Download IcoFX 2.8

IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing that can be easily controlled by both seasoned professionals and novices who have very little or even zero knowledge about design. Using very simple tools and thoughtfully organized dashboard, users can easily apply both small and big changes to their icons, and put them through conversion that will prepare them for all kinds of uses (transform big images into Icons, convert all icon formats one into another). It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.

Main interface of IcoFX is very user-friendly, enabling users to easily access all the necessary image manipulation tools, color pickers, brushers, work with layers, and have both large work surface and real-time previews that cover all the popular icon sizes between 16x16 and 256x256. If you want to covert cursors or icons between Windows or Macintosh image formats, you can easily do that either individually or via highly capable batch processing tool that can easily in seconds convert entire collections of content.

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to easily create a favicon for your website or blog or even create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files.

IcoFX Main Features:

Create icons and cursors

Create icons for Windows and Macintosh. Support for Windows Vista icons with PNG compression. Convert your Macintosh icons to Windows icons and vice versa. Support for static and animated cursors.

Batch process multiple files

You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX. Create, convert, extract or export all your icons or cursors with just a few clicks.    

Adjustments and effects

With more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. IcoFX features a collection of intuitive color correction tools.

Images with layers

You can quickly create layer based images using IcoFX. It allows you to rearrange, blend layers and change their opacity. 

Import, export and extract

You can easily convert your favorite images into icons or cursors, or icons into images. Supported image formats BMP, PNG, JPG, JPG2000, TIF and GIF.

Resource editor

IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. You can also create cursor libraries. 

Full assortment of tools

IcoFX features a full blown image editor with many useful tools. You can use different brush sizes, shapes, hardness, even blending modes when painting. 

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Free DxO Optics Pro 9 Download

The DxO Standard preset corrects tone (exposure and dynamic optimization), colors (application by default of the camera body rendering and protection of saturated colors), noise, and optical flaws (distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberrations, lens softness). This process is entirely automatic and happens as soon as the images are displayed in the Image Browser — without any intervention on your part!

Of course, DxO Optics Pro 9, in addition to offering you a new visual interface that shows you all of the presets that are integrated into the software, also lets you create your own custom presets, and you can use whatever preset you would like as the default instead of the DxO Standard preset. There are two kinds of presets: full presets, which provide you with a full set of corrections with which to work, and partial presets, which allow you to correct a single aspect or just a few aspects of an image, without affecting the rest of the image rendering.

In this tutorial, we will first discuss the new visual presets interface and how to apply presets, and then we will see how to create a custom preset. Finally, the “going further” section will present you with a few additional tips about replacing the DxO Standard default preset by a more neutral preset, or by a custom preset.

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Free Xara Photo & Graphic Designer v10.1.2 Download

A capable photo editor can optimise your image automatically, or gives you full control over brightness, contrast, sharpness, saturation, temperature and more. There are strong core features (crop, resize, fix red-eye, shadow/ highlights adjustments), many advanced tools (content aware zooming, photo healing, bitmap > vector conversion), 60+ built-in Live Effects and Photoshop plugin support, while professional options like layer blending, feathering and vector masking help ensure you get precisely the results you need.

The program's illustration abilities start with a host of shape, line and freehand drawing tools. 3D extrusion means you can drag any shape to create a properly lit and rendered 3D version. You're able to customise the results further with transparency, feathering, shadow, bevel and contour tools, or use the blend tool to blend from one shape to another (just drag and drop). There's a lot to learn, but fortunately editing is easy - even freehand work can be tweaked later.

Text features are impressive. You can position and rotate text as you'd like, make it follow a curved path, apply any of the other effects as required. The desktop publishing-type feel continues in the Designs Gallery, where you'll find templates for calendars, greetings cards, invitations, CD/ DVD covers, more. A bundled clipart library also helps, and powerful print and various export options (including PDF and PSD) make it easy to share your creations with others.

Version 10 adds PhotoLooks 2, a powerful plugin (once sold separately for $199) which offers 100+ preset lighting and colour effects.

Finer editing controls mean you're now able to adjust highlights, shadows, or a particular colour in your image, without affecting anything else.

There are new tools for drawing and editing commonly-used shapes: text panels, speech bubbles, arrows and more. The Content Catalog makes it easier to browse available content, photos are automatically rotated on opening (as required), and there’s improved Word and PDF import.

Finally, you get two bonus extras from the MAGIX range. MAGIX Photo Manager helps you sort and search your photo collection. And 12 months free access to MAGIX Online Album Premium gives you 100GB online storage space, and your own domain, ready to share your finished creations with the world.

