One of the most commonly used applications is the photo editor. Professional and hobbyist all like to edit pictures. From making artworks of every picture to just giving grandma a weird looking nose, here they are, the top 20 free photo editors as displayed on Download.com in popularity :
1. IrfanView 4.2 :
This application is known as one of the first photo viewers and editors that had decent capabilities and this success led it to over 35 million downloads. The top points of IrfanView are that it can easily handle all image filetypes around. For some you have to install a plugin, but anyway you can handle and edit nearly every image filetype around. Another positive feature is that it is only 1,25Mb in size. Available for Windows Only.
2. PhotoScape 3.2 :
This is probably one of the fastest growing image editors ever in popularity. In 1 year time it grew from 20.000 to 900.000 downloads and with reason. Although PhotoScape does not have the large amount of in- and output formats of other viewers, it has a unique and easy interface and many tools to do nearly anything to your images.
3. Paint .NET 3.36
One of the many photoshop clones that made it in the hard world of software. Paint .NET is a light flexible application that wraps most functions of Photoshop in an easy interface which is familiar to many people. It support many of the basic features of Photoshop and is a standard for all free image utilities.
4. FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
This Faststone is focused on displaying images. A lot of images. It has advanced abilities to display most common image filetypes available on this orb we call earth and edit them fast and with ease. It is small and supports most basic image editing operations. It probably the best tool to manage images around.
5. GIMP 2.6.0
Does this image editor need introduction for most graphics artists? It is always one step beyond on other free photoshop alternatives and it is probably the alternative with the most functions which supports the most platforms. It supports Windows as well as Linux and Mac OSX. Beware : Beginning users will fear the many windows GIMP consists of.
6. FastStone Photo Resizer 2.7
Ah, the second FastStone. This one is the best Batch photo resizer around. It resizes your pictures at high speed to any size. It is stable and small as well as easy in use. Once again as its brothers, it supports a high amount of filetypes.
7. XnView 1.94.2
XnView is the cross-platform version of IrfanView. Fast, efficient and supporting nearly any filetype, XnView is a standard application on all linux systems and maybe also on your PC? Basic operations are possible and just like IrfanView, you can also view or play music and other multimedia files. What we call an all-rounder.
8. Image Resizer 1.1
A small version of FastStone’s Image resize. This image resizer only supports BMP, GIF and JPEG. It has Batch functions, is fast and is easy to use. It just gets the job done!
9. DriveHQ Batch Photo Editor 1.8.025
A basic image editing application which focuses on most common operators and the uploading of your creations. As the name states it has many Batch Functions including conversion, resizing, rotating, cropping and many others. It is easy in use and is the best tool to get your creations ready and online for free!
10. 36-image converter 4.4.5.30
This noble stranger is the fairest of them all with its magnificent black interface. It supports many input (36) and many output (21) filetypes and is a true image converter. It also has a whole bunch of effects/masks/frames/brushes available and has an extensive help file and tutorial. Also supports image encryption.
