Comparison of raster graphics editors
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Proprietary software
Proprietary software
Proprietary software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder. The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering.Complementary...

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Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 and open source software
Commercial
Commercial software
Commercial software, or less commonly, payware, is computer software that is produced for sale or that serves commercial purposes.Commercial software is most often proprietary software, but free software packages may also be commercial software....

Freeware
Freeware
Freeware is computer software that is available for use at no cost or for an optional fee, but usually with one or more restricted usage rights. Freeware is in contrast to commercial software, which is typically sold for profit, but might be distributed for a business or commercial purpose in the...


  • Ability Photopaint
  • ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas is a technical and general graphics drawing, imaging, and publishing product from ACD Systems for personal computers. The current version is Canvas 12....

     (formerly Deneba Canvas)
  • Advanced Batch Converter
  • Adobe Fireworks
  • Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements
    Adobe Photoshop Elements
    Adobe Photoshop Elements is the consumer version of the Adobe Photoshop raster image editing product, targeted at hobbyist users and hence sold at a fraction of the cost of the professional product. It contains most of the features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options...

  • Autodesk SketchBook Pro
  • Aperture
    Aperture (photography software)
    Aperture is a photo editing and management software program that was developed by Apple for the Mac OS X operating system, first released in 2005 for $499 , dropped to $199, and now released on their App Store for $79...

  • ArtRage
    ArtRage
    ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

  • Bibble
    Bibble (software)
    Bibble is a digital imaging program for multiple platforms by Bibble Labs, designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.- Bibble 5 :...

  • CodedColor
  • Corel Painter
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

  • Corel Painter Essentials
    Corel Painter Essentials
    Corel Painter Essentials is a home software studio for sketching, painting and turning photographs into paintings. Corel Painter Essentials is now in its fourth incarnation.-Workspaces:...

  • Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo
  • Corel Photo-Paint
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992. Corel currently markets the software for Windows operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux and Mac OS...

  • cosmigo Pro Motion
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    cosmigo Pro Motion is a raster graphics editor designed by Cosmigo. It is designed after Deluxe Paint. The program's aim is to create and edit graphics at the pixel level. The latest version is 6.0. The full boxed version costs $92. As a download, the full version costs $78 and the lite version...

  • Digimage Arts Color It!
    Color It!
    Color It! is an image editor for Mac OS and Mac OS X, designed to be a lightweight substitute for Photoshop. It is inexpensive and heavily used by the education industry, and was commonly bundled with scanners throughout the 1990s. This editor has been updated to be compatible with Mac OS X 10.1...

  • ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE is a remote sensing application with raster graphics editor capabilities designed by ERDAS for geospatial applications. The latest version is 2010, version 10.1. ERDAS IMAGINE is aimed primarily at geospatial raster data processing and allows the user to prepare, display and enhance...

  • Focus Photoeditor
  • GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....

  • Helicon Filter Home/Pro
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter, also referred to as Helicon, Filter, or as HF, is a proprietary commercial and shareware photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, similar to such programs as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, developed and published by Helicon Soft Ltd...

  • Hornil StylePix Pro
  • Konvertor
  • LView Pro
  • Manga Studio
    Manga Studio
    Manga Studio is a software application for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows used for the digital creation of comics. It has been developed since 2001 by the Japanese graphics software company Celsys. It was originally distributed in the West by e frontier; since 2007 it is distributed by Smith...

  • Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program...

  • Microsoft Paint
    Microsoft Paint
    Paint is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint...

  • MST Viewer
  • Naked light
    Naked light
    Naked light is a non-destructive image editor for Mac OS X, featuring node-based compositing, infinite resolution, and live filters.Naked light is currently in public beta.- Features :* Non-destructive workflow* Node-based compositing* Infinite resolution...

  • NeoPaint
    NeoPaint
    NeoPaint is a raster graphics editor for Microsoft Windows and DOS that supports BMP, PCX, ST, GIF and TIFF in the DOS Edition and JPEG, GIF, PCX, TIFF, BMP and PNG in the Windows Edition. It is easy enough for children to use, and still powerful enough to do advanced image editing.It is made by...

  • OpenCanvas
    OpenCanvas
    openCanvas is a paint/drawing software developed and published by PGN Co. Ltd. It was originally released as freeware in 2000, but moved to a demo/retail model starting with version 2...

  • Photobrush
  • Photogenics
    Photogenics
    Photogenics is raster graphic editing software produced by Idruna Software.- Features :Photogenics can work with different color models like CMYK and HDR. HDR formats which are supported include OpenEXR, TIFF, Alias, Cineon/PDX, and so on...

  • Photoline
  • Photo Mechanic
    Photo Mechanic
    Photo Mechanic is a front-end photo ingesting, tagging, and browsing tool by Portland, Oregon-based company Camera Bits.Photo Mechanic allows the photographer to accomplish the initial capture of photos from the camera, to categorize photos into winners and losers, and to tag each photo with IPTC...

  • PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect is a proprietary commercial photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, published by Arcadia Software AG. The first version was introduced in 2002....

  • PicMaster
    PicMaster
    PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor...

  • Pictor Paint
    Pictor Paint
    Pictor Paint was an improved version of PCPaint, the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program. It was written by John Bridges, the primary author of PCPaint, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges...

  • Picture Window
  • PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor, developed by WinSoft Graphics Software, is a photo editing program form the Microsoft Windows operating system.PixBuilder Photo Editor was first sold on June 9, 2005....

  • Pixel image editor
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:...

     (formerly Pixel32)
  • Pixelmator
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

  • Portrait Professional
    Portrait Professional
    Portrait Professional and Portrait Professional Studio are image editors for Windows and Mac, specifically targeted at editing portrait photographs. Rather than using brushes as a traditional image editor does, the user first describes where the face is in the picture, then most of the...

  • Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

  • QFX
    QFX
    QFX is an image editing computer program, developed by Ron Scott a Texan photographer and software engineer. The first version was released in 1990. At the time of its release, QFX was one of the most feature-rich image editing applications available on the PC platform...

  • SAI
  • Serif Photoplus
  • TVPaint
    TVPaint
    TVP Animation is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement ....

  • TwistedBrush Pro Studio
  • Unified Color HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio is an advanced HDR digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X...

  • Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

  • Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint is a bitmap graphics editor for the Windows platform modelled after Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint. Most functionality of Deluxe Paint has been implemented while there are also some additions such as built-in filters / effects and support for Adobe plug-ins.UPaint was originally...

  • WinImages
    WinImages
    Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows....

  • WiseImage
  • Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :...


    • ArtRage
      ArtRage
      ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

       Starter Edition
    • Artweaver
      Artweaver
      Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter...

    • Brush Strokes Image Editor
      Brush Strokes Image Editor
      Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01 is a bitmap graphics editor made by Paul Bird for Microsoft Windows. It is released as freeware.-Features:* GIF animations* filters...

    • Effectbank
    • FastStone Image Viewer
      FastStone Image Viewer
      FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, .- Features :Highlights:* Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing, using Lanczos resampling algorithm...

    • Fatpaint
      Fatpaint
      Fatpaint is a free, online graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text, creating ray traced 3D text logos,...

    • Fotografix
      Fotografix
      Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.-Features:...

    • IrfanView
      IrfanView
      IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...

    • Lunapic
    • Paint.NET
      Paint.NET
      Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    • Photoscape
      PhotoScape
      PhotoScape is a graphics editing program, developed by MOOII Tech, Korea.The basic concept of PhotoScape is 'easy and fun', so that allows users to easily edit photographs taken from their digital cameras or even mobile phones...

    • PhoXo
    • Picasa
      Picasa
      Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

    • Picnik
      Picnik
      Picnik is an online photo editing service. It is headquartered in Downtown Seattle, Washington, United States. Currently it can import photos natively from Facebook, Myspace, Picasa Web Albums, Flickr, Yahoo Image search, Google Plus and also offers options to upload from a computer or to upload...

    • Pixia
      Pixia
      Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art....

