Best retouching software for free download

Helicon Filter offers full set of the professional post processing tools to the digital photographer.
Intuitive interface, context help and full screen preview make it easy to learn.

Retouching:
- one click artifact removal (unique!)
- easy skin tone correction
- local geometrical distortions
- edge detection feature for all brushes
- full set of standard retouching brushes

Integrated file management:
- voice comments and video playback
- support for all popular file types including all RAWs
- fast folder browser
- lossless rotate, copy, delete, move operations
- template-based rename

Top quality image filters:
- selective noise reduction
- sharpening without halos
- haze compensation filter
- chromatic aberration filter
- distortion and vignetting correction
- all other professional filters

For advanced photographers:
- conversion of all RAW types
- creation of high dynamic range images
- multiprocessor support
- batch processing
- support of external plug-ins
- full EXIF and IPTC information
- user settings support
- 16 bit precision image processing
- support of color profiles

Licensing:
- Free version with limited functionality
- Home version with full functionality $60
- Pro version includes Photoshop plug-in $75
- Pro MultiProcessor version $105
- Free download, 30 day evaluation period
- Life long registration, all future version are free to registered users
- English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian languages supported- Free license for usability review

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NeoPaint is a full featured artist's studio for Windows that's easy-to-learn, powerful and affordable! It's simple enough for beginners yet packed with powerful features and advanced tools. NeoPaint makes it easy for business and home users to touch up photographs and create great looking graphics for desktop publishing, presentations and the Internet! Supports Animated GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, ICO, PCX, TIF and more. Includes many paint and photo retouching tools, natural media and custom brushes, 2D/3D shapes, soften, sharpen, red-eye, special effects, masking, textures, color separations, stamps, multi-level undo, rulers, grids, gradients, image browser, screen capture and more.

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Ashampoo Photo Commander 5 is an all-in-one application for organizing, editing, sharing and presenting photo collections. It also features additional creativity tools and audio and video management capabilities, making it a complete media management package.
The previous versions won users over with their intuitive ease of use and the inclusion of all the tools amateur photographers need to organize, edit and enhance their pictures. The latest version is a major overhaul, bringing even more speed, better quality, many new features and effects and an enhanced user interface. For example, thumbnail generation and display are now faster than ever before.

Major new features and enhancements
- Faster: The entire program has been optimized throughout for more speed.
- Better tools: All editing tools have been improved for easier and even better editing quality.
- Frame Style
This new creativity tool enables you to add artistic picture frames and vignettes to photos. In addition to this you can also create high-quality greeting cards. Includes a wide selection of vignette styles and greeting card templates. Greeting cards can be mailed from within the program.
- Collage Tool: Select photos and generate artistic collages complete with background images with a couple of clicks.
- Calendar Tool: Create and print 12-month photo calendars in three different styles as novel gifts. Support for editing and displaying personal days in the calendar creation wizard (eg: birthday, vacation, wedding day).
- Full-screen
- Full-screen editing: A new mouse tool bar makes it possible to edit your photos in full screen mode for maximum detail.
- New mouse tools: Callout tool for creating text bubbles, clone tool for retouching photos, eraser tool.
- Canon RAW files: Improved support for Canon RAW files, including faster loading.
- CD/DVD burning: Completely new burning technology for saving photos and slide shows to CD and DVD.


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Photo retouching plugin removes wires and other unwanted linear objects

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Photo retouching software for imperfections and unwanted objects removal.The program can be installed as standalone and a plug-in as well.

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Wire pilot allows you to retouch linear objects as well as any other unwanted objects from a photo. The program can be installed as standalone and a plug-in as well.

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TOWeb is an easy-to-use software for persons and organizations wishing to quickly create a Blog or a Web Site without any web designing skills, without dealing with web programming stuff, without using a retouching software for their pictures and without being left alone in front of a blank page with dozens of options.

Whether you are an expert or a beginner, just enter your texts (a live spell checker is included), add your pictures, and create your unique and unpublished graphical theme using the random theme generator features. Add any kind of web page to your website (including photo albums and catalogs), enhance your pictures with frames and effects, protect any sensitive content with passwords (emails are automatically protected from spam), and click a single button to publish your website to your web space using the provided list of hosts.

