Imager Resizer

Image Resizer

Image Resizer for Windows is a utility that lets you resize one or more selected image files directly from Windows Explorer by right-clicking. I created it so that modern Windows users could regain the joy they left behind with Microsoft’s Image Resizer Powertoy for Windows XP.

Homepage: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/

Download page: http://imageresizer.codeplex.com/releases/view/30247

Paint.NET

Paint.NET

Paint.NET è un software di manipolazione immagini, scritto in C#, freeware ma con funzioni proprie di software commerciali, come la possibilità di usare layers.

FEATURES:

• Simple, intuitive user interface.
  • Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. It is also designed to be immediately familiar to users of the original MS Paint software
    that comes with Windows.
• Layers
  • Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.
• Powerful Tools
  • Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as a huge improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections
    is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.
• Unlimited History
  • Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody changes their mind. To accommodate this, every action you perform on an image is recorded in the History window and may be undone. Once you’ve undone an action, you can also redo it. The length of the history is only limited by available disk space.
• Special Effects
  • Many special effects are included for perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting. Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image’s brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.
• Open Source and Free
  • Paint.NET is provided free-of-charge, and the source code (all 133,000 lines of it) is also available for free under generous licensing terms. The bulk of Paint.NET is written in C#, with only a small amount of code
    related to setup and shell-integration written in C++.
• Changes in Paint.NET 3.5.6:
  • Improved: When pasting an image, Paint.NET will be smarter about ensuring it is placed within the area that has been scrolled/zoomed to.
  • Improved: Performance and quality of the Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustments.
  • Improved: Some minor improvements to memory usage, which should help out a few scenarios on 32-bit systems.
  • Fixed: Copy-paste from a Remote Desktop session will no longer be ‘shifted’ by 3 pixels.
  • Fixed: Copy-paste from Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome should preserve alpha/transparency.
  • Fixed: Copying from Paint.NET and pasting into Windows Live Writer should now work.
  • Fixed: Taking a full-screen screenshot with Print Screen on a multimonitor system, where those monitors don’t form a simple rectangle, will now fill the ‘gap area’ with transparent instead of black. (Example: two monitors of the same size, one of which is rotated by 90 degrees)
  • Fixed: If Paint.NET is opened without specifying an image to open, and then the default image is modified and saved, then Paint.NET will no longer close that image upon opening another one. This was causing
    data loss if that default image had layers, and was then saved in a format that did not support layers (anything other than .PDN).
  • Fixed: Some systems were showing ‘red X’ thumbnails for .PDN files in Windows Explorer, instead of the real thumbnail.
  • Fixed: The EXIF “Creation Software” saved along with images is no longer localized. This prevents certain languages from seeing “Paint.NET ????? v3.5.6” in the image properties (metadata).

OS: Windows 2000/XP(SP3)/2003/Vista/7

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://www.getpaint.net/

Download: http://www.dotpdn.com/files/Paint.NET.3.5.6.Install.zip

PiCasa

Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great.
Sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!

Picasa helps you find and organise all your pictures: you start Picasa, it scans your hard drive to find and automatically organise all your pictures. Picasa finds the following image and movie file types:

• Image file types: JPG, GIF, TIF, PSD, PNG, BMP, RAW (including NEF and CRW). GIF and PNG files are not scanned by default, but you can enable them in the options dialogue.
• Film file types: MPG, AVI, ASF, WMV, and MOV.

Picasa features:

• Organise – Picasa instantly locates and organises all the pictures on your computer.
• Edit – Turn a grey sky into a picture-perfect day.
• Share – The hardest part of sharing your pictures is choosing your favourites.
• Prints & Products – Print beautiful pictures at home with more custom sizes or order prints, gifts and books from your favourite online companies.
• Backup – Do not lose your digital memories. Safely back up your photos with Picasa 2.
• Create – Enjoy your pictures in fun, creative ways ??“ it is what photography is all about!

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://picasa.google.com/index.html

Download Page:  http://dl.google.com/picasa/picasa36-setup.exe

Photoscape

Photoscape

“Photoscape“ is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

Key Features

• Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a 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, clone stamp
• Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos
• Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo
• Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo
• Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo
• Print: Print portrait shots, carte de visites(CDV), passport photos
• Splitter: Slice a photo into several pieces
• Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
• Color Picker: Zoom in on images, search and pick a color
• Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG
• Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper
• Face Search: Find similar faces on the Internet

License: freeware

Homepage: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php

Download page: http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php

Fotosizer

Fotosizer
Fotosizer is a freeware batch image resizer tool. It resizes your photos in just 3 easy steps:

1. Photo selection
2. Select resize settings
3. Start the resize!

Increasingly, sharing photos on the internet is becoming more and more popular. Photos, represented as JPEG files from digital cameras, taken at high resolutions are far too large to send over the Internet, with some photos ending up at 5 mega bytes. Uploading one photo to a photo sharing website is fine, but 10, 20, or even more, this can take forever, especially on a dial-up connection.

With Fotosizer, you can shrink JPEG image files, along with other supported formats, and dramatically reduce internet transfer times, enabling you to quickly and easily prepare your image collections to be published on the web.

Help unlock the photos from your digital camera. Use Fotosizer to batch resize your photos making it easier and faster to email to friends, upload to photo sharing websites or upload to websites that offer photo printing services.

Fotosizer lets you resize in 3 easy steps, allowing you to choose the photos you want to resize, the dimensions, and where you want to save the new photos.

Resize quickly and easily using a preset list of sizes including iPod, iPhone, and Sony PSP screen sizes.

O.S.: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://www.fotosizer.com/

Download: http://www.fotosizer.com/download.aspx

LiberKey Ultimate

LiberKey Ultimate

Liberkey is a collection of portable apps in a variety of categories that can be run on your local PC or from any portable media. Take these important apps with you and use on any computer.

Features:
* 100% mobility with portable applications
* A rigorous selection among more than 1800 applications
* Updates of LiberKey directly by Internet
* You can temporarily associate files extensions (.avi, .jpg, doc.,…) with LiberKey applications
* And, it is free, without virus, spyware, adware, popup, etc.

LiberKey Ultimate includes 168 free programs in the following categories:
* Audio
* CD/DVD
* File Management
* Graphics
* Internet
* Network
* Office
* Security
* System Utils
* Video

The complete list of all programs available on LiberKey: http://www.liberkey.com/en/suites/liberkey-ultimate.html

OS: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

Size: 209MB

License: Freeware

Homepage: http://www.liberkey.com/

Download (english version): http://download.liberkey.com/lbk/LiberKey_Ultimate_EN.exe

XnView

XnView

“XnView” is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. Support of more than 400 graphics formats. XnView exists for Windows, MacOS X, Linux x86, Linux ppc, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, NetBSD x86, Solaris sparc, Solaris x86, Irix mips, HP-UX, AIX. The most important features are: Import about 400 graphic file formats and Export about 50 graphic file formats.

OS: Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista/Seven

License: Freeware for private non-commercial, educational use and non-profit organization. Commercial use is not authorized without agreement or orderinge

Homepage: http://www.xnview.com

Download: http://www.xnview.com/en/download.html