    • Project Dogwaffle 1.2 Free Version
      Project Dogwaffle
      Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

    • Hornil StylePix
    • SView5
    • TwistedBrush Open Studio
    • Xnview
      XnView
      XnView is a cross-platform image viewer used for viewing, converting, organising and editing graphical & video files. It is free of charge for private, educational and non-profit organisations...

  • CinePaint
    CinePaint
    CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program...

  • Darktable
  • DigiKam
    DigiKam
    digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by...

  • ExactImage
  • Fotoxx
  • GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

  • GimPhoto
    GimPhoto
    GimPhoto is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to be a free alternative to Adobe Photoshop....

  • GIMPshop
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...

  • GNU Paint
    GNU Paint
    GNU Paint, otherwise known as gpaint, is a free and open source raster graphics editor that is similar to Microsoft Paint. It is free software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 3 and is part of the GNU Project.-Features:...

  • GrafX2
    GrafX2
    GrafX2 is a bitmap graphics editor inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance . It is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License.- History :...

  • GraphicsMagick
    GraphicsMagick
    GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick, emphasizing stability of both programming API and command-line options. It was branched off ImageMagick's version 5.5.2 in 2002 after irreconcilable differences emerged in the developers' group....

  • ImageJ
    ImageJ
    ImageJ is a public domain, Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health. ImageJ was designed with an open architecture that provides extensibility via Java plugins and recordable macros. Custom acquisition, analysis and processing plugins can be developed using...

  • ImageMagick
    ImageMagick
    ImageMagick is an open source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file formats. ImageMagick is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.- Features and capabilities:...

  • KolourPaint
    KolourPaint
    KolourPaint is a free, raster graphics editor for the KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency....

  • Krita
    Krita
    Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...

  • Lunapaint
  • mtPaint
  • MyPaint
    MyPaint
    MyPaint is a free software graphics application for digital painters, similar to Corel Painter.- History :The project has been under development since before August 11, 2004 * Version 0.1 was released March 12, 2005...

  • Nathive
  • Pencil (software)
    Pencil (software)
    There are two software products named Pencil, that are not related to each other. This article is about the graphical animation software.# A 2D graphical animation software that runs on Mac, Windows, Linux and BSD...

  • Pinta
    Pinta (software)
    Pinta is a lightweight open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET, a similar image editing program which is limited to Microsoft Windows. Pinta aims to offer a free and open-source simpler alternative to GIMP on the GNOME desktop environment...

  • Pixen
    Pixen
    Pixen is an open-source raster graphics editor for Mac OS X created by the Open Sword Group. It is designed to create and edit pixel art. The latest version is Pixen 3.-Features:...

  • Rawstudio
    Rawstudio
    Rawstudio is a stand-alone application, using the GTK+ UI toolkit, to read and manipulate images in Raw image formats from digital cameras. It is designed for working rapidly with a large volume of images, unlike similar tools, such as UFRaw, which are designed to work on one image at a...

  • RawTherapee
  • Seashore
    Seashore (software)
    Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API. Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF...

  • Shotwell
    Shotwell (software)
    Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. It has replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat...

  • Tile Studio
    Tile Studio
    Tile Studio is a Windows-only editor for graphics of tile-based games. The application contains a bitmap editor for creating tiles and sprites and a map editor for designing level maps...

  • Tux Paint
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...

  • UFRaw
    UFRaw
    UFRaw is an application which can read and manipulate photographs in raw image formats, as created by many digital cameras. UFRaw is available both as a stand-alone utility, as a GIMP and CinePaint plugin, and in F-Spot via the DevelopInUFRaw extension...

  • VIPS
  • XPaint
    XPaint
    XPaint is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.- Features :...

  • Discontinued

    • Adobe PhotoDeluxe
      Adobe PhotoDeluxe
      PhotoDeluxe was a consumer-oriented image editing software line published by Adobe Systems until July 8, 2002. At that time it was replaced by Adobe's newly launched consumer oriented image editing software, Photoshop Elements...

    • Aldus PhotoStyler
    • Barco Creator
      Barco Creator
      Barco Creator was an image manipulation program targeted at the repro and print shop markets. It was developed by the Creative Systems division of the Barco Group from 1988 to the late 1990s, and ran on several generations of Silicon Graphics computers...

    • Beagle Graphics (DOS)
    • Blazing Paddles
    • Brilliance
      Brilliance (graphics editor)
      Brilliance is a bitmap graphics editor for the Amiga computer, published by Digital Creations in 1993. Although marketed as a single package, Brilliance in reality consisted of two separate applications. One was a register-based package also named Brilliance...

    • Burn (DOS)
    • Deluxe Paint
      Deluxe Paint
      Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    • Deluxe Paint Animation
      Deluxe Paint Animation
      Deluxe Paint Animation is a graphics editor and animation creation package that is an MS-DOS adaptation by Brent Iverson of Deluxe Paint, with additional animation features by Steve Shaw, released by Electronic Arts.-Features:...

    • GeoPaint
  • Graphics Magician (DOS)
  • HALO desktop imager (Windows 3.1)
  • IMAGEPRO-PLUS (Windows 3.1)
  • Kid Pix
    Kid Pix
    Kid Pix is a bitmap drawing program aimed at children. Originally created by Craig Hickman, it was first released for the Macintosh in 1989 and subsequently published in 1991 by Brøderbund...

  • KoalaPainter
    KoalaPad/Painter
    The KoalaPad is a graphics tablet produced from 1984 by U.S. company Koala Technologies for several early 8-bit home computers, including the Apple II family, TRS-80 Color Computer , Atari 8-bit family, and Commodore 64, as well as for the IBM PC.Originally designed by Dr...

  • Live Picture
  • mProces
  • MacPaint
    MacPaint
    MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

  • Microsoft Digital Image
    Microsoft Digital Image
    Microsoft Digital Image was a digital image editing program created by Microsoft. It is a successor to Microsoft Picture It!.Microsoft Digital Image came in three different editions: Digital Image Standard, which offered tools for editing images, Digital Image Suite, which added Digital Image...

    (formerly Microsoft Picture It!)
  • Microsoft Image Composer (formerly Altamira Composer)
  • Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor is an image-editing application found in Microsoft Office 97–XP versions for Windows, classified as one of Microsoft Office Tools...

  • NeoChrome
    NeoChrome
    NeoChrome was an early bitmap graphics editor for the Atari ST computer family. It was written by Dave Staugas, a system programmer at Atari and co-author of the ST's operating system....

  • PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush was graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system....

  • PCPaint
    PCPaint
    PCPaint was the first IBM PC-based mouse driven GUI paint program . It was developed by John Bridges and Doug Wolfgram.The hardware manufacturer Mouse Systems bundled PCPaint with millions of computer mice that they sold, making PCPaint also the best-selling MS-DOS-based paint program of the late...

  • Personal Paint
  • Photofinish
    PhotoFinish
    PhotoFinish is a discontinued photo editing software package, originally published by ZSoft Corporation. After The Learning Company acquired ZSoft, and was in turn acquired by Broderbund, PhotoFinish was discontinued....

  • Photon Paint
    Photon Paint
    Photon Paint is a Hold-And-Modify based bitmap graphics editor for the Commodore Amiga, first released in 1987. It was programmed by Oren Peli, Eyal Ofek & Amir Zbeda at Bazbo Soft and published by MicroIllusions....

  • Quantel Paintbox
    Quantel Paintbox
    The Quantel Paintbox was a dedicated computer graphics workstation for composition of broadcast television video and graphics. Its design emphasizes the studio workflow efficiency required for live news production...

  • SuperPaint (Macintosh)
    SuperPaint (Macintosh)
    SuperPaint was a graphics program capable of both bitmap painting and vector drawing simultaneously. It was originally written by William Snyder, published by Silicon Beach Software and originally released in 1986 for the Apple Macintosh. William Snyder wrote and designed the program from his house...

  • xRes


  • General information

    Basic general information about the editors: creator/company, license etc.
    Description Creator First public release date Latest stable version Software license
    Ability Photopaint Graphics editor with some advanced features Ability Software March 2001 4
    Adobe Fireworks Since ver. CS3 part of Adobe Creative Suite Web Macromedia
    Macromedia
    Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...

