MERGE V2.0 Is a freeware graphic utility for overlaying two images in any relative position prior to saving the result to a file.

You can merge the two images in many different ways. No need to worry about relative positioning or image size/scaling differences.

Batch merge files from a directory with a single image file of your choice.
Useful to watermark all your images in just one hit.

* Merge whole pictures with adjustable blending modes.
* Fade out one image and fade in the other image towards the edge of the final picture.
* Batch Merge files with a single image - useful for watermarking your favorite images.
* Type up to ten lines of text of any font, size and color and merge it with an image.
* Smoothly blend in just part of a source image to the final result.
* Using the clipboard: copy back result back to a source image and rescale or reposition it for remerging. This results in ineresting effects.
* Set any relative positioning of the images on top, side by side or overlapping. See an example of a quadrant merge.
* The image formats for loading and saving are BMP,JPEG,PNG,TIF,TGA,PCX.
Runs on: Windows 95,98,NT4,2000,XP

Photobie is featured with an unique intuitive layer manager, which enable our users to handle multiple layers with ease for advanced image editing. It beholds a wide variety of painting tools that are crucial for photo retouching. Photobie supports Photoshop filter(.8BF) plugins, which means that our users can apply thousands of free filters to their images. Meantime, Photobie provides an advanced screen capture tool, the simpliest gif animation tool, and a photo framing tool. Photobie integrates an image directory browser with batch resize/rotate, full screen slide show features.

Guess what? Photobie is the only software used for the graphics design and the animations in this site. Hope it gives you a quick idea about what Photobie can do? what you can do? ... Yes, you can do it!

Slideroll Gallery and Slideroll Video Creator

Slideroll Gallery AV is a simple tool that makes publishing your own photo and video gallery really easy and fun. That's it, no big whoop. Gallery AV creates great-looking, customizable Flash photo and video galleries. Simply drag and drop your photos and videos onto the creator. PC users can even record your own audio narration!

Slideroll™ Video Creator is a PC application that turns your Slideroll slideshows into true video. Once you make a Slideroll Video, you can use it in your Video CD and DVD projects, and even upload it to YouTube to broadcast to the world!

Features at a Glance

* Turns your Flash slideshows into MPEG Video
* Add an MP3 Soundtrack
* Create 320 x 240 and 640 x 480 videos.
* Compatible with Windows Media Player, Quicktime, Vegas Movie Studio, and Windows Movie Maker
* Compatible with Nero DVD and Video CD software, most other DVD authoring suites

Image Analyzer - Graphics Freeware for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.
Features:

* Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment
* Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc.
* Retouch tools
* Retinex filter for reducing shadows and increasing local contrast
* Deconvolution for out-of-focus and motion blur compensation (see below)
* Easy red-eye removal
* User specified filters in spatial and frequency domain
* Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images
* Scanner, camera and printer support
* File format support:
Read/write BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX, JPEG and JPEG 2000 images
Read RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files
* Morphological operations
* Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, Lab, YCbCr, YIQ and PCA
* Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation
* Math expression module for creating and transforming images and advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver

Topaz DeJpeg

Everyone has observed blocks and fringes caused by JPEG compression. This has become an inevitable, if annoying, part of digital imaging, and we have all learned to live with it. Topaz Labs proudly ends this problem by releasing our JPEG enhancer – free. This Photoshop plug-in removes JPEG artifacts and enhances image clarity simultaneously. Its ease of use makes it perfect for everyone while its advanced algorithms achieve optimal results.

No Photoshop? No problem! It works with anything that supports Photoshop plugins, including freeware such as Irfanview and GIMP.

VirtualPhotographer - Download the free Photoshop plug-in that's getting rave reviews from digital photographers!

virtualPhotographer lets you instantly apply high quality, professional photographic styles to your digital images, with just one click.

virtualPhotographer includes over 50 presets that automatically apply combinations of film grain, color modification, B/W, soft focus, high contrast and many artistic effects to achieve the same professional-looking images that used to take hours of photo editing. Get results in seconds!

Compatible with Photoshop®, Photoshop® Elements, Paint Shop™ Pro®, Photo-Paint and other popular imaging applications.

Tint is a photo editor for colour-select effects.

It automatically clusters the colours of a photo into groups, and allows each colour to be switched on or off to create the desired effect.

Wire Pilot is photo retouching software specially designed for wire removal.

The software allows you to retouch wires, posts, antennas and other unwanted linear objects from a photo. With this program you'll be able to quite easily retouch digital photos to enhance outdoor scenes.

You can choose to download Wire Pilot as a standalone program or a plugin for Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements 4, Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Macromedia Fireworks and XnView.

Note: We found that Wire Pilot works best when the wire is against an untextured background such as sky - when the wire was against a textured backgroung such as tile or brickwork, the touch up was less tidy. Even so, using the 'background noise' button in this case improved the appearance of the touchup.

Project Dogwaffle is a Paint Program. Not a Photo editing program. Not an imaging tool. Not an image conversion tool, even though it can serve many of these markets too, it has various enhancement and conversion filters, special effects and color adjustments, the primary reason for Dogwaffle is for you to paint - without the mess!

Project Dogwaffle features include realistic paint effects similar to Corel Painter, a frame-based animation tool, the standard paint tools common to most modern bitmap paint programs, and an alpha channel for transparency effects.

Some of PD Pro's best features include realtime filters that update as you adjust them in full screen, and a particle painting tool that paints things like trees and grass, and can also be animated to produce typical particle system effects.

