Batch Image Converter Software

Photo Magician is one of the popular batch image / photo converter software. It is a very easy to use program which yoy can use to quickly scale and convert images. It is capable of processing several files at once and create custom conversion profiles. Photo Magician supports all common images formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG and TIFF. It can also handles some special image formats like RAW images, DDS, PCX, PSD, TARGA, WBMP and WMF.

Features of Photo Magician

• Convert images using pre-defined profiles
• Create custom profiles
• Resize images by pixel size or by percentage
• Include sub folders for image conversion
• Ability to overwite the original images
• Turn off image previewing during the conversion
• Exlude images under certain file size
• Exlude images under certain pixel size
• Convert all images to one image format
• Quick Convert Mode Allows you to drag images onto the hat to convert them quickly
• Support for popular images formats and others including DDS, TARGA, RAW, PCX
• Auto Updating
• Command line parameters supported
• Upload converted images to popular social sites or FTP

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Free software to watermark images

TSR Watermark Image software is a free software for personal use which can be used to watermark images. If you want to watermark your photos, you can use either text or another picture as the source of the watermark. If you want to add the watermark to the background, you can set the logo or the text to be more or less transparent, and place it wherever you want the watermark to be on the image.

TSR Watermark is available in multiple languages, currently translated languages is English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil & Portugal), Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Indonesian and Danish.

Features of TSR Watermark :

• Multilanguage support, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazilian & Portugal), Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Indonesian and Danish is supported.
• Add text watermark that is either normal, embossed, chiseled or watermarked with a border.
• Automatically rotate the watermarked picture based on the orientation EXIF tag - this is written to the image by many modern cameras.
• Add the text used to watermark the image to the EXIF information in the resulting file.
• Keep or drop EXIF information in jpeg files (Camera model/lense model/etc. etc.)
• Output the watermarked photo to JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF file format.
• Specify the quality of the watermarking output when saving as jpeg images
• Angle the text you use for your photo watermarking
• Insert background watermark in digital images, pictures, photos
• Resize images while watermarking the image/photo
• Watermark your photos using either another image, photo or picture
• Watermark your photos using your own text in the color and style you want to.
• Maintain directory structure in destination directory or combine all batch watermarked images into one directory
• Skip or overwrite existing watermarked images/photos in destination directory
• Automatically check for new version of the TSR Watermark Image Software

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Photo to pencil drawing software

FotoSketcher is a 100% free 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.

Using 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...).

FotoSketcher is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware or virus. It runs on any version of Microsoft Windows.

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Portable Image /Graphics Editor Software

Artweaver is a portable Image editor software which comes totally for free. With the Artweaver you can create sketches from photos, use a wide range of brushes or pencils, apply lighting, blur and texture effects, sharpen images, and even add transparency or distortion.

Features of Atweaver:

• Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
• Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
• Transparency and Layers support.
• Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
• Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD.
• Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
• Support for many languages through language files (Columbian Spanish, Danish, Hungarian, Swedish, ...).
• Artweaver is a Freeware.

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Create Textures and Wallpapers With Free Graphics Software

Imagelys Picture Styles is a way of creating an unlimited number of beautiful graphic images in a minimal amount of time. You can create seamless backgrounds for your desktop or your web page, original wallpapers, textures for 3D modelling, and much much more.

You don't have to be an expert designer to be able to produce truly amazing results. It generates seamless textures using mathematical formulae and works with ready-to-use effects.

