It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years). IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.

Very fast image viewer supporting various formats. It also supports viewing the images in compressed ZIP, RAR, or 7z files without extraction. If an image has GPS information, the location can be viewed on Google Maps, and users can store preferred photos. Support for RAW image formats including DNG, CR2, CRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, RW2, PEF, SR2, and RAF

Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them. Raw is the unprocessed capture straight from the camera’s sensor to the memory card, nothing has been altered. darktable is created for photographers, by photographers. darktable edits your images non-destructively all the way through its pipeline. Your original image is never modified!

Chasys Draw IES is a suite of image editing applications including a layer-based image editor with animation, icon editing support and super-resolution via image stacking (Chasys Draw IES Artist), a multi-threaded image file converter (Chasys Draw IES Converter), a fast image viewer (Chasys Draw IES Viewer) and a RAW camera file processor (Chasys Draw IES raw-Photo). The whole suite is UAC aware and is designed to take advantage of multi-core processors, touch-screens and pen-input devices. Chasys Draw IES is built to adhere to three core principles, which I call the "three pillars" of Chasys Draw IES. Character: No photoshop imitations here. Performance: Fast, efficient and stable. Innovation: New techniques and out-of-the-box thinking.

View & Edit graphics file of type: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png and pcx. Save As Pdf command. Jpeg lossless rotate and crop. Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to Windows 7. EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images. IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files. Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation. Size optimized Email sending of image(s). It can as well play avi video files and some type of audio files. There are many tools around doing that, but the aim of this is to be a small and handy tool doing what it says.

Program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds. Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season's greetings stationery or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall. Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...).

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

XnView is utility for converting and viewing your graphics files. With XnView you can quickly and easily view, process and convert image files. XnView is able to read more than 500 different formats and then convert them to other formats such as GIF, BMP, JPG, PNG, multi page TIFF. XnView can also display video formats, many digital camera formats and more exotic formats such as Amiga IFF and Calamus. Come to discover XnView, a software to view and convert graphic files, really simple to use! Support of more than 400 graphics formats!

Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils... A wide variety of adjustment settings to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes. Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools. Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support). Transparency and Layers support. Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic. Editable text layers. Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling. History function to und/redo last editing steps. Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver Standard). Support for many languages through language files.

Optimize and convert your graphic files/images in smaller PNG files (up to 5-30%) lossless! Full compatible with source PNG format. Convert from PNG, GIF, BMP, PNM, TIFF to smallest PNG! It uses 6 programs and selects the best result: OptiPNG, TruePNG, ECT (Efficient Compression Tool), AdvanceCOMP, PNGWolfZopfli, DeflOpt. You can enable or disable each of them. Batch processing of files (drag-n-drop). Reduce the size of your PNG files in one click without quality loss! Program optimizes your file to new one with «_optimized» name ending (source file will remain intact). Program will be especially useful for webmasters to optimize images on sites to increase places in search results.

View and save image/animation files with very fast speed! Support for numerous image/animation file formats: GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG, TIF, TGA, PCX, ICO, ANI, FLI, and many more. Extract single/all frames from animation files. Show detailed information of image/animation files. Show EXIF information. Show or hide transparency. Support ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ALZ, HV3, CBZ, CBR, CB7 file. Thumbnail browser. Capture screen. Batch conversion. Slideshow. Tiled view (check textures for seamless tiling, very useful for game developers/modders). Create animations. Create multiple page images. Multilingual support: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Danish, Korean, Chinese, and many more.

Draw.io is a free program for creating diagrams and charts on the Windows platform. It offers a simple and intuitive interface that allows users to easily create professional-looking diagrams of various types. One of the key features of Draw.io is its versatility. It supports a wide range of diagram types, including flowcharts, network diagrams, class diagrams, organizational charts, and more. This makes Draw.io an ideal tool for process design, software development, project planning, and data visualization.

JPEGView is a small and fast viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and TIFF images. On-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing to adjust typical parameters as sharpness, color balance, contrast and local under-/overexposure. Small and fast, uses SSE2 and up to 4 CPU cores. High quality resampling filter, preserving sharpness of images. Basic image processing tools can be applied realtime during viewing. Movie mode to play folder of JPEGs as movie.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc. Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing. Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool. Supports custom brushes and patterns.