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Paint.NET
Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality. download

GIMP
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. download

IcoFX
IcoFX is an award winning freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with all Windows versions and Macintosh icons supporting transparency. You can easily create, edit, read and save icons with transparency for all Windows versions. With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the icons you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into icons, or icons into images. IcoFX gives you the possibility to create icon libraries or change icons inside exe files. download

PaintStar
Is versatile digital-image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnails in the Windows Explorer context menu. It supports alpha, layer, path, and the most common editing techniques. PaintStar has many of the tools and filters you would expect to find in similar commercial offerings, and some interesting extras as well. Full suite of painting tools including paintbrush, pencil, eraser, airbrush, filter brush, color retouching, blur/sharpening, smudge and cloning. download

PicPick Tools
Is an all-in-one software for software developers, graphic designers and home user. It has an intuitive interface and simple, elegant operation. After starting the software, you simply select one of the tool from the PicPick Tools trayicon menu when you want. It features a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc. You can use all these tools freely. PicPick is portable ware, so you don't need any installation. And, this is distributed as Freeware. So you may use this software on any number of computers for as long as you like. download

Image Analyzer
Advanced image editing, enhancement and analysis software. The program contains both most image enhancement features found in conventional image editors plus a number of advanced features not even available in professional photo suites. Easy to use program, better to use than Microsoft Photo Editor and a lot more flexible too! It downloads, installs and uninstalls without a problem. New version updated expression feature (default expression is lens distortion correction), lightest/darkest only option in Fade opacity dialog, set image gamma option for proper interpolation in resize, rotate, smooth, invert and convert to grayscale. download

Artweaver
Is a program to simulate natural brush tools. It is therefore suitable to leave your creativity free run. Artweaver functions: realistic imitation of brushes, chalks, and charcoals; detailed adjustment possibilities for altering existing brushes and creating new custom brushes; common image processing tools like gradient, crop, fill, and selection tools; countless file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, and PNG; transparency and layers; large number of filters like sharpen, soften, emboss, and mosaic; many effect filters; editable text layers (font, size, color, leading); support for pressure sensitive pen tablets. download

Stardock ObjectDock Free
ObjectDock is a program that enables users to organize their shortcuts, programs and running tasks into an attractive and fun animated Dock. By allowing users to have more control over how they organize their desktop, users can take control of their desktop icons and shortcuts to have them be available when where and how they need them. This, all with the unique style and top-rate performance that ObjectDock is known to deliver! In constant development, ObjectDock and ObjectDock Plus are enhanced often to provide the most unique features of any stylized shortcut organizer / launcher available. download

Iconoid
Use Iconoid to hide your desktop icons when your cursor is not on the desktop so that you can see your desktop wallpaper. Also, make your desktop icon backgrounds transparent or change the color of the text or background. Save and restore icon positions and Hide windows quickly. Iconoid can be hidden or it can live in the system tray. Other features as well. Very customizable. Not resource intensive. Automatically or manually select the best color for the text background. Quickly minimize all windows so that you can see your desktop wallpaper. download

ActivIcons
Makes it simple to change properties for various icons on your Windows desktop and in Explorer, plus attributes for many other desktop settings. You can save and restore the desktop layout, repair corrupted icons, increase the size of the Windows icon cache to prevent future problems, and much more. You can substitute your own icons for the standard Windows icons and cursors. In fact, ActivIcons goes through your Registry and lists out all of the icons found there, so that you can change those as well. You can even use ActivIcons to display animated icons on your desktop, or make the icon text labels transparent. And best of all, you can use ActivIcons for as long as you wish, free of charge! download

Greenfish Icon Editor
This program is a professional, yet easy to use tool for designing and retouching icons, cursors, animations and static images, and assembling icon libraries. A tool for creating icons, cursors, and other small pixelgraphic images. It has a wide range of features, can handle ICO/CUR/PNG/XPM/BMP/JPEG files, can create PNG compressed icons and has many filters including Drop shadow, Glow and Bevel. Some sample documents are included. No installation required. Nice icon editor, that can handle animated cursors. also usable as a general purpose img editor! It works with 1024x1024 files relatively fast. download
TwistedBrush Open Studio Free
Pixarra TwistedBrush Pro Studio - digital paint software with complete natural art tools - oils, acrylics, pastel, charcoal etc. Software for artists without the complexity of other art programs. TwistedBrush Pro Studio - creating art the way it should be, simple and fun! Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simple enough for the novice. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use. download
MWSnap
MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen. Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles five most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker, and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter. MWSnap does not require installation and does not need any special DLLs, drivers, or system files, which can mess up your system. download

TipCam
TipCam got the basics of screen recording and it has a few tricks all its own. You'll be able to start, pause, delete, and preview your screencasts from the small recording controls window, even draw on annotations while you record. Brilliantly, if you press the hot key to zoom in, the zoom window will follow your mouse until or unless you lock it in place. Unfortunately, the TipCam control panel doesn't do so well. If you're not careful, it might inadvertently star in your screencast. After you become familiar with the icons, it's best two switch to mini mode. You can configure TipCam to capture your audio recordings, as well. While there's no post-production studio for cleaning up audio if you mess up, you can rerecord your narrative with the voice-over tool. download
RocketDock
RocketDock is a program that lets you organize your short-cuts and running tasks onto an extremely customizable dock that sits on your desktop. RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher that is similar to ObjectDock. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. With each item completely customizable there is no end to what you can add and launch from the dock. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility. download

ImageJ
Open Source: ImageJ and its Java source code are freely available and in the public domain. No license is required. User Community: ImageJ has a large and knowledgeable worldwide user community. Macros: Automate tasks and create custom tools using macros. Automatically generate macro code using the command recorder. Plugins: Extend ImageJ by developing plugins using ImageJ's built in text editor and Java compiler. Toolkit: Use ImageJ as a image processing toolkit (class library) to develop applets, servlets or applications. Speed: ImageJ is the world's fastest pure Java image processing program. download

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