Features of Imagelys:

• Offers unlimited compositing possibilities;
• Seamless texture rendering;
• Smart random image creation;
• More than 700 Seamless Textures predefined and customizable;
• Opens a various range of image formats like: bmp,jpeg,jpg,gif,png,jng,mng,emf,wmf,ico;
• Save images to a number of image formats like : bmp,jpeg,jpg,gif,png,jng;
• Opens and saves custom project files;
• Add your favorite custom textures or effects into the ToolPalette;
• Standard retouching tools and image manipulation tools;
• Multiple layers from bitmaps, clipboard;
• Create/edit masks to apply various transparency effects;
• Bitmap alpha blending;
• Multiple customizable easy-to-use overlay layers;
• Variety of resampling filters to resample images to various sizes;
• Multiple Undo/Redo;
• Web export function;
• Make seamless image from whatever photos;

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Image Resize and Format Converter Software for Windows XP and Vista

VSO free image resize software organizes your photos by changing their resolution or moving them within your hard drive. VSO Image resizer is the perfect tool for those who store their digital pictures and images on their PC and who want to resize, compress, convert, create copies, create thumbnails, import or organize photos.

Features of VSO free image resize:

• Convert between different graphic formats
• Configurable compression/resolution ratio
• Support file formats: Jpeg, gif, bmp
• Handle single picture or batch mode
• Reduce size photos perfect for web publishing/share photos by email
• Integrate in windows explorer or works as a stand-alone application
• Fast processing
• Import directly from your memory cards
• Save history of destination folder
• Variable options and settings for advanced users
• Multilingual support (available languages...)
• Optimized for Windows 2000 / XP / Vista

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Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software

Image Analyzer is an advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.

Features of Image Analyzer:

• Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment
• Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc.
• Retouch tools
• Retinex filter for reducing shadows and increasing local contrast
• Deconvolution for out-of-focus and motion blur compensation (see below)
• Easy red-eye removal
• User specified filters in spatial and frequency domain
• Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images
• Scanner, camera and printer support
• File format support:
  Read/write BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX, JPEG and JPEG 2000 images
  Read RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files
• Morphological operations
• Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, Lab, YCbCr, YIQ and PCA
• Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation
• Math expression module for creating and transforming images and advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver
• Plugin system for adding more specialized features. See below for available plugins

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Free Software to find and delete duplicate photo/images

"Duplicate image finder" is a free tool which can be used to find both duplicate and similar images at the same time. The advanced searching algorithms make scanning effective and precise. While scanning for dupes the tool detects rotated, resized, cropped and color corrected images, so you can be sure that it won’t leave out a single dupe photo. As for similar images, the program will also be of much help, for example, in case you need to sort out a series of similar pictures made with different shooting modes.

Following image formats are supported by Duplicate Image Finder:

• JPEG
• TIFF
• BMP
• PNG
• GIF

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How to open/view .CRW file

.CRW is Canon digital camera RAW image format file. You can use XnView, a popular  utility for viewing and converting graphic files.

Dwonload XnView for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/Vista
MacOS X/Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD/Irix/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX

Free Software to Extract Images/screens from Videos or Webcams

ImageGrab is a free utility which can be used to extract images from all kind of videos, also from VideoCDs or SVCDs, and even from live video streams which are delivered to the computer by a webcam, a camcorder or an analog video capture card. It includes a multimedia player able to play the video even in fullscreen, to seek precisely in the video, frame by frame.

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Convert Video to DVD format

Free Video To DVD Converter is a free software which is capable of converting almost any video format to a DVD format and burns them to a DVD disk.

Features of Free Video to DVD Converter:

• converts different video formats;
• burns several video files on one DVD disk;
• automatically creates a simple and functional DVD menu (in case several videos are burned on one DVD);
• detects the size of the future DVD folder/video.
• Supports XP and Vista.

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Fast Thumbnail Image Generator

InstantThumbnails is a free software which can be used to generate thumbnail from  *.jpg,*.jpeg,*.gif,*.bmp images. You simply need to tell the software image source and destination directories. This software is very fast in processing images. Over 5000 thumbnails can be generated in about 45 seconds on a Pentium 4 3.0 ghz machine.

InstantThmbnails requires Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1 to run.

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Best Comic Book Reader/Viewer with support to read CBZ CBR archives

MangaMeeya is one of the best comic reader software with lots of features. This software is very fast while loading images and scaling them.