    1998 9.01.x
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

    Professional image editor and graphics creation tool John Knoll
    John Knoll
    John Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light & Magic . One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop , he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the Star Wars prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy...

     and Thomas Knoll
    Thomas Knoll
    Thomas Knoll is an American software engineer best known for initiating the development of Adobe Photoshop. He was the lead developer until version CS4, and currently contributes to work on the Camera Raw plug-in to process raw images from cameras.Knoll was raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and...

    February 1990 CS5 / 12.0
    Autodesk SketchBook Pro Paint and drawing toolset designed to be used with digitized pen tablets & tablet PC
    Tablet computer
    A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

    s
    Alias 2004 2009 ( 3.1 )
    ArtRage
    ArtRage
    ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

    Digital painting program designed for tablet PC
    Tablet computer
    A tablet computer, or simply tablet, is a complete mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen...

    s
    Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson 2004 3.0
    Artweaver
    Artweaver
    Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter...

    Image editor designed for a natural painting experience on the computer Boris Eyrich 2002 0.5.7
    Bibble
    Bibble (software)
    Bibble is a digital imaging program for multiple platforms by Bibble Labs, designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.- Bibble 5 :...

    Photo editor and organizer with camera raw file support Bibble Labs 2000 5.2
    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01 is a bitmap graphics editor made by Paul Bird for Microsoft Windows. It is released as freeware.-Features:* GIF animations* filters...

    Image editor like Windows Paint Paul Bird 2004 1.0
    CinePaint
    CinePaint
    CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program...

    Moving picture, photo and graphics editor Robin Rowe July 4, 2002 0.22
    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor is a bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is published by 1STEIN.CodedColor contains different tools for image editing and viewing...

    1STEIN Corp. 2001 5.1
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    Advanced image editor and graphics creator Jasc Software
    Jasc Software
    Jasc Software, Inc. was an Eden Prairie, Minnesota based company founded by Robert Voit, the creator of Paint Shop Pro, a popular graphics editing program...

    1992 X3 (13.00)
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

    Graphics editor designed to create natural-looking artistic images Mark Zimmer, Tom Hedges, John Derry August, 1991 12
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992. Corel currently markets the software for Windows operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux and Mac OS...

    Professional image editor and graphics creator with advanced features Corel Corporation 1992 X4/14
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    cosmigo Pro Motion is a raster graphics editor designed by Cosmigo. It is designed after Deluxe Paint. The program's aim is to create and edit graphics at the pixel level. The latest version is 6.0. The full boxed version costs $92. As a download, the full version costs $78 and the lite version...

    Pixel and animation editor (8-bit-graphics) designed after Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    Cosmigo / J.Zimmermann, L.Gischler,N.Mavrikakis 1997 6.0.0.104
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    Discontinued basic graphics editor Dan Silva 1985 5
    Deneba Canvas Graphics editor and creator supporting both raster graphics and vector graphics
    Vector graphics
    Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon, which are all based on mathematical expressions, to represent images in computer graphics...

    Jorge Miranda, Joaquin de Soto, and Manny Menendez September 1987 X
    Effectbank Image manipulator specializes in effects and textures E. Maleki. 2009 0.8.4.9
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE is a remote sensing application with raster graphics editor capabilities designed by ERDAS for geospatial applications. The latest version is 2010, version 10.1. ERDAS IMAGINE is aimed primarily at geospatial raster data processing and allows the user to prepare, display and enhance...

    Advanced remote sensing
    Remote sensing
    Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth by means of propagated signals Remote sensing...

     and GIS capability.
    Can handle multispectral images.
    ERDAS, Inc. 1980 2010 (10.0)
    ERDAS ER Mapper Advanced remote sensing
    Remote sensing
    Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon, without making physical contact with the object. In modern usage, the term generally refers to the use of aerial sensor technologies to detect and classify objects on Earth by means of propagated signals Remote sensing...

     and GIS capability.
    Can handle multispectral images.
    ER Mapper Ltd. purchased by ERDAS, Inc. in 2007 1990 2010 (10.0)
    DigiKam
    DigiKam
    digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by...

    Free photo organizer and image editor Renchi Raju and Gilles Caulier 2002 0.9.5 (KDE3) 0.10.0 (KDE4
    KDE4
    KDE Software Compilation 4 is the current series of releases of KDE Software Compilation. The first major version of this series was released on 11 January 2008, and the latest major version was released on 27 July 2011...

    )
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint is a free, online graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text, creating ray traced 3D text logos,...

    Full featured web-based graphic design and photo editing application Mersica Inc. 2010 1.83
    Focus Photoeditor Advanced and Full Featured Photo and Image Editor Newest Software 1999 6.3
    Fotografix
    Fotografix
    Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.-Features:...

    Freeware, portable image editor L. Madhavan 14 April 2009 1.4.1
    GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    Free image editor and graphics creator Spencer Kimball
    Spencer Kimball
    Spencer Kimball is a computer programmer most notable for his early work on the GNU Image Manipulation Program .In 1995, while students at the University of California at Berkeley, Kimball and his classmate Peter Mattis developed the first version of The GIMP as a class project...

     and Peter Mattis
    Peter Mattis
    Peter Mattis is a computer programmer most notable for his early work on the GNU Image Manipulation Program .In 1995, while students at the University of California at Berkeley, Mattis and his classmate Spencer Kimball developed the first version of The GIMP as a class project...

    January 1996 2.6.11
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...

    GIMP designed to have a GUI
    Gui
    Gui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...

     similar to Adobe Photoshop
    Scott Moschella 2.2.11
    GNU Paint
    GNU Paint
    GNU Paint, otherwise known as gpaint, is a free and open source raster graphics editor that is similar to Microsoft Paint. It is free software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 3 and is part of the GNU Project.-Features:...

    Free and open source raster graphics editor 0.3.2
    GrafX2
    GrafX2
    GrafX2 is a bitmap graphics editor inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance . It is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License.- History :...

    GrafX2 designed to have a GUI
    Gui
    Gui or guee is a generic term to refer to grilled dishes in Korean cuisine. These most commonly have meat or fish as their primary ingredient, but may in some cases also comprise grilled vegetables or other vegetarian ingredients. The term derives from the verb, "gupda" in Korean, which literally...

     similar to Deluxe Paint
    Sunset Design (Guillaume Dorme & Karl Maritaud) 1996 2.1
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....

    Image viewer, converter, organizer and editor capable of importing around 200 and exporting 80 different image file types. Compatible with many Photoshop plug-ins Thorsten Lemke 1992 6.6.1
    ReaSoft Image Converter Image converter that enables to convert images between 400+ formats and edit them in batch mode ReaSoft Development ? 5.5
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio is an advanced HDR digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X...

    HDR (High Dynamic Range Editor) with human vision imaging model Unified Color Oct 2009 2.15.37
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter, also referred to as Helicon, Filter, or as HF, is a proprietary commercial and shareware photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, similar to such programs as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, developed and published by Helicon Soft Ltd...

    Advanced image editor with a simplified tabbed interface Helicon Soft Ltd. August 2004 4.83
    iPhoto
    IPhoto
    iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

    Image organizational tool and basic editor for Mac OS X
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

    Apple Inc. 2002 8.1.1
    IrfanView
    IrfanView
    IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...

    Image and video viewer with basic editing functions Irfan Skiljan 1996 4.23
    JDraw Graphics editor designed to edit individual pixels J-Domain 2003 1.1.5
    Kolourpaint
    KolourPaint
    KolourPaint is a free, raster graphics editor for the KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency....

    KDE
    KDE
    KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

    2004 1.2.2
    Konvertor Image viewer, converter, organizer and editor capable of importing around 2200 (including WebP) and exporting 350 different image/video/sound/3D/text file types. Compatible with many Photoshop plug-ins Logipole 1997 4.0.4
    Krita
    Krita
    Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...

