AB-Tools Free Image Printer: Print to Image, PDF, HTML, MFT, RTF, XLS and XLSX

For different purpose we use different file types and we often feel the need of software that interconverts among file types. An exciting way to file type conversion is virtual printing. With this nice feature any printable file can be converted to virtual printers output. Virtual printing softwares are common for printing to PDF but it is equally useful to extend that feature to other formats. AB-Tools Free Image Printer has taken this concept and has the ability to print to to Image, PDF, HTML, MFT, RTF, XLS and XLSX file types. It supports BMP, EMF, WMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG & TIFF image formats. The software is free to use and is multilingual.

ParetoLogic EasyFileViewer can Open Multiple File Types: Free Offer

Everyday we encounter a number of file types that are used for may different applications, e.g. .JPG, .PDF, .HTML, .RAR, .TXT, .PHP, .DOCX etc. Different in-built or third party softwares are required to view different category of files e.g. Picture Viewers, Archive Managers, Document Viewers etc. New computer users, often face troubles in remembering the names of the softwares that can be used to open a particular file types, mainly if its not associated with any particular software. Moreover, often we receive files that do not open in any of the installed softwares... For such problems ParetoLogic EasyFileViewer is very useful, since it can open a range of file types including Documents, Pictures, Archives, Web Friendly File types etc. The developer says,

Through our jobs and in our home lives, we receive all kinds of different file types. In many situations, the software used to create them is not installed on our computers. Trying to open a file can be frustrating. EasyFileViewer makes it easy to quickly open documents, images, archived files and much more.

First Look at TwistedBrush Open Studio : A Mini-Review

Photo Editing is Fun and that's why I write a number of posts on such software in my blog. I recently came to know about TwistedBrush Open Studio, which has been around for a while but yet to be popular. I found this software quite versatile and is perfectly suited for professionals who need a Free photo editor with powerful features. Even for a beginner, this software is useful owing to an excellent quick tutorials that comes along with the software. There is also a Pro version, TwistedBrush Pro Studio which is more powerful. That software normally costs $99 and as I posted on the forum, you can get a 70% discpunt on that software.

Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder finds Near Duplicate Pictures

Often I got wallpaper collection from my friends where a number of pictures are in common and obviously its very tedious to find out duplicate pictures in a collection of large number of pictures. Nevertheless, there are software that can find out duplicates based on their filename, hashes etc. But what about near duplicate images? Almost all duplicate file search software fails to pick near duplicate images. Awesome Duplicate Photo Finder is a life saver under such circumstances. It can easily find out nearly-duplicates in a collection of images. Also It shows side-by-side previews to let you decide about the near-duplicates. It also assigns a similarity percentage among the near-duplicates. It can of course find exact duplicates.

Ashampoo Photo Converter 2: Swiss Army Knife for Photo Processing - Review & Giveaway

With the availability of cheap digital cameras, it is easy to capture the nice & rare moments of our life. It is also necessary to edit those captured images for better appeal. I have discussed about a number of Free and Paid software that assist in managing and editing image collections. I have also wrote about Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 that is a perfect software of this kind. Ashampoo has recently released version 2 of their Photo Converter, a versatile and resource-friendly software that helps you convert and optimize your digital photo albums in just three steps. In the word of Ashampoo,

Whether your pictures are blurry, grainy or overexposed – with just one click Ashampoo Photo Converter 2 optimizes and organizes your images and simplifies your workflow. You can individualize your photos with a variety of effects, color adjustments or image frames and create memorable pieces. Despite its great range of features the software only requires very few system resources and won't stump your computer – whether it's a new or older model.

Photo Magician can Resize, Convert, Apply Effects to Multiple Images at Ultra Fast Speed

In my blog, I have wrote about a number of software Free & Paid, that can manage photographs for a variety of goals. Photo Magician from Sheldon Solutions is just another software but it is mainly useful for its fast conversion and completeness in features. It can resize, apply effects, convert format etc of images in batch at a very fast speed after following wizard type steps. It offers emailing, uploading and sharing the output images via inbuilt tools. There is a Quick Convert Mode, that makes the software usage even easier. Overall the software is pretty amazing in what it does. I recommend this software to you. Try this out or you will miss something.

Create GIF Image Easily with Cute Video to GIF Converter

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) images became popular because it can show animation in the form of an image. Today I will write about Cute Video to GIF Converter that can convert a wide variety of Videos to GIF images. The software allows to select among a number of GIF sizes and also convert only part of a video as GIF. Also it offers to view the video frame by frame and you can save each frame as BMP, JPG or JPEG format.