Features of MangaMeeya:

• New: Supports imbracted archives (archives within archives)
• Pixel Zoom feature
• Rotation 0,90,180,270 for laptops, tablet pcs
• Read Image albums ( Mangas, Comics, or any picture/photo album) in RAR (CBR) or ZIP (CBZ) formats, including password protected ZIP or RAR archives
• Read all common picture formats ( BMP, PNG, GIF, JPG), and can be used a standalone picture viewer
• No installation required
• Extract ZIP and RAR archives

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Free Batch Image Resizing Tool

Batch Image Resizer is a free tool which allows you to quickly and easily resize multiple images at the same time. This software supports the most popular formats and features high quality distortion-less image resizing. A must have utility for people working with lots of images.

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View and Print Fax G3, TIFF files with Free JoyFax Browser

JoyFax Browser is free functional Fax G3 and TIFF viewer for Windows. With Joyfax Browser you can view the image in full size or as the best fit for your window, print a Fax file; rotate images right or left by 90 degrees.

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SiteShoter : free software to generate Web page thumbnail and screenshot

SiteShoter is a small windows based utility that allows you to take a screenshot of any Web page into a file. It automatically creates hidden window of Internet Explorer, loads the desired Web page, and than save the entire content of the Web page into an image file (.png, .jpg, .tiff, .bmp or .gif). You can use SiteShoter in user interface mode, or alternatively, you can run SiteShoter in command-line mode without displaying any user interface.

You can use Image Size (in %) option to select the image size which should be saved.

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Reduce Size of PNG files with PNG Optimizer

PNG Optimizer is a very small (196kb) and easy to use utility which can be used to optimize your PNG files. Other than PNG files it also supports GIF, BMP and TGA files. PNG Optimizer comes with a minimal UI,  you simply need to drag and drop you file inside the utility and rest of the work it will do automatically.

Features:

• Clean your PNG files of useless or wrong information.
• Make your PNG files smaller.
• Convert into PNG other lossless image formats (BMP, GIF, TGA).
• Create PNG screenshots and make them easily available.
• Perform all those tasks in the simpliest and most productive way.
• PngOptimizer is free. It works on Windows (2000/XP/Vista).

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ID Image Compressor : Free image compressor and batch resize

ID Image Compressor is a free tool which lets you Compress and Resize JPEG, PNG, BMP images in batches to amazingly low levels. Compression ratio's of over 30: 1. This will help Faster loading viewing, storing and sharing online. Image compression is based on a Reduction Factor that takes resolution, Color mode and pixel orientation into account. The software also provides Batch Convert. Real-time image preview with approximate resultant resolution and size.

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UniConvertor : universal vector graphics translator/converter

UniConvertor is a universal vector graphics translator. It uses sK1 engine
to convert one format to another.
Development of the import/export modules for this program goes through
different stages, quality and feature coverage are different among formats.

Supported Import Filters:
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1. CorelDRAW ver.7-X3,X4 (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX)
2. Adobe Illustrator up to 9 ver. (AI postscript based)
3. Postscript (PS)
4. Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
5. Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
6. Windows Metafile (WMF)
7. XFIG
8. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
9. Skencil/Sketch/sK1 (SK and SK1)
10. Acorn Draw (AFF)

Export Filters:
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1. AI (Postscript based Adobe Illustrator 5.0 format)
2. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
3. SK (Sketch/Skencil format)
4. SK1 (sK1 format)
5. CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
5. WMF (Windows Metafile)

Latest binaries can be downloaded from below URL :
http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor

Creative Docs .NET - free vector-based graphic design tool

Creative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more. This software is developed by Epsitec SA, a Swiss company, editor of many intelligent games, The interface is tailored for high productivity: it does never get in your way. Creative Docs .NET tools are simple, yet powerful. All styles and attributes can be modified interactively with a minimum number of mouse clicks. A color gradient, for instance, can be modified directly by dragging its handles in the document window. Download Creative Docs .NET