AvancePaint - Advanced Freeware Paint Program

AvancePaint is a freeware complete paint program designed with a unique intuitive user interface that makes absolutely easy to learn and use. It is powerful enough to suit the most advanced user and yet simple enough to please the beginner.

You can open unlimited number of photos or pictures and unleash your artistic talents as you will discover the advanced and powerful but easy to use graphical options, embedded in the utility. A complete set of more then 20 photo-realistic filters and more then 40 textures are included.

The software is light on the resources, utilizes just 3Mb of your hard disk space, and is compatible with Windows 95/98/98SE/Me/2k/3k/NT/XP and Vista.

AvancePaint is FreeWare (Free-Edition). No registration required.

Some of the features:

*   Unique Intuitive user interface makes it easy to use.

*   Compatible with ALL Windows versions (including Windows Vista).

*   Open and edit unlimited (as memory allows) number of photo's or pictures.

*   Open and edit JPG, JPEG, BMP, GIF, WMF, ICO, DIB, PNG formats.

*   Dither and reduce color on selection.

*   Snap to Grid.

*   Detailed editing mode.

*   Draw advanced Bezier curves and Polygons.

*   Import images directly from your scanner, webcam etc.

*   Save JPG image file with user selectable compression quality.

*   Save GIF image file with user selectable transparent color.

*   Save BMP image file with color depth and dither options.

*   Export PNG images.

*   Draw rectangles, circles, elliptical filled or not, borders, rounded rectangles, arrows, 3D-borders…

*   Freehand drawing with selectable brushes.

*   Masks.

*   Brighten, darken, and contrast.

*   Sharpen, soften, blur, hue.

*   Ambient lighting.

*   Blend, paste transparent, blend reverse…

*   Size and crop any image or parts of an image.

*   30 photographical effects (expandable).

*   Create your own effects using VB or any other programming language.

*   Fill solid, Fill with gradients, Fill with several patterns, with textures etc…

*   User selectable textures (tiles).

*   Flip horizontal, vertical, rotate…

*   Colors replacement.

*   Edit areas in high detail.

*   Print preview and high quality prints.

*   Real style and visible font selections.

*   A full set of easy to select colors. Easy to use fixed colors, user defined colors, true-color pallets and more.

*   Zoom.

*   More then 40 textures and tiles which can be extended unlimited.

*   Effects Browser (more then 24 photographical effects).

*   Picture Frames generator.

*   IrFanView awareness.

*   User definable effects.

*   And much, much more…

Author’s Website: http://users.belgacom.net/rgs/avancepaint.htm

Photobie - Freeware Substitute for Photoshop

Photobie is absolutely free image editing software that would be attractive as to the fresh users as the professional photographers, if they do not need to perform extremely difficult tasks. This editor is having most features similar to what available in Photoshop, adding to the set advanced screen capture and photo frame editing. With photobie screen capture you can prepare presentation very simply.

Photobie has simple and user-friendly interface and supports multiple-layer image retouching for advanced image editing. Starting at version 2.8, Photobie even supports thousands of Photoshop filter plugins (format .8BF).

Main Features:

• General Photo editing tool - resize, rotate, flip, color balance adjustment; copy, cut, paste, crop; selection (includes rectangle, square, oval, circle, polygon, free hand, Magic Wand; complex region using selection modes such as Single, Union, Exclude, Intersect and XOR)
• Flash Player - Fancy player allows to play list of flash files (.swf) repeatedly and selectively.
• Gif animation - Simply create gif animation with/without transparency.
• Image format supported: Bmp, Png, TIF, Gif, Ico, Jpg --- support various encoding quality, and Pob - Photobie specific multi-layer image format, used to keep the work in progress for future retouching.
• Multi-layer features - support unlimited layers; layer merge, flatten; whole layer copy, paste, clone within current image or cross images; etc.
• Painting features - draw shapes as rectangle, square, oval, circle, line, dash line, polygon, free hand, curve, it support gradient color; fill shapes as rectangle, square, oval, circle, polygon, free hand, it support gradient color, etc.
• Text editing - Support most system fonts; High quality text; Gradient color support; 3D text effect.
• Screen Capture - Support Screen Capture hotkeys, you can setup up to 8 hotkeys for screen capture, you can set the hotkey to capture full screen or active window.
• Framing - Photobie simplifies the digital photo framing process. You can design your favorite frame template and then apply to other photos quickly.

Developers Website: http://www.photobie.com/

Direct Downloading Link: http://www.photobie.com/download/download_photobie.php