XnRetro allows you to create stunning images with vintage or instant effect on your Desktop.

• 20 color effects
• 15 light effects such as bokeh,leak
• 28 frame borders
• Adjustement like contrast, gamma, saturation, …
• Vignetting Noise
• Save or share the result

The real-time preview makes it easy to tweak the default settings for each effect by changing color balance, exposure, contrast and other details. You can also tune the opacity for light and vignetting layers to achieve stronger or more subtle retro effects.In addition to the 20 retro styles, XnRetro includes 15 light overlays and 30 simulated frame styles, all of them can be combined to create custom results.

XnRetro is available for Windows and OS X and I’ve taken a look at the Windows version. Frequently in the past, software used to look a bit clunky and dated on Windows, compared to when running on Apple computers, but thankfully that is changing more and more and so XnRetro provides quite a clean and friendly user interface.

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Fotor is an easy to use photo enhancement software that offers 13 different one-click adjustments that have been configured for specific photo capture conditions like “Portrait”, “Backlit”, “Flash”, “Cloudy”, “Food”, “Landscape”, and others.

Most photos aren’t taken in a controlled environment and sometimes there isn’t time to adjust the settings on your camera when conditions change. “Scenes” offers 13 different 1-tap-enhance options that have been configured for specific photo capture conditions. The Photo Text feature allows you to use various fonts to type personalized messages on your photos. Our flexible settings allow you to type in bold or italic, use various colors, rotate text and change the opacity or size of your words. Fotor online photo editor includes six easily search-able categories of amazing photo effects. With over 56 filters, you can give your photos that unique feel that makes them stand out from the crowd.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography takes three photos with different exposures and combines them into a single image to bring out the best light and tone in each part of the photo. Fotor.com is the first photo editor offering HDR features online so you can capture highlights, shadows and striking details without the need to download software. Fotor’s online HDR contains revolutionary HDR technologies including Local Tone Balancing, Photo Alignment and Ghost Reduction that dramatically increase the accuracy and quality of photos.

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This is an old version of Photoshop from 2005 which is now offered for free*. Although it does not offer the latest and greatest features, CS2 is perfectly suitable for professional image editing and includes all the features that made Photoshop the industry standard. Despite its longevity, CS2 is certainly not bad, and in my opinion, this is a very smart move from Adobe. Omitting those who’ll grab their software from unfair mediums, quite a few would-be Photoshop users will have settled for cheaper or free alternatives, notably the GIMP, but by giving everybody a taste of Photoshop through CS2, I wouldn’t be surprised if some users bit the bullet and ended up paying for a newer version.

Presumably, this means it’ll always be free, and while CS2 is missing quite a few features compared with the latest release, it’s certainly a nice late Christmas / New Years’ present for those who love nothing more than sitting at a computer and slipping into creative mode. Hopefully, this sets a precedent, meaning CS3 will soon become free as Adobe weighs up the costs of keeping activation servers running in relation to how many people would legitimately buy a decade-old software.

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(Photoshop CS2 botom of page)

Machete is a convenient utility for playing and editing multimedia files. Currently, Machete can edit video and audio files in AVI, FLV, WMV, MKV, MP4, MOV, WMA, MP3 and WAV formats. The support of editing functions for other formats is planned for future versions of the program. You don’t need any special skills or advanced knowledge to edit video with Machete.

The program is so intuitive and simple that you can literally start editing your multimedia files within a few minutes after downloading it! With its extremely user-friendly design, Machete is an ideal solution for quick and easy “slicing” of your multimedia files. You can delete unnecessary fragments (e.g. cut out commercials), copy, move, mix and save individual pieces. This means that Machete combines the functionality of both easy video splitter (cutter, trimmer), video joiner (for joining multimedia files with exactly the same formats) and more. None of the editing operations in our easy video editor requires re-encoding of video or audio streams.

This is why the editing process in Machete is very quick and does not lead to any loss of video quality. This puts Machete in the category of lossless video editors. Also, it means that you do not need a powerful and expensive computer to edit your video material. After a file is edited and saved, it retains its original format.

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Stykz is freeware, meaning it’s completely free to download and use to create animations that you can show off to others or import into other applications. No hidden costs, license or permission are required to use Stykz to its fullest. Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know), so you’ll be able to use Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux* to create, edit and preview your animations. (*Linux is in internal beta but will be available soon.)

If you’ve ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, you’ll feel right at home working with Stykz. It was designed to be a superset of Pivot’s feature set, so we know you’ll appreciate the similarities to Pivot as well as the extra features that Stykz has to offer! Stykz is frame-based, letting you work on individual frames of your animation to make it just right. Onionskins let you see what was in the previous frame so you can make adjustments to your current frame easily. New frames can be created by clicking on the “Next Frame” button in the Frames palette, or by simply hitting the Enter key… in fact, you can use the Enter key while you’re manipulating a figure! It’s kind of like taking snapshots of the current frame while you’re moving or pivoting segments… this feature makes it very easy to get smooth animation.

