Top Rate Graphic and Image Editing Freeware

GIMP Advanced Image Editor

GIMP advanced freeware image editor

A professional image editor with a wide range of features including expert color and image retouching tools. GIMP can accomplish essential image workflow steps such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. It can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format. At present GIMP is entirely suitable for amateur or professional work with images and photos.

 It's multi-windowed interface makes it a little unusual for a windows program.

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Direct Link: GIMP download (Windows version)
Website: www.gimp.org
Size: 16.1 MB
Operating Systems: Windows 2000 - Vista, Linux, Mac OS X

 

Paint.NET Image and Photo Editor

Paint.NET mid-level image editor

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface. It makes a very good mid-level photo retouching choice.  It has a nice set of photo correction tools including curves, and levels.  It has a very nice implementation of layers complete with blending modes, and adjustable opacity/transparency levels.  It has a fairly full pallet of selection, painting, and shape drawing tools as well as unlimited undo. It is completed with a selection of filters for adding special effects to your images.  All in all, it offers a lot for a free image retouching software.

 

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Direct Link: Paint.NET v3.5.2
Website: www.getpaint.net/features.html
Size: 4.8 MB
Operating Systems: Windows XP or later (requires .Net Framework 2.0 or later)