Icon In Depth   
http://www.soundindepth.com

Icon In Depth works like a Swiss Army Knife of icon & cursor manipulation. Features find & manage icons on your system, image-editing features such as effects, filters, rotation, cropping, as well as a huge color palette, easy-to-use editor that has all the functions for creating/editing ICO, ANI, CUR, GIF, JPEG, WMF, EMF, TGA, and WBMP files, image filters, including Blurring, Sharpening, Embossing, Diffusing, and Color Balance, image effects, including Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, Rectangular Gradient, WAV, 3D Shadow, 3D Button, Text Gradient Effects, Noise, and Arbitrary Rotation, create icons with a preset sizes, use dynamic transparent colors, create cursors with free hotspots, create & view animated cursors, extract icon from any file or folder, paste images from clipboard, select Regions for Import from .bmp, .jpg, .gif, or .wmf images, Drag and Drop files for editing, unlimited undo and redo steps, support multi-language interface.

JPEG Imager   
http://www.v-methods.com

JPEG Imager is an interactive image compressor. It provides a real-time preview of a compressed image and handy means to compare it with original one. You can fiddle with various compression parameters and observe the effect of changes almost instantly. You can also specify a desired file size and let the program select the proper value of the quality parameter automatically. In short, JPEG Imager is perfect for Quality vs. File Size optimization. It may prove to be very useful if you need to optimize your images for publishing in the Web. Speaking about other features, JPEG Imager includes a set of basic image manipulation and enhancing operations such as Resample (resize), Crop, Rotation, Gamma correction, Levels adjustment and so on. There is also a cleaning tool for noise removing and, of course, the TWAIN support for image acquisition from scanners and digital cams. Working with JPEG Imager you can acquire, enhance and optimize your images not having to use any other programs. Besides, JPEG Imager has a simple built-in batch processor and thumbnail generator.

Web Image Guru Suite   
http://www.vimas.com

Web Image Guru is a powerful graphics suite for everyone who need to optimize image color and tonal balance, sharpness, noise level, geometry, bit depth, and file size. This product was originally designed as a specialized tool for web designers, but then it was greatly extended and now this is a set of three high quality imaging applications: Image Guider, Filter Studio plug-in, and Web Image Guru plug-in itself. The key features of Web Image Guru Suite are: 1. High quality color reduction algorithm. 2. Advanced shadow/highlight and color correction algorithms. 3. Supporting for PNG8 images with alpha transparency (Palette Alpha). 4. Simple to use, yet effective weighting optimization for JPEG, GIF, and PNG8 compression. 5. Rich set of filters for noise reduction. 6. Powerful JPEG compression algorithm. 7. Rich set of live shape effects. 8. Advanced crop functionality. 9. Ability to generate several images from single original with just few mouse clicks. 10. More easy to use, but still powerful shape handling. 11. Internal browser preview of images in existing HTML files in specified places. 12. Effective and attractive user interface. Web Image Guru and Filter Studio plug-ins may be used as Adobe Photoshop plug-in module. They are compatible with Adobe PhotoShop 3.05 - 7.0, CS and other products that support Adobe PhotoShop 3.05 type plug-ins. Filter type plug-ins are available. Web Image Guru plug-in also may be used as stand alone application or from Image Guider, image browsing utility from which is a part of suite.

WaveL ViewPic   
http://www.pic2pic.net

Using ViewPic you will able to: view BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIF, TIFF, TGA, PGM, PPM, PBM, ICO, WMF, EMF image files; view slide show in full screen; set a wallpaper on your desktop; rotate, mirror, change height, width and color resolution of your image; convert your image to BMP, JPG, GIF, PBM, PGM, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIF image formats; change image's brightness, contrast, and gamma; change color balance of your image using the filters, which operate in RGB, CMY, YCbCr, HLS, and HSV color spaces; modify your image using the sharpen, detail, smooth, blur, and contour effects

ImageForge PRO (Deutsche Version)   
http://www.cursorarts.com

German language version. See http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imf.html for English version. Whether you want to put your company logo up as wallpaper, do something creative with those photos from your new digital camera, or create graphics for your web site, ImageForge PRO is an inexpensive, yet powerful, suite of image editing tools which will have you turning out digital art in no time. Packed with high-end features, such as support for drawing tablets and Photoshop-style plug-in filters, ImageForge PRO is simple enough for kids, but with the all the power you'll need to produce high-quality artwork. Click a second time on the basic tools in the ImageForge toolbar, and you will find variations on each. Paint with oils or watercolor brushes, create stars and polygons, smudge out wrinkles, clone between images, drag out 3D text and other objects, and much more. You can experiment with creating your own custom brushes, painting with clipart brushes, or even producing your own animations. Once you have created your images, you can generate stand-alone album "Library" programs to give to friends and family. Add special effects transitions between images, or even create slide shows with an audio background. If you prefer, you can turn your slides show into a Windows screen saver. For the budding webmaster, an Internet layer allows you to split images across HTML tables, create clickable image maps, and add special effects to images for your web pages. HTML code is automatically generated, ready for you to insert into your web documents. Supports most common web image formats: .JPG, .PNG, and .GIF (normal, transparent, animated). Other options include: conversion of groups of image files, printing multiple images per sheet of paper, adding grids to your printouts, image merging and masking tools to combine images seamlessly, scanner and other TWAIN device support, distortable text, etc. A complete digital art studio which almost anyone can afford.