ImageShareIt : Quickly Upload Photos For Sharing - A Review

Entertainment makes life happier to live. Going out for a trip, playing basketball, watching a movie, chatting on Facebook relieves the stress that a week long job load creates. With the availability and ease of use of Digital Cameras, taking a picture of memorable or fun moments is a common job we all do. Uploading those images in social media would be a fun way to share those pictures with your away friends and relatives. Facebook and most other social media sites offer easy image uploading options. Most of us are on multiple social networks and its a pain to go to each site and upload a single image. So, here comes the need of a software like ImageShareIt which automates the process a bit by uploading that picture in its server and then use Add-This sharing widget for sharing that picture in multiple social sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Bebo, FriendFeed etc. ImageShareIt is from PCWinSoft. According to the developer, this software

Eliminate the need to browse for images on your computer to share on Facebook, Twitter and social networks. With ImageShareIt you simply drag, drop and share. ImageShareIt is available for PCs and Macs. ImageShareIt is free.

PhotoPad Photo Editor has Advanced Features with Basic Options: A Review

I have always liked to test Photo Editors and this time I will be writing about PhotoPad Photo Editor a software from NCH Software. Like other NCH Software I tested, this one is also well written and has advanced features. But don't expect too much from it. The advanced features are not that much versatile to make it an ideal photo editor; still it is pretty useful as an instant solution.

Crop, Resize, Rotate and Add Effects to Images in picresize.com

When I am on a public PC and don't have the USB with my favorite portable tools in it, I depend on online services for sufficing my needs. Today, since my main computer have stopped working, I once again have felt the importance of online services. Editing pictures is one of the common things, geeky people and bloggers like me deal with every time. Today I used an online service called pic resize for cropping and resizing a logo. That service also has options to rotate and add effects to images. It can also resize images in batch.

Create Photo Slideshow with Effects and Music Easily with Cute Photo Slideshow Free Version

If you have been in a tour, festival, occasion and have taken lots of photographs, you must have felt the need to group all of those in the form of video slideshow with musics and effects. Cute Photo Slideshow Free Version is a basic yet powerful application that can do the same in few easy to follow steps. According to the developer:

It allows you to create entertaining photo slideshows you can watch on TV, create SWF Flash slideshow perfect for posting online to your website, generate MP4 video files for mobile devices, build photo slideshow video ready for upload to YouTube, MySpace. Within a few minutes of work, you'll have an eye-catching photo slide show for TV for iPod, Zune, PSP, PDA, Smart phone (MPEG, MPEG-4, 3GP MP4), for MySpace, YouTube (FLV, Web Album as output formats).

Make Over your Photographs in Batch with Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 5: Review & Giveaway

I love photos and like software that allows management, editing of photos. You have already seen a lot of reviews of softwares related to image management in this blog. Ashampoo Photo Optimizer is a well reputed software for optimizing image quality and applying effects to it. Version 5 of the software is currently in beta development and will be released on 27 th June. I was approached by Angela Woisch of Ashampoo for reviewing the software and after trying out the software I was amazed in honest words. The software has essential as well as advanced features that can attract everyones attraction.

 According to the developer

The Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 5 is the intelligent tool for that certain something in your photos! All functions are clearly arranged and easily accessible. This allows you to achieve amazing results right from the start. Add brilliance and refinement to your pictures in just a few clicks!

PixBuilder Studio: A Powerful Free Photo Editor

Although I know very little in Photo Editing and its terminology, I love testing such apps. Few days ago I wrote about Splashup & Splashup Light. That online service and software although a bit backdated, are still useful. Today I will share with you a very interesting Free Photo Editor PixBuilder Studio. I came to know about this software from CNET where it has been highly rated. This software is developed by WnSoft, a Russian Company. According to the developer,

It is a free program for image editing that features many advanced-level functions. Though PixBuilder Studio is absolutely free of charge, it is also free from annoying ads, non-removable search bars and other unwelcome features typical for freeware.

Boxoft Free OCR Extracts Text from Scanned Images in Batch

Often we encounter images containing some valuable information. Since image don't allow copying the text in it, we need to write it all. But there is an alternative automated approach called Optical character recognition (OCR) with which texts in such images can be extracted and can be saved in a text. Boxoft Free OCR can use this approach efficiently to extract texts in images of multiple formats in Batch. According to the developer

Boxoft Free OCR is completely free software to help you extract text from all kinds of images. The freeware can analyze multi-column text and support multiple languages: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque and so on. You can even scan your paper documents and then OCR content from scanned files into editable text immediately.

