Best 20 Free Image Editors
1. Paint.NET
Paint.Net is one of the best free image editing software that features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, special effects, unlimited undo option and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It offers
- Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
- Layers
- Active Online Community
- Frequently Updated
- Special Effects
- Powerful Tools
- Unlimited History
- Easy to use and it’s totally free of cost
2. GIMP
GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation program that features a customizable interface, Photo Enhancement, Digital Retouching and Hardware Support. The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG , GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files. Supported Platforms include
- GNU/Linux (i386, PPC)
- Microsoft Windows (XP, Vista)
- Mac OS X
- Sun OpenSolaris
- FreeBSD
3. Art Rage
Art Rage offers thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in the real world. With Art rage you can paint with thinned oils, use wet or dry markers, soften your pencil and control the hardness of the crayon, and much more.
Key features include
- Painting tools
- Stencils and Rulers.
- Metallics.
- Tracing Images and References.
- Layers
- PSD Support
- Custom Colors
- Crop and Resize
- Customizable Canvases
- Canvas Positioning
- Tablet support
- tool curors and
- Multi Monitor support
4. InkSpace
InkScape is an open source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics file format. It features
- Easy to edit nodes
- Perform compliex path operations
- Trace bitmaps
- Support many advanced SvG features like markets, clones, alpha blending etc
- and much more
5. XnView
XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It features IPTC editing, resize, rotate, crop and EXIF auto rotation support. Key features include
- Import about 400 graphic file formats
- Export about 50 graphic file formats
- Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support
- Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support
- Lossless rotate & crop (jpeg) support
- Adjust brightness, contrast…
- Auto levels, contrast
- Modify number of colors
- Apply filters (blur, average, emboss, …)
- Apply effects (lens, wave, …)
- Fullscreen mode
- Slide show with effects
- Batch convert, batch rename
- Create WEB page easily
- Screen capture
- Create contact Sheet
- Create or edit Multi-page file (TIFF, DCX, LDF)
- TWAIN & WIA support (Windows only)
- Print support (Windows only)
- Drag & Drop support (Windows only)
- Compare image side by side
- Filmstrip layout
- 44 languages support (Windows only)
- And many many other things…
- No Adware, No Spyware
Picasa is the easiest way to find, edit and share your photos. It allows you to manage your photos in one place, and find your photos you forgot you had. You can eliminate scratches and blemishes from the picture and fix red eye in no time. Turn your photos into movies, slideshows and more and upload seamlessly to your Picasa web albums to share with the world.
Resource Hacker is freeware utility that allows you to modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files. Most compilers add resources into applications which are never used by the application. It allows you to Remove unused resources and reduce application’s size.
8. IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative Freeware graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. It offers support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF, multi language support, support for Adobe Photoshop Filders and more. Key features include
- Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Paint option – to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
- Toolbar skins option
- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
- Fast directory view (moving through directory)
- Batch conversion (with image processing)
- Multipage TIF editing
- File search
- Email option
- Multimedia player
- Print option
- Change color depth
- Scan (batch scan) support
- Cut/crop
- IPTC editing
- Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
- Capturing
- Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
- Lossless JPG rotation
- Unicode support
- Many hotkeys
- Many command line options
- Many PlugIns
- Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like “I Agree” or “Evaluation expired”
9. Imageforge
ImageForge provides you with a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. It allows you to create and edit images, acquire pictures from your scanner, digital camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more
Key features include
- 3D text titles
- Resizing
- Zoom levels
- Enlarge Canvas
- Rotate by degree
- Effects filters
- Global color replace
- Greyscale Masking
- Create GIF and AVI Animations
10. Blender
Blender is an open source 3D software that provides a range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves. It offers flexible and full configurable window layout with as many screen setups as you prefer.
