Photomania Deluxe   
http://photomania.wz.cz

Photomania is a comprehensive application ideal for acquiring, organizing, viewing, enhancing, and sharing your images. A full-featured image viewer quickly generates high-quality displays of your images. Photomania supports over 40 image file formats & 50 effects(filters). Image read support: PNG, BMP, ICO, EMF, WMF, JPEG, JPEG2000, MNG, TIFF, RAS, TGA, GIF, PCD, PSP, PCX, PSD, FAX, SGI, RGB, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS, BW, PDD, VST, ICB, VDA, RLA, RPF, CEL, PIC, PCC, SCR, EPS, CUT, IFF, RSB, LBM, ADA, XPM, SCR Image write support: PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000, MNG, TIFF, BMP, GIF, WMF, EMF, PCX, TGA, RAS, ADA, XPM Basic effects: Antialias, Colorize, Crop, Despeckle, Old look (Sepia), Sharpen, Resize, Rotate.

PixSmart Digital Imager   
http://www.TikinaSoftware.com

Work like an expert with your digital photos in an easy to use intuitive program! PixSmart makes working with your digital images easy and fun. All popular formats and many other graphic formats supported, including JPEG, TIF, GIF (including animated), BMP, PNG, PSD, WMF, EMF, TGA, PCX, MAC, WPG, and more. Many ways to edit, enhance and manipulate your images. Full-featured screen capture gives you tremendous capturing flexibility. Magnifying glass, pan window and other viewing options. Portable slide shows. Email images. IPTC compliant. Convert between formats. Powerful image browser allows for resizing and rotate batches of images simultaneously. Crop, Resize, Rotate, Shear, Trim, Despeckle, Duplicate, Adjust brightness and contrast, Sharpen, Equalize, Gamma correct, Adjust saturation and hue, Remove red-eye, Set color resolution, Balance colors, Invert colors, Swap colors, Perform color separations and merges, Convert images to grayscale, Create halftones, Posterize, Solarize, Create mosaic effects, Emboss, Add and remove blurs of different types, Add and remove noise, Apply underlay patterns, Blend and combine images, Create oil painting effects, Add text and Draw effects. Create slide shows using thousands of transition effects. Save slide shows for future use. Package shows in single file stand-alone applications that can be emailed easily from PixSmart. Add titles/captions to each slide. Precision control of show while it is playing. Drag and drop images from PixSmart and to PixSmart from other Windows applications.

Access Image   
http://www.agnatemoslem.net

Access Image is image editing tool that offers a big set of painting and drawing tools. Features include dockable toolbars, special effects filters, Special Font animation, RGB color separation, complete mask image support, multilevel undo, complete layer support, custom Brushes and AirBrushes, easy painting and retouching brushes, adjustable cropping and selection tools, animation effects, set of deformation tools, image viewer, batch conversion, defined and custom patterns, Buttonize image, screen capture, compare images, color channels, and many other functions.

Artistic Effects   
http://www.awicons.com

Computer graphics made a quantum leap while evolving from four colors to color spaces hardly caught by human eye. And as this evolution progressed computer graphics was turning into a major trend. It is impossible to imagine a modern magazine or a web site created without computer graphics. However, the more advanced the graphical software was getting the more was its cost, resulting in situation when an average individual or a small business becomes virtually cut off the latest graphics production technologies due to the high prices. Looking at human creativity as an engine of modern graphical design, the situation seems unfair. There are actually many great amateur graphics artists out there who have all that it takes to create vivid computer graphics except for expensive software packages. Is there any chance for home-made computer artists to get the proper tools at a fair price? Well, from this day on, there is! Introducing Artistic Effects! A whole collection of image filters that make up professional computer artist toolbox. This unique collection of Photoshop plug-ins has all that you may need to start creating fantastic graphically rich artwork right away. Among the professional effects included in this plug-in package are: Aqua, Chrome, Drop, Ice, Snow, Metal, Plastic, Gel, Smoke, Cotton. Each effect is built on high precision mathematical model ensuring you get the greatest level of quality when applying effects. Artistic Effects is more than just a set of powerful fine art image effects. It is rather a highly customizable graphics processor with each and every effect being tunable to the maximum extent. Besides common approach of using effects such as Aqua to create buttons there is much more use for various settings the plug-in has to offer. You can create your own effects and if for some reason you prefer saving time over being creative there are also several presets for each effect. Now, throw in the truly affordable price and free trial version.

DB Audio Mixer & Editor   
http://www.digitalborneo.com

DB Audio Mixer & Editor is a visual audio files editor for sounds and music recording, playing, editing, mixing, applying various audio effects and filters, format conversion and more. If you're using audio for anything – PowerPoint presentations, websites, Flash animations, recording your own audio book, background music or sound effect for your drama class, then this tool is for you! With this tool, you can easily create your own music, using your computer's microphone or other input device, and record your own voice, guitars, drums... anything. You can then mix, edit, add special sound and filter effects to your music! You can even rip tracks from CDs and convert from one audio format to another, all via a simple and user friendly graphical interface! With DB Audio Mixer & Editor you won't need three or more separate programs for editing, mixing, editing, converting, and recording as you probably do now. Erything is totally integrated in one friendly graphical interface. So what DB Audio Mixer & Editor do for you? Supports over 12 audio formats including the popular MP3s, WMAs, WAVs, Oggs, AIFF and many more. You can easily import/export from one format to another. Open and work with as many simultaneous sound files as you want. Perform unlimited Undo/Redo operations for each files. View a graphical waveform image or a spectral view of an audio file. Zoom in/out, allowing you to see the small details and work on a specific section of the audio file. Easily edit, cut, paste, and mix your audio files visually. Play an audio file or record from a microphone or from other input device. You then have full control over the sound, allowing you to cut, copy, and paste audio; crop out unwanted segments or mix your sounds with an exisiting sound to produce your own unique sounds. Apply sixteen different sound effects/filters such as amplify, fading, volume normalization, stretch, frequency equalization and more.