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Edit Images & View Them In Sync On Multiple PCs Over LAN With Nomacs

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There has never been a shortage of image viewers on Windows as well as other major desktop platforms; hop on to any software repository on the internet and you will find plenty of options for viewing your photos. So, do we really need another one? Perhaps yes. Especially when image viewers like Nomacs  come packaged with an umpteen number of features, the offer becomes even more enticing. On the surface, it looks exactly like any other image viewer, but deep down you will find a slew of handy tools that are likely to make Nomacs one of your favorite apps. The application supports almost all the major image formats out there (Including RAW), and lets you easily view and edit pictures in JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIF, XPM, PGM, CR2, NEF, RW2, PSD and DNG formats, among a handful of others. A rather unusual feature is Nomacs' ability to sync the image view across multiple PCs over your local network, which really sets it apart from other similar tools. Read More

Design Print-Ready Sheets Of Single Or Multiple Images With Primg

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The better, more convenient way to print images, especially if you have a lot of them queued up, is to use a print utility, preferably one that’s designed specifically for handling pictures. Primg is a lightweight application developed with this very purpose in mind, and uses three modes to cater to different formatting needs: printing thumbnail grids of all pictures in a selected folder, one image per page, or several copies of a picture per page. What’s more, all major image formats including BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, GIFF, and a plethora of Susie formats are supported. Read More

Easily Remove Background From Images Online With Clipping Magic

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Photoshop isn't something you can learn overnight and with Adobe moving its tools to the cloud, just using Photoshop for trivial things will be waste of money. You will most likely be on the lookout for tools that you can use for free, or pay for once, and that work just as well for your needs. Clipping Magic is a small web app that lets you remove backgrounds from any image. It is simple to use but surprisingly intelligent. You upload an image and mark the background as well as the foreground. The app mimics the magnetic selection tool in Photoshop and picks up edges that are hard for you to define. The final output can be downloaded to your computer and if you create an account with Clipping Magic, they will also be stored on the service's own servers in the cloud. Read More

BonAView Is An Image Viewer, Manager & Editor With A 3D Carousel View

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Photos...we all love them, and we love to take them! And as much as we like taking photos that look great, most of us also like to keep them well-organized and accessible in one place so we can instantly go back and view those incredible moments we once caught in our camera. BonAView is a feature-rich photo manager and image viewer for Windows that also doubles as a powerful image editor. Sporting an elegant UI, the application is designed to help you organize and access all your photos in a user-friendly manner. It boasts a host of features and houses a fascinating 3D View option that makes photo viewing more enjoyable and intuitive. Read More

[Giveaway] Kestrel GX: Elegant, Feature-Rich Photo Manager & Editor For Windows

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Back in 2010, we covered a feature-rich photo manager for Windows called Kestrel GX. It was unarguably one the most elegant image management applications that we had come across, not only because of its sophisticated design but also because of its slew of handy features. Unfortunately, since last year, the application is no longer available for free and has been replaced by a paid variant that carries hefty price tags of $59 and $89 for home and commercial licenses respectively. Here's where you being a regular reader at AddictiveTips pays off. Details past the break. Read More

AltaPixShare Is A Photo Resizer, Styler & Sharing App For Windows With A Great UI

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They say sharing is caring. Sharing photos with your folks is probably the best way to rekindle old and good memories. Due to the advancements in technologies such the high availability of home and mobile broadband internet access, along with various image sharing websites and services, the process of sharing photos with others has become much more easier than it was a few years ago. Though at places where you don't have access to high speed internet, for instance a trip to the countryside, it can be a bit hard to instantly share your high resolution photos, especially if they are fairly large in size. The best way would be to resize the images to a smaller size before you send them to others. If you require to instantly do that, AltaPixShare has an answer. This lightweight Windows app streamlines and unifies the processes of photo resizing and sharing, and even lets you apply a few filters to them in the process. Read More

Jazz Up Your Photos With Filters, Text & Frames Using ALSee For Windows 8

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Previously, we have covered some really great photo editing and image manipulation apps for Windows 8 and Windows RT users, such as Fotor, and the Windows Store version of the popular Windows Phone 7 app Fotoroom, just to name a few. ALSee is another Modern UI photo editor that's not too different from most other apps of its kind, but its touch-friendly, customizable interface and some really fascinating photo effects make it worth a shot. Details to follow after the jump! Read More

PhotoSun 14 Is A Lightweight Photo Editor With Effects, Facebook Integration & More

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Every once in a while, a new photo editor tosses its hat in the ring to grab users’ attention (and money too, at times), promising something unique or phenomenal. While the choices available in this department are apparently endless, only a few photo editors offer powerful editing options that instantly make them worthy of  a shot. Developed by Micranes Incorporated, PhotoSun 14 is a new Photo Editor for Windows that's jam-packed with features, doesn’t hog your system’s performance, and does exactly what’s it advertised for without adding a plethora of other features you might not likely need. Read More

