FotoVac   
http://www.acdsystems.com

FotoVac is a simple-to-use newsgroup scanner that finds and stores the images you want from Internet newsgroups. Just select the newsgroups that interest you and FotoVac's mass downloader will do the rest. This automatic image downloader lets you customize your newsgroup search, refine your search to suit your preferences by selecting the newsgroups that interest you, and scan or filter by keywords or author and message length. Get the pictures you want from newsgroups without having to spend your own time searching for them. Your downloaded pictures can be browsed quickly as size-adjustable thumbnails and viewed the way you want as full-screen, over-sized, or reduced images. Set FotoVac to scan newsgroups at certain intervals, to check for duplicates automatically, run invisibly in the background, ignore non-image files, and much more. FotoVac supports 9 popular image formats including, BMP, EMF, JIF, JPEG, PLX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, and WMF. When installed with ACDSee 3.1 or ACDSee 3.1 PowerPack, FotoVac supports over 35 image formats. FotoVac - Get the Pictures You Want Without Even Looking!

ABC-View Manager   
http://www.abc-view.com

ABC-View Manager is a very fast and efficient image viewer and file manager that will assist you with a lot of tasks. ABC-View Manager can scan across your folder tree and display all the files in one list. Processing is focused on performance and very fast, much faster and more capable than Windows Explorer. It shows up to 1 million items effortlessly. Drag and drop to and from Explorer is supported. A dual file list allows for very good overview and detailed listing of your collection. And you can sort and filter your image collection with any property. And search through it with flexible search phrases and combinations. Plus, add descriptions to images, and do batch renames. Output your image list as CSV or XML to compare with others. The viewer will use a quick resizer for slower computers and replace it by a high-quality resized image when the algorithm finishes. You can do fullscreen slideshows in any order (also random). ABC-View Manager supports lossless rotation and flipping of JPG files, even preserving the marker information in them. The latest EXIF-safe technology is used. With a few clicks you can build html webpages for your images - very helpful as CD contents, or email your selection of images in downscaled format. ABC-View Manager can show and store the thumbnails of all major image formats so that you can create offline references of your CD-Roms. You can check for duplicate files even against offline volumes. You can even check for closely identical images! Try ABC-View Manager now for free. You may try it on 20 individual days, spanning months if you like, which should be more than enough for you to get the feel for it! Once you decide you like it you can buy it at considerably lower cost than most other viewers.

AllPicturez   
http://www.AllPicturez.com

AllPicturez is a specialized news reader for Windows 95/98/Me that focuses on picture newsgroups. It filters text and spam from Usenet postings and presents only the pictures in an easy to use interface. The software offers thumbnail support, zoom and other basic image editing features. It supports common file formats such as JPEG, GIF, Base64 and UUdecode as well as queued downloads and server authentication.

EyeBatch   
http://www.atalasoft.com

EyeBatch is a powerful and intuitive batch image processor with a familiar Explorer type interface. Ideal for Web Designers, Photographers, or anyone working with multiple images. Supports most popular image formats with over 50 functions including resizing, converting, text and image overlays, full alpha transparency support, digital camera EXIF support, image slicing, autocrop, color levels, and more. As image operations are added or modified, a preview image updates to show the changes. The preview image will show file size, dimensions, and bit depth of both the source and destination image, including effects due to changing color depth or lossy JPEG compression. Perfect for preparing images for the web, making high quality thumbnails, preserving EXIF information from digital cameras, and adding anti-aliased text watermarks to multiple images containing information such as EXIF, filesize, etc. EyeBatch may be used for single or multiple image processing. Additional features include lossless JPEG transformations, autobrightness, command line processing, image masks, color levels, channel splitting, background overlay, and can retain the source images folder structure. Supported image formats include JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, PSD, PCX, TGA, EMF, WMF, and WBMP.

PhotoRetouch   
http://www.cadkas.de

Edit your digital photos and pictures! The picture browser can shows your pictures as thumbnail preview. Then you can retouch your pics, cut out parts out it, optimize the colors, use effect filters, remove objects with the clone brush. You can choose between 9 different brushs like pencil, feather, air brush etc. You can open pics in many file formats, scan new photos, manipulate pics, use effects filters and than save and print out the pics.