Single cleaning: This feature allows you to select a single file and clean it from sensitive metadata. View metadata: You can open a photo or graphic and look at all the metadata stored behind the scene. Filter: Besides the possibility of searching in certain folders, AntiPhotoSpy offers a filter for file types too. This allows a faster search with large datasets.

With AntiPhotoSpy you can easily search on your computer in batch mode for photos and graphics with meta data and remove those sensitive data, also in one go. You can also simply store all your files without metadata in a separate folder.

AntiPhotoSpy is the ideal tool for everyone who takes cares about sensitive data stored in photos and graphics and who wants to protect his privacy.

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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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A majority of people won't need the power of Photoshop to edit a few photos. Apps like Fotor give users a great way to perform simple edits to photos. Like most photo editing apps these days, Fotor includes a bunch of retro filters, a tilt-shift option, and the ability to add text.

Basic options like brightness, contrast, temperature, and sharpen are all there and controllable by touch-friendly sliders. Fotor adds a 1-Tap Enhance feature to make things even simpler. The entire interface is touch friendly but its home screen is unnecessarily complicated.

Filters look good and performing edits are a breeze. After you're done with your edits, you can save the photo to your drive but there's no ability to share to social networks, which is very disappointing.

Overall, Fotor is a solid photo editing application for basic filters and touch-ups.

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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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Full of features

Photoscape includes just about everything you need to view, optimize, edit, print and have fun with your photos. In fact, it's so complete that many would call it a free Photoshop alternative. Sure, it's not quite up to the level of Photoshop, but it's truly a great alternative to Adobe's big shot - and it makes photo editing a lot more fun!

Easy to use

From the program's main window you can choose what you want to do: view pictures, optimize those that didn't come out so well, print several photos on a single page collage-style or perhaps add any of the dozens of filters and special effects included in the program.

Smart interface

One of the first striking elements in Photoscape is its uncommon interface design. The application is very striking and in many ways it's easier on the eye than Photoshop.

Conclusion

There's really nothing negative to say about Photoscape. Just download it, test it, love it and keep it forever. It's free!

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Software features include: • Complete Realtime 3D Editor • Light Angle and Direction Customization • Integrated controls for Scale, Position, Rotation, Brightness • Animated and Friendly User Interface • Ability to Add Objects of Different Types • Full Screen Support for Monitor Resolution Rendering [More than the Standard 1028x768 Pixels Resolution per Render] • High Quality Rendering – Mip-Mapping is Disabled inside Cover Motion™ to maintain the quality of the render with no artifacts and no blurriness. • Ability to Add Unlimited Objects • All Objects have Unique Properties

• High Resolution Texture Templates • Optimized textures inside the software for best performance • Masks Custom Masks Support / Filters Custom Filters Support • Completely Customizable Background Custom Background Image Support • Anti Alliasing / Multi-Sampling Support • Adaptive Object Focus – Position can be changed even with Focus Turned [ON] • Complete and free standard Photoshop Templates [Only for Complex Models]

Complete Beginners and even Professional Users. No matter the age or experience, Cover Motion™ is designed for efortless complex results.

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As with most of the other applications that come bundled in Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 includes a redesigned welcome page that's actually useful. You are given a list of recently-opened files on the left as well as a grid of templates to get started. You can also search at the top for more templates if you don't see one to your liking. Clicking or tapping on a template will give you a window to choose a variation of it.

As with most new releases of PowerPoint, Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 includes a bunch of new themes, templates, and transitions. Microsoft also included some basic photo editing features. You can choose a filter for the photos you import into Microsoft PowerPoint 2013. These editing features are basic and feel a bit like an afterthought. You'll still want to use a program like Photoshop to do heavy photo modifications.

Speaking of photos, you can now import both photos and videos from the internet. Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 integrates with the services you've linked to your Microsoft account. You can pull in video from YouTube and photos from Facebook.

Formatting photos and arranging them has improved in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 as well. There are the new guides that are consistent across Microsoft's Office products. Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 is smart enough to show you how your graphics will be aligned with other graphics on the slide.

SkyDrive integration is in full effect in Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 so you can pick up working on your presentation from any device that has SkyDrive linked. There's even a PowerPoint web application to do some basic edits. You'll still want to use a computer or tablet that has Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 to do serious work.

New to Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 is the 'Presentation View,' which throws up a handy prompter screen on setups with multiple monitors. There is an elapsed timer so you can help pace yourself and not run over a certain time. You can have notes on the side of your slides so you won't be tempted just to read off of the slide. This happens all unbeknownst to people in the audience.

PowerPoint 2013 has received many updates that make it easier to use and continues to be one of the best applications for making presentations. Be sure to check out our in-depth look at PowerPoint 2013's new features here.

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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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While the original Premiere application is mainly intended at professional video editors, Adobe Premiere Elements brings video editing closer to the average user. The program features a complete set of simple yet powerful tools that will help you extract video from several sources, combine them into a movie, add special effects and filters and share with family and friends.

