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"An image processing tool, that offers smart image resizing, as well as various other features, including watermarking (text or image overlay), cropping, (batch)renaming, image rotation, color adjustments and more. It includes some nice features like using EXIF data in watermarks, as well as drop shadow text and renaming schemes based on file properties." 

--Snapfiles.com

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"Easily share your memories! E-mail individual photos to family and friends, or print photos at home or via an online service. Instantly fix photo flaws with just a click or two. Organize and find your digital photos in a snap without having to rename photo files or create folders."  --Adobe.com

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ANVSOFT Flash Slide Show Maker    View Screenshot

 

 

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a tool to create a simple but attractive Flash slideshow from your photos that you can upload to your website to share with friends and family. It offers severs slideshow themes to choose from, as well as background music and optional effects like dropping leaves, snowflakes and others.

3/5 stars

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cropper    View Screenshot

 

 

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a unique screen capture utility that allows you to capture portions of your desktop and automatically save the output to a file, copy it to the clipboard or send it to a printer. It offers a resizable, translucent capture area that can be moved and sized freely to capture the portions that you want to grab. The program also includes a thumbnail feature that can automatically resize the capture and save it as thumbnail version instead. Cropper can save images in BMP, JPG and PNG format."  --Snapfiles.com

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Easy Thumbnails    View Screenshot

 

 

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"Rather then have a single icon represent all of your photos in a folder, have postage stamp-like pictures of the pictures themselves. This also prevents having to open up an image viewing program to see what each picture is."

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FastStone Image Viewer    View Screenshot

 

 

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"An image browser, viewer converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features, that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA." 

--Snapfiles.com

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Firehand Ember    View Screenshot

 

 

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"A graphics viewer, organizer and editor. You can thumbnail an unlimited number of images in multiple folders simultaneously (video and audio files too, if the optional Media Xtension Add-In is installed). The program allows you to organize, share, and embed your graphics by dragging and dropping them into place. Firehand Ember is a software, designed for people that work with graphics,websites, use a digital camera or scanner, or collect picture files from the internet. --Snapfiles.com

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Futuris Imager    View Screenshot

 

 

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"A fast and free graphics viewer/manager that supports more then 25 graphic formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, MNG/PNG/JNG, PhotoCD, Tiff and many more. In addition, it offers printing with preview, support for TWAIN-compatible scanners, file browser/manager, screen capture, wallpaper tools,filters, HEX viewer, Futuris Imager is first image viewer with open plug-in system - any developer can create plug-ins and add-ons for Futuris Imager, which you can use to further extend the functionality. --Snapfiles.com

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GifSplitter    View Screenshot

 

 

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"Can split GIF animation to image file(s) list. Then, you can select any frames of the GIF animation, and modify them as you like." --Snapfiles.com

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"The Windows version of a popular Linux graphics editor and image manipulation software. Gimp's features can be compared to popular programs like Adobe Photoshop and CorelDraw. Beware that this version is still under development and may have bugs. If you have previously installed an earlier version of the GIMP, be sure to uninstall that first!"

--Snapfiles.com

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iWebAlbum    View Screenshot

 

 

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"Allows you to easily create a simple but attractive image gallery from your photos. You can add captions and comments to your images, select from different photo sizes and choose to include a slideshow option. The gallery output (2 themes to choose from) uses CSS/XHTML and is clean and simple."

--Snapfiles.com

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Iconoid    View Screenshot

 

 

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A fun program with some pretty useful features. At its core, the program is designed to hide your desktop icons so you can easily appreciate your desktop's background. It can also help you change the color of the text on your icons and get rid of the obnoxious icon text box.

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"A fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins."  --Download.com

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Image Analyzer    View Screenshot

 

 

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"An image editing, enhancement and analysis tool that supports JPEG 2000, BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, JPEG, PNG and PCX for read/write and RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS for reading. Image Analyzer allows you to resize and crop your images, apply filters and perform advanced conversions and transformations (Color model conversion, Distance, Fourier...). The program also offers automatic color correction, red-eye removal and an option to create user specified filters in spatial and frequency domain."  --Snapfiles.com

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JAlbum    View Screenshot

 

 

