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PhotoDemon is a photo editor that stands out from the crowd through its exquisite selection of effects and tools that can be used for enhancing an image collection. Its rich feature set is accompanied by an intuitive interface that emphasizes on usability and accessibility.

Freeware

Release Notes

    What’s new and improved:

    In no particular order, here are some of the new features available in PhotoDemon 8.0. Where applicable, I’ve tried to link each update to its relevant commit and/or feature request page on GitHub or Patreon, or where applicable, an explanation of the feature somewhere like Wikipedia.
    Note: this page contains animated images. These animations are supported by all major mobile and desktop browsers, but if you’re using an old browser (like Internet Explorer, which should no longer be used), you may not see the animations. Switch to a modern browser like Edge, Firefox, Safari or Chrome to see this page in its full glory!
    First up, Clone and Pattern stamp brushes are now available. I’ve already written about these at-length, so visit that article for more details, but as a quick summary, a clone brush allows you to “paint” with a brush that’s copied from one or more other images. You can use this to remove blemishes from an image (by using an un-blemished region as the brush’s source), or you can use it to paint various patterns, as in the sample animation below. The new tools support brushes up to 1,000 pixels in size, and the usual range of brush features (including edge softness, opacity, blend mode, and more) are fully supported.
    A new on-canvas gradient tool is also available. Gradients can be created in eight shapes with four edge-wrapping modes. The tool supports real-time previewing and editing, even on very large (20+ megapixel) images.
    As part of the new gradient tool, a greatly expanded and updated gradient editor now ships with the program. Choose from a built-in collection of stylized gradients, or create and save your own using the interactive editor
    PhotoDemon now ships with built-in support for Adobe Photoshop (PSD) files and their open-source equivalent, OpenRaster (ORA) files. All Photoshop color models are supported, and images with embedded color profiles are automatically color-managed. PhotoDemon can also export images to PSD and ORA format(s), with full support for layers, blend modes, and many other features, which makes it a breeze to copy your work between programs.
    A new search tool is available in the top-right corner of the main window. Use it to quickly locate tools, adjustments, effects, or any other program feature. (And if you’re more of a keyboard person, Ctrl+F brings up the search bar automatically.)
    Canvas rulers are now displayed automatically, with support for measurements in pixels, inches, centimeter and millimeter, points, and picas.
    A new Measure tool has been added, with built-in support for automatic horizon straightening
    Selection tools have seen many improvements, including long-requested support for aspect-ratio locking
    A new Effects > Render menu is available, including new Cloud and Fiber rendering effects that make great use of the new gradient editor
    A new state-of-the-art Surface Blur tool ships in the Effects > Blur menu. This tool is built using technology from a 2012 paper by Qingxiong Yang, and it outperforms other popular photo editors by 1000% percent or more. (As an example, applying a 100-pixel radius surface blur to a 12-megapixel iPhone photo takes just 3 seconds in PhotoDemon, and only one CPU core is used. On the same photo, Paint.NET maxes out 4 CPU cores and take more than 40 seconds to complete.)
    A wide range of minor tools, commands, and effects have been added to further close the gap between PhotoDemon and pro tools like Photoshop. These range from silly things like a new Pixelate > Pointillize effect, to new layer workflow tools (like dedicated fit layer to canvas size and reverse layer order commands), to a new Compare Images tool that auto-calculates PSNR between photos. If you haven’t already, explore the new Image and Layer menus to see all the new goodies available for experienced Photoshop users.
    Many program features can now be controlled via the keyboard, with widespread improvements to tab-order, UI rendering when keys are used for navigation, and keyboard interactions in general.
    Macros can now be directly created from your action history. If you’ve just performed an awesome set of edits to an image, use the new Tools > Create macro > From history… menu to save those actions to a macro file.
    All edit boxes now support simple math expressions
