Free graphic editors (photo editors) and photo managers: GIMP, Paint NET, PicPick Tools, Picasa, PhotoScape, Inkscape, IcoFX, FastStone Image Viewer, Dimin Image Viewer, XnView, Universal Viewer, NexusImage, IrfanView, Imagine, APViewer.

FastStone Capture – software, which allows you to take screenshots and also record video from the screen. In addition to the main functions, the application allows users to edit the image, as well as adapt it. Thanks to effects, you can completely change an image, making it unique. You can use the edited screenshot...

DjVu Reader is the most popular program designed for reading djvu files. The application will be useful for students and teachers who read electronic manuals. Many users do not know, but books and magazines saved in djvu format, take up significantly less disk space...

ACDSee is a program designed for viewing images. The application allows you not only to view photos, but also, if necessary, edit them. Surprisingly, ICD can even play audio and video files. Many users consider the program to be a real multimedia combine. In addition to the main features...

NanoCAD is a system designed for design. The application will be of interest to designers and engineers. This CAD platform can be used in various industries. It is noteworthy that, unlike its competitors, it is distributed completely free of charge. The system can be a good alternative to such a giant as AutoCad....

FormatFactory is a free program for converting images, video and audio from one format to another. The Format Factory program has functions for changing images: rotating, cropping, resizing, signing, etc. The program contains a multilingual interface, including Russian. Format...

Tux Paint is a free painting program designed for young children. At the beginning of development it was created for the Linux OS, but after a while it became available for other operating systems too. Tux Paint has been translated into a very large number of languages. In their...

PhotoFiltre - compact and versatile graphics editor for the Windows operating system. There are two versions of this program, free and paid. The author and developer of the program is Antonio Da Cruz. The entire program interface has been translated into approximately 26 languages.

Artweaver free is a free raster graphics editor. It is needed for processing images or photographs. You can also draw various drawings in it. The distinctive feature of the program is that it is supported by tablet computers.

It’s terribly inconvenient when programs that are so needed weigh a lot. But this is not about this graphic editor. PaintTool SAI is a very convenient and economical option.

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Any PC user encounters computer image processing from time to time. Slightly correct a digital photo, cut out a fragment or save it in another format, make the photo better or simply add brightness... Or maybe just take a screenshot from the Internet page you like and save it in graphic file. And here Windows users a standard product often comes to the rescue Paint. I must note that this is a very, very limited editor ( and to be completely frank, you can’t call him anything other than wretched), which can be applied according to the principle - “open”, “select”, “edit”, “cut”, “paste”, “save” ... and other simple dull actions. Sometimes this is enough. But rarely. As a rule, the user requires more advanced and convenient programs.

Now let's look at more powerful graphic editors with a range of interesting and tasty features.

The most famous of them is Adobe Photoshop , which can do almost everything, but this is a paid product and is intended for professionals, and not for home “users”. And if we consider the possibility of using it “to the fullest,” then we will have to pay tens of thousands of rubles for a license or look for a broken version on the World Wide Web, risking catching some kind of infection along with it ( “hackers” love to insert various malicious crap into broken versions of Photoshop and into “medicines” for it).

This is understandable, in order to slightly correct the “red eyes” in the photo from the New Year’s party, our “user” needs Photoshop, and nothing else - he categorically does not agree to exchange for anything less. True, he has no idea that if he is “lucky enough” to get caught using his pirated version, then the fine for this offense will amount to several hundred thousand rubles - this is precisely the appetite of the “right holders” from Adobe today. These are the amounts they now estimate their damage from each pirated copy. There are already plenty of precedents in modern Russia.

In fact, monstrous professional products from Adobe or Corel home user no use at all. Small and lightweight graphic editors can easily cope with its tasks, many of which, moreover, are also absolutely free. Here we will get acquainted with some of them.

The first product on our list is GIMP(Gimp). Gimp is the most powerful and most famous of the free graphic editors, and also open source. source code. Enthusiasts from all over the world take part in its development. It can run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD and many more operating systems. For GIMP There are a lot of different add-ons.

