HyperSnap 6.81.04

Publisher's Description

HyperSnap is the fastest and easiest way to take screen captures as images and capture editable text (TextSnap) from any part of Windows screen. Combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing utility - wrapped into one easy-to-use tool!

HyperSnap is perfect for capturing images and texts that you want to include in your Help system, online tutorials, manuals, training handouts, presentations, marketing materials, Web pages, emails and more. Use HyperSnap to quickly share a picture-perfect representation of anything on your screen. Compatible with 32 bit and 64 bit releases of Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, NT4, ME and Windows 98.

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HeliosPaint 1.4.3

Publisher's Description
HeliosPaint is a freeware paint program for creating and editing images. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Unix and is written in Sun Microsystem´s Java programming language.

Tools and features in HeliosPaint currently include:
* Pencil for editing pixels.
* Freehand and straight lines with choice of width, dash pattern, line joint and line end.
* Paint Brush with sizeable head.
* Spray Can with sizeable head or global spray option.
* Paint Can with local and global replace. Colour bleed sensitivity allows nearby similar colours to be painted.
* Shape tool for creating freehand, regular polygon, star, moon and heart shapes.
* Text entry with choice of font, style, underline and rotation.
* HSB/RGB/contrast/gamma adjustment of image.
* Image invert, gray, colour filter, blur, sharpen, edge detection, oil painting effect, emboss.
* Image colour and transparency adjustment by flat, round, rectangular and ´fit to shape´ gradient patterns. This allows areas of the image to be darkened, brightened and colour enhanced.
* Image flip, scale up, scale down, rotate, shear, perspective view.
* Full colour pallet with adjustable transparency and colour grabber.
* Zoom in/out with optional zoom grid.
* Text and image paste from clipboard. Image and image segment copy/cut onto clipboard.
* Scissors, lasso and wand for selecting and moving image segments. Sensitivity of lasso and wand is adjustable. Transparency of overlaid segments is adjustable. Scissors can cut out various shapes including regular polygons, stars and hearts. When part of the image is selected, all paint operations apply only to that area.
* Saving selected areas as transparent gif or transparent png files.
* Undo and redo.
* Printing with auto fit to page.
* Reads and writes image file formats: bmp, gif, jpg/jpeg, pct/pict, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, psd, ras, tga, tif/tiff, xpm.
* Supports images up to 12 megapixels in size (a high end computer is recommended for working with very large images).

Release Date: 2010-04-10

Download Link: http://www.heliospaint.com

FotoSketcher 1.96

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

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

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

FotoSketcher is completely free and does not contain any adware, spyware or virus.

What's New in version 1.96:
* First and foremost, the new Painting 7 effect, which uses an algorithm to automatically place various size and shape brushstrokes on the canvas. There are now 35 different brushstrokes used in this filter. Beware, the algorithm is greedy and the filter can take a long time to finish, especially on large images. Still, I think the result is worth the wait. Oh, and it's fun to watch FotoSketcher paint for you.
* Due to the computer-intensiveness of the new effect, I've had to add a progress bar to the preview. Also, when clicking on the Draw it! button, it sometimes takes a second or two before processing starts.
* At any time you can interrupt the running process.
* At the request of many users, I've added the possibility to open PNG files, as well as JPG and BMP. Sorry, no saving in PNG format yet.
* If you wish to save in uncompressed format (if JPG produces too many artefacts for you) you now have the ability to save in BMP format (large file sizes).

Release Date: 2010-03-20

Download Link: http://www.fotosketcher.com

Photobie 7.1

Publisher's Description
Photobie is an Image Editing software with most features similar to Photoshop plus advanced screen capture and photo frame editing features. With photobie screen capture you can prepare presentation very simply. Photobie has simple user interface.

Furthermore, if you have MS Word and other software that create specific graphics or art fonts, then with Photobie you can simply capture it and paste it to any image. Photobie supports multiple-layer image retouching for advanced image editing.

