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MacRankin
Advanced Member Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Post Count: 368 Status: Offline |
Hi there lm, I've had a rumage around looking for stuff that might help. It's not much but i guess it's a start, and err, it will give me the opportunity to put my review finding house in order. This one, i believe only resizes images without much loss it seems, but it doesn't do buttons. It has a drag and drop feature that allows for any amount of resizing to be done. Sizerox: ($10) http://www.branox.com/Sizerox/indexOSX.html I suppose the one that i'd really like to tryout meself, err, when that is i get myself a Mac with OS X installed, is to try out Graphic Converter. It's something i've used in the past mostly to convert files from one to another. It's bit like a poor man's version of Photoshop Elements. I guess that's another one you could check out. I'll try to put together something in the way of a review later. It's just that i haven't got any proper file system in place for all my bucket-load of magazines that i've got. GraphicConverter: ($30) http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/index.htm ---------------------------------------- We Brits do things differently, but we still get shot at! |
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lm
Advanced Member Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Post Count: 2550 Status: Offline |
thanx Mac, may be the first one will do ( it better be free but if it is for Mac and for batch option may be not so bad) . ---------------------------------------- My blog |
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MacRankin
Advanced Member Joined: Dec 18, 2005 Post Count: 368 Status: Offline |
I remembered a useful link of some time age that i had on my website, and decided to take a look. Thriftmac have got quite an impressive list of free to use image editors. There's one or two that need to be steered clear of. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an all dancing and all singing free app amongst them that does everything you require, execpt maybe Expression. As you probably know Microsoft is pinning great hopes on this becoming an Adobe killer. There's actually a free version to download and keep, but having tried it myself i'm not all that keen on it. Still it is free. http://www.thriftmac.com/graphics/ Also check Thriftmac's website out for all your free goodies... http://www.thriftmac.com/ ---------------------------------------- We Brits do things differently, but we still get shot at! |
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lm
Advanced Member Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Post Count: 2550 Status: Offline |
well i saw the links - there quite a lot of stuff, but the trouble is i cant install any of these to test myself because of lack of Mac  ,So i only can use the advice on some very simple photoresizer- likethis one for windows for example. ---------------------------------------- My blog |
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lily_kil
Stranger Joined: Mar 15, 2007 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline |
Batch Image Converter 1.0 Convert batches of graphic files from one format to another, supported formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, ICO, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF. Batch Image Converter is designed to convert batches of graphic files from one format to another. You may add thousands of different supported image files into the list and then fire a convert at once. You can also add a directory, all the image files under the directory will be added for converting. Batch Image Converter supports opening the following image formats: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICB, ICO, JPG, JPEG, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, RLE, SGI, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF. And it supports converting to the following image formats: BMP, EMF, GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG, TGA, TIF, WBMP, WMF. http://www.qweas.com/download/graphics/image_...batch_image_converter.htm Batch Image Converter is a an good tool of converting supported image files into other format files. It supports many formats and is very easy to use. Batch Image Converter has fast converting speed and has high quality of output files.   |
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tpattison
Advanced Member UK Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Post Count: 1662 Status: Offline |
Due the attention this thread has received, I have decided to update the list of free image editing software. I have updated existing links, versions and features and have added a few more apps to the list. Are there any more you can think of? I still haven't got around to trying many of these yet; the information here has mainly been gathered from their respective websites, forums etc. If you have tried out any of the following applications, or have any to add to the list, please feel free to post your reviews here. PowerBatch 6.2 - 1.3MB - Batch renaming, resizing, converting, printing, rotating, colour adjustment, cropping. - Crop with aspect ratio confinement. - Built-in FTP client! - All program files are contained in a single folder. - Converts JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, BITMAP and JPEG2000. - Supports animated GIF and multipage TIFF. - Image effects. - Drawing tools. - Add multi-line text. - Watermarks - Stamp photos with EXIF data. - Contact sheet. Paint.net 3.01 - 5MB - In development. - Clean GUI with multi-document interface. - Effects