    KDE
    KDE
    KDE is an international free software community producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X systems...

    2005 2.3.3
    MacPaint
    MacPaint
    MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

    Obsolete basic graphic creator/editor Bill Atkinson
    Bill Atkinson
    Bill Atkinson is an American computer engineer and photographer. Atkinson worked at Apple Computer from 1978 to 1990. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one of his professors...

    1984 2.0
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program...

    Basic image editing tool Microsoft
    Microsoft Paint
    Microsoft Paint
    Paint is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint...

    Basic graphic creator and editor packaged with Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

     operating systems
    Microsoft 1985 6.1
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor is an image-editing application found in Microsoft Office 97–XP versions for Windows, classified as one of Microsoft Office Tools...

    Obsolete basic image editor for Windows Microsoft 3.01
    Mootif
    Mootif
    Mootif is an now-defunct online proprietary raster graphics editor. At the LAB section of Mootif's website, one is capable of performing some basic edits to images such as image stretching, transparency, and text....

    Online Java
    JavaScript
    JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed and has first-class functions. It is a multi-paradigm language, supporting object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles....

     image editor with a few functions
    mootif.com May, 2006 1.0
    MST Viewer Image and Document Viewer and Editor w/ several functions and AFP & MODCA support MS Technology 2002 14.1
    mtPaint Lightweight image editor designed for pixel art
    Pixel art
    Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old computer and video games, graphing calculator games, and many mobile phone games are mostly pixel art.- History :The term pixel art was first...

    Mark Tyler September, 2004 3.30
    Nathive Free software image editor written in Python using GTK+ Marcos Díaz April, 2010 0.900
    OpenCanvas
    OpenCanvas
    openCanvas is a paint/drawing software developed and published by PGN Co. Ltd. It was originally released as freeware in 2000, but moved to a demo/retail model starting with version 2...

    Portalgraphics 4
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    Freeware image editor and graphics creator based on the .Net framework
    .NET Framework
    The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...

    Rick Brewster, et al.
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    May 6, 2004 3.5.6
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush was graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system....

    Obsolete basic graphic creator/editor ZSoft Corporation
    ZSoft Corporation
    ZSoft Corporation, founded by Mark Zachmann, was a Marietta, Georgia software company in the 1980s known for the PC Paintbrush software and its PCX graphic file format. ZSoft first merged in 1989 with Mediagenic. When Mediagenic went bankrupt in 1991, Zachmann was able to regain his independence...

    1984 5
    Photo Editor powerful multifunctional software offering a complete set of image editing tools VicMan Software April 11, 2008 1.0
    Photofinish
    PhotoFinish
    PhotoFinish is a discontinued photo editing software package, originally published by ZSoft Corporation. After The Learning Company acquired ZSoft, and was in turn acquired by Broderbund, PhotoFinish was discontinued....

    ZSoft Corporation
    ZSoft Corporation
    ZSoft Corporation, founded by Mark Zachmann, was a Marietta, Georgia software company in the 1980s known for the PC Paintbrush software and its PCX graphic file format. ZSoft first merged in 1989 with Mediagenic. When Mediagenic went bankrupt in 1991, Zachmann was able to regain his independence...

    1993 2
    Photogenics
    Photogenics
    Photogenics is raster graphic editing software produced by Idruna Software.- Features :Photogenics can work with different color models like CMYK and HDR. HDR formats which are supported include OpenEXR, TIFF, Alias, Cineon/PDX, and so on...

    Image editor designed to create super HDRs
    High dynamic range imaging
    In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods...

     at 32 bits
    Idruna Software Inc. 1995 HDR 7.0
    PhotoLine Image and animation creator and editor for Windows
    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

     and Mac OS X
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

    Computerinsel GmbH 1995 16.52
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect is a proprietary commercial photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, published by Arcadia Software AG. The first version was introduced in 2002....

    Image editor with some advanced features Arcadia Software AG & Joachim Koopmann Software 2002 2.9
    Photo Toolkit Very simple in use and mostly automatic image editor VicMan Software 2007 1.8 beta
    Picasa
    Picasa
    Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

    Efficient image organization tool with basic editing tools and other image effects Google 3.6
    PicMaster
    PicMaster
    PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor...

    Image editing software with 300 Filter Effects, Slide Show, Poster Printing, Mosaic Images, True 3D-Images, ... Alexander Sabov December 1999 4.03
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor, developed by WinSoft Graphics Software, is a photo editing program form the Microsoft Windows operating system.PixBuilder Photo Editor was first sold on June 9, 2005....

    WnSoft Graphic Software June 2005 1.31
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:...

    Image editor based on Adobe Photoshop Pavel Kanzelsberger 1999 1.0 (Beta 7)
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

    Image editor and graphics creator for Mac OS X
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

    Pixelmator Team ltd. September 25, 2007 1.6.5
    Pixen
    Pixen
    Pixen is an open-source raster graphics editor for Mac OS X created by the Open Sword Group. It is designed to create and edit pixel art. The latest version is Pixen 3.-Features:...

    Pixel art and sprite editor for Mac OS X
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

    Open Sword Group ? 3.1b2
    Pixia
    Pixia
    Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art....

    Isao Maruoka 1998 4.70d
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

    Author retired from computer programming Dan Ritchie 1997 (?) 4.0 (1.2 available as freeware)
    QFX
    QFX
    QFX is an image editing computer program, developed by Ron Scott a Texan photographer and software engineer. The first version was released in 1990. At the time of its release, QFX was one of the most feature-rich image editing applications available on the PC platform...

    Mature and complete image editing package Ron Scott ~1990 8
    RawTherapee Powerful free and cross-platform raw image editor, for developing raw photos from digital cameras. Gabor Horvath 2006-09-21 3.0.0
    Seashore
    Seashore (software)
    Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API. Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF...

    Basic counterpart to GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    , using its XCF format; full support for a few graphics formats
    Mark Pazolli June 2007 0.1.9
    | Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus is an image editing program for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Serif PhotoPlus X4. Serif PhotoPlus X4 is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7...

    Complete graphics editor and photo organization suite; Similar features and menus to other software from Serif; available as economy version or in bundle with clipart, effects, public domain image library; designed to be easy to use. Serif
    Serif europe
    Serif is an independent developer and publisher of desktop publishing and graphic design software for the PC. Established in 1987, Serif is a privately owned British company with operations in Europe and North America...

    X4
    SView5 Image and video viewer with basic editing functions; free for non-commercial use; Cross-platform C/C++ SDK available for developers under different license. Andreas Kleinert 1993 2.94+
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...

    Drawing program for young children. Bill Kendrick
    Bill Kendrick
    Bill Kendrick is an American software engineer best known for creating and maintaining Tux Paint, an open source bitmap graphics editor for children. He is also co-founder of the Linux Users' Group of Davis in Davis, California...

    June 16, 2002 0.9.21
    TVPaint
    TVPaint
    TVP Animation is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement ....

    2D animation software Herve ADAM June 16, 1991 9.5.11
    TwistedBrush Pro Studio Advanced digital paint with realistic artist tools and graphics editing Pixarra July 23, 2003 17.15
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

    Ulead Systems
    Ulead Systems
    Ulead Systems is a Taiwanese computer software company headquartered in Neihu district in Taipei, Taiwan. It is a subsidiary of Corel.- History :Ulead was founded on August 5, 1989 by Lotus Chen, Lewis Liaw and Way-Zen Chen...

    12
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint is a bitmap graphics editor for the Windows platform modelled after Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint. Most functionality of Deluxe Paint has been implemented while there are also some additions such as built-in filters / effects and support for Adobe plug-ins.UPaint was originally...

    Basic graphics editor based on Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    Joseph Ladanyi and Daniel Szabo 1998 2.88
    WinImages
    WinImages
    Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows....

    Graphics editor with a focus on animation Black Belt Systems 7.5
    XPaint
    XPaint
    XPaint is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.- Features :...

    Simple Drawing program for Unix/X11 with Xaw3d widgets David Koblas, Torsten Martinsen, Jean-Pierre Demailly 1993 2.8.8
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :...

