While the program includes all the usual features found in most photo editing tools, such as red-eye removal, resizing, rotating, image cropping, image warping, scanner, camera and printer support, the advanced features would generally be used only by sophisticated users, or professional photographers.
A number of my friends, who are advanced users, tell me this program excels at a number of higher level tasks including refocusing an out of focus image. As well, using the fractal interpolation plug-in for resizing, even low resolution images can be printed at larger sizes with acceptable quality.
Since I am not a sophisticated user, in my view this is a program best left to those who are familiar with, or interested in, the more technical aspects of image analysis/processing. Considering the high end abilities of this application, it is surprising that it is freeware.
Quick facts:
- Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment
- Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc.
- Retouch tools
- Retinex filter for reducing shadows and increasing local contrast
- Deconvolution for out-of-focus and motion blur compensation
- Easy red-eye removal
- User specified filters in spatial and frequency domain
- Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images
- Scanner, camera and printer support
- Read/write BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX, JPEG and JPEG
- Read RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files
- Morphological operations
- Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, Lab, YCbCr, YIQ and PCA
- Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation
- Math expression module for creating and transforming images
- Plug-in system for adding more specialized features
Available Plug-ins:
- Microscopic imaging
- 3D modeling
- Batch processing
- Fractal interpolation
- Add text and vector graphics
- Raster Export
- TIFF reader
- Profile line
- PCA Color Stretch
- 8fb Plug-in Interface
There are additional free graphic software reviews elsewhere on this Blog, including download links. Check out the category Graphic Software on the sidebar
Requirements: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Download at: Download.com
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