The interface in Adobe Premiere Elements is very similar to that in Adobe Photoshop Elements. The application is divided into two main parts: the Organizer and the Project editor. Both work seamlessly with each other and share the same sleek, elegant dark interface.

The Adobe Premiere Elements Organizer lets you browse your media (photos, audio and video), rate them and add captions to them. The Editor, on the other side, is where the creative part comes in.

The editor in Adobe Premiere Elements features the classic video editing working space, with a special area for imported media, a built-in preview window and a timeline at the bottom. Though it may seem confusing and difficult to use at first sight, a bit of effort and patience on your side will help you master the program without much fuss.

Adobe Premiere Elements works with all popular media formats (including HD video) and features a bunch of extra material (special effects, transitions, graphics and text, menus, titles and more) with which you can easily create awesome movies.

Moreover, Adobe Premiere Elements also features all the necessary tools to share your movies, either by burning them to DVD and Blu-ray, or by uploading them straight away to Facebook and YouTube.

Adobe Premiere Elements is the perfect way to get started with video editing and the powerful tools included in the original Premiere suite.

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Probably the most notable new feature is the Content Aware tool which makes editing Photoshop more "intelligent" plus there's a new design and a streamlined interface. In addition, basic video editing functions have been added for the first time.

When you first open Adobe Photoshop CS6, the most eye-catching thing is the revamped colorful user interface. However, if you don't like the new look, you can revert to the old grey interface via Preferences - Interface. Beyond this however, there are some useful new features.

Content Aware

Content Aware intelligently moves selected objects and adjusts them accordingly with the background or surrounding objects. This enables you to simply drag and drop objects in Photoshop much more easily without having to readjust the background. Don't like the position of a person in an image? Just move them to another position instantly and the background automatically adjusts.

Video Editing

Adobe Photoshop CS6 brings video editing to Photoshop for the first time. Its integrated with all of Photoshop's traditional tools which makes it very powerful when it comes to retouching scenes, adjusting colors and filter sets etc. It also allows you to add audio tracks although it's not very advanced otherwise.

Bridge file browser and Mini Bridge

Adobe Photoshop CS6 features a more powerful file browser which allows you to sort and manage pictures according to specific metadata. The fully integrated file browser with thumbnail previews photos quickly and opens them instantly for easier library management.

Adobe Photoshop CS6 brings some interesting new features to this powerful photo editing software. Particularly interesting is the Content Aware function which makes retouching and manipulating photos incredibly easy.

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Touching up photographs in a powerful program like Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom may be overkill for most people who aren't professional or amateur photographers. Programs like Toolwiz Pretty Photo simplify the process by giving easy to use presets for filters and effects.

While filters are all the rage these days, they aren't the only features that Toolwiz Pretty Photo has to offer. There are color, hue, and focus adjustments to name a few. Many effects give manual controls for more advanced users, though the novice can figure them out fairly quickly.

One thing that Toolwiz Pretty Photo is sorely lacking is a live preview of the changes to an effect. This makes adjusting something like blur very annoying. You have to re-drag the area you want blurred each time you make an adjustment in order to see how the blur changes. This makes editing photos take much longer.

While Toolwiz Pretty Photo brings nothing new to the table, it does offer users some great editing features that aren't included in other photo editors.

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- Restricted access to content by User Roles - Ability to work with huge size media archives (up to 500K-1M files per catalog) - Version Control (Check in/out). Avoid work being redone because you've lost your original versions! - Powered by free, reliable and widely adopted PostgreSQL database engine - Import more than 100 formats including - Super simple and clean interface - Focused on cataloguing (no built-in fancy image editors and publishing tools) with excellent bridge to external photo editors like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. - Quickly classify and filter your content by tags using AND, OR operations

- Provides True multi-user access - Affordable price for small teams - No need to hire a system administrator, and no specialist knowledge necessary to install and administer the Server. - Much more secure than web-solutions all your content remains inside your firewall - Focus on image cataloging and multi-user access - Automatic Metadata (XMP,IPTC) syncing - Support for unlimited hierarchical tag structure

Small companies, who need to create a centralized photo library in the following industries: Manufacturing, Engineering, Architect and interior design, Landscape design, Non-profit organizations Plus home users with a large number of photos

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What's inside?

There are three main elements to Zoner Photo Studio, the Manager and the Editor. The Manager lets you find and organize the images on your PC, the Viewer lets you view them, while the editor allows you to make simple changes to your photos.

The viewer is attractive, but nothing special, but the manager is good. The interface is simple enough, with a folder tree, browser and information panel. You can email images from Zoner Photo Studio, and apply filters to make finding them easier. There isn't anything revolutionary about the Manager, but it does its job.

Image Editing

The Editor is better, offering a range of useful tools that will allow you to improve or alter photos you've taken. It's not as powerful as Photoshop, but it's much easier to use, and has the tools that most amateur or casual photographers will need. Zoner Photo Studio has a 'quick fix', which basically makes the image a bit stronger, and you can also play around with the color, levels and resize as well. There's a red eye removing tool that works well, as well as more subtle things like a clone stamp tool. In this free version, it's really only the lack of proper layer tools that are missing.

