Graphics Tools & Applications

Below are software applications that were selected for inclusion in the daily SiteProNews newsletter. The programs are both shareware and freeware, and all were selected for their usefulness to webmasters in the management of their web sites.

Jing (7.9 MB) adds visuals to online conversations. Snap a picture of your screen or record a video of onscreen action and share instantly over the web, IM, or email. Freeware for Windows XP/ Vista. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0.

Easy Image Modifier 1.1 (215 KB) is a utility that can change the resolution, file format and filename of a single image or an image collection. Features include removing meta information, support for bmp, jpg, png, tif, tga & gif and drop and drag. Freeware for Windows 98/ 2000/ XP/ Vista.

Simple Webpage Capture 1.0 (2.5 MB) allows you to take a perfect picture of longer web pages. The program auto scrolls the page combining the screenshots into one picture. Supports 5 file formats: bmp, gif, jpeg, png and tif. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista/ 2008. Requires IE 6.0 or higher.

Ai Picture Explorer v8 (1.7 MB) is an all-in-one graphics app that views, edits, enhances, manages and organizes photos. It can also play multimedia files and has advanced batch image processing and conversion capabilities. Create thumbnailed HTML catalogs or impressive slideshows with your choice of 173 cool effects. The included JPEG Wizard can create tiny files with superb quality. Supports most popular image formats. Freeware for Windows XP / 2003 / Vista.

PicPick Tools 1.8 (760 KB) is an imaging program for software developers, graphic designers and home users. Has a simple and intuitive interface and features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard, etc. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ 2K3.

Color Archiver 1.0.1 (52 KB) is a small color diary utility. Search, pick and save color. Includes all predefined web colors, has a unique color palette and lets you browse any previously saved colors. Good for web developers. Freeware for Windows 95 and above.

Web-Thumb 1.1.3097 (13 KB) creates thumbnails of Web pages. Choose an image format, enter a Web address and run the program to quickly generate a thumbnail. Can also be used to test a web page with different screen resolutions. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ Vista. Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or higher.

SiteShoter v1.09 (80 KB) is a small utility that allows you to save a screenshot of any Web page into a file. Automatically creates hidden window of Internet Explorer, loads the desired Web page, and then saves the entire content of the Web page into an image file (.png, .jpg, .tiff, .bmp or .gif). Freeware for Windows XP/ 2003/ Vista.

iSpring 3.1 (6.2 MB) is a PowerPoint add-in for conversion of presentations into Flash format. Keeps the original appearance of your presentations regardless of their complexity. Converted presentations are very compact and easy to distribute and share on the web and compatible with all browsers. Freeware for Windows XP/ 2000/ 2003/Vista.

Shrink Pic 1.4.1 (1.1 MB) is a utility that runs in the background and automatically compresses the file sizes of images/ photos sent by email, Skype and MSN Messenger or files uploaded via web browser to blogs or websites. Three levels of compression. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista.

Free Image Editor 2.1 (1.4 MB) is an image-editing app that lets you retouch existing photos or create original graphics. Provides a rich graphics toolset for digital photography, print production and Web design. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT4/ 2Kx/ XP.

Website Thumbnail Capture 2.0 (462 KB) is a tool that captures website images plus the corresponding html code. Specify screenshot sizeand enter up to a 1000 URLs. Images are captured in a single batch process. Requires .Net runtime. Freeware for Windows NT4/ 2000/ XP/ Vista.

Jpeg Enhancer 1.8 (5.4 MB) is a simple, powerful program that lets you restore images damaged by low-quality jpeg compression. Uses a unique technique to remove "jpeg artifacts" and the "blotchy look" from images quickly and effectively. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT 3.x/ NT 4.x/ XP/ 2000.

GIF Palette Changer 1.0 (620 KB) is a utility for quickly modifying the palette of any gif image. You can also preview and batch modify palette colors. An ideal tool for Web site and application developers. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT 4.x/ 2000/ XP/ 2003.

ColorMania 2.4 (621 KB) is an advanced color picker utility for web designers, graphic artists and developers that supports various color models and is able to pick colors from anywhwere on your screen. Freeware for all versions of Windows.

WebShot (1 MB) allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or entire websites. Includes a command line interface for advanced users. Supports JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP image formats. Freeware for Windows XP.

EffexShop (3.3 MB) is a program that specializes in creating photoshop type effects on an image. A must have for image editors, web designers, etc. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2K/ NT4/ XP/ 2003/ Vista and Mac OS 9.0 or above.

HC Image Editor 2.0.4 (2.7 MB) provides twenty-three image filters and features conversion of image formats, an advanced system of color administration, zoom lens, mirrored tools, etc. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

PictureGirdle 1.3.1 (61 KB) re-sizes image dimensions and reduces image file size. Simple to use and can handle 100s or 1000s of images at a time. Also can convert jpg, bmp, gif, png, wmp, and tiff images into any of these formats. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP. Requires .Net Framework v1.1.

Instant Eyedropper 1.501 (451 KB) is a utility that will identify and automatically paste to the clipboard the color code of any pixel on the screen with just a single mouse click. Freeware for Windows Win NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003.

