Don’t take us wrong here: PhoXo is not a free version of Photoshop, and is nowhere near as powerful as Adobe's editor. But if all you need is an efficient tool that doesn't hog system resources and includes all the basic photo editing tools, PhoXo is the perfect choice. The only drawback to PhoXo, if any, is that the program doesn't include any documentation – only an online tutortial. Fortunately all of its tools are pretty self-explanatory.

With PhoXo you'll be able to rotate, resize, trim, flip and mirror your images, and also customize them with more than 50 different effects – including shadow, frames and edges, black and white, sepia tone, oil painting, pencil sketch, mosaic, blur and many more. Plus PhoXo lets you apply these effects in no time, with instant preview. If you don’t like the result, just press Ctrl+Z and move on to something else.

Besides editing tools and image effects, PhoXo also features a great collection of clipart ready to be inserted in your images. Emoticons, cars, animals, flags, cartoon characters and icons are neatly organized in tabs and can be easily repositioned and resized.

Phoxo is a surprisingly powerful little app which will cover most of your needs in photo editing.

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0 is a must have tool for all digital Photographers. Barrel, Pincushion or Perspective distortions are common problems with Digital Photography.

PhotoFixLens offer you a quick and easy way to correct such image distortions including fringing and vignetting effects. Works in RGB and RGB 16bits Images.

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It also includes amazing metal, chrome, neon, pop art, glass, rainbow, sunshine and star effects. Additionally you can enhance, colorize, add edges to your photos or even encrypt them.

Last but not least, there are some effect that can be rarely found like feedbacks, grids or zooming. The over 120 basic effects of Plugin Galaxy can be adapted with the help of sliders, check boxes, color dialogs, color pickers and preview coordinates.

This way you have access to thousands of potential effects. Additionally there are 4 interface types to match the different effect types. Plugin Galaxy works in over 20 different host applications including:* Adobe Photoshop (Version 4 or higher) * Adobe PageMaker (Version 6 or higher) * Adobe Illustrator (Version 7 and higher) * Adobe ImageReady * CADlink SignLab (Version 5 and higher) * CiEBV Photoline (Version 5 or higher) * Corel Draw (Version 7 or higher) * Corel Photo House (Version 2 or higher) * Corel PhotoPaint (Version 7 and 8: only outside masks; Version 9: fully functional) * Corel Xara (Version 2 or higher) * Deneba Canvas (Version 6 or higher) * Fractal Design Detailer * imageN (A great FREEWARE tool) * Jasc Paintshop Pro (Version 5 or higher) * Macromedia Freehand (Version 8 or higher) * Macromedia Fireworks (Version 2 or higher, but only within selections) * Megalux Ultimate Paint (Version 2 or higher) * MetaCreations Painter (Version 5 or higher) * Microfrontier Digital Darkroom (Version 1.

2 or higher) * Micrografx Picture Publisher (Version 8 or higher) * Microsoft PhotoDraw 2000 * Right Hemisphere Deep Paint * SPG Colorworks:WEB (Version 4 or higher) * Ulead PhotoImpact (Version 4 or higher, but only within selections) * Ulead PhotoExpress (Version 2 or higher, but only within selections) * Ulead Gif Animator (Version 3 or higher).

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0 is a very efficient set of tools to get the best out of your images in RGB or CMYK. - Refocus, will deblur while preserving the edges of your image, it has been designed to focus blurry image shots from your digital camera.

- DeNoise will remove noise out of images, but it will also preserve edges. It is using the most sophisticated algorithm you can find in the market- HighSharp uses a very special advanced unsharp mask techniques.

Unlike the Photoshop USM unsharp mask will not enhanced the grain of your image but will sharpen mostly the edges. - JPEG fixer, removes the artefacts you will notice on JPEG images that have suffered a too high compression ratio.

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The build-in Zooomer allows user to snapshot screen regions and windows objects in DragDrop and timer modes and copy them to clipboard and to.

bmp file. ColorPicker takes colors from any screen part with ability to store up to 16 colors in color collection and send them directly to Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw.

