Image Editing

Easy Picture2Icon is a tool for converting images or digital photos into Windows icons. Easy Picture2Icon makes it possible to use any graphical editor to produce icons because it has the ability to convert digital pictures in the formats BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, and PNG to Windows icons (ICO).
[353K] [Win98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

Merge images, make them fade into each other, frame them, apply several cool effects use a distortion mirror, change colours, use gradient, make multi-layer texts, and change properties like contrast and brightness with this freeware tool.
[1.29M] [Win95/98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software. 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 plug-ins.
[1.51M] [Win95/98/ME/NT/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE]

Organize your photos, express your creativity, and get connected to Kodak Gallery, the online service, with Kodak Easyshare. Kodak Easyshare seamlessly gets your photos off your camera and organized on your computer with just a few clicks. Reduce red-eye, create greeting cards, albums, photo-mugs, and order other great photo gifts from the Gallery.
[1.44M] [WinXP/Vista] [FREE]

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PC World’s editors selected these 10 downloads, mostly free, which do the job of very expensive image editing software. Here are five of ‘em:

GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP)
Retouch photos and create images with this freebie.

Photoshop Elements
Enhance your digital images without the feature-overhead of other photo-editing programs.

Photo Resizer Pro
Quickly resize a photo without waiting forever for [...]

When you take a picture with a digital camera, there’s just so much that you can do with it. Although you may opt to keep it and share it like it is, if you actually want to have some fun with it, then you’ll find no shortage of desktop applications and online tools that will [...]

In the imaging software business, there is no bigger company than Adobe, and Photoshop is their crown jewel. If you can’t work in Photoshop, then you’re just not on top of your game because whether you like it or not, it’s the standard. However, nothing about Adobe’s software is streamlined. The products are massive and [...]

It’s amazing how far digital imaging has progressed over the years. By just using an application like Photoshop, image experts can edit any number of images to become entirely different than what they started out as, and a lot of people are so skilled at performing these modifications that you can’t even tell that the [...]