Image Tools

Came across a funny picture while browsing the web? The first thing you want to do is to capture the image and share it with your friends. There are several screenshot tools as well as webpage capture tools (some even let you export as E-books to Amazon Kindle) available for free. We have already featured our pick of best free screen capture software. (more…)

By Geo-tagging photos you can add geographical information to your pictures, there by letting you make better memories of your travel pictures. Also many online image sharing and social networking sites now support geo coded photos, some of them even present photos on a map. (more…)

Want to download a batch of Flickr photos? Saving individual Flickr pictures to your computer manually is time consuming. Here is Bulkr, a free Adobe AIR based application which lets you download Flickr images in bulk. (more…)

When you take screenshots in Windows (XP, Vista or 7), you get captures with transparency problems such as rounded corners and also the background objects visible through the semi-transparent window backgrounds. 7capture is a free application which lets you take high quality screen captures on all Windows platforms. (more…)

You may sometimes want to extract images from a GIF animation and save them. GIF Animations are series of image frames which appear one after the other. Animated GIF Frame Extractor is a tiny and free Windows utility which lets you extract images from a GIF Animation and save them in JPEG or PNG format. (more…)

Do you want to create panoramic images of the places you visited during your vacation? A panorama gives a very wide angle view and can make beautiful landscapes and scenery look even more fantastic. Hugin is a free and open source Panorama software to stitch photos together and make a panorama out of them.

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Whether you are a professional or amateur photographer, you need to protect the copyright of your photos by watermarking them. Using generic image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop or Paint.NET is not recommended for this simple and focused work. Watermark Image is a free tool which lets you batch watermark images from an entire folder and it’s subdirectories. This freeware requires no installation. Carry this portable app anywhere you go on a USB Flash Drive.
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While Adobe Flash is a very powerful format for rendering smooth and high-end animations, it is not supported by default on browsers and requires a plug-in for working. GIF, on the other hand is a universally accepted image format which supports animations.
GIF Animations are basic and are mostly used in the form of banners or avatars. SWF to Animated GIF is a free Adobe AIR application which lets you convert Flash animations into GIF images easily.
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If you are a serious photographer you need to do a review of your camera work to improve your skills. Analyzing EXIF data of photos lets you find out which Camera settings have produced the best results. JPEGsnoop is a Windows freeware which can give a detailed report of a digital image’s EXIF and ITPC data. JPEGsnoop can extract and examine JPEG images contained in .THM, .AVI, .DNG, .MOV as well as PDF files.
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Want to quickly edit or enhance your photos on your iPhone? We have already featured the 30 Best Free iPhone Apps for Image and Photo Enhancements, that are equally useful for novice as well as expert photographers. Now adding to this list is the big daddy of all image editors, Photoshop. Yes, Photoshop now has a mobile application counterpart for smart phones including iPhone, Android and Windows Mobile.
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