PhotoFiltre (1.7 MB) is a simple and intuitive image retouching program that rivals many commercial packages. It offers all the standard editing features as well as a large selection of image effects, photo masks, image adjustments, thumbnail browser, etc. Freeware for non commercial use. Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

PC Image Editor (5.3 MB) is a user friendly graphics editor. Edit bmp, gif, jpg, tiff, pcx, png, tga, and j2k images. Features include copy, move, delete, and rename; photo color adjustment; filters; rotations and transformations; image resizing; etc. Freeware for personal use. Windows 98/ ME/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

Image Analyzer (1.9 MB) is an advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis program that reads/writes numerous image formats. Features scanner and printer support, built-in filters, morpheological operations, resize, rotate, crop, warping, etc. Also has plug-in support. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Image Forge (6.0 MB) provides a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. Features include clipart brushes, soft brushes, scatter and spatter, special effect filters, twain scanner & device support, crop, enlarge, resize, resample, skew, rotate, etc. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

SimpleOCRE (9.3 MB) converts scanned documents to text files or Word documents. The program scans and analyzes text and displays a spell checker view that allows you to correct spelling errors. Freeware version works with printed documents and includes a trial option for recognition of handwritten documents. For Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

SmartMorph (850 KB) is a graphic utility that allows you to morph one picture to another or create funny effects using only one picture. Other features include image resizing and cropping, animation output as avi video, animated gif or sequence of bmp, jpg, mng, png or pcx images and filter and color correction functions. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Isaac (3.9 MB) creates animations, rollover effects, interactive tools, menus, site intros, etc. by manipulating images through a visual interface and without writing code. Produces html files that can be copied into your web sites. Freeware for Windows NT4/2000/Me/XP.

PhotoRazor (1.35 MB) is a photo editing program that makes small, high quality copies of large photos. Process folders of photos with one button-click. Freeware for Windows XP/ 2000/ 98/ ME/ NT.

Viewer (3.2 MB) is a fast image viewer with slide show. Nice interface. Features a thumbnail viewer, shell toolbar and basic image compare. Supports all major graphic formats. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT4/ ME/ 2K/ XP.

ColSel (546 KB) is a color selector utility. It can provide the color code of a selected color in several different formats and has numerous other functions. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT 4.x/ 2000/ 2003/ XP.

Gradient Text (240 KB) is a handy app that allows you to create cool gradient text for your website. Options include set start/ end colors, font name and size and preview. Freeware for Windows 98 and above.

Visere (2.9 MB) is one of the fastest image viewers available with an intuitive and user friendly interface. Besides basic image editing such as: cut, copy, paste, crop, and undo, Visere easily renames, converts, and prints multiple files. Other features include a measuring tool, slideshow display, lossless rotation and emailing of pictures. Shareware with free trial. For Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

Merge (938 KB) is a graphic utility for overlaying two images in any relative position prior to saving the result to a file. You can merge the two images in different ways. Fade out one image and fade in the other or smoothly blend in just part of a source image to the final result. Supported image formats are bmp, jpeg, png, tif, tga, and pcx. Freeware for all Windows versions.

FastStone Image Viewer (2.5 MB) is an image browser, viewer, converter, and editor. Features include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustment, watermarks, and a broad array of other image-managing features. Also offers a batch-image converter and resizer, a magnifier, and a built-in slide show with more than 60 transitional effects. Supports all major graphic formats. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ 2003.

FontList (70 KB) lets you create an html file that shows all the fonts installed on your computer in browser format. You can also change the predefined sample text, exclude seldom used fonts from the list, view the character map of a font, create a print out of all your fonts and more. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

PixGrabber (3.8 MB) is a handy image viewer and a powerful tool for image archiving. Images can be collected from the Internet, hard drive, CDs, etc. in manual or auto mode. In auto mode images are added to a database without user input. Also, features meta-search for 7 of the most popular image-searching engines. For Windows NT/ 2000/ XP. Freeware version has some limitations.

HoverSnap (328 KB) is a small, but powerful, screen capture utility that can capture the entire desktop, the active window or custom areas on the screen and save the image to jpeg, gif, bmp or png format. Additional features include integrated FTP upload and support for layered windows. Runs in the system tray and screen captures can be triggered via keyboard shortcuts. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

Interactive JPEG Optimizer (1.0 MB) can compress JPEG images singly or in batches. Visually see the effect of compression. Also has tools for cropping, resizing, controlling contrast/brightness and color balance. Use Hotkeys to show and hide tool windows, view original and optimized images side by side. Shareware with free 30 day trial. For Windows 98/ NT/ 2000/ Me/ XP.

Image Enhance (292 KB) is an image editor that features support for bitmap and JPEG images, webcams, digital cameras and scanners. Digitally enhance your images by applying different filters and effects, like sharpness, contrast, grayscale, invert, logaritmize, find edges, old photo and more. You can also design your own filters. Freeware for Windows 95 or later.

iView (864 KB) is an image viewer with support for BMP, JPG and TGA formats (Open and Save) - and GIF, PIC, TIF, CUT, PCD, PSP, PDD, PSD, RLA, SGI, RLE, PCX and some other formats (Viewing Only). Easy browsing of images, TWAIN support, and a slide- show function with variable delay and loop. Shareware with free 21 day trial. For Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000.

