An intuitive and surprisingly comprehensive logo design tool. There are quite a few logo examples and a good-sized collection of mix-and-match graphics.
Fireworks lets users import files from all major graphics formats and manipulate both vector and bitmap images to quickly create graphics and interactivity. Images can be easily exported to Dreamweaver, Flash and third-party applications.
Alias Sketchbook Pro, is a natural media productivity program created specifically for use with touch sensitive pen and tablet interfaces, such as Wacom graphics tablets or Tablet PCs.
"ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools."
Bailiwick is a terrain raw file editor that allows b&w terrain maps to be converted to multi-channel raw files that can be uploaded into Second Life and Opensim.
B/Works is for creating old fashioned B/W images, Sepia or Duotone colored images. For picture which doesn't look very exciting in color, try to experiment with B/Works.
Versatile and easy-to use multimedia imaging software from Olympus. CAMEDIA Master software allows easy processing, editing, organizing and printing of digital images.
CLIP STUDIO is a graphics editing software published by CELSYS. It provide functions specifically for digital illustration or comic works creation. CLIP STUDIO combined the previous products, IllustStudio and ComicStudio of CELSYS, which PRO edition enables single page creation and EX edition enables multi-page creation with extra features.
DELETER COMIC WORKS is a graphic software, specific for drawing manga style comics. Same developer is developing openCanvas, specific for colour graphics.
This application is for designing Greeting cards, Business cards, flyers, etc. This version is a very old version from about 1997 but runs perfectly using the latest version of wine. It even locates the cd rom and printer for selecting the graphics from the cd and for printing your designs.
If you have printable CD labels (such as the Memorex sticker sheets) and want to be able to print out professional looking CD covers without having to worry about sizing and origins, this is the perfect program to use. Although a fairly poor graphical editor, you can paste your own images in this and easy move and resize them to fit where you want.
WebGallery is a simple software for easy creating online and offline web galleries. Every image can be described and later searched by its description. It stores all needed information about the gallery in a separate XML file, which is read and visualised in web browser. It automaticly generates image thumbnails and if requested - resizes big images ready for web publishing. Every gallery is easy edited, so one can add or remove images in a matter of a click. Currently, only IE 5.0 and higher is supported for the only template.
This is a batch Windows utility intended to mass remove EXIF data, XMP, IPTC, and other metadata formats out of JPEG digital camera photos. Removing does not affect actual image quality. Other features include: previewing of EXIF, copying EXIF details to the clipboard, a portable edition of the software.
FantaMorph is an easy to use application for morphing images; it can create still images, video files or animated GIF output from one or more still images. A single image can be warped into a different shape, creating a simple single image morph, and two or more images can be morphed together.
GMask is a program used to mask/unmask parts of an image in various different ways. It is common on imageboard type communities and often used for censorship of pornographic materials.
Graphics Gale is a feature-rich freeware editor for pixel-accurate media, animated or static, especially sprites and other videogame/computer-related graphics.
HDR Expose is a program that can either create a sudo HDR by using a single image, or the merging of multiple exposures of the same scene to produce a high range of brightness and colors that would normally not be able to be seen by a traditional picture standards
Used to remove noise in images like Neat Image. Will also sharpen and remove red-eye. Works fine with no errors. Some text labels cannot be seen, but if you hover the cursor over them the hints come up and you can figure out what they are. Seems a bit slow, but very functional. I tested the free version.
IconXP is a fully featured icon creation package that supports creating cursors and icons with alpha channel transparency. It also has an intuitive image importing mechanism that supports PNG.
A graphics program widely used by the game-making community (RPG Maker in particular), which uses palletized graphics, grid snapping, and animation previews. It is very useful for those making graphics for a tile-based game.
JPEGCrops is a Windows program, created for preparation of a batch of images for printing. It provides lossless cropping with fixed aspects using jpegtran.
Manga Studio is the English version of the Japanese program Comics Studio. It's made specifically for drawing black and white comics, and is excellent at that. It comes in two versions Debut and EX. Features include, layers, rotating work surface, panel rules, word balloon tool, a variety of drawing pens, airbrush, image transformation tools and more. As of version 5, built-in 3D models and better coloring has been added.
mdiapp is the Japanese program for drawing black and white comics.It can change also into English from a menu. Features include, layers, rotating work surface, rulers, a variety of drawing pens, airbrush and more.
Mirage is a powerful, creative environment for the production of 2D animation and special effects. Designed for professional studios and freelancers requiring a maximum of flexibility and productivity, Mirage combines real-time paint, animation, and special effects functionalities into a single product. A true paperless digital animation system, Mirage dramatically broadens the capabilities of traditional 2D animators, and is proven to save up to 50% in production time compared with traditional 2D pipelines.
Mobipocket Creator is a desktop program to generate ebooks into the MobiPocket *.prc format out of text, html, Microsoft Word, Adobe PDF and graphics gallery formats.
Painting and graphics program for traditional artists in the digital medium. Draws smooth lines, and has an interesting "replay" function which lets you see how artists created their works.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.This is a .NET application and it needs the .NET 2.0 framework.
The Panorama Factory from Smoky City Design, LLC is a panoramic stitching program for Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP. You can use it to create high-quality panoramas from a set of overlapping digital images from a single vantage point. The Panorama Factory transforms (warps) the images so that they can be joined seamlessly into panoramas whose fields of view can range up to 360 degrees. In fact, you can make panoramas that exceed 360 degrees if you wish!
Super-resolution processor for photographs. Combines multiple photos of the same scene to increase resolution, decrease noise, increase dynamic range, increase focus, remove moving objects, etc.
PhotoInstrument is a powerful and easy-to-learn raster graphics editor used to process digital photographs. With only a few clicks, anyone can solve most digital photo problems:
Quickly, easily and professionally remove the GREEN SCREEN from photos and replace it with background images and add overlays in front of the subject as well. This is not a simple cut-out process. The green (or blue) is automatically detected and removed with edge smoothing and a lot of other special features. This is a commercial product but well worth the money!
Photoline is a very powerfull dtp applikation, image editor and image viewer. It has one of best PSD format (Photoshop) support available in a none Adobe application.
PhotoZoom Pro is based on S-Spline XL. It is able to render sharp and crisp clear image magnifications, perfectly focused, yet without the jagged edges, loss of detail or lack of photorealism that normally come with enlarging images.
The editor converts AVI, JPEG, Bitmap, PNG to JVC's Personalized Image Capture Technology format to use on their awesome auto receivers. But only available in M$ software, but it is free, what a drag.
Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but it is useful for any kind of art. Besides the primary Japanese interface, it is also available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. The program supports multiple layers, transparency effects, and a number of rgb file formats including psd.
Panoramic Digital Photo Stitching Program. Also includes HDR (High Dynamic Range) capabilities allowing a full HDR Panoramic Workflow to be carried out.
Qimage Pro is a digital imaging application that has grown from its simple roots of printing multiple images on a single page, to being one of the most frequently referred to and highly recommended digital image applications in the world.
The most widespread application downloadable from mostly all online-photo purchase services. It enables you do design your own photo-books, t-shirts, mugs etc.
ThumbsPlus is a highly customizable image database with thumbnails and batch editing. It makes it easy to catalog, organize, locate and maintain all of your graphics, multimedia and font files.
"Use this easy drawing program to produce a variety of documents. From graphics to presentation materials, you can add layers, text effects, shapes, and many other features. Top Draw supports WMF, DIB, DMB, and PCX formats." (PC World)
With TrueGrain you can edit your photographies. It turns them into monochrome photographies using different types of films (e.g. Kodak Verichrome Pan 120, Agfa APX 400 120).
