ImageForge Standard   
http://www.cursorarts.com

ImageForge is a complete image editing program for retouching photographs, creating or modifying images, assembling .avi animations, generating slide shows or picture albums, producing Windows screensavers, and more. You can produce outstanding results from your own photos and artwork. A partial listing of ImageForge Features includes the following: 1) Preview window, with zoom and other controls allow you to edit with pixel-level precision; 2) Soft and patterned brushes; 3) Clipart brushes for painting with a series of images; 4) Scatter and Spatter tools; 5) Special Effect Filters; 6) Clone tool for reproducing areas of an image for retouching, etc. You can even clone between two open images; 7) TWAIN device support for scanners, cameras, etc.; 8) Semi-transparent "Intensity" control for painting, text and pasted items; 9) Normal, Fill-to-Border, and Color-replacement flood fills. Options to use patterns, gradients, and semi-transparent fills; 10) Gradients and Patterns; 11) Crop, Enlarge, Resize, high quality Resample, Skew, Rotate by Degree; 12) GIF and AVI animation, plus export to BMP filmstrip panels; 13) Tools to produce and distribute your own stand-alone .exe image Libraries, complete with viewer utility, editor, transitions between images, install program, etc. Use to create family albums, portfolios of your work, screensavers, slide show presentations, and more; 15) Support for many image formats, including .JPG with adjustable quality and compression, GIF (normal, transparent and animated), PNG, etc.; 16) and many more powerful features...

ImageForge PRO   
http://www.cursorarts.com

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. ImageForge PRO is a complete digital art studio which almost anyone can afford.

FreePicGrabber   
http://www.freepicgrabber.com

Search on any word or phrase, and FreePicGrabber scours the Web for you, finding images, videos, clip art, and stock photos from around the world. Just pick the files you want by their small (thumbnail) view, and the full files are downloaded to your hard drive. Preview images by hovering your mouse over them. A full-screen slide-show viewer easily lets you see all your images in order. The optional Parental Control feature lets you filter out nude, erotic, and adult content. With the Web Gallery Grabber, you can instantly download any gallery you find while surfing the Web. Proprietary IntelliGrab technology grabs only the media you want, not thumbnails or banner ads. This powerful program is a must for serious Web-media users. Version 3.2 adds new search options and improves performance.

GFX Alchemy   
http://www.gfxalchemy.com

Powerful all-in-one solution for image editing, conversion, and viewing of 140+ image formats. Advanced features include 60+ special effects, filters, and color adjustments; batch format conversion; comprehensive annotations; image optimizing, painting, thumbnail browsing; screen capture (area, active window, window under cursor, selected object, full screen), slideshow, HTML map creation, video decompiling and construction, Photoshop plugins, TWAIN acquire, etc. Complete image editing features are provided (copy, cut, paste, crop, resize, resample, resize canvas, flip, mirror, rotate, auto-trim, etc.). Other capabilities include image printing; sending via email, disk functions; extensive multi-page image support, magnifying glass, zooming options, image commenting, and so much more! Supported formats include: AFP, ANI, AWD, BMP, CAL, CGM, CLP, CMP, CMX, CUR, CUT, DCX, DIB, DGN, DICOM, DRW, DXF, DWF, DWG, EMF, EPS, EXIF, FAX, FLIC, FPX, GBR, GEM, GIF, HPGL, HPGL2, ICA, ICO, IFF, ILBM, IMG, IOCA, ITG, JBG, JIF, JPG, JTIF, MAC, MNG, MODCA, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCL, PCT, PCX, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PSP, PTOCA, RAS, SCT, SGI, SHP, SMP, SGI, SVG, TGA, TIFF, XBM, XPM, XWD, WBMP, WFX, WMF, WPG, etc. Filters, effects, and color adjustments supported Add Noise, Anti-Alias, Average, Balance Colors, Bending, Brightness, Color Resolution, Colored Gray, Contour, Contrast, Cylindrical, Despeckle, Dilation, Edge Detect, Emboss, Erosion, Fill, Freehand Wave, Gamma Correct, Gaussian Blur, Grayscale, Halftone, Histogram Contrast, Histogram Equalize, Hue, Impressionist, Intensity Detect, Invert, Max Filter, Median, Min Filter, Mosaic, Motion Blur, Oilify, Picturize, Pixelate, Polar, Punch, Radial Blur, Radial Wave, Remove Redeye, Ripple, Saturation, Sharpen, Solarize, Spatial Filters (Gradient, Laplacian, Line Segment, Prewitt, Shift Difference, Sobel), Spherize, Stretch Intensity, Swirl, Texture Underlay, Unsharp Mask, Wave, Wave Shear, Wind, WindowLevel, Zoom Blur, and Zoom Wave.

PicMaster   
http://www.graphics-tools.com

The multi-talented PicMaster promises you quick and easy image editing. Main features are: Image Editing, Filtering, Digital Camera, WebCam, Slide Shows, 3D Images, Video Image Capturing, Scanning, Catalogs, Screenshots, Poster Printing and much more... Thousands of Photoshop® compatible Filter Plugins from the Internet can be included into PicMaster. Over 300 are already included. You can even create your own filters. You can record a sound comment to each picture which, when combined with the slide show, gives you a true multimedia experience. Save your slide show on a self running cd, as a screen saver or as a website. Morph people into other people or animals. Enlarge people’s noses and ears. Create real 3D-Images that can be seen with mirrors and red-blue glasses. Watch 3D-objects emerge out of your monitor. Print out your own glasses with PicMaster. An image browser in Explorer-style shows you all images as a thumbnail preview. You can choose the displaying order with different sorting possibilities. The webcam images can be uploaded into the Internet via FTP, HTTP or Email. The system can also detect movements and turn into an alarm system. All commands can also be entered, saved and executed at a command prompt so that repeated operations can be automated. For example print out all pictures of a folder with only one command. With the possibility of previewing all operations, PicMaster becomes a very comfortable program for you. Why not take the PicMaster-Info-Tour at http://www.graphics-tools.com/tour/tour.html and read all about the program details with screenshots.