ScreenPrint Gold (1.3 MB) is a screen print and capture utility. Capture or print full screen, active window, or any user-defined area. Other features include an image viewer, quick-save and autodelete, print with date/time stamps and captions, image editor and more. Free for Windows Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ SE/ NT4/ 2000/ XP. Note: Also includes a 30-day trial version of ScreenPrint Platinum 4.7.

DIMIN Image Viewer (576 KB). Supports numerous image formats and includes panoramic photograph tools, an image navigator and special effects tools. Multi-language support. Free for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

PicSizer (3.23 MB) is a handy utility for resizing images. Images can be resized in batches and previewed from an easy to use slider. Reduced files are saved to a different directory, so original pictures remain unchanged. PicSizer also allows for rotation and renaming of images. Supports .bmp, .jpg, .gif, .png, .tga, and .tif file formats. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

ScreenPrint32 (2.7 MB) allows you to capture and print the full desktop, active window, predefined area, or user selected area with a single key stroke. You can add user-defined headers and footers with date and time stamps, resize the printed image, convert to grayscale or negative image, and fade or resize the image to reduce toner or ink usage. Save captured images in GIF, BMP, JPEG or PNG formats. Fr'ee for home or personal use. For Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

PixelToolbox (3.6 MB) is a complete solution for designing desktop graphics. Create, edit, and apply 1-bit patterns, wallpaper tiles, icons, and cursors - all from a single integrated environment. Offers the standard set of painting tools along with a few filters and features not found in other software. Freeware for for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

StripFile (860 KB) is a utility that strips the redundant information often contained in GIF, JPEG, PNG and HTML files, reducing their size by sometimes as much as 40% - 50%. Smaller files mean faster downloading and less bandwidth usage. Freeeware. Requires Windows 98 or later.

JPG Cleaner (284 KB) is a powerful utility for cleaning anything that is not picture data out of JPG files which reduces overall file size. Freeware. W32 version can be run in Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000.

CPick (281 KB) is a handy tool that allows you to select colors on your screen and copy them to the clipboard as a Hex, Decimal, RGB or HSV value. Easily modify colors with the RGB or HSV slide bars. Also, has a built-in magnifier with 1 to 10 zoom. Magnified images can be saved as icons or bitmaps.

ScreenRip32 (367 KB) is a screen capture utility that lets you capture areas of the screen with a variety of methods. The program supports different image formats such as ICO, BMP, JPG, and GIF. View and/or create animated GIFs, convert or capture images as different color depths, hot key configuration, capture mouse cursor, insert cursor images and much more! Freeware. For Windows 9x/ NT/ ME/ 2000.

VicMan's Photo Editor (4.9 MB) is a versatile image editor with intuitive skinnable interface and a variety of features. Offers users the simplicity of image editing, high productivity and easy customizing abilities. Includes a wide range of essential features for both novice users and professional designers. Refine your digital photos, draw artwork naturally and effortlessly, and produce graphics for the Web. Requires free registration. For Windows 9x/ NT/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

Zoner Draw (9.1 MB) is an ideal graphics program for a broad range of applications. Use it to create brochures and leaflets, as well as illustrations for documents, business cards, price tags, letterheads, postcards, signs, blueprints, greeting cards, and more. Can also create graphics for Internet presentations, including vector animations. Requires free registration. For Windows 9x/ ME/ 2000/ NT4/ XP.

If you're looking for an easy to use, inexpensive program to compress JPEG images, JStrip fits the bill. Freeware. For Windows 95/98/NT/2000.

The Clip Art Warehouse has thousands of icons, animated gifs, animations, desktop icons, and more. Most are totally FREE to do with as you please. Definitely one of the best clip art image repositories on the Web.

IrfanView, is a very fast, freeware 32-Bit graphic viewer for Windows 9x/2000/NT with support for more than 50 different file formats. Features include, preview, drag & drop Support, fast directory view, print & scan support, slideshow, batch conversion, thumbnails and much more.

AhaView Free (633kb) is a handy image viewer and converter. It displays images in the all popular formats: JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, CUR, ANI, WBMP. It has a thumbnail mode and you can quickly browse through numerous image files, open any of them to full size with a double click, and convert images to JPEG and Windows Bitmap formats. For Win 95/98/NT/2000.

ImageForge (3.3 MB) provides a set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics. Create camera or other Twain-compliant device, apply special effect filters, produce your own photo albums and simple slide shows, and much more. Freeware for Win 95/98/NT4/2000.

PhotoMix (1.4MB) creates an image collage in few mouse clicks. Take any number of images in any of 26 supported formats and arrange them together using one of the standard or user-defined templates. Image collages can be saved as a single image (*.bmp, *.gif, *.jpg) or as editable project (images and layout). For Win 95/98/NT/2000. 30 day trial. Shareware: $25.00.