Key features include
- User friendly interface
- Modeling
- Undo support on all levels
- Built-in text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts
- Rigging
- Rendering
- Custom themes
- Fast skeleton creation mode
- Animation
- UV Unwrapping
- Shading
- Physics and Particles
- Imaging and compositing
- Realtime 3D/Game Creation and a lot more
Supported Platforms include
- Windows 2000, XP, Vista
- Mac OS X (PPC and Intel)
- Linux (i386)
- Linux (PPC)
- FreeBSD 5.4 (i386)
- SGI Irix 6.5
- Sun Solaris 2.8 (sparc)
11. PhotoFiltre
PhotoFiltre is a new freeware to create black and white effects preserving some parts of the image in color. It has a very easy to use interface. At first, you’ll think it looks just like MS Paint, but wait till you really get inside it. PhotoFiltre supports nearly all types of image files. The basic editing tools like flip, rotate, skew, offset and others, not to talk about cut, copy and paste, from the Edit and Image menus, will no longer seem attractive after you find the filters and effects like soften, sharpen, noise, relief, color, artistic, visual effect, deform, stylize, frame, flatten, edges, texture or photo mask.
12. Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a free of cost software that is quiet unique from the rest. It allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles.
13. Ultimate Paint
Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI ), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO , IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats. It offers a flexible brush handling method which encourages creative drawing. It’s similar to what good old Deluxe Paint had, so if you’re familiar with DP, you will love Ultimate Paint.
14. DrawPlus
DrawPlus is the amazing drawing and graphics software that enables you to create stunning vector graphics, family trees, room layouts and even web animations. It features Auto Trace, Export optimizer, web preview, filter effects, dimension lines, flow charts and more. With DrawPlus you can create outstanding vector drawings, high-impact graphics and eye-catching animations without any professional help or experience.
Key features include
- Drawing & Sketching
- Backdrop Wizard
- Studio resources
- Color selection
- Animation mode
- Blends
- Watermark Wizard
- Border Wizard
- Transparency
- Editable Envelopes and
- High impact text for headlines
15. Formati
Formati is a graphics file converter that support bmp, gif, jpg, png, wmf, emf, ico, icl, bmp, tga, tif, pcx, pcd, psd, psp, ppm, sgi, cut and eps; save formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, tif, tga, ico and icl image formats. It features 34 effects including buttonize and seamless, Shape and Text tool, GIF and JPG optimizer, screen capture, smart resize, adjustable blending of two images, icon libraries and more.
I’m really not good with Adobe Photoshop or any other Image editor for that matter. I recently started doing some editing online with free web-based Image editors. I’ve found a few websites that work so good for me that I never have to worry about editing anymore. I’m sure you will find the following image editors really really useful. On the top of my head I’ve got
Some of the best free Online Image editors include
16. Pixlr
Pixlr is definitely my favorite online Image editor. It’s a Flash-based image editor that shares a similar user interface to Adobe Photoshop. It allows you to upload your images and edit them in your browser. It is so perfect for users with basic editing needs.
17. Pheonix
Phoenix is a powerful web-based image editor by Aviary. To fully appreciate the potential of this excellent image editor Check out this list of tutorials. Phoenix delivers the key features of a desktop image editor with the simplicity and accessibility of a web-based application. It allows you to import images from popular photo sharing websites. It offers Complementary suite of creation tools, rich editing toolsets and powerful layers
18. Splashup
An image editor that integrates with popular photo sharing services like Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook. One of the most coolest features Splashup offers is that you can access your photos remotely, Key features include Capture images from webcam, Layers with blending modes, filters and brushes. It’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.
19. FotoFlexer
Fotoflexer is an easy to use online Image Editor that offers lot of great features. It also integrates with popular web services such as Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook, MySpace and more. It comes in handy when you’re looking for some quick common photo-editing needs such as cropping, resizing, and rotating.
20. Sumo Paint
SumoPaint offes professional and easy to use tools for creating and editing images within a browser. It features
- Shape Tools
- Layers with Blending modes
- Brushes
- Ink tool
- Text tool
- Eraser
- Clone Stamp tool and more
I think that’s about it for now. Feel free to subscribe to my RSS for updates and more cool websites.
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thanks for sharing all these 20 free image editors