    PhotoDemon now ships with a custom-built PNG engine. This greatly improves performance when loading and saving PNG images, copying+pasting images between applications, and using file formats that directly embed PNG data (like OpenRaster files). The new engine also produces smaller PNG files than other software by using advanced compression technology by the open-source libdeflate library.
    That custom PNG engine I just mentioned? It was very helpful in adding animated PNG support to the project. In fact, all animations on this page were created in PhotoDemon, by PhotoDemon, using the new Tools > Animated screen capture menu. (Unlike animated GIFs, animated PNGs support 16-million colors, high-resolution timestamps, and potentially smaller file sizes.)
    Similarly, animated GIF files are now supported! Animations can be previewed right inside the main window, using the Navigation panel in the top-right. Create your own animated images by using the new File > Export > Animated GIF and File > Export > Animated PNG menus.
    Windows icon (ICO) files are now fully supported. Icon frames are loaded as separate layers, and when exporting ICO files, PhotoDemon can auto-generate as many icon frame formats as you request, in both legacy (uncompressed bitmap) and modern (PNG) formats. Even better, beginners can just select which Windows version they want to target, and PhotoDemon will figure out what frames to generate for you.
    Layers can now be split out into individual images, edited at will, then reassembled back into their original image. This makes some complex editing tasks much easier.
    The batch processor now supports drag+drop from Windows Explorer when creating a batch process list. This makes it a snap to add complex collections of files or folders.
    More than a dozen Adjustment filters have been rewritten for improved quality across a wide range of photography styles. The Auto-Correct and Auto-Enhance tools now produce faster, subtler results, particularly on skin-tones, while standard adjustments like Exposure and Gamma received updated user interfaces to make them even faster and simpler to use.
    Many program behaviors now support customization via prompts. For example, Drag-dropping images onto the canvas now displays a dialog for how to handle the dropped image, and you can always ask PhotoDemon to remember your preference in the future
    Color palettes can now be applied from any palette file using the Effects > Stylize > Palettize menu. Supported palette formats include GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET, and PaintShop Pro/JASC. Palettes can also be generated from any image and exported to all of these formats using the new File > Export > Palette menu.
    Dozens of effects have received large performance and feature updates. Nearly all transform, distort, and artistic filters have been rewritten for improved speed, while noise removal tools like the Median filter are now significantly faster at large radii and/or on large images. (These improvements were made possible by a number of new effect engines, including a multiresolution wavelet optimizer.)
    PhotoDemon now provides a high-speed perfect color matcher using KD-trees. This improves performance on many adjustments and effects, and it also improves performance when saving images to certain file formats (especially palette-based formats, like GIF).
    Saved adjustment and effect presets can now be edited, deleted, or rearranged to your liking.
    Using the program in languages other than English no longer incurs minor UI performance penalties, thanks to a new custom-built Boyer-Moore text matching engine.
    The color selector panel of the main window now provides a list of recently used colors at the bottom of the panel
    and the color selector can also be switched to a new “use palette from file” mode, including auto-matching colors to their nearest palette equivalent when using the color selector tool
    Speaking of the right-side toolbar, all panels can now be resized to your liking
    Want to quickly strip all metadata from an image? Just use the new Image > Metadata > Remove all metadata tool.
    As part of PhotoDemon’s long-running commitment to user privacy, photodemon.org has been migrated to a secure (https) server. All PhotoDemon update checks and downloads are now served exclusively over secured connections.
    Tools that use random numbers now support a new UI for entering random seed values (inspired by Minecraft, of all things). This allows you to recreate “random” effects identically across multiple images.
    Various improvements have been made to running PhotoDemon on OSX and Linux via Wine, including fixing a number of Wine-specific UI problems.
    As part of a new initiative to make PhotoDemon as stable as possible, debug logging now auto-activates whenever a program crash is detected. You can always send those debug logs directly to me to help solve any problems you encounter.