Smart Shot is an Open source Screenshot Capture Tool

If you are a blogger, instructor or even a basic user following some troubleshooting instructions, you must need to take screenshot of complete computer screen or part of it. Windows offers to take screenshot by pressing PrtScr (Full Screen) or Alt + PrtScr (Active Window) to copy it to clipboard and then you have to use any image editor (like Microsoft Paint) for editing and saving it. Higher versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7 also have an inbuilt screenshot tool called Snipping Tool that can automate the process. But it has some limitations in the editing feature. Smart Shot is a new and simple Open Source Screenshot Capture Tool which does the same thing.

It is intended to replace standard Windows 7 screen capturing tool, which lacks several useful features:
- basic editing options: adding straight lines, arrows, shapes, text annotations
- image cropping
- UNDO function

Decrease Picture Size with Photo Vacuum Packer

Digital photos take up large space and so keeping those in original form will waste much valuable disk space. Photo Vacuum Packer is a kind of software that uses the following methods to reduce disk usage with digital photographs.

1. Find duplicates: (optional) Space on your disk may be occupied by duplicate images or entire folders. PVP will warn you about them and let you decide whether to copy them to the destination folder or not.
2. Repack: Non-optimally compressed images occupy much more space than necessary. Unfortuntely, most of digital cameras produce such photos. Repacking makes them occupy less space, while keeping original dimensions.
3. Resize: (optional) Newer cameras can create images large enough to print a jumbo poster. While focusing purely on megapixels, the sensor quality is often neglected, which results in high-resolution images with lots of noise. Photo Vacuum Packer can, if you wish, quality resample the photos to a lower resolution, to reduce the digital noise, make images occupy less disk space, speed up displaying, speed up uploading to internet sites, and save on backup media.
4. Change format: (optional) Pictures in BMP format occupy much more space than JPEG pictures of equal dimensions. Unless there's a special reason to keep them in the original format, converting them to JPEG can reduce their size approximately 20 times. Note that if image contains transparency information or 8-bit palette it will be lost during conversion. If it contains multiple images, only the first one will be kept.

PhotoMosaique is an Efficient Portable Photographic Mosaic Creator

Photographic Mosaic is a Photograph that consists of a large number of rectangular sections each of which contains images that matches the target photograph. PhotoMosaique is a easy to use but efficient free, portable software that can quickly form high-quality photographic mosaics. According to the developer:

PhotoMosaique facilitates very easy and fast creation of picture mosaics. The final image comprises about a thousand tiny images (thumbnails). But, unlike other software, PhotoMosaique allows you to obtain a good result using very few pictures. However, an optimum result requires big pictures, so, with the monitor, it is inherently rather difficult to visualize the result obtained. The software is therefore intended more for printing.

PearlMountain Image Converter can Easily Manage Images: Review and Giveaway

Few days ago I reviewed about Picture Collage Maker Pro from PearlMountain Technology. Today I will review their another product PearlMountain Image Converter, which has some easy to use but powerful features to quickly manager images in batch mode. According to the developer:

PearlMountain Image Converter is an efficient and convenient picture converter for batch converting and processing images.It allows you to convert images to other formats, resize, rotate, crop, add watermark, apply effects and add border to thousands of images at a time. With one click your digital photos will be just right for the Web, blog, e-mail, photo printing, Facebook, MySpace, mobile phone..etc.

Fotosizer is a Tiny but Effective Batch Image Manager

If you have followed by blog from the beginning, you must have seen a lot of write-ups on image editors. If you haven't seen that yet, do a search for "Photo" and you can find reviews of PixBuilder Studio, Ashampoo Photo Commander, Photopus etc. Fotosizer is just another batch image manager not as feature rich as the three mentioned above but is pretty useful if you are in a hurry for essential editing and don't want to see too many features.

Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 is coming: Review and Giveaway

Playing with photos is a fun and when you have a software as rich in features as Ashampoo Photo Commander, the fun becomes excitement. Ashampoo Photo Commander from Ashampoo GmbH is such an awesome application. Although almost complete in features, Ashampoo still is packing the software with more appealing features every year. They are cooking version 10 of the software presently which will be released on 18th of this month. Being a fan of photo editing software I didn't wait to try the beta version and as expected I had a pleasant time with Ashampoo Photo Commander 10 even though it was in beta.