Here’s I am covering all the useful softwares for photographers that are completely free and make your lives easier. If you are photographer too and seriously want to make your photos much striking, appealing so that it will get the best price it deserve. Have a look on complete list of useful free softwares for photographers.
Do share your favorite tools and software with us that you use in your photography profession. Alternatively, you can check out our previous article on best sites to sell your photos online andfree photo sharing websites for photographers.
1. UFRaw : The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s raw conversion utility – DCRaw. UFRaw supports color management workflow based on Little CMS, allowing the user to apply ICC color profiles. For Nikon users UFRaw has the advantage that it can read the camera’s tone curves. Even if you don’t own a Nikon, you can still apply a Nikon curve to your images.
2. Google Picasa : Picasa is free photo editing software from Google that makes your pictures look great. You can done basic editing like cropping, cutting, re-toning of the images easily. Even sharing your best photos with friends and family is as easy as pressing a button!
3. Raw Photo Processor : A Raw converter for Mac OS X (10.4,10.5 and 10.6 only), supporting almost all available digital Raw formats made for photographers by a photographer-software engineer.
4. Microsoft Photo Story 3 : Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then, personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a Windows Mobile–based portable device.
5. GIMP : GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
6. Helicon Filter : Helicon Filter is a complete photo editing solution for the digital photographer. Its easy and intuitive interface, live preview feature, and contextual help ensure an easy start in photo editing for beginners. The program is built as step by step workflow guiding you through all post processing stages of photo editing.
7. PhotoTools 2.5 Free : A photoshop based plugin that works with Photoshop CS2, CS3,Cs4 and CS5. It includes more than 20 high-quality photographic effects and also HDR effects. With the PhotoTools 2.5 Free plugin for Adobe Photoshop, you can add a professional look to your photos with just a few clicks.
8. Photoscape : Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos with key features like slideshow creation, default viewer, photo editor, batch editor, page frame option, animated GIF, splitter, screen capture, color picker, raw converter and many more.
9. Pictomio : Pictomio is a software application intended for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos as well as geotagging photos and videos that also allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows. Pictomio now includes the pictoGEO plug-In (for free).
10. Paint.net : Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
11. Photos Pos Pro : Photo Pos Pro Photo Editor is a free photo editor offers users a wide variety of possibilities in the fields of Image Enhancing and Image Editing and in the field of Computer Graphics Design. Using the editor you can perform various tasks, from simple basic tasks to complex tasks; you can edit existing images, create new works based on existing images, create new works from scratch and more.
12. Evan’s Image Editor : Evan’s Image Editor (EIE) is a free image editor that allows for the editing and creation of animated or still images. It contains several GPU-powered image modifiers that take advantage of modern graphics hardware, giving you an instant preview of the effect while you adjust parameters. It also has a non-binary selection system, allowing you to “partially select” pixels and apply drawing tool and modification actions that perform weighted averages based on the selection value.
13. Luminance HDR : Luminance HDR is an open source graphical user interface application that aims to provide a workflow for HDR imaging.
14. CleanSkin FX : CleanSkinFX is the most powerful automatic retouch for portraits. It smooths the skin of the object while preserving all the details and crispness of hair, eyes or background. This procedure was exclusively developed by mediachance.com.
15. Light Artist : Light Artist is a program that allows you to add realistic lighting effects to your photos. With this program you can easily make your ordinary and undistinguished photos sunnier, romantic or even gloomy if you want. You can modify the light color, add multiple light sources, change the surface qualities of the image and add various ambient illumination effects. Using one of the image channels as the texture channel you can add 3D relief to your images.
16. Photomeister : Using PhotoMeister you can Import the photos from most digital cameras directly into your PC, Sort, arrange, filter and crop your photos and even remove red eyes, Convert your photos into web pages, emails or screensavers, Create Photo Albums to print or export as PDF files, Create VCDs for your DVD player to show your photos on your TV.
17. Photo Editor : Photo! Editor is powerful multifunctional software offering a complete set of image editing tools. It contains anything a digital camera owner might need to correct or enhance their photos. You will enjoy the ultimate convenience and professional approach provided by each of the tools. The Denoise tool is one of the world’s best to effectively remove luminance and color noise from digital images made under poor lighting conditions. You will also appreciate the Make Up tool that offers a complete set of retouching filters to make the best of your portrait photos.
18. Phantasmagoria : Phantasmagoria is a fun, light-weight image editing application. The main focus is to apply effects to images, along with the basic editing that might be required after a sub-par shoot. In other words, what most of us actually need.
19. Visions : Visions lets you easily view and search photos, fix flaws, apply effects, create albums and calendars, share your favorites through e-mail, prints and online sharing websites and much more, all in a cool & fun 3D interface.
20. Image Analyzer : Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites.
21. Hugin – Panorama Photo Stitcher : An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging toolchain based on Panorama Tools. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.
21. ImageMagick : ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
22. Image Tricks : Image Tricks is a freeware application for editing your photos and images using Mac OS X Core Image filters and Quartz Compositions that unimaginably transform your photos. This program also contains a powerful random image generator for creating unique backgrounds and abstract images for business cards, web design, print materials and more.
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