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http://photodemon.org/

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ExifTool kann mehr als nur Meta-Daten lesen und schreiben: Die von der Kamera gelieferten EXIF-Daten sind nicht immer korrekt, beispielsweise wenn das Kameradatum nicht stimmt oder der Kommentar noch auf den Vorbesitzer der Kamera hinweist. Solche Fehler korrigiert das Exif-Tool.

Die Sammlung von Perl-Skripten liest EXIF-, IPTC- und XMP-Daten und ändert diese auf Wunsch. Einen separaten Perl-Interpreter braucht man nicht. Für den vollen Funktionsumfang muss man sich mit der Kommandozeile vertraut machen, zum Korrigieren der Metadaten einzelner Bilder genügt das auf ExifTool aufsetzende ExifTool GUI.

Freeware

Changelog

    Added a new Panasonic SelfTimer value (thanks Herb)
    Decode a few more DPX tags (thanks Harry Mallon)
    Extract AIFF APPL tag as ApplicationData
    Fixed bug writing QuickTime ItemList 'gnre' Genre values
    Fixed an incorrect value for Panasonic VideoBurstResolution (thanks Herb)
    Fixed problem when applying a time shift to some invalid makernote date/time values

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http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

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PicView is an Open Source Image Viewer for Windows, designed to efficiently and quickly browse through images supporting all common file formats, including .heic, .psd, .png, .jpg & RAW camera image files.

License: GPLv3

Changelog

    Add adjust zooming speed to settings window
    Updated design and window behavior for the settings window and image effects window
    Fix fullscreen gallery incorrectly showing after opening window after being minimized
    Fixes to slideshow and fullscreen
    Fix wrongly positioned window at startup behavior
    Fix color for white theme for drag and drop preview
    Fix incorrect tooltips
    Improvements to light theme

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https://github.com/Ruben2776/PicView

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QuickImageComment wurde geschrieben, um möglichst einfach und schnell den Benutzerkommentar und Künstler (Autor) in Digitalbildern (z.B. JPEG und TIFF) einzutragen und zu ändern. Diese Attribute werden aus den Exif-, IPTC- und XMP-Eigenschaften des Bildes gelesen und dort wieder gespeichert.

Freeware

Changelog

Enhancements and improvements:

    Main Memory display changed to "Physical memory in use by active processes". This is the value, which is usually shown in task manager.
    Redesign of folder tree view: now includes also network devices (previously only network locations)
    Folder tree view and file view are updated, when folders or files are added, changed or deleted outside the program. No update if files are changed outside, which are selected and have unsaved changes inside the program.
    In properties tables, the change of width of column "value" is considered when displaying next image. Up to now width was determined always new, based on longest entry considering a fixed maximum length.
    New entry in menu "Tools" to show map with standard browser. This allows displaying Google maps, which is not supported by the built-in browser component. URLs for this display are stored in general configuration file. They can be changed there, new URLs can be added. Note: change of GPS-data is not possible here.
    Exif and IPTC data are stored in UTF8, which in general is better supported by other programs to display Meta data. Via mask "Settings", it can be switched off, which means data are stored in the same way as in previous versions.
    Exif.Photo.UserComment is written with charset=Unicode, which in general is better supported by other programs to display Meta data. Via mask "Settings", it can be switched to Ascii, which means data are stored in the same way as in previous versions.
    When reading Exif and IPTC data, it is detected, if they are coded in UTF8 and are converted if needed. This reduces the probability that data written by other programs are not shown correct, if they contain special characters like the German umlauts (ä, ö, ü).
    New version 0.27.3 of library exiv2 integrated, contains error fixes and some new tags.

Following errors are corrected:

    GPS changes done via map were not saved.
    Several minor errors.

Hint:

    This version now requires .NET framework 4.0 (or higher).

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http://www.quickimagecomment.de/index.php/en/

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Edit numerous image files at the same time, with the help of the batch processing capabilities of this application that features a tabbed editing workflow

Donationware

Whats new:>>

The interface has been improved

https://www.batch-photo-editor.com/

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Easily convert photos into cartoons with the help of this specialized graphics editor that comes with a wide variety of filters and effects.

Freeware

https://www.easy-cartoonizer.com/

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Easily convert your photos to gray-scale sketches that you can customize to the very detail via the advanced options using this tool.

Donationware

https://www.easy-sketcher.com/index.html

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Process various types of images with ease thanks to the straightforward features of this application that offers a tabbed editing workflow.

