Reflet

Antonio Da Cruz

Are you thinking about adding some special effects to that photo you are always looking at? Here you have a very good effect, what do you think about a water reflection below it? Reflet is a lite tool which creates an amazing effect which simulates a lake below your photo, so it is shown reflected on the water. Reflet add a mirror effect below the original photograph and after that, it ads distorsion movement to that part of the image. It is really good. You decide the intensity of the waves and the size of the lake, it is amazing.

Hot Spot Studio

RL Vision

Hot Spot Studio is a lite application that allows you to create images of light points and advanced lightnings. The program is not difficult to use, you only have to set two light points on a canvas and choose the color for each point. Once you do this, click the render button. Just a few seconds after clicking the renderization button, you'll have the image created. Regretfully, the only output format is BMP.

Zoner 3D Photo Maker

Zoner

How many times have you seen those spectacular apparently 2D images that are converted into 3D images when you see it using special 3D glasses? Maybe you have wondered how they are created, and now here we offer you the possibility not only of knowing it, but also to create them. Zoner 3D Photo Maker will guide you throughout 5 simple steps which will finish with your image converted into a 3D image. Choose the photos you want to transform, follow the steps, select the 3D points and enjoy your new images. Once it is finished, take your 3D glasses and enjoy your new images. The output format is jpg.

Portable FotoSketcher

David Thoiron

If you want to transform your typical digital photos into paintings, this free application is the perfect choice. Portable FotoSketcher is a lite application that can be stored in your USB drive and used it on any PC. That means you don't need to install the program to run it. The photo conversion is very easy. You choose the photographs you want to turn into paintings and press ok. If you feel a bit creative, you can change some parameters to adjust the output picture. You can choose different styles: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings... If you have ever wanted to have your photos as if you had painted them, Portable FotoSketcher is the perfect choice. The results are really good and it's totally free.

Red Ex

Ashampoo Gmbh

Red Ex is an application that has been specially designed to remove red eyes in digital photographs. Doing so is as easy as placing a rectangle over the person with red eyes, waiting for the program to do its magic and, within seconds, you're done. Red Ex is a particularly interesting program precisely due to its simplicity. It is perfect for all those users who, without having any previous knowledge of photo editing software, want to fix this problem in their photos.

PhotoBitzz

DBSoft

PhotoBitzz is a photo-editing tool to create all types of collages with the images you have on your computer. The program includes a collection of more that 60 preset layouts that can be filled with images from your hard drive. You have to choose at least three in order to use it, although you'll definitely need more in order to make your collage beautiful. In addition to images, you also have to choose a background color. And if you want your creation to have a frame, you'll be able to edit it independently from everything else. PhotoBitzz lets you create very fun images from the pictures on your hard drive. Also, collages can always come in handy as a really great personalized gift.

IncrediFace

IncrediTools

You will not stop laughing when you will install this great application which will let you create magnific photo compositions. Let’s start, download Incrediface and install it. Search for your favourite friend photos, yours or your relative ones and let your imagination do the rest. Incrediface includes lots of atractive templates: you will find superheroes, animals, cartoons, celebrities, newspapers, magazines, posters, movie scenes, politicians, etc. Each template stablish an area where we will be able to place the photo we want. Once we have done this step we will only have to resize our photo and modify some settings such as skin colour or saturation to suit it to the template perfectly. In addition you will be able to add sounds, voices, objects and text to your creations.

CleanSkinFX

Mediachance

Caricature PhotoS

Caricature Software

Have you ever wondered how to create a fine line writing? Here you are the answer to your question. PhotoS converts photographs into line drawings. You need to try to see it. Choose your favorite high-resolution photo, click the button, and you are the author of a fine line drawing. Yes, it is as easy as 1 2 3. You will not be able to fail. PhotoS is a handy tool both for artists and those who don´t know how to draw. Line art will enhance your photo album and if used in your website, it can make your website unique. Impress your friends with your new art skills.