    All-in-one editor package. Zoner Inc. 11.0 build 8
    Description Creator First public release date Latest stable version Software license

    Operating system support

    The operating system
    Operating system
    An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...

    s on which the editors can run natively (without emulation
    Emulator
    In computing, an emulator is hardware or software or both that duplicates the functions of a first computer system in a different second computer system, so that the behavior of the second system closely resembles the behavior of the first system...

     or compatibility layers), meaning which operating systems have which editors specifically coded for them (not, for example, Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

     for Windows
    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

     running on Linux
    Linux
    Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

     with Wine
    Wine (software)
    Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems. Wine also provides a software library, known as Winelib, against which developers can compile Windows applications to help port them to Unix-like...

    ).
    Windows
    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

    Linux
    Linux
    Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

    BSD Unix
    Unix
    Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

    AmigaOS
    AmigaOS
    AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...

    AIX
    Ability Photopaint
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas is a technical and general graphics drawing, imaging, and publishing product from ACD Systems for personal computers. The current version is Canvas 12....

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

    Aperture
    Aperture (photography software)
    Aperture is a photo editing and management software program that was developed by Apple for the Mac OS X operating system, first released in 2005 for $499 , dropped to $199, and now released on their App Store for $79...

    Autodesk SketchBook Pro
    ArtRage
    ArtRage
    ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

    Artweaver
    Artweaver
    Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter...

    Bibble
    Bibble (software)
    Bibble is a digital imaging program for multiple platforms by Bibble Labs, designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.- Bibble 5 :...

    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01 is a bitmap graphics editor made by Paul Bird for Microsoft Windows. It is released as freeware.-Features:* GIF animations* filters...

    CinePaint
    CinePaint
    CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program...

    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor is a bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is published by 1STEIN.CodedColor contains different tools for image editing and viewing...

    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

    Corel Photo-Paint
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992. Corel currently markets the software for Windows operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux and Mac OS...

    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    cosmigo Pro Motion is a raster graphics editor designed by Cosmigo. It is designed after Deluxe Paint. The program's aim is to create and edit graphics at the pixel level. The latest version is 6.0. The full boxed version costs $92. As a download, the full version costs $78 and the lite version...

    darktable
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    DigiKam
    DigiKam
    digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by...

    Effectbank
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE is a remote sensing application with raster graphics editor capabilities designed by ERDAS for geospatial applications. The latest version is 2010, version 10.1. ERDAS IMAGINE is aimed primarily at geospatial raster data processing and allows the user to prepare, display and enhance...

    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint is a free, online graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text, creating ray traced 3D text logos,...

    Focus Photoeditor
    Fotografix
    Fotografix
    Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.-Features:...

    GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...

    GrafX2
    GrafX2
    GrafX2 is a bitmap graphics editor inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance . It is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License.- History :...

    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....

    ReaSoft Image Converter
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio is an advanced HDR digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X...

    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter, also referred to as Helicon, Filter, or as HF, is a proprietary commercial and shareware photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, similar to such programs as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, developed and published by Helicon Soft Ltd...

    iPhoto
    IPhoto
    iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

    IrfanView
    IrfanView
    IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...

    JDraw
    Kolourpaint
    KolourPaint
    KolourPaint is a free, raster graphics editor for the KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency....

    Konvertor
    Krita
    Krita
    Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...

    MacPaint
    MacPaint
    MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

    Adobe Fireworks
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program...

    Microsoft Paint
    Microsoft Paint
    Paint is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint...

    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor is an image-editing application found in Microsoft Office 97–XP versions for Windows, classified as one of Microsoft Office Tools...

    Mootif
    Mootif
    Mootif is an now-defunct online proprietary raster graphics editor. At the LAB section of Mootif's website, one is capable of performing some basic edits to images such as image stretching, transparency, and text....

    MST Viewer
    mtPaint
    Nathive
    OpenCanvas
    OpenCanvas
    openCanvas is a paint/drawing software developed and published by PGN Co. Ltd. It was originally released as freeware in 2000, but moved to a demo/retail model starting with version 2...

    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush was graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system....

    Photo Explosion
    Photofinish
    PhotoFinish
    PhotoFinish is a discontinued photo editing software package, originally published by ZSoft Corporation. After The Learning Company acquired ZSoft, and was in turn acquired by Broderbund, PhotoFinish was discontinued....

    Photogenics
    Photogenics
    Photogenics is raster graphic editing software produced by Idruna Software.- Features :Photogenics can work with different color models like CMYK and HDR. HDR formats which are supported include OpenEXR, TIFF, Alias, Cineon/PDX, and so on...

    Photo Editor
    PhotoLine
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect is a proprietary commercial photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, published by Arcadia Software AG. The first version was introduced in 2002....

    Photo Toolkit
    Picasa
    Picasa
    Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

    PicMaster
    PicMaster
    PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor...

    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor, developed by WinSoft Graphics Software, is a photo editing program form the Microsoft Windows operating system.PixBuilder Photo Editor was first sold on June 9, 2005....

    Pixel image editor
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:...

    (MorphOS
    MorphOS
    MorphOS is an Amiga-compatible computer operating system. It is a mixed proprietary and open source OS produced for the Pegasos PowerPC processor based computer, PowerUP accelerator equipped Amiga computers, and a series of Freescale development boards that use the Genesi firmware, including the...

    )
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

    Pixen
    Pixen
    Pixen is an open-source raster graphics editor for Mac OS X created by the Open Sword Group. It is designed to create and edit pixel art. The latest version is Pixen 3.-Features:...

    Pixia
    Pixia
    Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art....

    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

    QFX
    QFX
    QFX is an image editing computer program, developed by Ron Scott a Texan photographer and software engineer. The first version was released in 1990. At the time of its release, QFX was one of the most feature-rich image editing applications available on the PC platform...

    Seashore
    Seashore (software)
    Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API. Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF...

    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus is an image editing program for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Serif PhotoPlus X4. Serif PhotoPlus X4 is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7...

    StylePix
    SView5
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...

    TVPaint
    TVPaint
    TVP Animation is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement ....

    TwistedBrush Pro Studio
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint is a bitmap graphics editor for the Windows platform modelled after Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint. Most functionality of Deluxe Paint has been implemented while there are also some additions such as built-in filters / effects and support for Adobe plug-ins.UPaint was originally...

    WinImages
    WinImages
    Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows....

    XPaint
    XPaint
    XPaint is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.- Features :...

    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :...

    Windows
    Microsoft Windows
    Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X
    Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

    Linux
    Linux
    Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

    BSD Unix
    Unix
    Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...

    AmigaOS
    AmigaOS
    AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. It was developed first by Commodore International, and initially introduced in 1985 with the Amiga 1000...

    AIX

    Features

    Selection editing Layers
    Layers (digital image editing)
    Layers are used in digital image editing to separate different elements of an image. A layer can be compared to a transparency on which imaging effects or images are applied and placed over or under an image...

    Histogram
    Color histogram
    In image processing and photography, a color histogram is a representation of the distribution of colors in an image. For digital images, a color histogram represents the number of pixels that have colors in each of a fixed list of color ranges, that span the image's color space, the set of all...

    Scripting
    Scripting language
    A scripting language, script language, or extension language is a programming language that allows control of one or more applications. "Scripts" are distinct from the core code of the application, as they are usually written in a different language and are often created or at least modified by the...

    HDR
    High dynamic range
    High dynamic range is a term generally used for media applications such as digital imaging and digital audio production...

    Retouching Resizing
    Image scaling
    In computer graphics, image scaling is the process of resizing a digital image. Scaling is a non-trivial process that involves a trade-off between efficiency, smoothness and sharpness. As the size of an image is increased, so the pixels which comprise the image become increasingly visible, making...

    Noise removal Lens correction Sized Printing Sharpening
    Unsharp masking
    Unsharp masking is an image manipulation technique, often available in digital image processing software.The "unsharp" of the name derives from the fact that the technique uses a blurred, or "unsharp," positive to create a "mask" of the original image...

