Photo Editors

Corel Paint Shop Pro – For anyone who aspires to make good photos great, there's Corel Paint Shop Pro. Give your photos the professional look they deserve with automatic photo fixes and precision editing tools for fine-tuning. When you need help, the built-in Learning Centre is there to make it easier.

Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editor (with some text and vector graphics capabilities) developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the market leader for commercial bitmap image manipulation, and probably the most well-known piece of software produced by Adobe Systems. It is considered the industry standard in most, if not all, jobs related to the use of visual elements.

GIMP, aka GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free, open source photo editing program with many of the advanced features and functions you would expect to find with pricey image editing software like Adobe Photoshop. It features photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Serif PhotoPlus – Mention photo editing software down the pub and most of those 'in the know' will tell you how good they are with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. These are both fine programs, but there's another less well-known candidate they could benefit from trying, version nine of Serif's PhotoPlus has just been released.

Paint.NET – It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

QFX Image Editor takes a unique approach to image creation by integrating the features of both a paint and a draw program into one application. Strictly paint programs like Photoshop let you paint and retouch, but cannot work with layouts of objects, text and images in a resolution independent way.

IconForge is simply the best, most complete suite to create or change icons, cursors, animated cursors and icon libraries for Windows. Optimized for editing small images, you will find a full set of painting tools at your disposal.