Free Image Editor is a bitmap image-editing application that lets you retouch existing photos or create original graphics. Free Image Editor gives you the tools and supplies of a professional graphic design studio. There is TWAIN and support for importing from any scanner. Free Image Editor provides a rich graphics toolset for digital photography, print production and Web design.

Features:

Input/output:

JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) loading and saving.

JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1) loading and saving.

TIFF (rev.6.0, Packbits, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces loading and saving. Also FAX (CCITT3) format supported for loading.

PNG with various compression levels loading and saving.

Compressed and uncompressed BMP in 2,16,256 or 16M colors loading and saving.

Compressed and uncompressed PCX in 2,16,256 or 16M colors loading and saving.

DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX) loading and saving.

Portable Bitmap PBM, PGM and PPM loading and saving.

WBMP (Wireless Bitmap) uncompressed and black/white loading and saving.

GIF in 2,4,8,16,32,64,128 or 256 colors loading and saving.

WMF, EMF (input as raster), ICO and CUR loading.

RAW Camera formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, RAW, PEF, RAF, X3F, BAY, ORF, SRF, MRW, DCR) loading.

MultiPage TIF, GIF and AVI loading and saving.

PhotoShop PSD format loading and saving.

Saving/loading of specific file format parameters and saving/loading of preview dialogs (e.g. you can set quality of a Jpeg and view immediately the quality loss).

Progress monitoring with saving and loading.

Input (extra):

Image properties getting without loading it.

Image acquisition from TWAIN scanner with full control of the scanner capabilities.

Screen capture by various methods (all desktop, rectangle selection, object and active window).

Video capture from various video sources.

Image processing and analysis:

Decreasing and increasing of raster lines thickness.

Image and paper resizing.

Image rotation any angle by various methods.

Image deskew by various methods.

Horizontal and vertical flip.

Image invert conversion.

Selected region cropping.

Conversion to gray scale and negative.

Color to other color replacing .

Median cut and Neural network color quantizers, for fast and accurate color reduction.

Reduction to any number of colors (with colormap output).

HSV and RGB channels separations.

Color equalization.

Regulation of contrast, HSL, HSV/ HSB and RGB components.

LineArt filters: despeckle and so on.

Application of 3x3 filters.

Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) with preview.

Maximum (dilation), Minimum (erosion), Opening and Closing filters with preview.

Picture filters (soften, sharpen, color emboss, gaussian blur, antialias, remove red eyes and auto equalize).

Contour filters (find edges and trace).

Bump mapping, lens, wave, morph and other effects.

Preview of all the effects in a single dialog, with 8 preset filters and save/load filters from file.

Progress monitoring for image processing tasks.

Multilevel Undo/Redo for raster editing.

Raster layers.

Raster paint operations:

Various paint tools (sketch, line, ellipse, curve, rectangle, round rectangle, flood fill, spray, eraser and eyedropper).

Various pen styles (solid, clear, dash, dot, dashdot and dashdotdot).

Various brush styles (solid, clear, cross, diagonal cross, b-diagonal, f-diagonal, vertical and horizontal).

Choice of pen and brush colors.

Image rendering:

Real time Zoom-in and Zoom-out (by percentage, zoom in rectangular area or by one mouse click). Zoom-previous is also available.

Real time Pan (click and drag the image with mouse).

Scrollbar in two dimensions for the fast exploration of the image.

Printing:

Printing (and print preview) functions to print single images specifing page alignment or absolute position.