PhotoLine

Powerful image processing application, offers flexible text, vector and image layers. A very powerful image processing application, offers flexible text, vector and image layers.
PhotoLine 32 is a software that allows you process images. Among the standard features like painting, cloning, filtering, blending and flood fill it offers many special effects like squirl, shadow, glowing, distorb, morphing, 3d projection and many dynamic layer effects.

General:
· powerful image editing software
· layout, vector editing, batch convert and web editing software
· many import and export file formats
· action (macro) recorder
· full CMYK support

Basic tools:
· all basic functions like painting, filters, paste, gradients, flood fill etc.
· cropping, lasso, mask and auto mask
· undo and redo steps only limited by memory
· document mode for greeting cards, business cards, documents, ...
· calendar function
· dia show

File formats:
· many file formats like PLD (PhotoLine), PDF, TIF, BMP, GIF (optimized, interlaced, animated), JPEG (also progressive), CMX, PCD, PCX, PNG, PSD, EPS, PICT, TGA, IMG, ICO, ANI, XBM, IFF, ESM, CGM, PIC, CVG, GEM, WMF, EMF
· transparency and layers (as supported by the file formats)
· support of QuickTime interface
· support of Aldus interface in the Windows version

Filters:
· many ready to use filters among them sharpening, unsharp masking (USM), blurring, outline, video, emboss, glowing and shadows
· morphing, grid and arrow distortions
· many effect filters
· dynamic layer effects

Text and DTP functions:
· editable text layers of variable size with lots of formatting options
· editable text color, line distance, character distance, character width, ...
· text flow from one text layer to another

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FastStone Image Viewer 3.4

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 (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

Features:
Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
Support of many popular image formats
True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast.
Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
Histogram display with color counter feature
Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
Print images with full page-layout control
Create fully configurable Contact Sheets - just like the pros (and save $$$ on ink)
Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
Acquire images from a scanner
Versatile screen capture capability
Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
Configurable mouse wheel support
Supports multiple program skins
Supports dual-monitor configurations
And much more...

info: www.FastStone.org