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Free
Photo Software (for windows)
Album Burger is a digital photo
album that enables you to organize your images into virtual albums. You
can import images from selections or folders, choose from various page
layouts, add captions, comments and other information, and also search
for images by keyword. You can re-arrange images by drag and drop, add
background art, print album pages and more. The program includes an
image editor for basic image adjustments, cropping and filter effects,
as well as a slideshow viewer and an option to export your album(s) as
HTML gallery.
Photobie
is an image editor that offers all the standard editing and paint tools,
as well as image layers and Photoshop (.8bf) plug-ins
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DeskSlide
is a utility for automating the wallpaper change on your desktop. It
replaces your boring desktop wallpaper, also called background image,
automatically at intervals of your choice, with your beautiful digital
images.
The
SmartCurve plugin from
EasyFilter was developed for Photoshop Elements as a compensation for
the missing Curves command, but you can use it in Photoshop and other
applications, too. It supports RGB and Grayscale images with 8 and 16
bit color depth, displays a histogram and an Auto correction button.
ExposurePlot version 1.10 (former
FocalPlot) is a new free utility that analyzes your usage of the focal
length of your lenses, show charts for ISO, aperture and shutterspeed.
Great to determine which lens you 'really' need, or which lens did you
actually use on the trip to the mountains.
Opensee 2.0 -
opensource option to Acdsee.
1. Advanced Web Album Creator.
2. Thumbnails view enhancements.
3. More localization languages support.
4. Full screen enhancements.
5. Allow refresh to file system.
6. Can browse write protected folders (Like CDs).
7. Tab View Enhancements.
Foto Fix
Optimizer is a plugin from Jim
Clatfelter which lets you adjust brightness, contrast, saturation,
gamma, colour balance and focus from one dialog.
JAlbum allows you to create nice
looking photo galleries for the web. You can simply select or drop
drag/drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum and it
will create thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a
gallery or picture slideshow. The galleries are based on various
template designs and appearance can be further customized by advanced
users. Additional features include support for EXIF data, URL encoding
of file names, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, optional
Shutterfly integration, (built in FTP client and more.
Web
Picture Creator allows you to
create photo albums that can be published on the web as thumbnail
galleries. It offers customizable HTML output that you can edit to match
your site design, and also save the design as a template, so it can be
applied to other galleries. You can add titles and descriptions to each
image, specify the thumbnail size and output quality as well as several
general layout details and more. It can generate all the pages and HTML
code, or optionally only create thumbnails of your images. Web Picture
Creator is easy enough to be used by a beginner, but also offers enough
flexibility to accomodate specific needs.
Xibit is a rather unique tool
to generate top quality image galleries, using a variety of attractive
templates. What separates it from other gallery tools is the fact that
the viewer can change the gallery design and many other display options
on-the-fly, using an interactive Java Script control window. The viewer
can also zoom images, select to display file sizes, change thumbnail
sizes The program is easy to use, and all you have to do is select the
images and the theme that should be displayed by default. You can also
customize the output directory names, add custom links and more. The
resulting album is self-contained and can be uploaded to the web, or
burned to CD using your favourite CD burning software
Fotos on Web (FOW) is a tool to
create online photo-albums. You can select the images (individually or
by folder), add comments, background music, and select a style for the
generated pages. FOW uses XML and CSS to create the album designs,
allowing advanced users to further customize the output. The user can
specify an output directory, the number of thumbnails on a page, their
size and more. Fotos on Web comes with several styles included, some of
them simple, others with nice transition effects.
PhotoAlbumStudio allows you to
manage and distribute your digital pictures. It provides an interface to
catalog your pictures (jpeg and gif) in virtual albums that can be
placed on your hard drive or burned on a CD (burner not included). Since
the presentation is HTML/Java based, you can also upload it to your web
site and offer it for online viewing. Each picture may be provided with
a comment or a short story. A number of albums may be managed in the
project or catalog - they are displayed on an initial index page, so the
viewer can choose an album. A project may be saved for later editing and
published on a local hard disk along with JavaAlbum viewer. No extra
software installation is required to view the published albums.
PhotoAlbumStudio is very easy to use, all you need to do is select the
images to be included, and generate the nice-looking photo album.
Topaz DeJPEG is a Photoshop
compatible plug-in that can remove blocks and fringes caused by JPEG
compression. The default settings were not very effective, but some
adjustments of the sliders produced good results and noticeable decrease
in artifacts. You can combine smoothing with sharpness and edge
crispness to adjust results. In our tests, Topaz DeJPEG achieves results
similar to the Photoshop Despeckle filter and USM.
Media
Purveyor is an image viewer, and
media player that allows you to manage your digital image collections.
It supports IPTC, EXIF, JPEG Comment, PNG Key/Values, Dublin Core and
ID3 information, and allows you to search for images or media files
based on these criteria, and also view and edit image information to
organize your files. In addition, the program offers lossless image
editing, red-eye removal, color balance (with white balance), text
annotations, and various image effects. Media Purveyor can also generate
thumbnails, index images, convert images and more. Another small but
handy feature is an image comparison option, which allows you to view
two selected images side-by-side.