    Color correction
    Color temperature
    Color temperature is a characteristic of visible light that has important applications in lighting, photography, videography, publishing, manufacturing, astrophysics, and other fields. The color temperature of a light source is the temperature of an ideal black-body radiator that radiates light of...

    Image library Plugin support
    Ability Photopaint
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas is a technical and general graphics drawing, imaging, and publishing product from ACD Systems for personal computers. The current version is Canvas 12....

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

    (Bridge
    Adobe Bridge
    Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions...

    )
    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
    Aperture
    Aperture (photography software)
    Aperture is a photo editing and management software program that was developed by Apple for the Mac OS X operating system, first released in 2005 for $499 , dropped to $199, and now released on their App Store for $79...

    Autodesk SketchBook Pro
    ArtRage
    ArtRage
    ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

    Artweaver
    Artweaver
    Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter...

    Bibble
    Bibble (software)
    Bibble is a digital imaging program for multiple platforms by Bibble Labs, designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.- Bibble 5 :...

    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01 is a bitmap graphics editor made by Paul Bird for Microsoft Windows. It is released as freeware.-Features:* GIF animations* filters...

    CinePaint
    CinePaint
    CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program...

    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor is a bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is published by 1STEIN.CodedColor contains different tools for image editing and viewing...

    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

    Corel Photo-Paint
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992. Corel currently markets the software for Windows operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux and Mac OS...

    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    cosmigo Pro Motion is a raster graphics editor designed by Cosmigo. It is designed after Deluxe Paint. The program's aim is to create and edit graphics at the pixel level. The latest version is 6.0. The full boxed version costs $92. As a download, the full version costs $78 and the lite version...

    darktable
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    DigiKam
    DigiKam
    digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by...

    Effectbank
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE is a remote sensing application with raster graphics editor capabilities designed by ERDAS for geospatial applications. The latest version is 2010, version 10.1. ERDAS IMAGINE is aimed primarily at geospatial raster data processing and allows the user to prepare, display and enhance...

    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint is a free, online graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text, creating ray traced 3D text logos,...

    Focus Photoeditor
    Fotografix
    Fotografix
    Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.-Features:...

    GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    Partial
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...

    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....

    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio is an advanced HDR digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X...

    Helicon Filter Home/Pro
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter, also referred to as Helicon, Filter, or as HF, is a proprietary commercial and shareware photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, similar to such programs as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, developed and published by Helicon Soft Ltd...

    iPhoto
    IPhoto
    iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

    IrfanView
    IrfanView
    IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...

    JDraw
    Kolourpaint
    KolourPaint
    KolourPaint is a free, raster graphics editor for the KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency....

    Konvertor
    Krita
    Krita
    Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...

    MacPaint
    MacPaint
    MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

    Adobe Fireworks
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program...

    Microsoft Paint
    Microsoft Paint
    Paint is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint...

    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor is an image-editing application found in Microsoft Office 97–XP versions for Windows, classified as one of Microsoft Office Tools...

    Mootif
    Mootif
    Mootif is an now-defunct online proprietary raster graphics editor. At the LAB section of Mootif's website, one is capable of performing some basic edits to images such as image stretching, transparency, and text....

    MST Viewer
    mtPaint
    Nathive
    OpenCanvas
    OpenCanvas
    openCanvas is a paint/drawing software developed and published by PGN Co. Ltd. It was originally released as freeware in 2000, but moved to a demo/retail model starting with version 2...

    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush was graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system....

    Photofinish
    PhotoFinish
    PhotoFinish is a discontinued photo editing software package, originally published by ZSoft Corporation. After The Learning Company acquired ZSoft, and was in turn acquired by Broderbund, PhotoFinish was discontinued....

    Photo Editor
    Photogenics
    Photogenics
    Photogenics is raster graphic editing software produced by Idruna Software.- Features :Photogenics can work with different color models like CMYK and HDR. HDR formats which are supported include OpenEXR, TIFF, Alias, Cineon/PDX, and so on...

    PhotoLine
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect is a proprietary commercial photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, published by Arcadia Software AG. The first version was introduced in 2002....

    Photo Toolkit
    Picasa
    Picasa
    Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

    PicMaster
    PicMaster
    PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor...

    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor, developed by WinSoft Graphics Software, is a photo editing program form the Microsoft Windows operating system.PixBuilder Photo Editor was first sold on June 9, 2005....

    Pixel image editor
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:...

    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

    Pixia
    Pixia
    Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art....

    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

    QFX
    QFX
    QFX is an image editing computer program, developed by Ron Scott a Texan photographer and software engineer. The first version was released in 1990. At the time of its release, QFX was one of the most feature-rich image editing applications available on the PC platform...

    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus is an image editing program for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Serif PhotoPlus X4. Serif PhotoPlus X4 is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7...

    StylePix
    SView5
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...

    TVPaint
    TVPaint
    TVP Animation is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement ....

    TwistedBrush Pro Studio
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint is a bitmap graphics editor for the Windows platform modelled after Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint. Most functionality of Deluxe Paint has been implemented while there are also some additions such as built-in filters / effects and support for Adobe plug-ins.UPaint was originally...

    WinImages
    WinImages
    Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows....

    XPaint
    XPaint
    XPaint is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.- Features :...

    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :...

    Selection editing Layers Histogram Scripting High dynamic range Retouching Image scaling Noise removal Lens correction Sized Printing Unsharp masking Color correction Image library Plugin support

    Color spaces

    sRGB
    SRGB color space
    sRGB is a standard RGB color space created cooperatively by HP and Microsoft in 1996 for use on monitors, printers, and the Internet.sRGB uses the ITU-R BT.709 primaries, the same as are used in studio monitors and HDTV, and a transfer function typical of CRTs...

    Adobe RGB Indexed
    Indexed color
    In computing, indexed color is a technique to manage digital images' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers...

    Grayscale
    Grayscale
    In photography and computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity information...

    CMYK
    CMYK color model
    The CMYK color model is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key...

    LAB
    Lab color space
    A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates....

    HSV
    Ability Photopaint (import only)
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas is a technical and general graphics drawing, imaging, and publishing product from ACD Systems for personal computers. The current version is Canvas 12....

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
    Autodesk SketchBook Pro
    ArtRage
    ArtRage
    ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

    Artweaver
    Artweaver
    Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter...

    Bibble
    Bibble (software)
    Bibble is a digital imaging program for multiple platforms by Bibble Labs, designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.- Bibble 5 :...

    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01 is a bitmap graphics editor made by Paul Bird for Microsoft Windows. It is released as freeware.-Features:* GIF animations* filters...

    CinePaint
    CinePaint
    CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program...

    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor is a bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is published by 1STEIN.CodedColor contains different tools for image editing and viewing...

    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

    Corel Photo-Paint
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992. Corel currently markets the software for Windows operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux and Mac OS...

    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    cosmigo Pro Motion is a raster graphics editor designed by Cosmigo. It is designed after Deluxe Paint. The program's aim is to create and edit graphics at the pixel level. The latest version is 6.0. The full boxed version costs $92. As a download, the full version costs $78 and the lite version...

    darktable
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE is a remote sensing application with raster graphics editor capabilities designed by ERDAS for geospatial applications. The latest version is 2010, version 10.1. ERDAS IMAGINE is aimed primarily at geospatial raster data processing and allows the user to prepare, display and enhance...

    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint is a free, online graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text, creating ray traced 3D text logos,...

    Focus Photoeditor
    Fotografix
    Fotografix
    Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.-Features:...

    (import only) (import only) (import only)
    GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...

    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....

    ReaSoft Image Converter
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter, also referred to as Helicon, Filter, or as HF, is a proprietary commercial and shareware photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, similar to such programs as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, developed and published by Helicon Soft Ltd...

    iPhoto
    IPhoto
    iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

    IrfanView
    IrfanView
    IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...

    JDraw
    Kolourpaint
    KolourPaint
    KolourPaint is a free, raster graphics editor for the KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency....