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Free PC Image Editor 5.5 Download

At the same time, the program is powerful enough to be of interest to anyone looking to get quick results, and its low system requirements mean that it is ideal for installing on an older laptop that you can take out and about with you. There are few bells and whistles to be found here – this is a program that exists to get a job done and it does it well.

The interface is immediately inviting and almost all of the available options can be controlled by moving sliders. In this way it is possible to quickly adjust color levels, change gamma and hue settings as well as experimenting with one of the various filters that are included. As you move a slider a popup preview enables you to see just what effect the changes will have on your image so you will know when you apply it.

Sadly, the effects and changes you apply to an image are a case of all or nothing. When you apply a filter, it has to be applied to the image as a whole as there is no way to select just a portion of it to work with. But this is a minor complaint about an otherwise excellent, if simple, tool. The undo feature is perfectly complemented by a history panel which can be used to step back in time and reverse and changes you make if you change your mind about any of them.

Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows 8, Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit), Windows XP

Version: 5.0

Licence: Freeware

Manufacturer: Program4PC Inc

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Free Photomizer Scan 2 Download

With our professional Photomizer Scan 2 software you easily edit your scanned photos, scanned slides and even your scanned negatives.

Enjoy more colorful images by touching up flat colors! Remove errors and dust at the PC - fully automatically!

The easy-to-operate software impresses with a clear user interface. You see the original picture, preview and work surface directly on the monitor. The results of the optimization are displayed in real time. Simply save all changes - ready.

If you have a slide scanner and are not satisfied with the scanned results, Photomizer Scan 2 is your perfect solution.

- Fully automatic optimization of scans, slides and negatives

- Automatic object recognition

- Re-adjustment of tonality

- Re-sharpening and contrast optimization

- Color-intensive photos through re-sharpening of matt colors!

- Fully automatic: optimization of hue control and saturation, correction of white balance, bright/dark correction

- Removal of undesired color casts, fog etc.

Photomizer Scan 2 is intended for users who want to optimize their digital photos fast and effective on a completely revised user interface.

As the software is created easily, even beginners can work with it effortlessly.

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Free Download FotoSketcher Portable 2.90

Convert your digital photos into a sketch or a drawing.

FotoSketcher is a 100% free program which can help you convert your digital photos into art, automatically. If you want to turn a portrait, the photograph of your house or a beautiful landscape into a painting, a sketch or a drawing then look no further, FotoSketcher will do the job in just a few seconds.

Thanks to FotoSketcher you can create stunning images to make original gifts for your friends or relatives. Create birthday cards, season´s greetings stationary or simply print your work of art and hang it on the wall.

Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...).

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Free PicPick 3.4.0 Download

PicPick is freeware all-in-one image capture software that includes wide variety of features for software developers, graphic designers and home users. This program provides full-featured screen capture tool, easy image editor, color manipulation options (such as color picker, palette chooser), editing tools (pixel ruler, protector, crosshair) and even whiteboard, most or less everything that both novices and professionals can demand form software whose first task is to capture moments that are showcased on your desktop surface in both full-screen capture, area capture or even scrolling windows! 

While PicPick has a strong competition in many very capable programs that can also easily capture desktop surface, developers from NTeWORKS went beyond that simple service and infused into PicPick great tools for simple editing captured images, enabling users to have one app that can immediately on the spot prepare captured images for distribution or further editing in professional apps, thus enabling you to be more efficient and productive. Interface of PicPick is very reminiscent to one of MS Pain from Windows 7, which is perfect for both novices and professionals who want access to tools that demand access to well-organized dashboards that does not require any time for acclimation.

All of these features are present inside of a small and very quickly loading program. PicPick is available in two packages. Freeware version is available for personal use, and can be used free of charge with all of its functions. However, commercial users are obliged to pay license.

PicPick Features: 

Screen Capture

Auto-scroll, dual monitors and sound effect are supported. Various output to File, Printer, Office programs, External program. Screen Capture Full Screen, Active Window, Window Control, Scrolling Window, Region, Fixed Region and FreeHand.

Image Editor

Intuitive User Interface and Windows 7 Ribbon style.

Color Picker and Color Palette

Various color code type (RGB, HTML, C++, Delphi). Photoshop style RGB/HSV conversion is supported.

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Free Download FotoSketcher 2.9

Just a quick update to let you know that I'm currently working on a brand new painting effect. It's early days yet, but I'll keep you posted when a beta version is available.