MotionGIF (1.5 MB) is a user-friendly, powerful and feature rich tool to create great looking animated GIF files. Features include a powerful image editor that allows you to import images from 15 common image file formats and edit them and a frame transition feature with 21 built-in visual effects. MotionGIF combines draw, paint and animation in one easy-to-use program. Shareware: $19.95. For Win 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP.

GraFX Saver Pro (7.1 MB). Use images, animation, video, and audio to create professional screen savers. GraFX Saver Pro supports over 70 image/video formats and all popular audio formats for background sound. Advanced features include 2000+ special effects, complete control of size, position, transition, effect, display time, background and much more! Shareware: $75. 15 Day Trial. For Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.

Trout's GIF Optimizer (307k) shrinks GIFs without any noticeable reduction of picture quality. It will even convert other graphics (.bmp), (.jpg; .jpeg), (*.ico) to optimized GIFs. Just drag-and-drop files then save. Also supports animated GIFs.

Image Explorer Pro (14.4MB) has read and write support for over 70 image formats! Over 100 advanced image manipulation and processing features, including standard features such as crop, resize, resample, rotate, print, zoom, flip, mirror, etc. Advanced features include 2000+ special effects, Photoshop plugin support, 3D text/shaping, image overlaying, optimization and much more. For Win 95/98/NT/2000/ME. Registered ver. $50.00

ArtIcons (652 kb) is a powerful graphic utility that allows professional and amateur graphic artists alike to create and edit icon images and manage icon files and libraries with perfect ease. A great tool for creating buttons and tiny icons 30 day trial with limited icon scanning. Shareware $19.95.

PaintStudio Lite (2.1 MB) is an easy to use freeware image viewing/editing application. Use it to enhance the look and common file formats (bmp, gif, jpeg, png, pcx, tga, etc.). Numerous other features.

X-Fonter (509kb) is a user friendly Font Viewer, Font Manager and 3D Graphic creator. It also allows you to make nice 3D Graphics that you can use for your webpages and emails. Newest version includes search for font files, custom color schemes, better font resource management and more.

J-Perk (3.2 MB) adds special effects and animations to your Web pages quickly and easily. A wide range of multimedia effects will make your Web page grab everyone's attention! Includes special effects like: Random Image, Random Quote, All-in-one buttons, Personalize your Web page and more! For Win 95/98/NT/ME/2000. Reg. version $34.95.

iMaker (680 kb) is an image splitting tool. If you have a single large interface image you can use iMaker to split the of jpeg or gif output files and generation of HTML table to redraw the complete interface. Freeware. For Win 9x/ME/2000.

Capture (212 kb) is a quick-and-easy screen capture utility for Windows (and NT), which allows you to capture the entire screen, at any color depth and resolution, and save it into a Bitmap file for editing. Runs in the Windows Tray. Registration is Free.

Easy Thumbnails (870 KB) creates accurate thumbnails from popular picture formats. Find and view images easily, preview your thumbnails, and use tools to rotate images and adjust their contrast, brightness, sharpness and compression. Freeware.

Express WebPictures (868 KB) is a great solution for downloading pictures from web galleries and presenting them in a simple easy to use way. Simply drag & drop a page URL on the Drop Basket and this smart utility explores it and downloads all images to your hard drive. Features include image filtering, image preview and built-in image viewer. Shareware: $39.95. 30 Day Free Trial. For Windows 95/98/NT/ 2000/XP.

JR Screen Ruler (142 KB) is a great tool that allows you to accurately measure anything on your screen. This is especially useful when measuring graphics, web page browser sizes or whatever. Screen Ruler can display Pixels, Inches, Picas or Centimeters. For Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME. Freeware.

ScreenHunter (327 kb) is one of the best screen capture tools we've seen and this is the freeware version. ScreenHunter can copy a fullscreen, an active window, the client window or a rectangular area. It auto-saves captures in BMP or JPG format, can save to Clipboard, has a selectable hotkey capture (F1 to F10), and uses virtually no system resources on standby.

Mihov Image Resizer (311 KB) is a handy tool for batch resizing images in .bmp, .gif, and .jpg picture formats. Can also convert images between different graphic formats (IE: JPG to GIF), rotate images, and create thumbnails. Freeware. For Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

ZPaint (286 KB) is an application for creating 3D-looking elements for web sites and software interfaces. Easily paint raised or lowered shapes such as buttons, rings, boxes... or add those effects to existing graphics. Features include color/ texture selection, adjustable extrusion depth, gloss and other effects. Best used in cooperation with an image editor. Freeware. For Windows 95/ 98/ ME.

PhotoPlus (16.9 MB) ia a full-featured graphics editor that allows you to create new images or animations from scratch or edit existing ones, using a variety of brushes and available shapes. A multi window display provides side by side WYSIWYG previews of image quality at various output settings. The program also lets you create HTML image maps as well as slice images into multiple parts using the visual slicing tool. Additional filters and plug-ins can be downloaded as free add-on packs. Requires free registration. For Windows 9x/ 2000/ ME/ NT4/ XP.