Sketch Master

Thinker Software

Photo to Sketch is a tool to make rich and colorful pictures, really easy to use. Photo to Sketch will surprise you. It is a lite application, but it is really powerful. You decide the photo you want to transform, then what kind of transformation you want from the range offered, and then, don?t worry, no more steps are needed. After two simply steps you?ll have your new artwork, and if you want to modify it a bit, you can thanks to its configuration panel. You can convert your photo to: Pen sketch Pencil sketch Pastel sketch Brush sketch You decide, it's time to surprise yourself and your friends.

Tint Photo Editor

Lawrence Murray

Many artistic photographs have the curious effect of being in black and white except for one or more visible colors. You may think that advanced knowledge of photo editing is necessary to create this effect. With Tint Photo Editor, a free, open source application for Windows, you can create this same effect in three easy steps without any advanced knowledge of digital photography. Suuso is amazingly simple, since it works as an assistant, where all you have to do is indicate which photo you are going to edit, which color you want to highlight and the quality of the photo -- that's it. All this makes Tint Photo Editor a great app that's definitely worth a try.

Macromedia Fireworks

Macromedia

Macromedia Fireworks belongs to one of the best design suites created by Macromedia. Fireworks is a powerful graphic design app, mainly for web design, which offers full integration with other well-known programs such as Dreamweaver and Flash. With Fireworks, you can create vector maps, optimize files, create high-quality presentations, improve the appearance of your images, compress any image in a customizable way, split page components, and much more. This program also allows you to export any project to an HTML editor, including designs created with Fireworks itself. You can also create JavaScript graphics for animated elements without having to learn programming codes. In addition, you can preview the final results at any time. Fireworks is an excellent tool for web design and other related projects.

FaceMorpher Lite

FaceMorpher.com

FaceMorpher Lite allows you to morph two driver's license–style photos. If the pictures aren't ID photos, the results might not be brilliant. Use your favorite image editor (even Paint works) to crop the faces you want to make into a morph animation. FaceMorpher Lite automatically detects the control points (eyebrows, eyelids, mouth, nose, etc.) and draws them over the face. If you're not pleased with the final result, you can correct the control points manually and place them whenever you think best. The result can be exported in different formats, including GIF, AVI, and SWF.

Frame Maker Pro

AMS Soft

Frame Maker Pro is a great and easy-to-use program which will allow you to add frames to your pictures. Now you can add frames to all your images. You can set your wallpaper and add it a frame so it seems to be in an art gallery, add frames to those photos of the holiday,... And all this through its eye-catching and intuitive graphical interface. You can choose from a variety of frames and add them to your images, then, you can save or print it, you choose. In addition it also offers you the possibility of adding special effects to your pictures. It Supports APS, BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF.

webGobbler

Sébastien Sauvage

Open your mind and show us how good you are when the inspiration is with you. WebGobbler allows you to create collages adding random images from internet. It is very easy-to-use and it is housed in an intuitive interface. WebGobbler uses several effects to perform a different result each time you try a collage: it rotates the pictures, adds shadows, change colours, and much more effects which will impress you. In addition, you’ll be able to create your own masterpieces, choosing the picturees and the effects you want, so they will be fully customized. And once we have created our Collage, WebGobbler give us the possibility of stablish it as wallpaper or screensaver directly, taking the most out of our creations.

DreamLight Photo Editor

Picget Software

For sure that you have ever seen those photos of your friends featuring some visual effects you like a lot but you don't know how to apply them to your own photos. don't worry, now you will be able to decorate and change your photos by applying them stunning effects thanks to Dreamlight Photo Editor. DreamLight Photo Editor is a lite application that allows you to add your photos good visual effects in an easy way and you will be able to combine some of those effects at the same time. You only have to charge your photo, then choose the effect you want to apply from the list of 15 and it will be automatically applied o your photo. No headaches, and if you want to apply two or more effects, just press the button of the selected effects one after other and see how the photo change in the preview window. Don't hesitate, give it a try.

MediBang Paint

MediBang Inc.