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Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. The screen capture function of PhotoScape allows you to take a digital picture of your computer screen. Depending on what function you use, you can capture all or part of your screen and alter the image by using the Edit tool in PhotoScape. The RAW converter function of PhotoScape allows you to process a RAW photo (.CR2, .CRW, .NEF, .NRW are the most common format of these) taken by a DSLR camera into a JPG file. The rename function of PhotoScape allows you to edit the filename of your images individually or as a batch. The Color Picker function of PhotoScape allows you to duplicate the exact color properties from anything on-screen. The splitter function of PhotoScape allows you to divide a photo into multiple images.

Features:

• Viewer: View photos in your folder, create a slideshow
• Editor: resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, backlight correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal, blooming
• Batch editor: Batch edit multiple photos
• Page: Merge multiple photos on the page frame to create one final photo
• Combine: Attach multiple photos vertically or horizontally to create one final photo
• Animated GIF: Use multiple photos to create a final animated photo
• Print: Print portrait shots, carte de visites(CDV), passport photos
• Splitter: Slice a photo into several pieces
• Screen Capture: Capture your screenshot and save it
• Color Picker: Zoom in on images, search and pick a color
• Rename: Change photo file names in batch mode
• Raw Converter: Convert RAW to JPG
• Paper Print: Print lined, graph, music and calendar paper
• Face Search: Find similar faces on the Internet

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Free iPod Video Converter provides an easy and completed way to convert all popular video formats to iPod video. You can enjoy DVD/VCD and AVI, MPEG, WMV, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB video files in your iPod with few clicks. The program is a freeware and does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Features:

• It’s clean and free, without any adware or spyware.
• It supports all popular video formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV (ASF), RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, VOB etc.
• It’s stable and fast.
• Easy-to-use wizard-like user interface helps you setup conversion process easily.
• The output video has excellent image and sound quality.
• ID3 Tag can be derived from the input files automatically.
• Batch Processing is supported, it can process an unlimited number of files at one time.
• Detailed HTML help file is included.
• The installing and uninstalling process is very easy.

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Do you want to resize, pad, rotate, flip, change format, add watermark texts, sort or rename your images without having to use complicated editing programs? This handy tool is exactly what you need because it’s absolutely straightforward, runs with no need for installation and even most advanced operations are set up with just a few mouse-clicks. It allows you to modify batches of images quickly to be send via email, posted on the Internet or just for archiving purposes.

Easy Image Modifier offers many interesting features: You can change the dimension of your images (fixed value for width and height or by percent), flip or rotate them, rename the file, add a watermark text and also choose to convert the file format. Even advanced options such as the removal of personal identifiable meta information, filtering after certain conditions, disproportional resizing, customizable image quality, sorting and much more are comfortably set up. The new image and processing preview serves as an intuitive aid.

Features:

• Batch modify images with just a few mouse-clicks
• Simple interface with intuitive image and processing preview
• Resize, realign, change format, set watermark, rename etc.
• Advanced options: Sort, resize unproportionally, remove meta information, filter images, change file date, set image quality
• Multilingual: DE, EN, ES, ET, FA, FR, IT, PT, RU, SV, TR, ZH
• Portable: Just one executable, no need for installation

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The K-Lite Codec Pack Full is a collection of DirectShow filters, VFW/ACM codecs, and tools. Codecs and DirectShow filters are needed for encoding and decoding audio and video formats. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your audio and movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular audio and video formats and even several less common formats.

Features:

• It is very user-friendly and easy to use.
• It is updated frequently. So it is always up-to-date with the newest and best components.
• The pack provides an excellent out-of-the-box experience for novice users, while at the same time offering plenty of options for expert users to tweak things.
• All included components have been carefully selected for specific purposes. It is not just a random bunch of stuff thrown together.
• The pack works on all versions of Windows from XP to Windows 8. The intelligent installer automatically adapts itself based on your version of Windows. It also adapts itself based on what other codecs are already installed on your computer.
• Components are automatically configured to work together in perfect harmony. Something that is not easily achieved if you would install everything manually.
• The pack offers a high level of flexibility. You can for example configure your preferred splitters for many formats.
• Works great with Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. But also with all other DirectShow players, such as Media Player Classic, ZoomPlayer, BS.Player, KMPlayer, PotPlayer, and others.
• The installation is fully customizable. You can choose which components you want to install.
• The pack has many options, which allows you to tweak it to your own specific needs and preferences.

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Introducing Quick Media Converter version supporting many more formats , new design new possibilities such as Youtube Video Converter ability as well as Daily Motion AVC video conversion and also Support of QCELP (USA)audio codec as well as KDDI Codec ( Japan) TS HD from Satellite receivers such as Dreambox and much much more such as an integrated video audio player.

Quick Media Converter is a free universal Video and Audio Youtube converter with many  more different possibilities, designed to be as simple  to use as it may get, Quick Media Converter supports a myriad of formats and codecs. Easy mode formats, now include direct access to expert mode and prefilling of the fields to put you on track according to your specific needs.. Qmc supports QCELP and KDDI codecs. Our Qmc Youtube Converter supports also the latest video conversion in FLV AVC HD video and audio codecsas a breeze (converter to and from youtube). As per its design Quick Media Converter stands out as one of the best free Youtube Converters around. Quick Media converter not only allows you to convert clips you downloaded from Youtube but also allows you to easily prepare and upload to Youtube ,according to their standards, your HD (High Definition videos) .

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