TIFNY   
http://www.tifny.com

TIFNY searches your favorite Usenet newsgroups, identifies the photo, music, and video files that interest you, and downloads them into its easy-to-use database. TIFNY opens up to 6 news server connections simultaneously using multiple connections to a single server or to multiple servers. TIFNY supports downloading in UUencode, Base64, and yEnc formats. And it handles large and cumbersome, multi-segment music and video files, automatically downloading, combining, and cataloging them for you. You can scan the headers from your favorite newsgroups and then pick and choose the files you want to download. Or let TIFNY identify the pictures, music, and video files that interest you and download them without any manual intervention. If you're looking for songs by a particular artist, pictures of a specific actor, animal or flower and more you can search the headers by keyword to find exactly what you're looking for. TIFNY learns from past usage, and utilizes that information to quickly and efficiently capture only what you want. The powerful filtering capability lets you ignore postings based upon author, organization, newsgroup, keywords, file type or size--before you incur the time and expense of downloading them. All downloaded files are added to TIFNY's database, along with images and music that you add from your existing collection. TIFNY has a built-in MP3 player which includes a jukebox, a built-in image viewer lets you enjoy your images, and there's even a video player. TIFNY's thumbnailer makes it easy to browse your files by directory, newsgroup and file type. Plus you can locate them by keyword, author, date, or size. With TIFNY, you can sit back and watch the show, or listen to the music. TIFNY's thumbnailer makes it easy to browse your files by directory, newsgroup and file type. With TIFNY, you can sit back and watch the show, or listen to the music.

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

Master Album Maker - Standard Edition   
http://www.intrepidmouse.com

The Master Album Maker is easy-to-use yet powerful software for creating digital photo albums. Choose from a selection of album styles that includes traditional albums, frames, picture viewers and postcards, and download additional styles when you need them. Amaze your friends with 3D Page Turns, the Master Album Maker's premier page turning technology - experience page turns like those of a real photo album! Use the Master Album Maker's Batch Wizard to add multiple images to an album in just one, fast operation, and import images from devices such as digital cameras, scanners, and removable media (such as CDs and storage cards). Resize, rotate and crop images, adjust image composition, and use a range of filters to enhance images and correct common colour problems. Plus: Add text captions, incorporate background and page audio, choose from 26 different page transitions, create slide shows with different speeds, and much more. Publish in 3 formats: Publish stand-alone albums that do not require the recipients to install any software. Publish albums that are viewed using the free Master Album Maker Viewer. Publish albums for the Web with optional password protection - no knowledge of Web technologies is required! A number of example albums are available on the manufacturer's web site.