Donationware

Whats new:>>

The interface has been improved

https://www.easy-photo-editor.com/

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FocusOn Image Viewer was designed to view and edit your photos quickly. It is intended to be a one-stop photo manager. You can automatically organize your pictures by date, edit photos without loss of quality and even sharing your photos on your favorite social media sites including Twitter and Facebook. Over 100 image formats supported including JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF, JP2, J2K, PSD, DNG, RAW, and more.

You can organize your images in an Explorer-type interface with thumbnails, and drag and drop is supported. A simple image editor is easy to find and use so you can resize or rotate quickly. You can view image details through the zoom and edit image with crop, filter, adjust and other functions without damaging the original. Edited image can be shared with others by publishing on the Blog, Twitter, Facebook or can be organized automatically by one-click. FocusOn Image Viewer has plenty of features and options to manage and edit your photos without having so many tools that it's over complicated. It instead focuses on exactly what it promises; total management of your photo collection.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

    Hot key for 100% Zoom, Fit on Window
    Display file size when saving images
    Installation option for adding Browse to File Explorer's folder
    Other bug fixes and performance improvements

http://www.pintosoft.com/en/

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A program to create self-executing slide shows or GIF-animations. The program supports several image formats and can create slideshow output files as the following formats (the generated output files can then be provided without this program):

- .EXE-file (self executing, can be burned to CD or sent via e-mail)
- .EXE-game (3 mini-games available, you can change the background(s))
- .SCR-file (screen saver-file, can be used as screen-saver)
- .GIF-file (animated GIF image)
- .SWF-file (flash slide-show)
- .AVI-file (images as film)

The display time for each picture can be set for the complete slide-show or individually per picture. For .EXE- or .SCR-files you have also the possibility to add a background music file. You may install this program together with Alternate Pic View and it integrates itself into the Tools-menu.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

Korean translation updated by JaeHyung Lee
Installation updated, default folder/group name changed for independency from PicView (which will include this app in its standard installation now)

http://www.alternate-tools.com/pages/c_exeslide.php?lang=ENG

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PICOLAY is a graphics utility that features the ability to perform various photo enhancements as well as permitting you to create 3D holograms.

For all the uses included with PICOLAY, it remains lightweight, but the small size is in no way an indication of its power. You can enhance your photos, generate MPO files (allows for any number of JPG files to be saved in an MPO file, but the most common use is for stereoscopic images), GIFs, and slideshows all derived via combined stacks of images.

Freeware

Whats new:>>

    Sorry, there were some bugs in the 3D functions, which hopefully are fixed now.
    Stacking algorithm improved.
    3D File naming improved.

http://www.picolay.de/

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Alternate Pic View is a program that enables you to view image files and make some adjustments. It supports multiple formats, including BMP, JPG, PCX, TGA and WMF.

The interface of the application is familiar and easy to work with. Images can be imported with the help of the file browser or 'drag and drop' method. So, you can use some basic editing tools, such as line, arrow, rectangle, freehand, fill, text and pen, along with the undo and redo functions. But you can also zoom in and out, switch to full screen mode, create a slideshow, enable thumbnail view mode, crop a selection and make Alternate Pic View retain the EXIF/IPTC information.

Alternate Pic View allows you to apply several effects to the pictures; they revolve around rotation, mirror, flip, invert, sharpen, blur, contrast, brightness, pixelization, noise and red eye removal, just to name a few.

The graphic editing tool supports keyboard shortcuts and multiple languages for the interface, has a good response time and contains user documentation. We have not come across any issues throughout our testing; Alternate Pic View did not freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs throughout our testing.  Thanks to its intuitive layout, less experienced users can easily find their way around this app.

Freeware

Whats new: >>

Korean updated by JaeHyung Lee, many thanks
Tools updated: Capturer 1.640, ExeSlide 2.200, Font Export 1.780, Icon Extractor 1.650, Image Converter 2.150
ExeSlide added to standard installation (like portable version)

http://www.alternate-tools.com/pages/c_picview.php?lang=ENG

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Discover a lightweight picture viewer with an elegant design and fluid interface which enables accessibility and an optimal workflow.