Tools GIMP very similar to the instruments of the well-known Adobe Photoshop, there is support for layers, animation, a large set of filters, gradient fills, etc., installed by default. It is worth noting the set of tools - it has everything you need even for complex graphic processing. When installing GIMP You can immediately select the Russian language - there is no need to install a localization feature. The program allows you to open images directly from the Internet - just provide a link to the picture, and then edit it as you wish.

The disadvantages of the program include the unusual interface ( all panels open in separate windows scattered across the desktop) and slightly unusual work with tools. Is it true, a new version, which is currently being tested, already has a regular single-window interface, and the tools GIMP It's easy enough to get used to if you want.

The advantages, in addition to being free, are its small size and lightness and amazing extensibility using plug-ins.

They say, experienced users who have mastered working in GIMP, and hanging it with the extensions they need, create such miracles in the program that even professional Photoshop cannot do.

The next program that is quickly gaining popularity is Paint.NET. A simple, yet powerful and convenient graphic editor. License - Free.

They say that the program was developed by students from a university commissioned and under the direct control of Microsoft and was intended to replace the scanty Paint in new Windows versions. And then it becomes unclear why it has not yet become a standard tool of the operating system, because the program turned out to be really very successful.

In addition to a good built-in set of tools, Paint.NET There are also add-ons that significantly expand the editor's potential.

Paint.NET uses .NET Framework (as is clear from its name), and when installing the program, you should clarify which version of the framework is installed on the system - different versions Paint.NET uses different versions of the .NET Framework.

Next in line is Picasa. Picasa is a free image manager from Google itself. And as always, with a pleasant difference - in web albums Picasa 1 GB is provided free of charge free space. You can store your photos online, Picasa it allows (has a built-in convenient image downloader). Russian language is supported.

By and large, Picasa most likely not just a graphic editor, but an organizer and cataloguer of images. The main function of the program is to organize a collection of digital graphics on your hard drive. And here she copes with a bang. And all the editing tools are already like a pleasant thing ( and quite impressive) addition.

Completes our review Photoscape- a program with rich capabilities. Russian language supported. Allows you to fully and easily work with images. Supports working with animation, and you can set the time for each frame separately. There is a good set of tools and a friendly interface. And plus a lot of other “tasty” things.

Well, in this short article we got acquainted with several fairly powerful and serious raster graphics editors. Although their range is not limited to the above - there are a huge number of similar programs. And many of them are free.

And besides them, there is a whole set of interesting narrowly focused and small programs for working with digital graphics, which deserve a separate description.

Most of us associate computer graphics in general and editing in particular with Adobe Photoshop, which itself costs 700 bucks and requires significant hardware resources. And this is natural, because this is the most powerful graphic editor to date, created for the needs of design professionals. “Non-designers” more often use only a small fraction of its resources for basic image changes. Don't believe me? Remember why you opened Photoshop the last 5 times. I guarantee that if you are not a professional designer, then you have changed the size of some image, cropped it, or saved it in another format. As a last resort, we adjusted the brightness/contrast/color gamut. Agree, it is not at all necessary to have Photoshop installed for this.

1 Photoscape

Photoscape is amazing free editor photographs. This program contains so many filters, tools and special effects that it’s hard to believe that it’s free.

Photoscape has almost everything you need to view, optimize, edit, print, and have fun with your photos. It's so full-featured that many consider it a free alternative to Photoshop. Of course, Photoshop is still at a higher level, but the program really is an excellent alternative to Adobe's flagship and turns photo editing into a very fun experience.

2 Pixia

Pixia is a free raster graphics editor developed by Isao Maruoka. Initially, the graphic editor was intended for creating anime/manga, but later began to be used in other areas of art.

Pixia supports graphics tablets from Wacom, three-dimensional layers, transparency effects, can work with the most popular image file formats (.bmp, .jpeg, .tiff, .ico, .pict, .png), supports the Adobe Photoshop format - .psd, and also has its own - .pxa.

