PhotoDemon

PhotoDemon is a free graphic software with a variety of effects and photo filters, especially suitable for those new to photo editing tools.

PhotoDemon is a free, open portable software that runs on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8 and easily connects to USB flash drives . This is a very simple image editing tool, but the image output is extremely good quality , many powerful and highly personalized support tools .

The salient features of PhotoDemon

Supports almost all image formats

PhotoDemon allows you to import photos with formats such as BMP, DNG, EMF, GIF, HDR, ICO, JP2, JPEG, PCD, PCX, PDI, PIC, PNG, PSD, RAS, RAW and SGI. You can import images from clipboard, camera, scanner or downloaded images from a specific link; take a screenshot using a keyboard shortcut or a program available on the computer.

PhotoDemon automatically zooms out before capturing images, and you can add or remove window borders or preview images in an arbitrary window. Images after editing can be exported to BMP, GIF, HDR, JPG, JP2, JXR, PDI, PNG, PPM, TGA, TIFF, and WEBP formats. In addition, a copy of the image is also saved to avoid loss.

Intuitive interface

User friendly PhotoDemon interface

PhotoDemon is a simple way to edit photos without requiring too much image processing skills . Just drag and drop photos directly into the main window. If you want to add more photos, you can preview and change them with thumbnails; zoom in, zoom out or adjust to fit the screen.

The toolbars located on the main window will help you easily create, open files, delete and save images, restore or delete commands and select effects, resize photos very conveniently. The GUI tab is quite flexible because you can hide or show multiple options such as toolbox, layer, thumbnail window; or separate the toolbox and layers from the main screen and place them anywhere on the desktop.

Image processing and layer

PhotoDemon has all the features of an ordinary photo editing software such as crop, blur, merge, copy, flip, arrange, collage, resize, rotate photos and layers as you like. You can also easily create images with predefined titles, adjust the width and height in pixels, inches, centimeters or% to get consistent image quality. Batch processing is used for many editing operations, converting files to other formats and macro photography.

Adjust colors, effects and filters

The simplest way to increase the quality of your images is to use advanced modes and correct color, contrast , white balance, brightness, curvature and more automatically.

The photography tool can be applied to varying HDR exposure, quality and intensity, applying various image filters such as light yellow, dark orange, light blue and amber. In addition, another handy feature has been added to PhotoDemon that lets you check the history of previous edits and restore photos to their desired state.

Effects are divided into different groups Artistic (Colored pencil, Comic book, Film noir, Oil painting, Posterize, Modern art), Blur (Box, Gaussian, Motion, Radial, Surface), Distort, Edge, Light and shadow , Natural, Noise, Sharpen , and Stylize (Antique, Solarize, Diffuse).

The effects are classified into different groups, convenient for users

The above mentioned options come with their own parameters to adjust, even you can design your own custom filter and can view them before activating. The saved so you can use this filter in the next visit without having to reset.

Manage plugins and set general parameters

PhotoDemon uses a plugin manager that makes it easy to remove plugins or add or remove selections; warns you in case files have not been saved and you are free to choose the color, format, quality of the files or the speed of work when you edit multiple photos at once.

Advantages of PhotoDemon

• PhotoDemon owns a collection of many effects, filters and adjustments so you can edit photos as you like
• Images after being edited are of high quality

Disadvantages of PhotoDemon

• For Windows 8.1 Pro, PhotoDemon encountered an error when resizing and converting too many files at once
• Drag and drop photos is not really flexible
• Although you can view the image before applying the filter, leaving the original and the edited image on the main screen in parallel is limited.
• PhotoDemon is not one of the most advanced graphic software, so it does not allow you to change metadata, import files as PDFs, use painting tools, share files directly to social networks and rooms. online photo gallery, photo album creation, photo reviews and image search based on size, time, and extended standards.You can only search photos by a limited number of criteria

Although there are some drawbacks, PhotoDemon will not disappoint you because of its very special effects and filters. For those new to photo editing, this is an ideal graphics software.

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