Starting at version 2.8, Photobie now supports thousands of Photoshop filter plugins (.8BF).

Features:
* General Photo editing tool - resize, rotate, flip, color balance adjust (includes brightness, contrast, saturation, cool-warm color, gammar, alpha); copy, cut, paste, paste as new image, crop (done by combining copy and paste as new image); selection (includes rectangle, square, oval, circle, polygon, free hand selection tool as well as Magic Wand too), you can select complex region by using selection modes such as Single, Union, Exclude, Intersect and XOR, you can also invert the selection. Much more.
* Flash Player - Fancy player allow user to play list of flash files (.swf) repeatly and selectively.
* Gif animation - create gif animation with/without transparent in a simple way.
* Image format supported:
* Bmp, Png, TIF,
* Gif --- support transparent hight quality encoding Gif.
* Ico --- can save image as true color Icon with 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 16x16 sizes.
* Jpg --- support various encoding quality (1--100)
* Pob --- Photobie specific multi-layer image format. format used to keep the work in progress for future retouching.

* Multi-layer features - support unlimited layers; layer merge, flatten; whole layer copy, paste, clone within current image or cross images; much more.
* Painting features - draw shapes as rectangle, square, oval, circle, line, dash line, polygon, free hand, curve, it support gradient color; fill shapes as recangle, square, oval, circle, polygon, free hand, it support gradient color, much more.
* Text editing - Support most system fonts; High quality text; Gradient color support; 3D text effect;
* Screen Capture - Support Screen Capture hotkeys, you can setup up to 8 hotkeys for screen capture, you can set the hotkey to capture full screen or active window, more.
* Framing - Photobie simplifies the digital photo framing process. You can design your favorite frame template and then apply to other photos quickly.
* ... and much more.

Release Date: 2010-03-12

Download Link: http://www.photobie.com

JAlbum 8.6

Publisher's Description
Drop folders containing image and movie files onto JAlbum. JAlbum will create thumbnails of your images and display them in index pages in HTML. You can also have JAlbum produce slide shows of your images for easy navigation. The appearance of the generated albums can be fully configured through the use of skins.

Features:
* Easy to use User Interface
* Runs on many systems
* Add images with drag & drop
* Skins — endless customization
* Add comments
* IPTC and EXIF support
* Apply filters
* Other Filetypes
* Share straight from your computer
* Publish to the web
* Your personal page: yourname.jalbum.net
* Manage your albums
* Create your own skin
* Supports 32 Languages

What's New in version 8.5.1:

News and Updates:
* Shorter start up time for users having many recent album projects listed
* Newly installed skins are now automatically selected
* Jalbum will now quit if users select to update Jalbum upon an update notification
* Specifying -skinsDirectory on the command line now tells Jalbum to look for skins in that directory only
* Jalbum's internal mp3 play list component "JPlayList" now made more convenient to work with.
* New JAlbumUtilities class with convenience methods for skin developers
* Installer software updated to "Advanced Installer 7.2.1"

Download link: http://jalbum.net

Mobile Photo Enhancer 1.3

Publisher's Description
Mobile phones with built-in digital cameras have become very popular today because of their portability and handiness. But the obvious downside is that the quality of camera phone photos is still very poor. The main drawbacks are:

* JPEG compression artifacts;
* vignetting (darkening of the corners around the image);
* poor color reproduction;
* poor contrast;
* poor sharpness
* noise.

Mobile Photo Enhancer is a handy and powerful tool capable of fixing all these problems with just a few clicks. It provides a quick and easy way to improve the quality of your images reducing artifacts and digital noise, correcting poor sharpness, contrast and color reproduction and fixing the "dark corners" problem. With its powerful filtering, the program converts images with pronounced defects into very usable photos.

Still another advantage of the product is that Mobile Photo Enhancer is a two-in-one software package: it contains tools for processing images one at a time as well as for simultaneous processing of whole collections of images.

Download Link: http://www.vicman.net