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 Free Online Image Editors 

see also: Office Tools: Diagrams

Optimize Image : Online Image Optimizer -- Puny PNG (png, gif, jpg)
Resize Image : Pic Resize -- ResizeIt -- Resize Your Image -- Shrink Pictures
Share Image : Flickr -- ImageShack -- Photobucket -- Picasa -- Skitch

• Adobe Photoshop Express
  Online version of Adobe's hugely popular Photoshop program.
• Aviary Image Tools
  Advanced graphics suite available in both free and paid versions. Very nice tools; Firefox addon available.
• Creaza
  "Creaza offers you an integrated, web-based toolbox for creative work, both at school and in your free time." Includes mind-mapper, cartoon maker, movie editor, and audio editor.
• Foto Flexer
  Nice photo editor with layers and some advanced tools..
• Gliffy
  Online tool for making charts and diagrams..
• Phixr
  Photo editor which works with email and social networking tools..
• Picnik
  Basic online photo editor..
• Pixenate
  Easy basic photo editing..
• Pixlr
  Image editor with layers. Firefox extension available..
• Sketchpad
  Online drawing program allowing a wide variety of colors and gradients. Works in any web browser which supports HTML 5 (including Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Chrome).
• Splashup
  Nice editor which does layers and has advanced editing capability..
• SumoPaint
  Another nice image creator and editor which offers layers and advanced editing features..
• Thumba
  Free rich-featured image editor. (Requires Silverlight)

 Free Desktop Image Editors

• Artweaver Win
  "Paint creatively with the help of a huge range of painting tools.... [and] offers layers, group layers and support for the PSD file format.".
• BulkImageResizer Win
  "The Bulk Image Resizer allows you to quickly and easily convert multiple images at the same time."
• Chocoflop Mac
  "Real-time previews of filters and keep modifications live for as long as you want.".
• CinePaint Linux, Mac, BSD
  Professional-level editing. "CinePaint is used to retouch feature films and in pro photography.".
• Dia Linux, Win
  Graphing tool to make "diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams." (Similiar to MS Visio.).
• Diagram Designer Win
  Small free vector-graphic app for making diagrams and flow charts..
• DrawBerry Mac
  "With layers, powerful tools, inspectors and workspace, DrawBerry is a complete and easy-to-use drawing solution."
• Fotografix Win
  "An image editor that can be used for image enhancement and graphic design.".
• Free Photoshop-Compatible Plugins
  NOT image editors in themselves, but rather small add-on programs to enhance Photoshop..
• Gimp multiplatform
  Highly-regarded open-source Photoshop replacement with layers, multiple tools, and special addons..
• ImageForge Win
  "A set of powerful tools for painting and editing images, photos or other graphics.".
• Inkscape multiplatform
  "Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X.... Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features ... and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface.".
• Irfanview Win
  "A very fast, small, compact and innovative ... graphic viewer" and editor. This great little freeware program can crop, resize, optimize, change colors, change formats, do basic Paint editing, create thumbnails, slideshows, and more.
• My Paint Linux/Win
  "A fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. ... You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it."
• Paint.net Win
  "Image and photo editing software .... with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools." (More complex than Irfanview, less than Photoshop or the Gimp.).
• Pencil multi-platform
  "An animation/drawing software... [which] lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics."
• Photobie Win
  "Free image editor, photo editor, screen capture ( screencapture ), GIF animation, flash jukebox, digital scrapbooking, photo viewer, icon editor etc."
• Photo Magician
  "Photo Magician is a small and easy to use program that allows you to quickly scale and convert your images."
• PicPick Win
  "Features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc.".
• Pixen Mac
  "An innovative graphics editor .... designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art .... Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop.".
• Seashore Mac
  "Open source image editor for Mac OS X's Cocoa framework. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing.".
• TuxPaint multiplatform
  "Free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12.".
• Xara Xtreme Linux
  "A powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix platforms.".

 Commercial Image Editors ($$)

• Adobe Fireworks Win, Mac
  Program specially focused on webdesign aspects of graphic design.
• Adobe Illustrator Win, Mac
  Highly regarded vector graphics program.
• Adobe Photoshop Win, Mac
  Comprehensive and extremely popular graphics editor.
• Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Win, Mac
  Set of graphics tools designed for use with digital photographs.
• CorelDRAW Win
  Highly regarded vector graphics suite known for innovation.
• Corel PaintShop Pro Win
  Long-standing graphics editor.
• Xara Xtreme for Windows Win
  Vector graphics program considered fast and easy to learn.

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