PicMan (16 KB) is a small program for managing picture collections on your hard disk which seem to grow over time whenever you modify your web pages. The program allows you to quarantine pics that are no longer being used in your web pages. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

GIFeq (363 KB) is a useful graphics tool that can reduce gif file size through optimization. Features include batch processing, removal of comments and interlacing, optimizing palettes and more. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

imgSeek (4.5 MB) is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT/ XP.

GimPhoto 1.4.3 (18.1 MB) is a powerful photo and image editor Photoshop alternative for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Linux. Freeware.

RealWorld Paint.COM v2009.1 (6.4 MB) is an image viewer and that can display images using any zoom factor. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls. Allows you to edit pictures with layers and assign effects to every layer. Uses native plug-ins as well as plug-ins compatible with Adobe Photoshop. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7.

TwistedBrush Open Studio (11.5 MB) is one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines available with more than 5,000 brushes. Features include: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, scanner support, drawing guides, dynamic etc. Designed for all types of digital art. Freeware for all Windows versions.

ColorGrab 2.0 (1.2 MB) is a simple utility for finding the color code (RGB or Hex) for any color on your computer screen. Simply choose the "Get Color From Screen" option, move your mouse to the desired color, and click. Has a handy save feature. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista.

GiftedMotion (184 KB) is a small, easy to use GIF Animator that enables you to design animations from a series of digital images. GIF animations can be created from from png, jpg, bmp and gif images. Features include size adjustment of resulting animations, position adjustment of images within frames and animation preview. Freeware for Linux, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows.

ImageGrab 4.2 (635 KB) makes it possible to extract images from all kinds of videos such as avi, mpeg, wmv, live video streams, not encrypted DVDs, etc. Captured images can be saved in .bmp or .jpg format. Freeware for Windows XP/ Vista.

Pixelformer 0.8.2 (620 KB) is an advanced icon editor designed to give you full control over every pixel of your images. Too many features to mention. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT 4.0/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista.

HTML Colors 1.31 (349 KB) is a light color picker that displays the hexadecimal, decimal and RGB values of a color. It allows selecting colors and copying values directly from the taskbar icon, and can copy the color code to the clipboard automatically.

WPClipart 5.8 (655 MB) is a collection of 21,000+ high-quality, public domain images tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. Includes color graphic clips, illustrations, photographs and black and white line art in PNG format. Freeware.

Image2Html 1.0 (470 KB) is a nifty tool that can convert any image to full color text art that can be rendered in any web browser. Supports single and batch image conversion. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista.

HeliosPaint 1.2.2 (791 KB) is a paint program for creating and editing images and drawings. Numerous features with support for bmp, gif, jpeg, pict, pcx, png, psd, ras, tga, tiff, xpm file formats. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ XP/ Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.

Active Pixels 2.0 (7.4 MB) is a powerful graphics editor that can edit existing images, create new images, edit or create animation images with layers, optimize images, etc. Too many features to mention. Freeware for Windows NT/ XP/ Vista.

Palette (143 KB) is a simple and handy color browser that shows you the most common colors used by web designers and developers as well as the HEX and RGB color codes. Freeware for Windows 98 and above.

Peacock Color 1.1 (3.2 MB) is an advanced color picker that can get any color from any screen. Features include zoom, picture loading, capture saving, pallets, movie capture, etc. Supports all popular color formats. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ 2000/ NT/ XP.

Rendera 1.5 (197 KB) is a graphics program for artistic painting, photo-retouching, colorizing, and seamless tile design. Emulates common art tools and features an easy-to-learn interface. Freeware for Windows ME/ 2000/ XP/ Vista.

Simply Thumbnail Creator 2.0 (410 KB) is an easy-to-use thumbnail creator and converter. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ 2K3.

AvancePaint 1.2.7 (1.6 MB) is a complete paint program with an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to learn and use. Open any number of photos or images. A complete set of 20 photo-realistic filters and more then 40 textures are included. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ 2K3.

WebShot 1.34 (539 KB) is a program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites. Comes with a command line interface for advanced users. The jpg, gif, png, bmp image formats are supported. Freeware for Windows 98 to XP.

HippoColor 1.1 (164 KB) allows you to find color-harmony combinations instantly. Just select the composition and place it anywhere in the bee's house schema. No help file but fairly easy to figure out. Useful for website color selection. Freeware for Windows 95+.

Universal Viewer 1.5.6.2 (642 KB) is an advanced file viewer that supports a wide range of file formats, including text/ binary/ hex/ unicode; all multimedia formats supported by Windows Media Player; all formats supported by Internet Explorer, etc. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP.

Image Minimizer 1.0 (416 KB) is an image utility that can quickly reduce image file size, change image dimensions or convert image format.

Photobie 2.8.8 (2.2 MB) is a feature laden image editing program that includes embedded filters and supports many Photoshop filter plugins. Features advanced screen capture tools, supports photo framing and image directory browsing and can create/edit high quality gif animation. Flash player included. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003. Requires .NET Framework 1.1.

Paint.NET 2.72 (3.7 MB) is an image and photo manipulation program. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003.

