Free, fast and simple image viewer and editor – this is what IrfanView is and what makes it one of the best and most widely used image applications out there. It has been around for years and each successive version continues to extend the program’s functionality, while keeping it compact and speedy; the latest release supports close to 60 image file formats, including BMP, JPEG, GIF, ICO, JLS and WBZ/WBC/WB1, offers region capture, command line options, batch renaming and resizing, thumbnail options, color profiles, file search, drag and drop, and has Multilanguage support; if you need even more features more than 50 plug-ins can be downloaded from the author’s website separately or in a single ZIP or EXE file.

Photoscape is an image editor pack that is great for editing and viewing photos, creating collages, screen capturing, previewing image files on your computer in Windows Explorer, creating animated gifs, splitting photos into several parts, printing, batch editing and renaming your images and more. It supports the most popular image file formats such as jpeg, png, gif and has a built-in raw to jpg converting tool. If you are looking for easy to use, lightweight, yet very functional and above all absolutely free image editing tool, then Photoscape is exactly what you need.

Inkscape is a cross-platform vector-based graphics application, which can be used for creating graphics, logos, diagrams, icons, maps and many more. Inkscape was released for a first time in 2003 and has been under constant development ever since; it offers features that can be found in similar commercial software and it aims to be more user friendly, while still supporting advanced SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics )features. The tool also allows the end-user to import many popular formats such as JPEG, BMP, PNG, EPS and TIFF and export PNG file formats.

To call Jahshaka an editing program is a little unfair, as that will conjure up images of perhaps Adobe Premiere or GarageBand when in reality, the program couldn’t be more different. Jahshaka does it’s editing in real time and works without any of the normal complications involved with high-end media editing. It also leans towards multi user projects that can be edited together and shared instantly over the net. Impressively, it’s all also completely open source.

It might be popular, but Photoshop isn’t exactly the cheapest piece of software around and for the people that need to do light editing, it’s also overkill. We take a look at Paint.NET, a rather oddly named graphic editor that carries many of the most commonly used tools of Photoshop and other commercial image editors without the hefty price tag.

GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, which is a fancy way of saying it’s a freeware photo editor.

Picasa is a photo viewer and editor that also includes seamless integration with Google’s online album service. The end result is a program that you can use to take your pictures from your camera, make adjustments and upload to the web with just a few clicks.

Are you looking for a free screen recording program but haven’t ? Well, then you have come to the right place. I have talked my partner site OrandySoftware to improve their screen recording program as the video quality wasn’t good. And guess what? They listened to me and recoded the whole thing. And here is the result…