View 500 Image Formats, Convert Between 130 & Apply 50+ Effects With ImageCool

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These days, one can find a large number of free and paid image editing tools. Some of them provide you with color correction controls like changing the hue, brightness, contrast and saturation, while others let you quickly apply different preset filters to your images. Most images captured with high resolution cameras are in resolutions much higher than our display devices. Having a 2560p image to view on a 720p or 1080p screen does not offer any benefit when it comes to the picture quality, and having a lot of such images on your disk can consume significantly high amounts of storage space. Image resizing is also very important if you need to frequently upload images online, because larger images take more time to upload and consume more space on the server. However, most image resizing applications can only handle the common image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP and GIF. Today, we bring to you ImageCool - an image converter for Windows that can handle up to 500 image formats. You can view images in any of these formats, convert between 130 formats, apply 50 different effects and filters, and perform other functions such as cropping and applying watermarks. Read More

AI Picture Explorer Is A Dual-Window Image Viewer, Editor & Manager

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The native image viewer of Windows allows you to view images, set them as desktop background, rotate them and delete them, but that is where its functionality pretty much ends. Personally, I feel that the default Windows 7 Photo Viewer is not up to the mark, as it does not provide any image editing options, and even lags a bit when quickly switching between images. This can be especially annoying when you are trying to locate a particular image by browsing through an album. Previously, we have covered some great image viewing and editing applications such as Zoner Photo Studio and Fast Stone ImageViewer that serve as great alternatives to Windows 7 Photo Viewer. AI Picture Explorer is another Windows app that provides you with a two-window interface to manage and view your images. It features batch image editing, fixing and conversion, while allowing you to extract images from archives without having to use another tool. Moreover, you can create file and folder lists, and view the images in a slideshow with up to 173 transition effects. The tool also supports playing some common audio and video formats, in addition to images of resolutions exceeding 80 megapixels. Read More

Easily Correct Perspective & Vertical Line Distortion In Photos

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Whenever we go on holidays, most of us snap a lot of pictures and bring them back to share them with our friends and family, or just to preserve our precious moments. Digital cameras have allowed us to capture thousands of images without worrying about the camera reel running out. However, due to the lack of any such limitation, most people don’t put a lot of thought or spend a lot of time in getting that perfect shot just right, and many of our pictures turn out to be a bit out of proportion. You surely wouldn't go back to the place just to retake the picture from a different angle, but what you can do is try to fix the original image. Previously, we covered an application called ShiftN that automatically fixes line distortion from images. Today, we have an open-source tool for you called PerspectiveImageCorrection that lets you correct the image perspective, but this one allows you to manually select the 4 points for specifying the correction criteria. You can draw a 4-point polygon for perspective correction and thus, have more control over the correction process. Read More

Tinuous Is A Powerful Batch Image Editor With Support For Plug-ins

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At first glance, Tinuous may seem to be just another image conversion app, but the tool offers some impressive image processing power under the hood. The software is designed to perform batch conversion of image files. This comes useful in instances when you don’t have time to convert each image file individually. It allows you to resize and rename images, adjust image quality, alter dimensions, change brightness, contrast, saturation and hue, and modify some other aspects of the images. The application supports most major image formats, including JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF and more. Keep reading for more details. Read More

Quickly Capture, Edit & Upload Screenshots & Webcam Images With EzSnap

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Yet another day, yet another screenshot tool and like always, it comes with a new function. We have covered a lot of screenshot tools in the past, many of them offering something unique to the users. While some, like Screen Sniper, allow you to capture and paste screenshots in bulk, while others, such as Free ShareShot, offer options for editing and optimizing the screenshots for direct printing and uploading. You can even capture screenshots of a remote PC without having physical access to it. EzSnap is another handy tool that allows you to quickly capture screenshots as well as photos using your webcam. You can also edit and upload the captured images, and view as well as sync your entire history and statistics in an online account, allowing you to access to all the images you capture from anywhere, at any time. Read More

Easily Edit, Watermark & Share Screenshots With Image Tools

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Image editing applications come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them provide you with color correction controls like changing the hue, brightness, contrast and saturation, while others let you apply different filters to images. The problem with comprehensive image editors such as Adobe Photoshop is that the more options they have, the more difficult it becomes to learn them. There’s also another category of image-related applications: screenshot tools. If you have been a regular reader of AddictiveTips, you must have seen us review many, specially the ones that provide something extra to the users rather than just capturing plain screenshots. Today, we have one such utility called Image Tools that allows you to capture screenshots and edit local images such as adjusting brightness, gamma, contrast, format conversion, cropping, deborder, flip/ rotate, resizing, apply watermarks etc. When you are done, you can upload the images to IMDrops image hosting service directly from the tool to share them with others with a URL. More on Image Tools after the jump. Read More

Fhotoroom Is A Well-Rounded Photo Editor & Styling App For Windows 8

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words, whether it’s a beautiful landscape you captured on your trip to Switzerland, or portraits of your friends and family. Sometimes however, we fail to snap the moments the way they were meant to be captured, but thanks to various photo editors available for both desktop and mobile platforms, we can tweak the pictures and apply an array of photo effects and filters to get the desired result. Previously, we covered a powerful image editing app for Windows Phone 7 called Fhotoroom. The app has just made its way to the Windows 8 Store. Fhotoroom for Windows 8 lets you apply a number of styles and frames to your photos to give them a new life. It contains all the basic editing tools, such as image cropping, resizing, sharpening, exposure control, etc., for quick retouching. Windows RT users are bound to find the app's snappy interface a treat to use. Read More