WebRipper (543 KB) finds and extracts pictures and media files from specified URLs and saves them to your hard drive. Input URLs or use the web search function to find images based on keywords. Features filter options, depth settings for site spidering, image preview and multi-threaded downloading. Requires .NET framework 1.1 or higher. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

PicuSizer (524 KB) is a powerful program to batch convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Supports many image formats including formats like gif, jpeg, png, bmp, etc. Freeware for Windows 95 and higher.

Toolbar Paint (57 KB) allows you to design your own toolbar button graphics. It can open toolbar bitmaps with up to 64 buttons and has a wide selection of editing tools. Supports 16 color, 256 color, 24 and 32 bit graphics and button sizes from 16 to 48 pixels square. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT4/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

Anry Color Picker (255 KB) is a color picker and color mixing tool. Features five formats of picked color value, 3x/9x zoom of any screen area, saved picked color history, RGB and RYB color wheels, two harmonious color finders and RGB color mixer. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003.

Easy Picture2Icon (366 KB) is a tool that converts images or digital photos to Windows icons. The program can convert digital picture formats bmp, gif, jpeg, jpg and png to Windows icons (ICO), has support for making transparent icons and is also able to generate icon files that contain multiple icons of different sizes. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Scan2PDF (495 KB) can scan paper documents and save them to PDF format on your computer for digital archiving or backup. It can also load images from your hard drive and combine them with a scanned document, or combine multiple documents/images into a single PDF file. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

Colour to HTML (1.6 MB) is a small utility for finding html color codes. Select colors from any screen using the color picker. Comes with a CSS Script generator. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

MT Thumbnail Generator (198 KB) is a simple tool that can generate hundreds of thumbnails in seconds! Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

mosascii m2 (5.1 MB) converts any image into an html mosaic, made out of ASCII characters. The html mosaics look just like the original image except they are created out of colored text characters. Features include image actions and effects. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT4/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

2 Pic (1.0 MB) is a graphical program for editing images. Functions are clearly arranged on tabs and include opening two images next to each other, merging and fading images into each other, adding frames and effects to images, inserting layered text, adding gradients, etc. Freeware. Requires Windows 95 and above and a screen resolution 1024x768 or higher.

PFE Text Generator (556 KB) is a 3D text builder. Load any true-type font you like and render full parametrized 3D text. Set the lighting and modify numerous other parameters such as font, bevelling or materials. Export the 3D data to VRML and OpenGL source files or render it to an antialiased jpg file. Freeware for Windows 98/ NT/ Me/ 2000/ XP and individual use.

WebSwoon Beta 6 (3.9 MB) captures and creates thumbnail snapshots of web sites from a list of URL addresses that you provide. Features include image size adjustment and saving to jpeg, gif or png file formats, customizable capture delay and more. Donationware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Quick HTML Color Picker (233 KB) is a color picker tool. Pick any color from the screen. Preview the color, use mouse or keyboard to select the color you want and then get the color in RGB and HTML format. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT 4.x/ 2000/ XP/ 2003.

Free Web Buttons (624 KB) helps you create high quality web buttons and menus with ease. Set parameters such as as direction, size, color, font face, font style, shadow, alignment, links, targets, tooltips, word wrap, and more. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

ColorCache (1.0 MB) is a professional color picker, color scheme generator and palette management tool. Use ColorCache to select screen colors, create harmonious color schemes, and to manage and share palettes and color swatches. Shareware $34.99 with 15 day free trial. For Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

E-Mage for Web (945 KB) is a simple utility for creating HTML image galleries from pictures on your computer. It automatically generates pages with thumbnail images that are hyperlinked to the original, larger image. Customize parameters such as thumbnail dimensions, compression quality, border color and thickness and more. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

PDF4Free 2.00 (627 KB) installs as a virtual printer and allows you to convert any printable document to PDF format. Supports up to 2540 x 2540 DPI printing resolution, custom paper sizes, PDF document information, font embedding, automatic hyperlink detection, print scaling and more. The free version adds a signature line to the bottom of every converted document. For Windows NT/ 2000/ XP.

Easy Color Themes (1.93 MB) is a toolbox for designers, webmasters, paint artists and software developers who do visual color design. Grab colors from any screen using a color picker, create your own color list, specify custom color names and export color themes to a BMP file. Other features include screen capture, project support, zoom and multiple color output formats. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

GIF Vault (2.2 MB) is a collection of over 7,500 32x32 GIF images (mostly 16 colors) all categorized and ready to add to a web page. All images have a transparent background and most are about 500 bytes in size. Images include cartoons, computer, household, building, Sci-Fi, space, smileys, music, animals, insects and more. Free for all Windows versions.

