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Photoscape

Download the Free Photoscape Software to View and Edit Digital Photos

SUMMARY: Photoscape lets you edit digital photos, supporting batch processing and renaming. You can also perform screen captures, create photo collages, and print pages of thumbnails.

Photoscape is a free (for non-commercial use) photo viewer and editor for Windows. For those looking for an alternative to higher-priced editing tools, Photoscape offers the following:

* Image editing with multi-level undo, shapes, text boxes, balloon pop-ups, cropping, and transparency

Adding a caption to a photo via Photoscape

* Batch editing of a group of photos - apply filters, brighten or darken pictures, resize images, and more

* Create photo collages with a variety of built-in frames and designs

* Batch rename photos to include creation dates in filenames

* Screen capture with full screen, window, and region capture

* Split large images into smaller pieces

* Print images including support for thumbnail and contact sheets with multiple layout options

* Create animated GIFs for webpages

* Convert RAW images from digital cameras into JPGs

* Multi-language support with translation files created for Chinese, French, Korean, Spanish, and other languages

Photoscape supports Microsoft Windows 98 - Windows Vista (Windows 7 support is not mentioned on the site and was not tested for this tip)

Photoscape: http://www.photoscape.org/

This tip was written regarding Photoscape 3.3 on a Windows Vista machine. Features, instructions, and screenshots are subject to change between versions of Photoscape and Windows.