Greenshot is a screenshot utility, supporting numerous image types, for saving part or all of your screen as an image file.

This utility requires only a small amount of memory, a real positive over similar programs that can really hog your memory. Hotkeys keep it uncomplicated and you are able to get at an options menu with a simple right click. You can opt to capture just the visible window, a part of it or the full screen. When you capture the image the editor will just about instantly open and let you add text boxes or shapes such as boxes, arrows etc, to your image. Then you can save it in your image format of choice or send it to a printer.

The area to be captured turns green, this helps you in making sure you’ve selected the right area. As the program captures the image, it makes a sound like a camera’s shutter.

It also has hotkey support, to make things even more convenient, and also some other things can be customized to your liking.

Greenshot is a little utility, fast to download and effective without unneeded bells and whistles. It serves its purpose well without excessively burdening your computer. So if you’re looking for an image capturing tool, you might wanna try this out.

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If you deal with images a lot, this relatively fast and lightweight program called Imagewalker can be very useful in helping you organize and process them.

You can quickly find, sort, edit, view, print and share your images all from within Imagewalker. It also includes a fullscreen slideshow mode, useful for showing off those vacation photos when you have friends over. It lets you automatically scan for image information such as date taken, camera information, etc, as well as your own info such as keywords. It includes batch processing options to save time when manipulating or printing multiple images. It also has batch uploading to flickr, as well as the ability to create image galleries for use on your own website.

All this in an application that’s lightweight enough to run well even on slower computers. ImageWalker has an unlimited trial period with no obligations but if you continue to use ImageWalker it may be good karma to register it! One Registration currently costs US $20.00.

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IMC2008 is a digital photography software. It contains image viewer, screen capture, comparer, retouch, photo album and compression tools.

Pros: Image compressor comes with a comprehensive set of tools that include import, capture, scan, retouch, compare, create photo album, share and compress facilities in one.

The basic facility of compression does not require the user to make a trade off between file size and quality. The application compresses the image as best as possible for optimum quality and a reasonable size. Viewing of images has a wide range of formats that include RAW formats of many popular camera makers; Canon’s CR2 CRW, Nikon’s NEF, Kodak’s DCR and Olympus’s ORF. Photo formats supported include image file types JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PNG besides the RAW formats supported.

The additional but really useful functions include professional viewer, image comparison tools, retouching tool, screen capture, image grab from the net, EXIF data editor, photoshop filter plug-ins, web photo album creation and conversion/export to multi-page PDF, animated GIF, multi-page TIFF, PowerPoint and Word.

The comprehensive user interface with a large set of features that include such functions as screen capture or image capture from the net makes for a comprehensive tool for the graphics artist. The interface is simple enough to be useful for the learner yet has enough power to be useful for a professional.

The functionality of all the extra features offered are well integrated into the application. For example capturing images from the net or creating web photo albums do not require the user to come out of the application. Application settings, screen layouts, file associations, photoshop filters or web album are parameters that can be changed for setting up a configuration suitable for you.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated today announced Adobe Photoshop Express public beta, a free Rich Internet Application (RIA) available to anyone who wants to store, sort and show off digital photos with eye-catching effects. During the public beta period, Adobe will solicit Photoshop Express user feedback on product features and functionality, which will continue to evolve over time. As the newest addition to the Photoshop family line, Photoshop Express has taken much of Adobe’s best image editing technology and made it simple and accessible to a new online audience. Photoshop Express allows users to store up to 2 gigabytes of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites like Facebook.

“Photoshop is trusted technology that has changed the visual landscape of our world. Now, Photoshop Express allows anyone who snaps a digital photo to easily achieve the high-impact results for which Adobe is known,” said Doug Mack, vice president of Consumer and Hosted Solutions at Adobe. “Photoshop Express is a convenient, single destination where you can store, edit and share photos whether you’re at home, school or on the road.”

With Photoshop Express, digital photos can be uploaded and sorted anytime, edited non-destructively to always preserve the original image, and shared from anywhere, on any Web browser. In a few easy clicks, Photoshop Express empowers anyone to make standard edits, such as removing blemishes and red-eye, converting to black and white, cropping and resizing, and much more.

No experience is required to add special effects that will impress friends and family. In keeping with its one-click approach, Photoshop Express offers tricks like Pop Color which selects an object in an image, mutes the background color of the photo and allows the user to swap the object’s color so it jumps off the page. Sketch effects help photos look like drawings and the Distort feature allows you to distort facial features or objects within the images for a comical or artistic effect. Even users with limited photo editing knowledge can simply select what looks best from a line-up of sample photos with visual hints showing different variations of the added effect.

Photoshop Express offers a variety of creative sharing options, including uploading and showing off photos and slideshows in your own online “Gallery” hosted by Adobe, or conveniently embedding or linking photos to social networking sites and personal blogs without having to leave the application. Slideshows never looked better with animation that makes photos float and fly across the screen, allowing for viewer interactivity and unique presentation styles.

Adobe Photoshop Express beta is available now for free via any Web browser right here.

Batch It! Pro is an automated Batch Imaging Editor which allows photo operations such as resize, rename, rotate, create thumbnail galleries and add captions. It supports image of 22 image formats including PSP, PCD, PSD, JPG, JPEG 2000, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX and more.

Pros: With the digital cameras of today it is easy to shoot a pile of large photographs. Cameras assign them names in a mechanically determined series. Trying to lodge them in a web album or to send the batch to someone for their viewing usually requires resizing these as a minimum. There could be a need for some editing too. Batch It! Pro is an automated Batch Imaging Editor which allows you to resize, rename, rotate, create thumbnail galleries, add captions and more for this kind of a photo batch.

BatchIt! handles a lot of formats it can load or store in. It can load JPEG,JPEG 2000, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM, GIF, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX, WMF, FAX, PSD, PDD, PSP, CUT and PCD formats and Save in JPEG, JPEG 2000, BMP, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, PBM, PGM, PPM and GIF formats.

Batch up/down sizing of photos with aspect ration locking or without is possible. Adding watermark or copyright notices and text captions are equally easy too. Transparency of the watermark can be controlled. HTML based file directory listing, thumbnail listing, slide show for local or web display are part of the features the application has. A auto run CD of the slide show can be created with equal ease.

Individual photos in a batch can have specific rotation, flip and or crop specified. Individual edit in terms of contrast, brightness, hue and saturation also is possible. Renaming them is another feature available. The parameter settings can be saved as a profile and used again with a similar batch process when required.

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