Web Picture Creator (472 KB) is a tool for creating Internet photo albums and for resizing images, making thumbnails and copying images. It handles JPEG images (*.jpg, *.jpeg). Offers customizable HTML output that can be edited to match your site design. Add titles and descriptions to each image, specify the thumbnail size and output quality and more. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

ModelPress Publisher (17 MB) provides a mechanism for publishing 3D files to a Web-ready format, as well as a flexible, Web-delivered visualization application that can be embedded into Web pages. Fr'eeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

RGBLab (1.72 MB) is a smart and easy color manager for developers and designers. Lets you pick and mix RGB colours and also lets you save RGB colour palettes as text files. Save all the RGB colour codes for six different colors in twelve different formats, including your own custom format. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

PIXresizer (2.8 MB) is a utility for quickly generating screen-friendly versions of your images with dramatically reduced file sizes of one file or, a selection of image files, for use on the web and in email. Offers several different resizing methods and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. Includes a built-in image viewer. Can also convert between graphics formats, rotate images, and convert to grayscale. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT4/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

WinMorph (4.3 MB) is a morphing app that enables the smooth transition from one image to another; e.g. a young woman into an old woman, or a man into a lion. Downloaded by more than 400,000 users. The program can work as a stand alone or as a plug-in for Adobe Premiere, Vegas Video and Wax. Wax is included in the download. Freeware. For Windows 98/ Me/ XP.

Pawbrowse (1.23 MB) is an advanced image viewing, browsing and management utility. Features include support for 13 common image formats, 25 image filters, a thumbnail browsing mode, full screen mode, slideshow mode, file management customization options, screen and window capture, file type association, send image to external editor and lots more. For Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP. Freeware. Requires Visual Basic 6 runtime files.

Color Cop (325 KB) is a color picker loaded with extra features. Magnify to select the color of a single pixel with the eyedropper; average a color from a 3x3 or 5x5 block; pop-up menu configuration; output may be to closest of 216 web safe colors; support for color hex conventions in HTML and many programming languages, etc. Freeware. For Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000.

PrintKey 2000 (557 KB) lets you print the desktop, active window or a selected rectangular area. Optionally include the cursor in the capture. There are options for stretching, centering, mirroring, and inverting the image. Captures can be saved in BMP, JPEG, JPG, EMF, WMF format, or edited with your graphic program. Freeware. For Windows 9x/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

Icon Sucker (658 KB) is a utility that allows you to extract icons from the files on your hard drive. Many different file types on your computer contain one or more icons that you can use. The program supports ICO, CUR, ANI, ICL, EXE, DLL, OCX, DRV, BPL, CPL, SCR and VBX files. Freeware. For Windows 9x/ ME/ NT4/ 2000.

P3dO Explorer (1.8 MB) is an easy-to-use Explorer-ish graphics browser supporting all popular image file formats, plus the Poser and Vue d'Esprit file formats. Features include selectable thumbnail image size, slideshow, zoom, Windows-like favorites menu, Zip through browsing, plugins and more. Freeware. For Windows 95/ 98/ Me/ NT/ W2k/ XP.

Movies 13 (414 KB) is a GIF-Animator with 98 animation wizards including text and actor wizards. Edit existing animations, create new ones from imported images or from images created with integrated Movies Draw. Features: GIF explorer, GIF optimizer, quick backgrounds, smart shape (100 shapes with 25 gradient fills, rotated text etc.), select frame animation, 3 free floating actors for creating cartoons, actor and text wizards, and AVI to GIF and GIF to AVI converters. Freeware. For all versions of Windows.

Ultimate Paint (2.5 MB) is a graphics program for image retouching, viewing and manipulation. All popular image formats are supported. Image acquisition from twain compatible scanners. Multiple Undo/Redo, total control over file parameters, save optimization panel to help you optimize your JPEG, PNG and GIF images. Tools for retouching and enhancing photos: comes with more than a hundred stunning plug-in image filters and special effects. Adobe plug-in support is also provided. Freeware. For Windows 9x/ NT/ 2000/ Me.

3DWebButton (1.1 MB) is one of the best and easiest to use 3D button generators we've yet seen. Even graphic novices can create sophisticated buttons and headings in minutes. A preview of your work is continually displayed. Set button shape, color, size, drop shadow and texture map. 100 + options and 7 button shapes are available. Save in .bmp, .jpg, and gif image formats. For Windows 95/98/ME/2000. Fully functional. Shareware $23.

DeKnop (662KB) is an easy to use button maker. Select the text, font style, color, 3D bevel, size, gradients and many other aspects. Preview any changes that you make as you make them. DeKnop also offers support for automatic up/down effects for use in mouse over javascripts. Files can be saved in PNG, JPG, BMP or GIF(non LZW) format. Free. For Win XP/Me/NT4/2000/98/95.

XnView (1.8 MB) is program for viewing and converting graphic files. More than 360 graphic formats supported! Features include resize, copy/cut/crop, brightness and contrast adjustment, color modification, filters, effects, screen capture, thumbnail creation and much more. For Windows 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP. Freeware.

Picture-shark (723 KB) gives you the ability to watermark and copyright your picture galleries. Use logos, text or any other images. Picture-shark can process hundreds of pictures per minute. Supports transparence and realtime preview. For Win9x/NT/2000/ ME/XP. Freeware.

MWSnap (410 KB) is a small, powerful program for capturing images from selected parts of a screen. Current version can capture a whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, or a fixed or free part of the screen. Supports BMP, JPG, TIFF and GIF formats. Also includes a zooming tool, screen ruler and a color picker as well as system wide hotkeys and preset selection sizes. Freeware. For Win 9x/NT/ME/2K/XP.