3 Colourpaint

A simple drawing app for KDE. The most basic functionality such as a brush, eraser, pipette, primitive forms. As for editing, there is autocrop, balance adjustment, size and color changes. Designed for drawing diagrams and diagrams, as well as simple image editing. Another solution for those who are confused by the abundance of buttons and incomprehensible tools of more complex editors.

4Paint.NET

Paint.NET is a free raster graphics editor for drawings and photographs for Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Paint.NET is a great editor replacement graphic images, included in standard programs Windows operating systems.

With many powerful features found only in expensive graphics editors, Paint.NET is completely free.

5 Pinta

Pinta is a lightweight, open-source, cross-platform raster graphics editor inspired by the Paint.NET editor. The latter only works under Windows, and Miguel de Icaza's attempt to directly port this program to the Linux/Mono environment was not very successful.

6 Seashore

Opensource image editor for the Mac OSX Cocoa framework. Knows what gradients, textures, anti-aliasing are. Supports layers and alpha channel. It is based on GIMP technology, and, accordingly, is friendly with its native format.

7 Paint Star

The Paint star program is a graphic editor for high-quality editing, as well as creating drawings, digital photos and other images. This editor for Windows perfectly suits the basic needs of the user, and also allows you to work with layers, transparency, gradients, textures, scripts, templates, paths, etc.

Paint star has a solid line of image editing and processing tools, similar to popular programs for highly professional business design. Basic functionality allows the average user to realize their idea without a special training course or video.

8 My Paint

A simple and fast opensource application for digital artists for Windows and Linux. Essentially, it's just a dimensionless canvas onto which you can display interface elements only when you need them. The rest of the time, draw for your own pleasure, without being distracted by menus and tools. It fully supports graphics tablets, has a simple minimalist design, allows you to create brushes and customize existing ones, and supports layers.

9 5Dfly

Free Windows application for batch photo processing. Except standard features graphic editor, can create slide shows for PowerPoint.

10 Visual Box

Free for non-commercial use application for creating web galleries. Available as a jQuery plugin or Prototype extension, there are versions for Windows and Mac. Flickr and Photobucket support, built-in ftp client, tons of themes, nice modern design.

11 Digikam

This is an OpenSource photo editor for Linux, Windows and Mac-OSX. Allows you to view, edit, enhance, catalog and tag your photos and do a lot of other nice things. However, you must be prepared to compile the application. For those who are new to this, the official website offers a detailed tutorial.

12 PEdit

A very simple free online photo editor. Contains all standard tools, even a child can use it. It requires installation of the Silverlight 3 plugin.

13 photos

Multifunctional and at the same time clear program, which includes the functions of a photo editor, a graphic editor and an application for creating computer graphics. Provides many options for design, photo processing and enhancement, image editing and more.

14 Irfan View

One of the most popular image viewers on Windows systems. Fast, compact, free. Can open all kinds of graphics, convert them into required format, optimize, create slideshows. There are plugins, skins and localizations. Often opposes ACDSee. Although, to be honest, at home I replaced it with FastStone Image Viewer, which is also free for personal non-commercial use, but, in my opinion, is much more convenient and can work with NEF.

15 Krita

One of the finalists in the 2011 Packt Open Source Awards, along with Blender and GIMP. This is another KDE editor for creating sketches and drawings, as well as for manipulating graphics. The main direction is illustration, concept art and other creative work.

16 GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP for short) is a powerful and multi-purpose graphics editor. Thanks to a wide range of functions, you can make your photos more juicy, remove unnecessary elements from photographs, create collages and posters, prepare website designs and cut ready-made layouts, and much more. GIMP works on the most popular operating systems: Windows, Mac, Linux.

17 Artweaver

Artweaver is another graphic editor claiming to be free analogue Adobe Photoshop. The program can simulate painting with oil, acrylic paint, brush, crayon, pencil, charcoal, pastel, airbrush, etc. There are also various filters, working with transparency and layers, exporting and importing files into various graphic formats and much more.

