Freeware photo tools

[gizlo]

I thought it would be a good idea to start a freeware photo tools list.
Here are few I know of:

• GIMP, to edit photos
• IrfanView, to view photos
• XnView, to organize photos
• PhotoME, to edit Exif information
• BatchPurifier LITE, to erase photo metadata

[LynEve]

ShiftN
- converging lines corrector - site is in German, application is English. It works well
http://www.marcus-hebel.de/

Opanda PhotoFilter
- filter imitation
Kodak / Cokin / Hoya over 100 filters
http://www.opanda.com/en/pf/index.html

Photoscape
- Fun Photo editor - (includes a RAW converter, batch renamer, batch editor)
http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php



Sorry, I can not work out how to do hyperlinks properly with the name visible.

[JED]

Here is a great place to start:

http://www.photo-freeware.net/category-downloads.php

[welly]

FreeHDR plugin for Photoshop

http://www.georgedewolfe.com/perceptool.html

Bit more info here:

http://www.photographyblog.com/news/...hotographyBLOG

[whittyp]

There is also Picasa from Google.

[LynEve]

Zoner Photo Sudio.
I have the Home Edition (which was a free offer for one day) and there is a Pro and a Free version as well.
For a free application it has quite a lot of features
http://free.zoner.com/products.asp

[SteveB]

Photoshop.
Adobe are giving away CS2 Premium Plus Suite. You'll need an Adobe account and you'll need to wait a while as the server is overloaded at the moment (suprise suprise). There may be issues on newer machines but people are reporting that it's working OK on some Win7. Great if you run XP.
Here's the Adobe link.

Steve.

[randomguy]

Photoshop.
Adobe are giving away CS2 Premium Plus Suite. You'll need an Adobe account and you'll need to wait a while as the server is overloaded at the moment (suprise suprise). There may be issues on newer machines but people are reporting that it's working OK on some Win7. Great if you run XP.
Here's the Adobe link.

Steve.

Unfortunately, it is not free.

http://www.slrlounge.com/news-adobe-...s-not-for-free

[SteveB]

Oh well. Too good to be true and all that. Since I just shelled out for CS6 a few weeks back, I rather expected that it would be true. Such is my luck.
However, GIMP (which definitely is free) has been trialling 16 and 32 bit / channel support. Up until now it's just been 8 bit which is pretty limiting.