FotoArchive 2.4.9 (2.1 MB) can divide image files into albums and catalog them using the image file type. Easily transfer Foto records between albums, add images or change their location within an album. The interface displays a scrollable image, the full path of the image file and three searchable category text areas. View multiple images in thumbnail form without saving. Freeware. For Windows 95/ 98/ NT/ 2000/ Me.

CoffeeCup Free Viewer Plus (3.4 MB) is a fast, powerful, and easy to use Image viewer with built-in Email, FTP, and Zip functions. Browse images by folder, find images on your computer, view 35 image types by right-clicking in Windows Explorer, and make Thumbnail Web pages from any group of images, all with just one click! For Win 95/ 98/ NT/ 2000/ Me/ XP.

STGThumb (1.0 MB) is an application that allows you to quickly make high-quality thumbnails from your images. Select individual files or entire directories. Thumbnail image size can be customized and STGThumb also allows you to rotate the resulting images or to apply filters like blur, sharpen, emboss and others. Converts from AVI, JPG, TIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, WMF, EMF, ICO, CUR to JPG. Free for personal use. For Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ 2000.

Image Co-Tracker (514 KB) is a tool for creating a database of images from the Internet. It automatically captures the image, the image Internet address, the image name and the date it was added to the database. Once an image has been grabbed, you can perform various functions like Search, Print, add textual info, organize images into categories and more. Requires IE5 or higher. Freeware. For Windows 9x/ NT/ ME/ 2000.

Image Browser Arctic (10.3 MB) is an easy-to-use image viewer. Different viewing modes are supported: Full screen, Stretch window and more. You can also create your own slide shows and distribute them to your friends/family. Major file types are supported. For Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

Font Magic (1.95 MB) is an easy-to-use tool for creating 3D text effects. The interface allows you to preview and select your effects. Select textures, colors and materials from drop down menus and create an attractive looking 3D text or logo in no time. The result can be saved as single BMP file or even rendered as rotating movie frames. Freeware. For Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT4/ 2000/ XP.

PictureDicer (450 KB) chops any image file into several smaller images, suitable for creating mouse over effects and "pseudo" image maps on Web pages. Also generates the HTML for a table to contain the partial images and display them so they appear as the original uncut image. Freeware. For Windows 9x/ NT/ ME/ 2000.

Pixie (65 KB) is a color spy and mouse tracker. Simply point to the color, and the program tells you the RGB, hex and HTML-ready values for it. Use the values to reproduce the color in your favorite programs. Pixie also shows the current X and Y position of your mouse pointer. freeware. For Win 95/ 98/ NT/ 2000/ Me/ XP.

ScreenHunter Free (322 KB) is a screen-capture tool that can capture a full screen, an active window, the client window, or a rectangular area. Automatically saves captures in BMP or JPEG format to the clipboard so they can be copied easily to other programs, such as Motion Studio, Paint Shop Pro or Word. Has a selectable hot key capture (F1 to F10) and delayed capture. Virtually no system resources used on standby. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ Me/ NT/2000/ XP.

Gallery Wizard (1.05 MB) is a "template based" program for creating thumbnail gallery pages. Accepts over a dozen different input formats, renders gallery pages, includes various effects (like 3D Border), and can optionally create HTML pages for each image. Freeware. For Window 9x/ NT4/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

Pixeur (1.5 MB) allows you to easily view the color, RGB, Hex, and long value of any color you see. It also keeps a history of all colors you have selected in a color history list. Freeware for Windows 98/ 2000/ XP.

Image Resizer (294 KB) allows you to resize/ scale multiple images by percentage or by a fixed width/ height. Drag and Drop enabled with the ability to greyscale images on-the-fly. The program supports .png, .gif, .jpg, .tif, .wmf, and .bmp formats. Freeware for Windows XP/ 2000.

GifSplitter (34 KB) is an image utility that can extract image frames from a gif animation and allow you to save and modify them individually. Can also be used with Magic ASCII Studio to make ASCII Art Animation. Freeware for all Windows versions.

ThumbaWumba (387 KB) takes images (currently only jpg's and bmp's) from a given directory, resizes them to a given max. size (preserving the aspect ratio), generates thumbnail images and then fully customizable html websites for the thumbnail views and the images themselves. Freeware for 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

FirePaint (606 KB) is a simple app that allows you to easily edit images. Supports popular image types such as .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .gif, .tif, .tiff, .png, .tga, .bmp, .dib, .wmf, .emf, .ico. Easy-to-use sidebars help to locate images and perform basic image-edit actions. Freeware for Windows XP/ NT/ 2000/ 98/ 95.

PicPerk (2.5 MB) is an image viewer and editor that supports most graphic formats, including jpeg, gif, tiff, bmp, pcx, wmf, and tga. Open image files or folders and easily view and edit any image. File operations include convert, copy, move, rename, delete, and print. PicPerk also features thumbnails, full-screen viewing, zoom functions, and 33 image-edition effects, including crop, resize, red-eye removal, and tools to display slide shows. Free to try, $9.99 to buy. For Windows 9x/ NT4/ Me/ 2000/ XP.