18 Paint tool sai

Paint tool sai is both Free and paid version. First of all, it is necessary to note the editor interface, which is implemented as conveniently as possible for users. All the necessary buttons fit compactly on the panel on the left, allowing you to quickly find the necessary tool.

In addition, the interface allows you to keep several drawings open at once. The canvas itself with the image can be scaled and rotated using hotkeys and special buttons on the panel.

19 Hornil StylePix

Hornil StylePix is ​​a powerful multifunctional free graphic editor in which programmers were able to combine such parameters as: compact size, user-friendly interface and a large number of functions. The program does not require mandatory installation, as it has a portable version that you can easily place on any flash drive and run the program directly from it. StylePix has a large number of functions and capabilities and is a worthy competitor to Paint.NET and Photoshop programs.

The program will serve you as an excellent assistant in photo editing. With this editor you can correct almost all the flaws in your photo. For creative people, StylePix provides a wide selection of brushes, cloning, selection, fill tools, as well as many options for working with text.

There is also a paid version of Hornil StylePix. Has more features such as quick mask, layer mask, brush image and layer styles for more advanced works than StylePix.

20 Photoshop Online and other online editors

There are many services on the Internet for editing photos online and without installing any programs. One of the main differences online editors from installation programs is that the application requires the most minimal system requirements to the computer and just installed browser to browse the web. 100% convenience from working in the online version of the graphic file editor.

Hello everyone, Max here. Today we will talk about graphic editors, or rather, I will present you with a small list of these programs. Creative people, designers, artists, illustrators and, of course, webmasters cannot do without these programs in their daily practice (work).

What is a graphic editor? This is a program for editing and improving any digital images. Many users use the well-known Adobe Photoshop to edit images, you can familiarize yourself with it, the price of which is approximately 700-800 dollars, here link, and it also requires certain hardware resources.

In principle, this is quite normal, since this product today is a powerful graphic editor created for professional designers. Ordinary users ( let's call them “non-designers”) use only a small functionality of this program. In this article we will not talk about, but a little about other free graphic editors. And so, let's go.

GIMP

GIMP ( GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image manipulation program. Free program created for drawing, editing pictures, photos, and others raster images and another vector graphics. It has powerful tool photo retouching. It is possible to convert the photo format.

The program supports thirty different languages, including Russian, and is absolutely free. The developers have created many different themes, plugins for the GIMP program, and also written a huge number of lessons. Here are the sites from which you can download this graphic editor: ProGIMP, GIMPInfo.

GIMP Features

• converting images into formats such as: GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, SVG, TIFF and others;
• individual configuration of the program for the user, it is possible to open an element in a separate tab or in separate window;
• adjust contrast, brightness, transparency, adjust the color of the style of brushes, pencils and much more;
• work separately with layers of one image;
• change and configure RGB channels;
• animation graphics in MNG format;

This graphic editor is suitable not only for professional designers, but also for ordinary users. Here link to the official website of the program.

PAINT. NET

The free Paint.NET program is most likely suitable for qualified photographers who do this program a universal assistant and facilitates convenient work with the camera and scanner. Designed for adjusting raster and vector images.

The program supports many different plugins, powerful tools, support for layers, special. effects, the light weight of the program makes it faster in working with images, and is not demanding on consumption software resources computer. Here are a couple of sites dedicated to this program Paint.NET, Pen 2000, forum for communication.

Paint.NET Features

• support and editing of formats such as: PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, TGA, DDS, PDN;
• customizing the layout of interface elements: tools, journal, layers palette;
• resizing the image, rotating horizontally and vertically, cropping;
• with large image scaling, it is possible to activate the “grid” and “ruler”;
• built-in effects: blur, red-eye removal, image simulation, patterns;

The program was created under the leadership of Microsoft. Program website Here.

