SnagIt 9.0

SnagIt: Capture your digital lifestyle. Capture anything you see on the screen. Edit and combine those captures. Share them via your favorite applications. Organize and find them again later. The more you use SnagIt, the more ways you'll find to use it. Want to get a laugh? Add a speech balloon to that photo of your cat and fire it off in an instant message. Need to make an impression at work. Capture that sales chart and point out important details with a sleek-looking arrow. SnagIt can turn a simple screenshot into a powerful information graphic. SnagIt is versatile, yet surprisingly simple.

Version 9.0 add sequential capture, multi-image capabilities, ribbon-based menus, auto-store images, image tray, quick Access toolbar, automatic tagging, custom tagging as one image or batch, flags, visual search pane, and visual bookmarking.

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Requirements: Windows XP/Vista
Limitations: 30-day trial
Publisher: http://www.techsmith.com/

GIMP 2.4.6

GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Version 2.4.6 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.

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Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista, GTK+ Runtime Environment
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://gimp.org/

Capture NX 2

CaptureNX 2 improves upon Nikon's original photo editing software, designed for photographers by photographers. Color Control Points let you select and adjust the color by pointing, clicking and adjusting a slider or two. Capture NX offers 25 adjustments for users of JPEG & TIF images and additional RAW functions for those who shot Nikon Electronic File (NEF) RAW images in their cameras. The all-new Selection Control Point allows you to point, click, and choose any specific area you'd like to affect with one of 26 other adjustments. The Auto Retouch Brush is a tool designed for quick and easy repairs and retouching of unwanted dust spots, blemishes and other distracting picture elements. Just choose the size of the brush, paint over the area to be repaired and the image is fixed.

Capture NX 2 continues a near-decade long history of allowing users to send their images to almost any other imaging software that can handle TIFF files with just one step. All changes will be applied to the TIFF then handed off to the other program. The NEF remains intact.

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Requirements: Windows XP/Vista
Limitations: 60-day trial
Publisher: http://www.capturenx.com/

Paint.NET 3.31

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.

Version 3.31 fixes some bugs with the Open/Save dialogs that were causing headaches for many users.

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Requirements: Windows XP/2003 Server/Vista, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
Limitations: No limitations
Publisher: http://www.dotpdn.com

FastStone Image Viewer 3.5

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

Version 3.5 added 'Side by Side' comparison in 'Enhance Colors'; added 'Line Highlighter' in 'Draw Board'; enhanced 'Text' tool in 'Draw Board'.

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