This effect is based on a new segmentation algorithm. I've tried to create a loose style (with transparency) in order to emulate a watercolour.

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Free Alien Skin Exposure 5 Download

Alien Skin Software makes creative tools for photographers and graphic designers.  We distill advanced math and cutting edge research into simple tools that render beautiful pictures.

Exposure 6 brings all the creative tools of a traditional photographic darkroom to the world of digital, such as the look of discontinued films, printing techniques, and borders and textures. Popular classic films like Kodachrome, Polaroid and TRI-X have been carefully analyzed in order to faithfully simulate their characteristic tonal ranges and grain structures. Over 450 preset effects can be applied with a single mouse click, helping photographers achieve their desired look quickly. Exposure 6 integrates both color and black-and-white processing so there is no need to switch between tools.

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Free Download Adobe Bridge CC

Adobe Bridge provides you with centralized access to all the media assets you need for your creative projects. Batch edit with ease, add watermarks, and even set centralized color preferences—Bridge simplifies your workflow and keeps you organized. The newest version of Adobe Bridge CC is available now.

This version: Adobe Bridge CC has native 64-bit architecture to harness all the power of your computer. There is a slight change in the installation process though. It does not get installed by default when you install other apps such as Photoshop or Illustrator. You need to download and install it. After that you’re on familiar ground again.

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Free Ashampoo Photo Commander 12 Download

Powerful photo management made simple

Do you love photos? Your last vacation, your wedding - precious memories that mostly exist as photos make our photo collections grow ever larger. Originally kept in shoe boxes, today, photos are typically stored on computers. But do you exactly that very special photo from your last vacation is stored? Do you resent those tiny artefacts or blurriness in your photos that ruin otherwise perfect moments?

Enter Ashampoo Photo Commander 12, the ultimate in photo management. Effortlessly browse through large photo collections and remove annoying image defects on the fly. Optimize color and contrast settings and make your photos shine. Get creative and bring your photos to life with professional image effects and surprise your friends with self-made calendars, collages and greeting cards.

Next-gen photo management: More comfort, more power, more performance

Easier to use

Smart photo imports

Faster image browsing with miniature views

Enhanced file manager with cloud support

New designs & gradients

Enhanced wizards

1-Click object management & quick-access styles

Stay in control

100 or 100.000 photos, it makes no difference. Select between different view modes and find single photos in a flash thanks to powerful filters.

Eliminate chaos

Sorting, moving and renaming photos has never been easier. Organize your photo collection and rediscover hidden treasures.

Fix unlucky shots

Blurry vacation photos? Your birthday photos show faded colors or a lot of noise? Fix these issues fast and easily. Say no to red eyes and remove scratches.

Do magic with effects

Add a whiff of nostalgia to your childhood photos with Sepia or turn your garden into miniature scene. Combine effects for unlimited possibilities.

Make your photos into something beautiful

Design slideshows, calendars or high-quality collages.

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Free SONY Vegas Pro 13 Download

Vegas Pro is a worthy competitor for Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro X, but for one reason or another it doesn't seem to be on many industry professionals' radars. Sony hopes to change that with this update, with a range of new features aimed squarely at professional users.

One is a proxy-first workflow, where low-resolution copies of video are uploaded to the cloud immediately after capture. From there they can be downloaded to a computer and added to the Vegas timeline. These proxies are replaced with the original high-resolution footage when it arrives.

It makes perfect sense for large production teams working to tight deadlines. It could also be useful for reviewing footage on location without interrupting the capture workflow. However, it requires a Sony CBK-WA100 or CBK-WA101 wireless adapter, which only support XDCAM professional cameras, so that rather narrows its market.

A new Loudness Meters panel measures audio levels by sound-energy levels rather than waveform peaks, with various calibrated displays to help users follow guidelines set out by the European Broadcasting Union. It's far from self-explanatory, however, and likely to be useful only to a small number of users.

Sony Vegas Pro 13 review: iPad app

The new companion iPad app, Vegas Pro Connect, is more inclusive. It communicates with the desktop software via a local network, and serves as a wireless remote control and commenting system. It includes conventional transport buttons, but we got on better with the gesture-based controls, which let us keep our eyes on the monitor and navigate the timeline more precisely. Swiping left and right moves the playback bar at different speeds depending on whether one, two or three fingers are used.

The iPad app also allows you to drop markers onto the timeline. The gesture-based interface includes four marker labels – Check Color, Check Mix, Edit and SFX – while the transport controls add a Custom option, where you can type your own text.

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