PHOTOSCAPE

This free program is most likely suitable for beginners in the field of processing graphic drawings. A set of tool packages and editors will perform a specific role for a particular photo. The image is viewed by a “viewer” ( from English viewer - viewer).

And if you want to edit or apply some effects, blur, filters, crop a photo, merge an image, you can do this in the program editor. Photoscape also has a tool for creating GIF animation.

Photoscape Features

• “glue” images into one whole, that is, in the form of a tile;
• creating GIF animation from multiple images;
• You can view photos separately using a “viewer”;
• the ability to divide images into one or several parts;
• screen capture;
• the ability to print finished works, as well as other photos;
• converting RAW files;
• simultaneous work with several images;

The program has been translated into Russian and has an intuitive interface with a “tool bar”, tabs and a built-in explorer.

Most likely, this editor is of little interest to designers and professional photographers than to ordinary users who edit images, delete something in them, or create something new. You can download Photoscape from official website programs .

PHOTOINSTRUMENT

Free, but at the same time powerful editor digital images. The program has built-in powerful tools and effects that are acceptable for expensive retouching systems. The program has a clear and convenient interface for novice photo designers, which is equipped with large menu icons, when you hover over them, hints open.

Photoinstrument features

• restoration of certain areas of the image, for example, you can remove unnecessary inscriptions on a photo or image;
• remove red eye effect;
• drawing with a pencil, brush, spray and so on...;
• retouch photos, “skin cleaner”, “glamorous skin”, “plastic”;
• change brightness, contrast, lightening, darkening;
• cut objects from images, as well as transform them, copy, move them;
• adjust text on photos;
• installation of additional plugins;
• playback of files such as PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TGA and others, as well as their conversion and editing;
• create GIF animation;

The interface language is Russian, the program also supports more than thirty additional languages. You can download the program from official website. Big choice tools and various effects will help you change images to the best of your imagination and desires.

PIXBUILDER STUDIO

A free graphic editor for changing the color scheme of photos and other images, or cutting out a specific object, or blurring the desired place in a photo or image. In terms of functionality, the program is more suitable for a professional to perform more complex tasks.

PixBuilder Studio Features

• working with layers;
• change color channels;
• multi-level channel, that is, you can return the picture to its original form;
• support popular formats images;
• resizing the image;
• changes in contrast, brightness;
• transformation of certain areas of the image;
• working with color channels;

The interface language is Russian. You can download the program from official website developer, as well as this link. I hope that from these editors everyone will find something for themselves, but of course if you are a professional designer you cannot do without.

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A graphics editor is a program or set of programs that are used to create or edit an image in a two-dimensional coordinate axis. The use of a graphic editor is possible on a computer.

All existing types of graphic editors are aimed at creating an image using stamps, lines, curves, dots, etc., as well as regenerating the original image. The graphic editor allows you to expand, move images, delete, copy some elements. The resulting new image can be immediately sent to print and saved.

Classification of graphic editors

There are three main types of graphic editing programs:

• raster;
• vector;
• hybrid.

Briefly about each type of program

Raster graphics editors are designed to create and process images in the form of dots or a grid of pixels (matrix) on display devices. Such programs are widely used in creating images that are sent to printing and publications on the Internet.

Using this type of editor allows you to create a drawing on a computer monitor, save it in JPEG formats TIFE. When saving such graphics, due to the compression algorithm, the image quality decreases. When using the PNG, GIF format that support the function good compression lossless, image quality does not deteriorate.

A typical example of a raster graphics editor is the program Adobe Photoshop.

Vector graphic editor makes it possible to create or edit an object consisting of geometric elements(points, lines, polygons) directly on the screen and save in vector editors (CDR, AI, EPS).

Vector graphics are the opposite of raster graphics.

Hybrid graphic editors designed for working with scanned documents. This type of graphic editor includes part of raster and vector programs. A striking example of a hybrid program can be considered AutoCAD, RasterDesk.

The possibilities offered by graphic editors are unlimited.