    Konvertor
    Krita
    Krita
    Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...

    MacPaint
    MacPaint
    MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

    Adobe Fireworks
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program...

    Microsoft Paint
    Microsoft Paint
    Paint is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint...

    (import only)
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor is an image-editing application found in Microsoft Office 97–XP versions for Windows, classified as one of Microsoft Office Tools...

    Mootif
    Mootif
    Mootif is an now-defunct online proprietary raster graphics editor. At the LAB section of Mootif's website, one is capable of performing some basic edits to images such as image stretching, transparency, and text....

    MST Viewer
    mtPaint
    Nathive
    OpenCanvas
    OpenCanvas
    openCanvas is a paint/drawing software developed and published by PGN Co. Ltd. It was originally released as freeware in 2000, but moved to a demo/retail model starting with version 2...

    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush was graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system....

    Photofinish
    PhotoFinish
    PhotoFinish is a discontinued photo editing software package, originally published by ZSoft Corporation. After The Learning Company acquired ZSoft, and was in turn acquired by Broderbund, PhotoFinish was discontinued....

    Photogenics
    Photogenics
    Photogenics is raster graphic editing software produced by Idruna Software.- Features :Photogenics can work with different color models like CMYK and HDR. HDR formats which are supported include OpenEXR, TIFF, Alias, Cineon/PDX, and so on...

    Photo Editor
    PhotoLine
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect is a proprietary commercial photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, published by Arcadia Software AG. The first version was introduced in 2002....

    (import only) (import only) (curve editing only)
    Photo Toolkit
    Picasa
    Picasa
    Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

    PicMaster
    PicMaster
    PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor...

    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor, developed by WinSoft Graphics Software, is a photo editing program form the Microsoft Windows operating system.PixBuilder Photo Editor was first sold on June 9, 2005....

    Pixel image editor
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:...

    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

    Pixia
    Pixia
    Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art....

    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

    QFX
    QFX
    QFX is an image editing computer program, developed by Ron Scott a Texan photographer and software engineer. The first version was released in 1990. At the time of its release, QFX was one of the most feature-rich image editing applications available on the PC platform...

    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus is an image editing program for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Serif PhotoPlus X4. Serif PhotoPlus X4 is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7...

    SView5
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...

    TVPaint
    TVPaint
    TVP Animation is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement ....

    TwistedBrush Pro Studio
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

    (import only)
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint is a bitmap graphics editor for the Windows platform modelled after Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint. Most functionality of Deluxe Paint has been implemented while there are also some additions such as built-in filters / effects and support for Adobe plug-ins.UPaint was originally...

    WinImages
    WinImages
    Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows....

    XPaint
    XPaint
    XPaint is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.- Features :...

    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :...

    sRGB
    SRGB color space
    sRGB is a standard RGB color space created cooperatively by HP and Microsoft in 1996 for use on monitors, printers, and the Internet.sRGB uses the ITU-R BT.709 primaries, the same as are used in studio monitors and HDTV, and a transfer function typical of CRTs...

    Adobe RGB Indexed
    Indexed color
    In computing, indexed color is a technique to manage digital images' colors in a limited fashion, in order to save computer memory and file storage, while speeding up display refresh and file transfers...

    Grayscale
    Grayscale
    In photography and computing, a grayscale or greyscale digital image is an image in which the value of each pixel is a single sample, that is, it carries only intensity information...

    CMYK
    CMYK color model
    The CMYK color model is a subtractive color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some color printing: cyan, magenta, yellow, and key...

    LAB
    Lab color space
    A Lab color space is a color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a and b for the color-opponent dimensions, based on nonlinearly compressed CIE XYZ color space coordinates....

    HSV

    File support

    RAW imports
    RAW image format
    A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor...

    BMP
    Windows bitmap
    The BMP File Format, also known as Bitmap Image File or Device Independent Bitmap file format or simply a Bitmap, is a Raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device , especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.The BMP...

    GIF JPEG
    JPEG
    In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

    JPEG 2000
    JPEG 2000
    JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...

    HD Photo PNG TIFF
    Tagged Image File Format
    TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems...

    PSD PSP
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    XCF PCX
    PCX
    PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,...

    OpenEXR
    OpenEXR
    OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic , released under a free software license similar to the BSD license....

    Ability Photopaint
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas
    ACD Canvas is a technical and general graphics drawing, imaging, and publishing product from ACD Systems for personal computers. The current version is Canvas 12....

    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop
    Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems Incorporated.Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the 12th major release of Adobe Photoshop...

    Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
    Adobe Fireworks
    Autodesk SketchBook Pro
    ArtRage
    ArtRage
    ArtRage is a bitmap graphics editor for digital painting created by Ambient Design Ltd.ArtRage, currently in version 3, is a painting package designed to be used with a Tablet PC, but it can be used with a regular mouse as well...

    Artweaver
    Artweaver
    Artweaver is a freeware raster graphics editor for Windows developed by Boris Eyrich, mainly oriented to professional and amateur artists who are familiar with commercial programs like Adobe Photoshop and especially Corel Painter...

    Bibble
    Bibble (software)
    Bibble is a digital imaging program for multiple platforms by Bibble Labs, designed to assist photographers in post-production work and efficient optimization of images created in the Raw image format.- Bibble 5 :...

    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor
    Brush Strokes Image Editor 1.01 is a bitmap graphics editor made by Paul Bird for Microsoft Windows. It is released as freeware.-Features:* GIF animations* filters...

    CinePaint
    CinePaint
    CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program...

    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro
    CodedColor is a bitmap graphics editor and image organizer for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, and is published by 1STEIN.CodedColor contains different tools for image editing and viewing...

    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter
    Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

    Import
    Corel Photo-Paint
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT
    Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel since 1992. Corel currently markets the software for Windows operating systems, previously having marketed versions for Linux and Mac OS...

    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    Cosmigo Pro Motion
    cosmigo Pro Motion is a raster graphics editor designed by Cosmigo. It is designed after Deluxe Paint. The program's aim is to create and edit graphics at the pixel level. The latest version is 6.0. The full boxed version costs $92. As a download, the full version costs $78 and the lite version...

    darktable
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint
    Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

    DigiKam
    DigiKam
    digiKam is an image organizer and editor using KDE Platform. It runs on most known desktop environments and window managers if the required libraries are installed. It supports all major image file formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by...

    Effectbank
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE
    ERDAS IMAGINE is a remote sensing application with raster graphics editor capabilities designed by ERDAS for geospatial applications. The latest version is 2010, version 10.1. ERDAS IMAGINE is aimed primarily at geospatial raster data processing and allows the user to prepare, display and enhance...

    Import
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint
    Fatpaint is a free, online graphic design and desktop publishing software and image editor, with integrated tools for creating page layout, painting, coloring and editing pictures and photos, drawing vector images, using dingbat vector clipart, writing rich text, creating ray traced 3D text logos,...

    Focus Photoeditor
    Fotografix
    Fotografix
    Fotografix is a freeware graphics editing program for Microsoft Windows. It has been noted for being portable and light on system resources while still providing features found in larger software.-Features:...

    (import only) (import only) (import only)
    GIMP
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    (Requires plugin)
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop
    GIMPshop is a modification of the free and open source graphics program GNU Image Manipulation Program , with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP...

    GrafX2
    GrafX2
    GrafX2 is a bitmap graphics editor inspired by the Amiga programs Deluxe Paint and Brilliance . It is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License.- History :...

    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter
    GraphicConverter is computer software that displays and edits computer graphics files. It also converts files between different formats. For example, one can convert a GIF file to a JPEG file....

    ReaSoft Image Converter
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio
    HDR PhotoStudio is an advanced HDR digital imaging software application developed by Unified Color for Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 and Apple's Mac OS X...

    Helicon Filter Home/Pro
    Helicon Filter
    Helicon Filter, also referred to as Helicon, Filter, or as HF, is a proprietary commercial and shareware photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, similar to such programs as Adobe Photoshop and GIMP, developed and published by Helicon Soft Ltd...