MediBang Paint is a design and drawing program, especially aimed at manga comic drawers, that comes with a series of particularly useful features for creating panels, vignettes and paging. Whether you want to draw comics or not, either way, this tool is very versatile. The first thing that any MediBang Paint user will notice, especially if they have already used other, similar tools, is that the interface is very simple and accessible. And, if this weren't enough, the official webpage also contains dozens of tutorials for you to learn, from the basics right up to the most advanced things. In less than half an hour, you can be creating your own comics or illustrations from scratch. Like most of these types of programs, MediBang Paint has more than 80 different types of pencils for you to use to create whatever you want. There is also a range of preloaded backgrounds that you can use to give your creations a little something extra, and, of course, you have all the classic tools like pens, watercolors, round paintbrushes, or acrylic paintbrushes, to name a few. As mentioned above, these let you create vignettes and panels with ease. In terms of creating drawings and comics, it is hard to find a more comprehensive program than MediBang Paint. Not only does it give your imagination free rein to create whatever it wants, but the interface is so simple that you can master it in just a few hours. Plus, you can find tons of additional resources to download on the official website.

PhotoSEAM

Mediachance

PhotoSEAM is a photo and image editor specially focused on filters and visual effects that can change the look of your photos in a snap. Although at first it can seem a bit basic due to the range of textures and brushes, PhotoSEAM includes a lot of tools that allow you to apply special textures and effects. Some of the effects you can apply just using the brush are: mosaic, old, mirror, brightness, colors,... Finally, the number of filters that can be applied is high, apply them by layers, overlap them or even mix them.

Meitu

Meitu, Inc.

Meitu is the Windows version of this popular photo editor, which has accumulated tens of millions of downloads on iOS and Android. This adaptation for computers has the same range of features as the mobile versions of the app, so that, in a matter of seconds, you can turn any ordinary photograph into a true work of art. The first thing that stands out with Meitu is how easy it is to use. To start working with the program you simply have to drag a photograph into the interface and start playing with the different tools in the side menu. The most basic tools allow you to crop photographs, copy and paste fragments, rotate images, use a magic eraser, and so on. However, the app offers much, much more. And it's all just a couple of clicks away. Also in the side menu you will find lots of very interesting options and advanced tools, with which you can add lots of stickers, adjust the colors of the image, isolate elements within a photograph, or use a wide variety of different brushes. Another interesting tool is the collage creator. From the app you can create spectacular personalized collages, choosing a minimum of two photographs and a maximum of sixteen. The possibilities when it comes to customizing the look of the collage are enormous, being able to individually increase or decrease the size of each photograph, to create unique compositions. One of the most fun tools in Meitu is the poster maker. This feature basically allows you to choose a photograph and a predetermined template to turn your photo into the cover of a magazine or the poster inside a marquee. The results are very good and the process will only take a couple of minutes. Meitu is a great photo editing app, which will allow you to give a personal and original touch to any image in a matter of seconds. Thanks to its simple interface and wide range of features, any user can start to create and give free rein to their imagination, without the need for complex tutorials or long explanatory videos.

Hard Paint

Code Guy

Hard Paint is a tool created to surprise even the most hard-to-please users - you know, those of you who think you've seen it all. With this application you can transform any image into a new composition by exchanging different elements with your project's original values to form a new creation. All you need to do is load your starting image and choose between the program's default textures, which in this case are flowers of all colors that will disperse themselves over the original space to gradually recreate the original image. After a few minutes, you'll be able to see your new image, created by substituting the new texture with the old.

TAMOGEN

Jack Whitsitt

TAMOGEN, acronym of Tone Altering Mosaic Generator, is an application that can convert any image into a mosaic formed by the same picture or other one. It doesn't offer a GUI, so you will have to answer some questions to create the mosaic. Copy the picture you want to transform in the folder of the program, then run TAMOGEN. You'll be asked to enter the name of the file you want to convert, enter it. The next step will be to choose if it will use the same picture or other one to create the mosaic, then the number of rows and columns, width and high, output filename and the color. Once you'll have asked all the questions, TAMOGEN will give you the result as a PNG file.

Adobe InDesign

Adobe

Adobe InDesign is a design tool whose goal is to offer you a good way to create pages for printing or digital distribution. The quality is borne out by the experience of Adobe and that makes us feel more comfortable, specially because it is totally compatible with other Adobe solutions. Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash or Acrobat are those applications that have a close relationship with it. Apart from that, Adobe InDesign offers a huge range of possibilities when creating your own booklets, magazines or newspapers. Adobe InDesign is one of the best choices out there. It lets you design and preflight engaging page layouts for print or digital distribution with built-in creative tools and precise control over typography. All these with Adobe quality.