ScreenDiscoverer performs the full mobility to efficiently use available screen. Users can easily configure all necessary settings and use the tool in the very way they like it.

The smart design of ScreenDiscoverer and ever useful features it presents convey its simplicity. This user-friendly tool can be used by design professionals but it does not require any special technical or computer knowledge.

Hot keys combinations that users can customize to assist in navigating their creativity make possible defining own system for processing actions.

ScreenDiscoverer minimal requirements: Microsoft. NET framework v1. 1, Pentium-II 266 CPU, 64 MB RAM, VGA video adapter, 10 MB free disk space.

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The suite is truly integrated, allowing data to be shared and changed across the component applications. Furthermore, a PDF creator enables users to create PDF files in all of the applications.

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Ability Spreadsheet supports multi-sheets and an auto-fit printing function. Ability Database is a relational database that comes with advanced querying and reporting.

Ability Presentation is a slideshow editor that can import and export Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT) files. Ability Photopaint Studio is a photo editor program equipped with layers, filters, red-eye reduction, vector drawing tools, support for 25 graphic file formats and support for Adobe Photoshop-compatible plugins.

Ability Office Professional (Download) also has a photo album to help organize and maintain your lists of digital images to albums. Ability Office Professional (Download) can be used at the office or home.

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The program is quite similar to Microsoft Paint both in appearance and utilities, though the truth is that it does include more tools and options than the standard Windows graphic editor – each of them with their own configuration settings. Also, HeliosPaint can work with a wide range of formats, which makes it a really handy editor for quick photo retouches.

HeliosPaint doesn't include a proper Help file, just a quick guide to get you started. In any case it only takes a couple of minutes to get used to the program's interface and icons – though I must admit I had a hard time when trying to find the selection tool, hidden under a scissors icon.

HeliosPaint doesn’t match up to other more powerful graphic editors and you may find it too basic for your needs. However it works perfectly fine as a possible replacement for Microsoft Paint and includes a bunch of photo effects (oil painting, emboss, gray image and more) that look nice on pictures.

HeliosPaint is no Photoshop competitor but works fine as an easy graphic editor with which to create simple drawings and perform quick photo retouches.

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With this file, users are given the latitude and longitude of all three countries (including Alaska and Hawaii), US states text, oceans, lakes, seas, US state borders, color fills, and cities ranging from population of 500 all the way to populations of five million and up.

Digital Maps- US-Canada-Mexico (Vector PDF) can be used with a variety of software such as Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and Microsoft word.

This map file is completely editable in Illustrator ten or higher, allowing for total custom control. Digital Maps- US-Canada-Mexico (Vector PDF) also includes Canada, Mexico, and surrounding countries' major cities and Canadian and Mexican borders of states and provinces.

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This means you shouldn't expect Pinta to be some kind of open source Photoshop clone. It does include some interesting features like support for layers, unlimited undo and redo, and a bunch of special filters and effects to spice up your images – but its nothing like a serious photo editor. It does, however, include a nice selection of drawing tools that can make Pinta a good alternative to Microsoft's Paint.

According to Pinta's developer, the program is still at an early stage of development – which may be the reason why some of its tools are not available yet. In any case, Pinta does look promising, so we'll keep an eye on this little handy editor as it grows.

Pinta is a simple drawing utility and image editor with a clean interface and an interesting set of tools.

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Admittedly, AvancePaint looks seriously out of date, and although the program is compatible with Windows Vista, its Help section is not. You shouldn't really let that bother you, however, as the program is easy to navigate and you'll be able to discover all the tools through trial and error.

AvancePaint is very much a painting editor and a simple one at that, so don't expect Photoshop-like miracles. Even so, it hides a number of interesting tools and effects, and you should be able to use it to produce very interesting art. AvancePaint will allow you to set your pictures as a wallpaper, create profiles and add effects like borders, frames and symbols.

AvancePaint is best thought of as a feature-packed alternative to Paint, and as such, it does a good job. Unfortunately, its appearance is pretty off-putting, but if you can get past that, you'll have a lot of fun creating pictures with AvancePaint.

Simple, feature-packed editing power for your pictures - AvancePaint.

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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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