PhotoDemon

Lightweight portable BSD licensed photo editor for Windows focused on performance and usability.

Free
Open Source
Windows

photodemon provides a comprehensive selection of photo editing tools in an 8 mb download. it runs on any windows machine (xp through win 10) and does not require installation. it can easily be run from a usb stick or sd card.

photodemon is completely opensource and available under a permissive bsd license. outside contributions from coders, designers, translators, and enthusiasts are always welcome.

it is lightweight and completely portable, integrates macro recording and batch processing, provides a comprehensive selection of prograde features and tools:

extensive file format support, including all major raw formats powerful selection tools, with support for antialiasing, feathering, and oncanvas sizing/moving colormanaged workflow, including full support for embedded icc profiles nondestructive editing for select features, including resizing and common adjustments 2d transformations: advanced rescale operators (sinc, catmullrom, etc), contentaware scaling (seam carving), crop, rotate, shear, zoom, tiling pro adjustment tools: levels, curves, hdr, white balance, splittoning, sepia, fullfeatured histogram, green screen, wratten filters, and many more filters and effects: perspective correction, edge detection, noise removal, contentaware blur, unsharp masking, lens diffraction, vignetting, film grain, and many more 150+ tools are provided in the current build.

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Portable Retouch photos Batch Editing

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