Mosaizer

APP Helmond

Mosaizer is a very interesting application that allows you to create amazing photo mosaics in an easy and fast way. Yes, a photo mosaic is that kind of mosaic made of small pictures that when viewed from a certain distance seems to be a picture but they are built with small pictures. They look really well and they can be a very good surprise for any event. You can choose the big picture and thegroup of pictures that will compose the mosaic. Mosaizer will select the position of each photo in the big picture to make it look amazing. You can choose the size of the small and the big pictures, as well as the quality of them and many other settings. It also includes an option called PhotoMixer that mixes two photos into one and the result is very good.

ImageElements BrightSpot

Lincoln Beach Software

Picosmos Tools

Free Time

Picosmos Tools is one of the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use photo-editing applications you can find on the market today. You can delete unwanted elements from your photos quickly and easily, add stickers and filters, create collages or animations, adjust the brightness and saturation, and much more, all from the same application. Using Picosmos Tools is very simple. When you open the application, you'll see a small menu with all its functions. Once you've selected the tool you want to use, it will open with an illustrated guide to help you understand the best way to use it. Besides the aforementioned photo-editing tools, Picosmos Tools includes other very useful features, like an excellent image viewer and the option to record everything that happens on your screen.

AMS Photo Effects

AMS Software

If you are one of those users who love to add effects to photos and pictures, AMS Photo Effects should be in your computer. AMS Photo Effects is the tool which should be used by those users who want to add effects but they don't know how to do it and they have no time to learn how to do it by using Photoshop or any other edition program. AMS Photo Effects will add eye catching effects to your photos and it will take you not more than 5 minutes. The results are excellent and you won't have to break your mind reading books and learning how to create them. Let AMS Photo Effects do it for you. It offers you a wide range of effects. Maybe the most difficult thing you'll have to will be to choose the effect you'll add: flames, reflections, borders, illumination,... oh! ok, we are lucky, they are classified into categories. Give it a try, your photos will have a different look and you'll do nothing but clicking some options.

Photoscape

Mooii Tech

Photoscape is a complete photo editor and photo viewer. It has features that normally require two or more programs to be installed. You can look at photos, edit them, make collages, create catalogs, add icons and elements, create GIFs, and much more. As soon as you open the application, you will see a wheel where you can select any of the features available in the program, and you can access most of them through the tabs at the top of the screen. In this section, you can convert .raw files to .jpg in bulk, as well as take screenshots, rename files or simply merge files. In the display area, you can see all the images you have in a folder. If you double-click on one of them, it can be viewed on full screen. At the bottom, all the information about your screenshot will appear, and you can move to the next photo with the mouse or keyboard. In the editor, you will find features for adding frames, leveling, increasing detail, adjusting contrast and brightness, adding filters, cropping, etc. You can edit individual photos or apply the same settings to a group of pictures at once. Finally, you have options to create collages with different alternatives, combine two photos into one, create animated GIFs, or print photos organized in a grid. If you are looking for a free and lightweight photo editor and viewer, don't hesitate to download Photoscape.

FrameFun

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Textaizer

APP Helmond

Textaizer is an application that allows you to transform any picture into a text mosaic formed by the words included in a text file. Then only requirement for the text is that it can't have any line jump. Choose the picture and the text and let Textaizer do its work. The results are amazing, in fact when we started the tests we didn't think that the result was going to be good, but finally, we have been surprised when we have seen the output file. Textaizer can be used to create ASCII art, yes, those images composed by ASCII characters. The output file will be stored in the same folder that the original picture is, so when you'll have finished open the folder and check the new and stunning picture.

Photo-Bonny

Photo-Bon.com

Photo Bonny is a simple but effective photo edition tool that allows you to add frames and some funny objects to your digital photos. You can easily choose the frame from the large list you can find in the upper side of the interface, then navigate the objects on the right and drag and drop them to the photo. If you feel creative, Photo Bonny also lets you draw your own designs by using a pencil, choose the color and the size and start drawing. Finally, the application also puts on your hands the possibility of using it as image viewer, check the EXIF information or create a slideshow.