Zoner Photo Studio is a good option for basic photo retouching and editing, and has enough tools for most users.

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So much emphasis is placed on adding showy effects and filters to your images on graphic design programs like Photoshop. You also need to make sure the finer aspects of your images are perfect as well.

Golden Ratio can help you do that by letting you properly compose the elements in your images, as well as measure proportions to ensure all elements in your photo look correct.

As a measurement tool, Golden Ratio has two main windows to work with. The first is translucent and remains in the foreground. It can be placed above any image on the screen you want to edit. This window contains a grid and measuring axises.

The other window is your control panel that lets you alter the transparency of each element, see different angles and lengths, change the appearance of lines, and define the type of composition rule (think: the golden ratio or the rule of thirds).

Golden Ratio also include two different tools: the Stencil and Measure tools. Golden Ratio's Stencil tool is used to create template patterns, which you can use along with any other sort of graphic design software. The Measure tool defines two lines on your screen and will display the angle and the ratio of them for your convenience.

Unfortunately, the control panel in Golden Ratio can look a little cluttered and be a little complicated initially to figure out how to use. It'd also be nice if there were an option to be able to minimize the program to your desktop tray when you're using multiple photo editing programs.

As a stand-alone photo editing and image optimization, Golden Ratio really shines.

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Getting the color contrasts just right in your pictures can make an amazing difference in the quality and appeal of your photos. PhotoKit Color is a great means of making subtle changes to your images to really make them pop.

PhotoKit Color works as a plugin to Photoshop that adjusts everything associated with the color of your images. It follows that it also consequently optimizes the way your images look. PhotoKit Color can make changes on anything from color adjustments to tweaking color combinations. You can even make skin tones darker or ligher with this plugin.

By adding a series of layers that are similar to filters, PhotoKit Color is able to balance the colors in your image. Each different color set offers varying effects. Everything in PhotoKit Color is pre-configured, so all you have to do is select the color set that changes your image to an appearance you like the most. Professional graphic designers might see it as a con that they can't refine the effects manually though.

Photoshop users who are serious about enhancing to quality of their images should give PhotoKit Color a try.

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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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What makes Filter Forge stand out from most average plugins are three main features. The obvious one is that via the simple editor, you can create your own filters. Although it is quite straightforward with an excellent user guide, Filter Forge still requires some knowledge of creating filters to be used effectively. Note that all filters support 16- and 32-bit modes only in Photoshop.

Additionally, Filter Forge is very much a user oriented application. There are thousands of free filters created by other users and if you become a contributor yourself, you receive the full version of Filter Forge absolutely free. It's not clear how good your filters have to be to qualify but it seems like generally anything goes.

Filter Forge is an excellent filter creation tool with a strong community spirit that will enhance your Photoshop creations.

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Flaming Pear is famous for being a prolific creator of cool Photoshop plug-ins and this versatile tool is another great addition to the developer's portfolio.

You can achieve some quite stunning visual effects, simulating many types of lenses within an intuitive working environment.

We love the way the program gives you as much or as little control over the effects as you desire.

You can either choose to experiment with the Latitude, Longitude and Spin settings yourself, or roll a dice to achieve random effects. This is a superb tool for getting unique lens effects on the fly as well as creating panoramic views.

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Photoshop is an unquestionably powerful graphic design tool. Plugins like India Ink only serve to enhance your design experience.

India Ink lets you convert your color images to black and white halftones, often giving your images a bit of an old world newspaper feel. In addition, the plugin also has special color modes that produce interesting effects. These effects many parts of an image the effect of having been etched or drawn.

If you're looking for new filter options for Photoshop, India Ink will give your photos a nicely aged appearance.

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All In One! Compatible - Works on any operating system and any device (tablets running windows 8) Compatible with any image file type that you can think of. (including Photoshop files & 3D sbs images) Performance - 100 filters/effects that work with a true high speed. Professional - Cropping, Resizing, Perspective, Selecting, and layers is just a small part of it. Unique - Unique brushes such as Neon and Sketch, plus you can use any image as a brush! Detailed - Besides the most popular selecting tools you can Smart Select object, highlights, shadows, colours... Simple - Instead of having to go through text menus, Pixel° has simple tabs and each tab has large previews! Creative - easily make animated Gif images

There are many image editing softwares but Pixel Degrees was designed in a the way people wanted it to be. It's fully compatible with XP, Vista, 7, and windows 8! Using it is really simple and there are short simple tutorial videos available. Unique brushes such as Neon and Sketch, plus you can use any image as a brush! Besides the most popular selecting tools you can Smart Select object, highlights, shadows, colours...

If you are a professional photographer or just someone who enjoys editing pictures and taking pictures, Pixel Degrees is the right choice for you!

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