nice compositions with your favorite photos and videos, and share them with anyone.

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Every time you celebrate a family meal or hang out with friends you take a hundred photos, but how do you share them afterwards? E-mail? ZIP file? Online gallery? Forget about those boring options and try a far more creative way to share photos and videos: Muvee Reveal

With Muvee Reveal you can create an eye-catching presentation with your favorite photos and videos, adding captions, transition effects, background music and even a voiceover. And all of this without requiring advanced technical skills or having to go through a lengthy learning process.

That's precisely the most outstanding characteristic in Muvee Reveal: it's dead easy to use. The program features a sleek, intuitive interface divided into four main areas: one to add photos and videos, one to select the presentation style, another one to add music and the last one to preview the result. That's all.

Muvee Reveal works with all major media formats and includes some basic editing tools to fix and optimize photos. The program adjusts photo length and background music automatically, so that it fits perfectly, and also lets you add custom titles and end credits.

When your presentation is finished, you can choose to publish it online, burn it to a DVD or save it into different formats, depending on the device you plan to use to watch the video. The only drawback to Muvee Reveal, if any, is that presentation styles don't have many options to tweak, and that the program in general is aimed at novice users - which can make it a bit too simple for a more tech-savvy audience.

With Muvee Reveal you can easily create beautiful presentations with your favorite photos and videos, and dozens of customization options.

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There are two ways you can edit photographs with SoftOrbits: manually and by aid of ready-made presets. These presets can be used as guides by beginners. Other tools that make this program convenient include Undo Brush, different fonts, page format, paper texture, etc., which make up ample ground for individual creativity. Apart from pencil, you can use other drawing tools as well, such as ballpoint pen and ink-pen imitation, and apply squared notebook page imitation.

For home users. Use your creative thinking and style your pictures to your liking.

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