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"Allows you to create nice looking photo galleries for the web. You can simply select or drop drag/drop folders containing images or movie files onto JAlbum and it will create thumbnails and HTML pages to publish your images as a gallery or picture slideshow. The galleries are based on various template designs and appearance can be further customized by advanced users. Additional features include support for EXIF data, URL encoding of file names, style sheets, lossless image manipulation, optional Shutterfly integration, (built in FTP client and more."  --Snapfiles.com

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Media Purveyor    View Screenshot

 

 

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"An image viewer, and media player that allows you to manage your digital image collections. It supports IPTC, EXIF, JPEG Comment, PNG Key/Values, Dublin Core and ID3 information, and allows you to search for images or media files based on these criteria, and also view and edit image information to organize your files. In addition, the program offers lossless image editing, red-eye removal, color balance (with white balance), text annotations, and various image effects. Media Purveyor can also generate thumbnails, index images, convert images and more. Another small but handy feature is an image comparison option, which allows you to view two selected images side-by-side."  --Snapfiles.com

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Multiple Image Resizer.NET    View Screenshot

 

 

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"An easy to use and attractive image processing tool, that allows you to process individual images or entire folders of images at once. You can resize, crop, add borders, overlay text and/or rotate and flip images and dynamically preview the results for each. The processed files are saved to a new, user-specified directory and can optionally be renamed to a combination of the original name and/or numbers. The program handles a variety of input and output image formats including BMP, JPG, GIF, TIFF, EXIF, PNG, EMF, ICO and WMF and allows you to convert the images at the same time they are processed. Very nice program, with a clean interface and good documentation. "  --Snapfiles.com

 

NOTE: Requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

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"MyAlbum, a simple, fast cataloguer and slideshow for JPEG, BMP, GIF, animated GIF and PCX files. Add comment, keywords and URL to each picture. Searching on file name, comment or keyword. Full screen display, zoom. Manual, automatic and random slideshow. Easy printing of the thumbnail pages or poster printing on several sheets of paper. Special features for building CDROM album."  --Snapfiles.com

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"A digital-filtering program, reduces noise in your photos." 

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"utility for batch convertion of image files with rotation, mirroring, and color resolution adjustment. it supports the following Input file formats: BMP, EMF, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, TIF, TIFF, TGA, WMF. Pic2Pic can Output in these formats: BMP, JPG, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA and TIF. The program is simple to use, just select the images to be processed and the choose your conversion options and an output directory. A Pro version is also available with advanced options."  --Snapfiles.com

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"an image viewer with additional features like image management (move, copy, delete etc.), print support, color manipulation, histogram, send by email, Twain support and more. It also comes with a unique thumbnail browser that parses the files in a directory and groups them by similarities. IN addition, the program offers various image effects, several noise reduction algorithms, edge detection, image enhancements and more. "  --VersionTracker.com

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PixGrabber Freeware    View Screenshot

 

 

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"PixGrabber is not just a handy image viewer but also a powerful tool for image

archive managing. Images can be collected from various sources, including: Internet, Hard Drive, CDs, etc. Pixgrabber will guard you from annoying ads and allow you to avoid viewing the same pages recurrently.

PixGrabber gathers images from the pages you visit either in manual or auto mode. When auto mode is on, images are put into database without your participation. These images can be bound to one or more rubrics, accompanied by your comments and rated."  --VersionTracker.com

 

 

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"a photo resizing program to easily create web and email friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes. The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode."  --Snapfiles.com

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UnFREEz     View Screenshot

 

 

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"a high-speed Windows application that will take any number of images, saved as separate GIF files, and create a single animated GIF from those images. What makes this program unique from its competitors? First and foremost, UnFREEz is freeware, which means you may use it forever without paying a cent or feeling the slightest bit guilty. Secondly, UnFREEz is incredibly tiny, meaning you don't have to spend forever downloading an extremely bloated piece of software. Finally, it is so easy to use. Just drag and drop some GIF files from Explorer, set the frame delay time, and hit Make Animated GIF. UnFREEz will take care of the rest, including automatic interlacing and transparency detection."  --Snapfiles.com

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Uticasoft Image Browser Arctic     View Screenshot

 

 

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"An image viewer with several additional features. It comes with a built in slideshow creator, that allows you to create standalone EXE slideshows from your images, with optional image effects, image titles and more. Image Browser also includes an icon extractor and a handy image file organizer, that allows you to compare folders side by side and move or copy images. Additional features include different viewing modes, batch conversions, set as wallpaper and more. The program supports all major image file types." 

--Snapfiles.com

 

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