GetCanon! is an image
downloader for Canon cameras, that can be used as an alternative the the
original Canon software. While it does not provide the fancy interface,
thumbnails and other features, it allows you to quickly do one thing -
download your images to a folder named after the current date. In
addition, it can rotate them automatically and optionally delete the
images from the camera after downloading them. The entire process can
run fully automatic, so all you have to do is launch GetCanon!
PC Inspector File Recovery is a data
recovery program with support for FAT 12/16/32 and NTFS file systems. It
recovers files with the original time and date stamp, and can optionally
restore them to a network drive and can recover many files, even when a
header entry is no longer available. On FAT systems, the programs finds
partitions automatically, even if the boot sector or FAT has been erased
or damaged. PC Inspector File Recovery offers an easy to use interface
that will scan your drive and automatically make files that can be
recovered available from a "Deleted" folder in an Explorer Style
navigation tree.
Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP Norsk
Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you
can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects,
soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then,
personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy
to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a
computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.
Picture To Go v1.5 - Resize and
email your pictures in one step (Requires Windows XP)
jStrip
is a free tool to reduce the file size of JPEG images without
sacrificing image quality. High-traffic websites with many JPEG images
can benefit from decreased bandwidth costs. Less hard disk space will be
used by image collectors.
Artweaver v0.3.9.8 is a
simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver makes all
artistic effects, which you need for your work. You can create sketches
from photographies and experiment
with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is realistic as
possible.
My Pictures 3D is
a 2-in-1 package. The program lets you watch your favorite photos in a
beautiful virtual 3D gallery. Besides, it can function as a screensaver.
My Pictures 3D lets you walk through a beautiful gallery where your
favorite photos are exhibited. No one will have the same gallery as
yours: it will always be unique because of your photos. Several
galleries from a contemporary showroom to a medieval castle are
available. A pleasing lifelike atmosphere is created thanks to amazingly
natural-looking graphics.
Plugins
The commercial
Vizros
Plugins (for Windows) have now
been made freeware. They let you do sophisticated 3D page wrapping
effects. They let you use non-rectangular selections for page warp
effects and you can load additional images on the plugin dialog and map
them to different pages. (serienummer 88785814277450714473)
The Color Space Converter,
Gray Scale Mixer and RGB Channel Mixer plugins (for Windows) from
Simple
Filter have been updated and
localized to English. There are also commercial Pro version of the two
Mixer plugins available.
Adobe has released Version 3
of its free image management software
Photoshop Album Starter Edition
(for Win/Mac). It offers some of the features of the commercial
Photoshop Album like basic image editing, organization, slideshow and
emailing images.
Opanda
PhotoFilter is a freeware tool
(for Windows) that imitates Kodak, Hoya and Cokin lens filters. It
offers adjustable density and auto luminosity compensation. Its
interface has a MacOS X look.
Easy
Picture2Icon (for Windows) is a
simple tool for converting images or photos to Windows icons. It also
lets you choose a color that will become transparent in the icon. The
icon files can contain multiple icons of different sizes.
Xero now offers the free
Nostalgia plugin (for Windows),
which produces tinted monochrome effects.
Version 6.1 of
PTLens
(for Windows) from Thomas Niemann now lets you lens-correct photos taken
with fisheye lenses. It also includes chromatic aberration correction
features and an improved anti-vignetting feature. PTLens is certainly
the most convenient and easy-to-use lens correction tool (unless you use
a not so popular lens or compact cameras).
BleachBypass (for Windows) from
Red Pawn Media simulates the traditional bleach-bypass technique, which
creates desaturated, grainy and overexposed results. A commercial Pro
version of this plugin is also available.
The
Flaming Pear Freebies collection
has been updated and contains 33 plugins now. The Veins plugin draws
red, green and blue structures that look like veins, Rule30 produces
cellular automaton graphics and PixelTrash tries to imitate the computer
graphics of the early 80s.
Ralph Altmann,
a German book author, offers four freeware plugins (for Windows) on his
web site. At the moment they are only available in German language, but
may be translated to English soon. To download them just go to the four
pages below and click on the link with the zip file. The "SF Farbanzahl"
plugin counts the number of colors in an image, "RGB-Kanalmixer" and "Grauwertmixer"
are enhanced versions of the Channel Mixer in Photoshop and finally "Farbraumkonverter"
lets you convert an image between various color spaces. All four plugins
are easy to use, even if you don't know German.
 www.simpelfilter.de/analyse/farbzahl.html
www.simpelfilter.de/bildbearbeitung/farbmixer.html
www.simpelfilter.de/bildbearbeitung/graumixer.html
www.simpelfilter.de/bildbearbeitung/konvertierung.html
Right Hemisphere decided to discontinue their
DeepPaint 2 product (for Windows) and make it available for
free. Deep Paint is a painting tool that offers artistic photo-cloning,
fully editable brush and canvas settings. It simulates oil, acrylic and
watercolor brushes. Deep Paint works as a Photoshop plugin as well as
standalone application. |
