Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.
Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple by putting one-click fixes and powerful effects at your fingertips.
You can also incorporate text into your photo, so you can name people in the photo for further reference or even to prevent people using your photos on the Internet without your permission.
Irfanview is a very fast, small, compact and innovative free graphics viewer and converter. With Irfanview you can:
- Crop an image to a set size
- Resize/resample an image
- Convert an image into a different format
- Apply filters to an image
- Create thumbnails of an image
- Process a batch of images with the above features
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software that is good enough to compete with Adobe PhotoShop. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
On their website are a large collection of user supported plugins that extend the features of the program. It bares no relation to Microsoft Paint but uses Microsoft .Net framework.
TuxPaint is a kids painting program that is so much more powerful than Microsoft Paint. A child of any age can quickly and easily grasp the concepts of using the mouse to draw and paint (my niece is 2 and she uses it) and the adult portion of the program enables you to control where the pictures are saved, whether the child can print or hear the sounds.
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Open Clip Art Library is a repository of freely usable clip art in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format ideal for use in Open Office.
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Inkscape is a powerful and convenient drawing tool fully compliant with XML, SVG, and CSS standards.
Picture Shark is a branding software that incorporates another image or text into your photo or picture (known in the trade as a watermark). This deters people from stealing it for their own website without your permission.