The most recent Image Editing & Management articles from Computeract!ve

Gimp Portable 2.4.6

Tim Smith — 2008-06-20T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 20 June 2008 at 00:00:00

Use the image editor from a USB stick

The GIMP image editor is a very powerful program. It's greatest disadvantage has been that installation can be a little tricky....

XnView 1.93.6

Tim Smith — 2008-05-02T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 2 May 2008 at 00:00:00

Convert images to another format

There is a huge number of different image formats and it is very frustrating to receive an image that cannot be opened....

Pixresizer

Tim Smith — 2008-04-24T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 24 April 2008 at 00:00:00

Shrink images for sending by email

When capturing images it is always wise to use the highest possible quality settings for both resolution and compression. The problem with this is that the resulting images are normally...

Exifpro Image Viewer 1.0.199

Tim Smith — 2008-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 23 January 2008 at 00:00:00

Photo utility for editing images and photo information

This is the software publishers description: Exifpro is an application meant to display, manipulate and browse photographs. Exifpro can display images in different view modes. Selected images may be copied, resized, cropped and adjusted using tools offered by Exifpro. Exifpro can also present information embedded in JPEG photographs (EXIF block) describing different parameters digital camera used while taking a shot. One can create HTML albums or slide show applications using built-in generators, print images, append descriptions and tags. Exifpro Standalone viewer window offers zooming and panning, image color and aspect correction, magnifier tool, light table pane and a slide show mode. Here viewer window can be seen with a preview bar and a light table visible. Preview bar provides quick access to all loaded images, while the light table may be used as a place to keep selected images. Two images can be inspected side by side thanks to the split view feature. You can pay for Exifpro to remove the startup splash screen. This costs £20. This is the software publishers description: Exifpro is an application meant to display, manipulate and browse photographs. Exifpro can display images in different view modes....

Foto2Avi

Tim Smith — 2007-09-20T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 20 September 2007 at 00:00:00

Create video slideshows from photos

Foto2Avi converts a collection of photos into a video slideshow, with a soundtrack if desired. Photos can be added if they are in in JPEG, BMP or PNG formats and music...

Corel Paint Shop Pro X2

Tim Smith — 2007-09-06T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 6 September 2007 at 00:00:00

Organise and edit digital photos

A popular photo editing program series, the latest version of Paint Shop Pro offers plenty of useful features. It is important to organise the images on a computer, even before...

Picture Shark: Image utility

Tim Smith — 2007-08-23T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 23 August 2007 at 00:00:00

Place a stamp of ownership on images

Watermarking is a simple way to help stop people from copying images without permission. The watermark is another image combined into the original....

GIMPShop: Image editor

Tim Smith — 2007-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 13 August 2007 at 00:00:00

The free image editor GIMP but with a Photoshop feel

The GIMP image editor is very powerful but the interface can be a little challenging. GIMPShop is a version of the GIMP that has been modified to work more like...

Colorpic

Tim Smith — 2007-08-07T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 7 August 2007 at 00:00:00

An easier way to select colours onscreen

Colorpic is software for getting the exact colour from anywhere on the Windows desktop. It can be useful for choosing colours for design projects such as websites, or when editing photographs....

Icon Craft

Tim Smith — 2007-03-09T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 9 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Create attractive icons for the desktop and the web

Creating new icons is a great way to personalise a computer, or to add the finishing touches to a new program....

Magix Photo Manager 2006

Tim Smith — 2007-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 15 February 2007 at 00:00:00

Organise your photo collection on a computer

It doesn't take long with a digital camera to amass more photos than can be organised just with folders. Magix Photo Manager 2006 takes care of this....

Raw Therapee: Image converter

Tim Smith — 2006-11-27T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 27 November 2006 at 00:00:00

Use images from a digital camera with no loss of quality

Anyone wanting to get the very best image quality from their digital camera will have noticed that even the highest quality images are compressed....

Autostitch

Tim Smith — 2006-11-24T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 24 November 2006 at 00:00:00

Join photos together to make a panorama

There are often times when a single photo cannot capture the entire view and several separate photos break up the panorama....

Image Anvil

Tim Smith — 2006-02-16T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 16 February 2006 at 00:00:00

Free image editor with useful tools

Image Anvil is a useful little utility that supports all of the major image formats as well as PDF. The interface looks a little basic but the time this does...

OpenCanvas Plus

Tim Smith — 2006-02-16T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 16 February 2006 at 00:00:00

Make works of art on your computer

OpenCanvas Plus is written to create art with a computer, and offers a wide range of brush types and effects....