filters, image adjustments (brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, levels). - Powerful drawing tools (inc. clone stamp) akin to Photoshop. - Powerful selection tools and selection manipulation. - Developed with help from Microsoft. - Requires 22MB .NET Framework 2.0 to run. - Layers and transparency support. Pixia 3.3b - 3.9MB - Photoshop Filter support - TWAIN device support - Layers, transparency and masks - Image adjustments, filters. - Last version dated Sept 2005 Photofiltre 6.2.7 - 1.6MB - Free for non commercial or educational use. - Multiple images open at once. - Image adjustment functions. - Vectorial selections, masks. - Drawing tools inc. different brushes. - Many plugins and more than 100 filters. - Image browser. - TWAIN support. - Text effects. FastStone Image Viewer 3.0 - 3.2MB - Free for Home Users - Convert major formats (inc. PSD and many digital camera RAW formats). - Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping. - Magnifier viewing. - EXIF support. - Resizing, flipping, rotating, cropping, colour adjusting tools. - Crop with aspect ratio confinement. - Compare images side by side. - Batch image converter/resizer. - Supports animated GIF and multipage TIFF - Watermarking. - Contact sheet. Xnview 1.90 - 2.1MB - Free for non-commercial, educational and non-profit use. - Multiplatform. - Utility for viewing and converting graphic files. - Imports 400 graphic file formats. - Exports 50 graphic file formats. - EXIF support. - Copy, cut, resize, rotate and crop (lossless for JPEG). - Brightness and contrast adjust. - Modify number of colours. - Filters and effects. - Contact Sheet and TWAIN support. - Supports animated GIF, ICO and multipage TIFF, DCX, LDF. - Compare image side by side. - Batch convert and rename GIMP 2.2.13 - 7.7MB (gimp-win.sourceforge.net Windows version) - Multiplatform - Probably the best open source contender to Photoshop. - Requires GTK+ 2 runtime environment - 5.5MB. - Painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone stamp. - Multiple images open at once. - Layers and (alpha) channels - Selection (inc quickmask) and transform tools. - Paths - Text layers. - Advanced scripting capabilities, over 100 plugins available. - Animation inc. MNG support. - Supported formats include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm. - Difficult to get used to GUI layout (or so I've read). GIMPShop 2.2.8 - 7.4MB - Version of the GIMP that is more user-friendly for Photoshop users. - Menu structure and terminology has been modified to closely resemble Photoshop's. GIMP Portable 2.2.13 - 8.6MB - Version of the GIMP that can be run from CD or Flash drive. - All necessary files are installed including the GTK runtime environment. IrfanView 3.99 - 1.0MB - Free for non-commercial use. - Huge array of supported file formats (inc. movie, audio, multipage TIFF and saving ICO). - Slideshows saved as EXE, SCR. - EXIF IPTC support. - Many plugIns available and support for Adobe Photoshop Filters. - Batch conversion. - Multimedia player. - Batch scan support. - Crop. - Image filters. - Extract icons from EXE, DLL, ICLs. - Lossless JPG rotation. Image Analyzer 1.27 - 1.2MB - Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment. - Conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc. - Retouch tools (inc. red-eye removal) - Out-of-focus and motion blur compensation (very good by the look of the sample pics) - User specified filters. - Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images. - Scanner, camera and printer support. - Many file formats supported (inc. saving ICO). - Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation, Morphological operations (your guess is as good as mine!). - Math expression module for creating and transforming images. - Plugin system. Tim ---------------------------------------- Pavonis Mons | Listen of the week: "Residue of Desire" by Acumen |
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Breezie
Stranger USA Joined: May 27, 2007 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
Definately a great resource to have on hand, thx so much. ---------------------------------------- Forum Finder http://forumfinder.net Providing Free Forum Advertising. |
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scorpionagency
Stranger Joined: Aug 18, 2008 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline |
Sweet, Very nice resources List.... However, What about Serifs PhotoPlus 6? It's Serifs totally free licensed version (Not a trial). It's an older version of there paid license, but does a good job just as well. Actuallay bothe Serif PhotoPlus 6 & the SerifDrawPlus 4 are both very good free softwares for image manipulation & graphics design. PhotoPlus6: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/photoplus.asp DrawPlus 4: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/default.asp Of course the newer commercial versions are up to date & have more fetures, but for free, you can't beat them. I used the free drawplus 4 for about 8 months before buying the commercial version (X2). it was that useful for me. at any rate, just thought I would add 2 more totally free software's to your growing list :) ---------------------------------------- Illustration Design | Internet Marketing |
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tpattison
Advanced Member UK Joined: Dec 29, 2004 Post Count: 1662 Status: Offline |
Thanks for those additions. I forget that Serif's older software is now freeware. ---------------------------------------- Pavonis Mons | Listen of the week: "Residue of Desire" by Acumen |
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