Animation tools include a timeline for applying filters, an exposure sheet, a keyframer to move images around, the ability to paint with animated brushes, a batch processor, pulldowns and retiming, and other items of use to animators and motion graphic artists.

Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows

Created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art.
Besides the primary Japanese interface, it is also available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Polish, Korean and German. The program supports multiple layers, transparency effects, standard file formats and a number of rgb file formats including psd. The main file extension used by this program is .pxa.

XnView is a multi-award winning utility for viewing and converting graphic files.

It is hugely fully featured: Import about 400 graphic file formats Export about 50 graphic file formats Multipage TIFF, Animated GIF, Animated ICO support Image IPTC, EXIF metadata support EXIF auto rotation support IPTC editing Resize, rotate, crop 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)

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency

Main Features:

* Support for Vista icon with PNG compression
* Create icons for Windows 98 / ME / 2000 / XP / Vista
* Support for transparency (alpha channel)
* Batch processing for import, export and extract
* Multiple language support
* More than 40 effects + custom filter
* Resolutions up to 256x256
* Data types: 2, 16, 256, True Color, True Color + Alpha
* Extract icons from 32 bit exe and dll
* Import and export images
* Transparent, Brighten/Darken, Blur/Sharpen tools

Key Features:

* Viewer: View your folders photos, slideshow
* Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
* Batch editor: Batch editing multiple photos
* Page: Make one photo by merging multiple photos at the page frame
* Combine: Make one photo by attaching multiple photos vertically or horizontally
* Animated GIF: Make one animation photo with multiple photos
* Print: Print portrait shot, carte de visite, passport photo
* Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
* Color Picker: Zoom in screen on images, search and pick the color
* Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
* Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG

Serif PhotoPlus 6 is the perfect choice for editing and enhancing your digital images and photos for print, email and the web.

Main Features: * Export Optimizer * Photo Enhancement * Selection Tools * Image Slicing & Maps * Editable Text * QuickShapes

Note: Serif will ask you to register after downloading and installing the software

Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows.

It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

"... An absolute joy to use." - WebUser Magazine Review
"Paint.NET is a breath of fresh air." - User review

Note: Very impressive. Requires Win XP or Vista however, and Netframework2. The download without Netframework is five mg, with Netframework, 50mg

The Gimp

Impressive fully featured open source photo editor.

As good as the awesome 'Photoshop' but FREE - the best description is given by Wikipedia rather than the GIMP download site

Read about it here

Not for the faint hearted though, requires some learning (as does Photoshop) but if you're serious about photo editing - don't miss this!

GIMPShop was created by Scott Moschella. The menu structure and terminology are adapted to to look and feel more like Photoshop, and other adjustments were made to make 'The GIMP' more usable.

In the Windows version, the Deweirdifyer Plugin has been used to place all of the various windows into one nesting window, so it will act more like a single program that multiple little programs.. Also the menu structure and terminology are adapted to to look and feel more like Photoshop.

GIMPShop was orginally developed for Mac OS X, but has been ported to Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

Top Features:
Multiple file formats supported like: ANI, CUR, BMP, GIF, JPG and many more
You can see the thumbnail preview of an image.
Provides various filter effects to an image like: Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF etc
Rotate JPG file without loss in quality.
Hassle free instalation only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages.

Porta turns an image directory into a neatly formatted web photo album. Besides being free its primary virtues are:

* It's fast,
* it's simple to use,
* it's lightweight,
* it produces clean and uncluttered web pages that
will load fast and look good in all modern browsers.

* You can burn your photo album to CD, copy it to portable storage device or upload it to the web.

Blender

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Note: These guys really know how to sell their product, eh? (Not!)

You've got to check out the site, awsome images!

Serif DrawPlus 4 has all the power and tools you need to create attention-grabbing logos, striking text and artistic masterpieces!

Main Features: * Drag 'n' Drop Formatting * Animation Mode * Advanced Graphics * Border Wizard * Transparency Effects * Backdrop Wizard

Note: Serif will ask you to register after downloading and installing the software

Picasa instantly locates and organises all the pictures on your computer - Find the pictures you forgot you had!

Picasa organises your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date.

Picasa's Basic Fixes are buttons that make it fast and easy to crop, remove red eye, fix the contrast and colour, and enhance your digital pictures.

Move and re-name pictures from inside Picasa - Want to clean up messy folders and move pictures around on your computer's hard drive? Simply drag and drop pictures from one folder in Picasa to another. Picasa will make the change permanent after double-checking with you. Want to change a picture's filename from 671056398a.jpg to Lisa.jpg? In Picasa, it only takes seconds to re-name one picture or a group of pictures.
Make an album.

Use the "Albums" collection to tag your photos into quick groupings inside Picasa. Viewing and sharing the pictures you grouped under an album is easy – they make great slideshows and movies or you can email them to friends.
Add a star rating.

Give a gold star to any photo you love: it turns your favourites into visual standouts at a glance. Picasa even has a star search that reduces your entire photo collection to the best of the best in less than a second.
Keep one picture in multiple albums.

Picasa creates a new “instance” of each photo you label without taking up more space on your computer, so you can put the same picture into multiple albums.

Password-protect collections - Have photos you want to keep to yourself? You can add passwords to any of your Picasa collections (this does not affect which pictures you and others can see on your computer’s hard drive).

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X.

Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.

Inkscape's main goal is to create a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development