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AKVIS Stamp is a photo retouching tool for seamless defects removal and objects cloning. AKVIS Stamp allows enhancing portraits (as it brilliantly removes wrinkles, scars, scratches, porous skin) and retouching of different image flaws (stains, dust, scratches). Unlike common clone tools, Stamp boasts automatic adjusting of the "patches" to the color range, texture and brightness of the target background.
The stamp tool is similar to the Healing Brush, which first appeared in the 7th version of Adobe Photoshop and remained unique up to this day. Now the healing tool is available for users of other photo editing software, as AKVIS Stamp works under Jasc Paint Shop Pro and Corel Photo-Paint. The tool can be helpful to the users that stick to Adobe Photoshop of earlier versions (v5, 6) and Photoshop Elements.

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AKVIS Retoucher is an efficient software for photo restoration and photo retouching. Retoucher does not only remove dust, scratches, stains and other defects that appear on damaged photos but is also able to reconstruct the lacking parts of the photo using the information of the surrounding areas. The work is done automatically; you only have to indicate areas to be restored, push the button, and here you are - the surface becomes smooth and imperfections disappear. It looks like magic when you observe the scratches vanishing before your very eyes.

Use AKVIS Retoucher for the following purposes:
- restore old and damaged photos from your family archive by removing scratches, stains and other defects;
- improve the composition of your photos by removing the date stamp, small irrelevant details (wires, refuse bins, etc) and by extending the image;
- reconstruct the lacking parts of the photo (to restore a torn photo, to extend the borders of a photo (useful in polygraphy)).

AKVIS Retoucher is your reliable tool for increasing productivity!

Retoucher works with black and white and color images. The Retoucher
plugin is compatible with Adobe Photoshop, Corel PHOTO-PAINT, Jasc
Paint Shop Pro and other photo editing software supporting plugins.

AKVIS Retoucher is available as part of the AKVIS Restoration Bundle, packaged with AKVIS Stamp, an $49.00 USD value. AKVIS Restoration Bundle sells for only $109.00 USD, saving $27.00 USD over buying each plug-in separately

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BetterJPEG is a JPEG editor specifically designed to avoid recompression loss when editing and resaving JPEG photos. BetterJPEG takes advantage of the fact that JPEG images consist of a number of small independent blocks and does not recompress blocks that don't have to be changed, retaining original quality and sampling settings.

The list of lossless operations supported by BetterJPEG covers the essentials of digital photo processing, which, in combination with intuitive GUI and state-of-the-art image processing algorithms, makes it an indispensable tool for digital camera owners. BetterJPEG makes it easy to quickly process multiple images.

Main features:
- Lossless transformations - rotation, flip
- Lossless crop (free, fixed aspect, fixed size, predefined and user-defined aspects and sizes)
- Highly customizable lossless date/EXIF info/text insertion. Flexible templates allow to imprint data directly from metadata contained in images: comment, date, time, exposure, f-number, ISO, focal length, device make and model, file name, copyright sign and add your own description to images.You can select the desired language, font face, size, color, background, opacity, placement, date/time format, etc.
- Advanced lossless red eye removal BetterJPEG does not simply desaturate the pupil or do a color replacement, instead it utilizes a sophisticated technique allowing to remove the red tint without affecting other color channels, giving the eyes a natural look. It also performs antialiasing to avoid jagging on the pupil's edge. Sensitivity and darkening can be adjusted for better look. Pixels outside the edited area don't get recompressed.
- Copy/Paste to external editor and back allows for local retouching or watermark/banner insertion without full recompression.
- Batch and fast one-by-one image processing
- Multi-level Undo/Redo
- Metadata preservation
- Compression optimization


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The most complete, all-in-one image and video solution currently available. Allows for fast viewing, editing, and management of all your image and video formats! Read and write support is provided for over 70 formats! Over 100 advanced image manipulation and processing features are present. All the standard features are provided (crop, resize, resample, rotate, print, zoom, flip, mirror, etc.). Advanced features include: batch format conversion, advanced thumbnailing and thumbnail browser, GIF animation creation, GIF to video (AVI, MPG, WMV) and video (AVI, MPG) to GIF conversion, video editing, video creation / decompiling, video conversion, batch video processing, context menu previewing, 2000+ special effects, Photoshop plugin support, picture index creation, slideshow capabilities, 3D text and shapes, image overlaying, icon editor, optimization, capturing, TWAIN acquisition, filters, photo retouching, image combining, image to HTML macro conversion, color correction, object drawing, region processing, streaming Internet graphics and video, icon extraction, image management (delete, rename, copy, move, zip, etc.), create self-extracting EXEs of images, image palette support, mailing, wallpaper set, image information, and much more!

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