Pholor Express Is A Well-Crafted Image Editor With Support For GPU Acceleration

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Editing images can be a tricky business, and if you are not using the proper tool for the job, then even a simple editing task can take up a lot of your precious time. Image editing tools are available in all shapes and sizes. One of the most widely used image editing software is Adobe Photoshop, but such software have a very high learning curve, meaning that you need to have extensive understanding of all their tools and options to edit and retouch images as required.  That does not seem like a good idea if the only thing you need is to tweak a few things here and there. Although, the Windows Photo Gallery has a few options available to crop, remove, straighten, reduce noise, change color and apply preloaded effects to images, it doesn't have the ability to handle advanced image editing tasks. Pholor Express is a Windows application that lets you change simple parameters of images (Sharpness, Clarity, Exposer, Contrast, Temperature, Saturation, etc.), their aspect ratio, and set the viewing angle. Supporting GPU acceleration to balance the load of heavy image editing, it comes loaded with an effect viewer that shows you the results of selected effects in real-time. Read More

Magix Photo Designer 7: Powerful Image Editor With Slew Of Handy Features

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Adobe Photoshop is like the lord of all image editors, but people usually get intimidated by its broad array of features, fierce learning curve and, of course, a hefty price tag - all at the same time. When it comes to image editing (and that your projects are not on commercial or professional scale), you usually lean towards freeware solutions. For instance, you want to fine tune your images before uploading them on Facebook or you aren’t satisfied with your spouse’s shaky clicks. We have covered a wide spectrum of photo editors for all major desktop and mobile platforms. Magix Photo Designer 7 for Windows is another handsome entry. Don’t doubt it as just a mere Paint utility replacement; the program has a lot up its sleeves. Not only does it give you all the basic photo editing tools, but also comes with various advanced features, such as a number of photo effects, artistic filters, image optimization options, a panorama montage creator and a lot more. Read More

Toolwiz Pretty Photo: Lightweight Yet Powerful Image Editor With Filters

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Even if you know a little about photography, capturing mesmerizing moments in camera isn’t something hard. However, your effort really shines during the post processing of photos, i.e., when you give final touch ups and apply various photo filters using third-party photo editors. In this way, you not only enhance your photos to make them look better, but also remove various deficiencies that remained in the RAW image. Everyone knows about Photoshop, but only a few are familiar with all of its sophisticated sets of tools and features, so it’s better to use some basic photo editing application instead, especially if you’re an amateur. One very feature-rich yet easy to use photo editor I came across is Toolwiz Pretty Photo. Just as its name implies, it is designed to make your portraits prettier, and comes packed with a number of annotation tools, photo filters and image effects. Read More

Free Editor: Powerful All-In-One Document, Image, Hex And Resource Editor

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We often come to the need of editing various types of files but unable to find the appropriate software at disposal. Free Editor is a powerful editing software that does this job for you by letting you edit most types of files under one roof. The list of files supported by the program is staggeringly huge. It lets you edit Microsoft Office files, for instance, DOC, XLSX, PPTX, DOTX, DOCX, VCF etc, image files such as JPEG, RAW, ICO, GIF, TIF, PSD, BMP, PNG and so on. Several kinds of coding languages - for example JSP, CS, SQL, VB, KML, ASPX, PHP etc - are also supported by this tool. In addition, you can also edit some Windows extensions, including EXE, SCR, DLL, just to name a few, as well as other types of documents, such as EPUB, WPS, PDF, WPD, TXT, LOG, QIF, RTF, XML, BAT and so forth. With all this power under the hood, this is one of the most comprehensive file editing software solution I have ever come across. The application comprises of four major components, i.e., Document Editor, Image Editor, Hex Editor and Resource Editor. It’s quite a handy tool to quickly give touch ups to the supported files, should you not find the required application for editing them. The intuitive UI contains sufficient amount of options, and can be of great use for both novice and power users alike. Read More

Mosaizer Pro: Photo Mosaic Maker With Elegant Design & Great Results

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Mosaic photography needs no introduction. This ancient art is a paradigm of meticulous arrangement of small objects such that the final output appears close to the actual object that you wanted to conceive. In tech world, however, you can use a slew of different software that employs all the mosaic effects and techniques on its on, leaving users with less tinkering and more amazement. Just a few days ago, we covered Foto-Mosaik-Edda, a mosaic tool that was both powerful and feature-rich. Even though it left us impressed, there were some nuisances – the application was not so user-friendly, and the mosaic result wasn’t extraordinary either. If your reaction was somewhat mixed like ours, then you can give Mosaizer Pro a shot. Not only does it produce quality mosaic photos, but is also filled with sufficient number of settings and options, stylish and friendly UI, and then some more. If you love eye-candy, then you’d be also pleased to find variety of selectable skins that the developers have thrown in. Let’s find out, after the break, if it’s a worthy replacement for your existing mosaic application. Read More