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Aug 14, 2005 00:12 | #1

There are a ton of great freeware photo programs out there. Can we try to compile a listing of them here?

I am not opposed to trial period freeware or other such, just lets be clear in the discription just how free it is.....

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CyberDyneSystems

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Aug 14, 2005 00:41 | #2

O-kay I'll start with not only the best Freeware RAW converter/app,.. but my favorite RAW Converter at any price!

**EDIT** Alas, Raw Shooter Essentials is no more.

It also happens that the very best sharpening plug in for PSCS is not only currently a free set of scripts available for download.. but they are written by a member and regular contributor to this Forum!!!!

Get them here;
TLR Professional Sharpening Toolkit

Read more about them From the author GMitchell right here on the forum;
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=83348

And for ACTIONS.. lots of FREE Photoshop actions! Look no further than;
http://www.atncentral.com/

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tommykjensen

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Aug 14, 2005 00:52 | #3

A smart little utility to rename lots of photos (files) fast and easy:

Rename4u

EDITING OF MY PHOTOS IS NOT ALLOWED

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Aug 17, 2005 18:13 as a reply to @ tommykjensen's post | #4

http://www.optikvervelabs.com/download.asp

"virtualPhotographer is a Photoshop compatible plug-in that allows you to create a variety of photographic styles with the greatest of ease.
virtualPhotographer features many presets, all of which can be fine tuned to fit your requirements.
Effects such as Film Grain, Soft Focus, B/W, B/W tinting, High Contrast etc. are all just a click away. No more struggling to get to grips with the steep learning curve of your photo editor. Great results are just a mouse click away."

I had been looking for a way to achieve different effects and toning of images easily and these effects do the job nicely. It's easy to spend an evening trying out the variety of different effects.
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chris, you beat me to the punch. I had thought about starting a free software thread about a week ago and little did I realize you had gotten the sticky up by the time I finally did post. Also good to see another Pentax owner here. Still have my 25 something year old Spotmatics and they still work. Also picked up the Canon adapter for the old Takumars.

Megapixels and high ISO are a digital photographers heroin. Once you have a little, you just want more and more. It doesn't stop until your bank account is run dry.

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LightRules

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Aug 27, 2005 15:43 | #5

For panos and stitching, this baby...

http://www.cs.ubc.ca …utostitch/autostitch.html

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Aug 27, 2005 21:37 | #6

For cropping JPG files without recompression on save, I find that

JPEGCrops

works really well for me.

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Sep 13, 2005 14:09 | #7

Irfanview is really good / free / handy! Batch resize (set 'long edge') - can do loads...

* Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
* Multi language support
* Thumbnail/preview option
* Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
* Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
* Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
* Drag & drop support
* Fast directory view (moving through directory)
* Batch conversion (with image processing)
* Multipage TIF editing
* Email option
* Multimedia player
* Print option
* Change color depth
* Scan (batch scan) support
* Cut/crop
* IPTC editing
* Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
* Capturing
* Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
* Lossless JPG rotation
* Many hotkeys
* Many command line options
* Many PlugIns
* Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
* No registry changes without user action/permission!
* and many more

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Scottes

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Sep 13, 2005 14:33 | #8

IrfanView rocks.

My latest discovery with this program is lossless rotations. So when programs don't recognize that the JPG should be in portrait mode you can use IV to quickly rotate them 90 degrees. Quick batch mode job and you're done.

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Sep 14, 2005 22:39 as a reply to @ Scottes's post | #9

I JUST posted a thread about this.....

The Gimp....a photoshop type program for both linux and windows.... http://www.gimp.org/

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Sep 17, 2005 01:30 | #10

A nice image viewer (besides to IrfanView) is FastStone (http://www.faststone.org). Can convert from raw too and offers a whole bunch of features that are actually useful.

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Sep 25, 2005 18:40 as a reply to @ peterdoomen's post | #11

Without doubt (at least for me!), the ultimate cataloguing program is Picassa 2. I bought Adobe Photo Album when it first came out. I simply don't use it. Picassa 2 is amazing. Google is the cat's meow for offering it to the masses.

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Sep 27, 2005 21:16 | #12

http://www.dxo.com/en/photo/home/default.php
I did not test this but looks promising if you photograph small tiny places with wide to fisheye...

no edits

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Sep 29, 2005 05:09 as a reply to @ sasa007's post | #13

sasa007 wrote:
http://www.dxo.com/en/photo/home/default.php

I did not test this but looks promising if you photograph small tiny places with wide to fisheye...

That't not freeware though... this on the other hand is:

http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/

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Oct 07, 2005 15:01 | #14

I used Gimp and Photo Filtre. Just purchased Paint Shop Pro X this week.

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Oct 07, 2005 15:21 | #15

could not get the link above for
TLR Professional Sharpening Toolkit
to work - so heres another link
http://thelightsright.com …onalSharpeningToolkit.htm

Paint Shop pro7 and Updates
http://www.dpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1352

A number of free editors http://www.dpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1534
PagePlus
PhotoPlus
WebPlus
DrawPlus
3DPlus

EXIF readers
http://www.dpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1534
http://www.opanda.com/en/iexif/

EXIF Plugin for IE and Firefox
http://www.dpforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1854
http://ak.no-ip.com/EXIF/index_en.htm

Exifer for Windows
http://www.exifer.friedemann.info/#Features

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