FREE Photo Editing, Viewing and Organizing Software
(Keep in mind that most of the photo editors
do not process Raw images but
you can always use the free one that came with your camera.
)
Photo Editors
| Photoscape one of the best free programs with many features - does have a Raw Converter! It supports RAW, as well as all other major image formats. It comes with prebuilt templates for users to create photo collages and Web comics, and has a standard set of red-eye removal, light/shadow, and contrast-editing features. One warning about the RAW processing: although it looks like you can drag and drop, the converter doesn't change RAW to JPEG unless you load the RAW file from within the native file navigator. |
| FxFoto One of the better freebies. Import, organize, enhance images, make slide shows, etc. |
| the Gimp more full-featured than many freebie editors but has a steeper learning curve too. Called "poor man's Photoshop". Support forums and tutorials online. No Raw support. |
| Photobie is a free advanced image editing software that support layers and masks. Photobie includes many embedded filters and supports most Photoshop plug-ins. Photobie is full feature packed, which enables you to create eye-catching images and animations. Photobie can generate high quality PDF file. Photobie provides professional designers the integrated tools to create Photo Template and Digital Scrapbook Template. |
| Photo Pos Pro highly-rated program. Read warning about associating image file types in description before installing. Probably best not to associate any file types if given a choice. Full-featured editor but supposed to be easy to use when you read the instructions. It contains an extremely user-friendly interface that allows users to work intuitively. PPP includes complete help system, free step-by-step tutorials and Hundreds of pre-made photo frames, patterns, and shapes -- all to accelerate your work and make it fun and easy to edit, enhance, create, print, and manipulate digital photos and easily create stunning graphics |
| Paint.NET one of the better free programs for those who don't plan to do in-depth photo editing. Features layers, painting and drawing tools, special effects, unlimited undo history, and levels adjustments. |
| Picasa - from Google. Very basic retouching/editing tools. "Picasa & Picasa Web Albums make it easy for you to organize and edit your digital photos, then create online albums to share with friends, family & the world." |
| PhotoPlus from Serif - free basic version but V. 9 is only $9.99. Try free version to see how it works. |
Photo Viewers & Organizers
FastStone Image Viewer one of the best image viewers for Raw or jpg, tif, etc. Fast viewing of even large Raw images. It's what I use. |
| Irfanview another great program for viewing and converting images to other formats, resizing, showing slide shows, etc. |
| Picasa view, organize, edit and share your images |
| Studio Line Photo Basic 3 Add descriptions to your images, send photos via email in just the right size, print high- quality copies, display slide shows, publish web-galleries, safe-keep your images on CD or DVD... |
Noise Removal Freebie
| Noiseware Community Edition Remove noise from high ISO images. Last item on the page! |