    Import
    iPhoto
    IPhoto
    iPhoto is a digital photograph manipulation software application developed by Apple Inc. and released with every Macintosh personal computer as part of the iLife suite of digital life management applications...

    IrfanView
    IrfanView
    IrfanView is a freeware/shareware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio files. It is noted for its small size, speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, and has some image creation and painting...

    (Requires plugin) (Requires plugin) (Requires plugin)
    JDraw
    Kolourpaint
    KolourPaint
    KolourPaint is a free, raster graphics editor for the KDE, similar to Microsoft's Paint application before Windows 7, but has some additional features such as support for transparency....

    Import
    Konvertor (Requires plugin)
    Krita
    Krita
    Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...

    Import
    MacPaint
    MacPaint
    MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager
    Microsoft Office Picture Manager is a software program included with Microsoft Office suite starting with version 2003. It is a basic image editing and image management program...

    Microsoft Paint
    Microsoft Paint
    Paint is a simple graphics painting program that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often referred to as MS Paint or Microsoft Paint...

    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor
    Microsoft Photo Editor is an image-editing application found in Microsoft Office 97–XP versions for Windows, classified as one of Microsoft Office Tools...

    Import
    Mootif
    Mootif
    Mootif is an now-defunct online proprietary raster graphics editor. At the LAB section of Mootif's website, one is capable of performing some basic edits to images such as image stretching, transparency, and text....

    Import Import Import
    MST Viewer
    mtPaint
    Nathive
    OpenCanvas
    OpenCanvas
    openCanvas is a paint/drawing software developed and published by PGN Co. Ltd. It was originally released as freeware in 2000, but moved to a demo/retail model starting with version 2...

    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET
    Paint.NET is a proprietary freeware raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. Originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, which is...

    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush
    PC Paintbrush was graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1985 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system....

    Photofinish
    PhotoFinish
    PhotoFinish is a discontinued photo editing software package, originally published by ZSoft Corporation. After The Learning Company acquired ZSoft, and was in turn acquired by Broderbund, PhotoFinish was discontinued....

    Photogenics
    Photogenics
    Photogenics is raster graphic editing software produced by Idruna Software.- Features :Photogenics can work with different color models like CMYK and HDR. HDR formats which are supported include OpenEXR, TIFF, Alias, Cineon/PDX, and so on...

    Photo Editor
    PhotoLine X3F
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect
    PhotoPerfect is a proprietary commercial photo editing software program for Microsoft Windows, published by Arcadia Software AG. The first version was introduced in 2002....

    (Not layers)
    Photo Toolkit
    Picasa
    Picasa
    Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website, originally created by Idealab in 2002 and owned by Google since 2004. "Picasa" is a blend of the name of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, the phrase mi casa for "my...

    Import Import Import Import
    PicMaster
    PicMaster
    PicMaster is a bitmap graphics editor which is distributed as shareware. The software combines several fields of application and therefore is also referred to as a multi talented image editor...

    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor
    PixBuilder Photo Editor, developed by WinSoft Graphics Software, is a photo editing program form the Microsoft Windows operating system.PixBuilder Photo Editor was first sold on June 9, 2005....

    Pixel image editor
    Pixel image editor
    Pixel Image Editor is an Image editor written by the Slovak programmer Pavel Kanzelsberger. It is written with Free Pascal.-Features:...

    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator
    Pixelmator is a graphic editor developed for Mac OS X, by Pixelmator Team Ltd built upon a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies...

    Pixia
    Pixia
    Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art....

    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle
    Project Dogwaffle is a raster graphics editor with animation capabilities.The program, written by Dan Ritchie, runs on the Windows platform and has both freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version, PD Pro Digital Painter, is updated frequently while the most recent freeware version is...

    QFX
    QFX
    QFX is an image editing computer program, developed by Ron Scott a Texan photographer and software engineer. The first version was released in 1990. At the time of its release, QFX was one of the most feature-rich image editing applications available on the PC platform...

    Seashore
    Seashore (software)
    Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X, which was influenced by the GIMP and written using the Cocoa API. Seashore uses GIMP's native file format, XCF, and has support for a handful of other graphics file formats, including full support for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG, and read-only support for BMP, PDF...

    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus
    Serif PhotoPlus is an image editing program for Microsoft Windows. The latest version is Serif PhotoPlus X4. Serif PhotoPlus X4 is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7...

    SView5
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint
    Tux Paint is a free and open source bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children. The project was started in 2002 by Bill Kendrick who continues to maintain and improve it, with help from numerous volunteers...

    Import Import
    TVPaint
    TVPaint
    TVP Animation is a 2D, bitmap-based digital animation software package, developed and distributed by TVPaint Developpement ....

    TwistedBrush Pro Studio
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact
    Ulead PhotoImpact is a raster graphics editing program published by Ulead Systems.Alongside its image editing capabilities, the program also features HTML tools, such as a rollover assistant, an imagemap assistant, an HTML assistant, a background designer and a button library.The current version...

    Import
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint
    Ultimate Paint is a bitmap graphics editor for the Windows platform modelled after Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint. Most functionality of Deluxe Paint has been implemented while there are also some additions such as built-in filters / effects and support for Adobe plug-ins.UPaint was originally...

    WinImages
    WinImages
    Black Belt Systems WinImages is a bitmap graphics editor and special effects applicator that supports both automation of editing tasks and animation of effects. WinImages is a MDI application which runs under Windows 95 and later versions of Microsoft Windows....

    XPaint
    XPaint
    XPaint is a free open source image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment on Unix-like operating systems. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.- Features :...

    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio
    Zoner Photo Studio is a software application for viewing, editing, organizing, archiving, publishing and sharing digital images. It also supports GPS-assisted geotagging and creation of 3D pictures.- Versions :...

    (Import only) (Import only) (Import only)
    RAW imports
    RAW image format
    A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor...

    BMP
    Windows bitmap
    The BMP File Format, also known as Bitmap Image File or Device Independent Bitmap file format or simply a Bitmap, is a Raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device , especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.The BMP...

    GIF JPEG
    JPEG
    In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

    JPEG 2000
    JPEG 2000
    JPEG 2000 is an image compression standard and coding system. It was created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group committee in 2000 with the intention of superseding their original discrete cosine transform-based JPEG standard with a newly designed, wavelet-based method...

    HD Photo PNG TIFF
    Tagged Image File Format
    TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems...

    PSD PSP
    Corel Paint Shop Pro
    Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

    XCF
    GIMP
    GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...

    PCX
    PCX
    PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,...

    OpenEXR
    OpenEXR
    OpenEXR is a high dynamic range imaging image file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light and Magic , released under a free software license similar to the BSD license....


    See also

    • Raster graphics
      Raster graphics
      In computer graphics, a raster graphics image, or bitmap, is a data structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of color, viewable via a monitor, paper, or other display medium...

       (also called bitmap
      Bitmap
      In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. Now, along with pixmap, it commonly refers to...

      )
    • Vector editors versus bitmap editors
      Vector graphics editor
      A vector graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit vector graphics images interactively on a computer and save them in one of many popular vector graphics formats, such as EPS, PDF, WMF, SVG, or VML....

    • List of vector graphics editors
    • List of raster to vector conversion software
    • Comparison of image viewers
      Comparison of image viewers
      This article presents a comparison of image viewers and image organizers which can be used for image viewing.-General information:Note 1: Adobe Bridge comes included in the price with the Adobe Creative Suite CS2, Adobe Production Studio and Photoshop Elements 4 for Mac OS X...

    • Comparison of vector graphics editors
      Comparison of vector graphics editors
      A number of vector graphics editors for various platforms exist. Potential users of these editors will make a decision based on factors such as the availability for the user's platform, the feature set, usability of the user interface and the focus of the program. Some programs are more suitable...

    • Comparison of 3D computer graphics software
      Comparison of 3D computer graphics software
      3D computer graphics software refers to programs used to create 3D computer-generated imagery.-General information:This is a chart on basic comparative elements that is based on the raw software without the inclusion of additional plugins....


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