GPLv3

Changelog

    Added:

    Frameless mode
    Multi-language support
    Russian localization
    F6 and Ctrl+F6 hotkeys
    Fancy shadows for dialog windows

    Changes:

    The default title bar is back (Better performance and compatibility)
    New PiP mode
    Settings: the new look of the active tab
    New AboutForm

    New update manager:

    Fixed connection error
    Octokit library v0.48
    New update window
    New download window

    Fixed:

    Picture-in-picture blank screen
    Incorrect default save as filter
    Double click to fullscreen not working
    Wrong image location on-maximize
    Settings: OpenFileDialog was preventing the app from closing
    WallpaperForm: Incorrect window location
    Fixed uninstaller issue (#11)

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https://github.com/ModuleArt/quick-picture-viewer

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Sie können Find.Same.Images.OK kostenlos verwenden, um schnell gleiche, oder ähnliche Bilder zu finden, egal, ob diese Fotos gedreht, gespiegelt, verkleinert sind.

# Wie funktioniert das Programm!

Bitte, das Programm sollte nicht mit einem stupidem Dubletten Finder Programm verwechselt werden, das Programm generiert grafische Signaturen und vergleicht diese auf Pixel Basis, aber nicht nur dass, Sie können auch gedrehte, gespiegelte und negative Bilder finden, auch wenn z.B. das Bild in der Größe (Abmessung) verändert wurde. (Was man ja nicht selten macht, wenn das Bild vom Smartphone, oder iPhone kommt).

Whats new:>>

Bug-Fix im Menu: Bildvergleichsergebnisse aus der Ergebnisliste exportieren nach HTML, XLS, CSV, ..!
Geschwindigkeitsoptimierung im Bildvergleich.
Wichtiges Update der Sprachdateien

http://www.softwareok.de/?seite=Freeware/Find.Same.Images.OK

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Mit "StudioLine PhotoBasic" können Sie Ihre persönliche Bildersammlung bequem auf dem Computer verwalten. Die Fotos lassen sich einfach in das Programm importieren. Nun können Sie beliebige Beschreibungen zu den einzelnen Bildern schreiben und später nach Stichworten aus diesen Texten anzeigen lassen.

Daneben stehen eine Vielzahl an Filtern für die Nachbereitung Ihrer Fotos bereit, von der Tonwertkorrektur bis zum Transparentfilter sind alle wichtigen Funktion mitgeliefert. Wenn Ihnen am Ende die Orginalversion des Bildes doch mehr gefällt, können Sie diese auch einfach wiederherstellen; das Programm speichert sie automatisch.

Ihre Bildersammlung können Sie dann als Diashow entweder fürs Web oder auf eine CD/DVD exportieren. Dafür stehen mehrere Vorlagen zur Verfügung.

Das Programm ist nahezu identisch zu StudioLine Photo. Unterschiede zwischen der hier angebotenen Basic-Version und der kommerziellen Vollversion: kein RAW-Support, keine Zeitleisten- und Stichwortdarstellung, keine Updates und Services. Außerdem muss man sich nach 30 Tagen kostenlos registrieren lassen, um das Programm weiterhin zu nutzen.

Changelog

Convenient single-click undo after resetting all descriptors in a group.
Better performance when filtering a the image archive search result that yields at large result set.
Support of foreign language and special characters in Image Archive folder names.
Allow removal of multiple keywords from list of used keywords, rather than just one at a time.
Further user interface refinements with certain scaling settings or small window sizes, incl. “Filtered Image Archive”, “Applied Keywords”, “Timeline” hierarchy, Image Archive paths and recently used lists.
More responsive thumbnail display in Load Assistant, when repeatedly accessing slow external devices, such as cameras, with large images.
Fixed: Unable to use an existing image archive after it was moved to, or appearing on, a different drive letter.
Fixed: “Removable Media Cleanup” dialog was not available for all devices.
Fixed: Improved handling, reporting and recovery from additional, uncommon database access errors.
Further refinements when uploading to and synching with with MediaCenter.

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http://www.studioline.net/DE/produkte/uebersicht-photo-basic/default.htm