DeformerPro
Easy warping effects for your photos

DeformerPro is probably one of the easiest ways to have some fun with your photos and your PC on one of those boring Sunday afternoons.

First of all, bear in mind that this program is mainly intended for people who have little or no knowledge of photo editing at all. Power users may find it then a bit too simple but in any case it works really well for a quick morphing effect.

Simply run it (no installation required) and load a photo. Then start deforming the image with the mouse's right button and see how it's coming out in real time. At the beginning it'll all look weird but soon you'll get the knack of it. The overlaid grid also helps to achieve better results. Just one thing: you really need to be careful because DeformerPro only supports a one-level undo.

Once you like the final image (you can get a better look by temporarily disabling the grid) you'll be able to save it as JPG, BMP or PNG, ready to be published online or shared by email. Just be careful not to hurt other people's feelings!

Though probably too simple for expert image editors, DeformerPro is a great tool to apply warping effects to your photos in no time

Reviewed by Elena Santos of Softonic

Last Updated 15 October 2009
Win 98/ME/NT/2000/XP/Vista
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TwistedBrush Open Studio
Create artistic works from scratch

TwistedBrush Open Studio is a free digital paint and photo editing Windows software package built from the powerful and easy to use TwistedBrush Pro Studio platform. TwistedBrush Open Studio is released as free software that will not expire and is not crippled.

Based off of TwistedBrush Pro Studio, most all the features of the Pro Studio version are included in Open Studio with the exception of features that allow for modification of brushes.

Some of the features included are layers, masks, tablet support, scanner support, over 100 filters, Lua scripting support, a full range im image formats are supported, drawing guides, image warping tools, text support, gradients, tracing paper, reference images, recording to video files and many other standard image editing features.

Last Updated 06 January 2010
Win 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista
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SmoothDraw NX
Natural painting and digital free-hand drawing software

SmoothDraw NX is an easy yet powerful freehand drawing tool. It's a limited yet free version of SmoothDraw. It produces the most smooth and expressive stroke through your tablet. It also smoothes mouse input for who don't have a tablet. A quantity of tools are provided for the tasks from basic drawing to image retouching.

Turn a folder of images into a cool web gallery in a few seconds. A web gallery is a site of web pages to navigate and view your images. Smooth Gallery Builder is different because:
It doesn't have tons of settings which trade pain with pain.
It generates chic gallery pages instead of formalistic ones.
It allows you to design your own templates with your familiar visual tools.
It doesn't require you to setup a project so as to gather and sort out you images in the application before you build a gallery.

Requires .NET Framework 2.0 or above
Recommend a tablet/stylus for drawing

Last Updated 26 November 2009
Win 2000/XP/Vista
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MAGIX FunPix Maker
Quickly and easily create funny pictures


MAGIX FunPix Maker lets you tug on the ears and noses of crabby colleagues, magically get rid of a friend’s beer belly, or give your boss goggle eyes. This free software enables images to be easily deformed with the mouse. Whether caricatures or artistic distortions – the results created by MAGIX FunPix Maker mostly provide one thing: fun!

Open the pictures in the program
Distort any number of areas in your images.
Save them as a new image, mail them, print them, or edit them in other programs.

In a flash, MAGIX FunPix Maker can turn portraits into caricatures and other images into distorted works of art.

“Pimp your body”
Want to pump up your biceps or enlarge another body part on a photo? MAGIX FunPix Maker makes it a breeze. With just a few clicks, body shapes and proportions can be freely optimized, made beautiful or completely exaggerated. Now you can present yourself or others in top form without much effort or high costs!

Photo warping made easy!
Stretch, grow, or shrink details of images, add swirls to the left or right, add dents or make bumps – experiment with “FunPix” on any image. Waves and explosions are possible too. Thanks to the intuitive user interface, even less-experienced users won’t have any problems achieving the results they want. MAGIX FunPix Maker is a great source of fun on your PC. There’s no limit to the experimentation possible with your images!

Note:
After the program is installed, you may test it for seven days. Once this seven-day period has expired, a one-time free registration over the Internet will be required. Once registration is completed, the software may be used without any limits.
Win XP/Vista
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Sothink Photo Album Maker
Create awesome Flash photo albums in a few clicks

Sothink Photo Album Maker is a powerful FREE album making tool that creates photo albums in slideshow mode. With the unique transition effects and fantastic preset album themes, you can create exclusive well-designed albums within a few clicks, and easily share the album via Internet.

Main Features
Rich Photo Formats
The photo formats can be *.jpeg, *.jpg, *.bmp, *.png, etc.
Powerful Photo Editing Functions
Free to Crop, Rotate, Mirror the photo as well as set Saturation, Brightness and Red-eye Removal.
Personalize Your Album
Add favorite background music and set unique album style to personalize your album.
Convenient Sharing
Generate the album as SWF/EXE, or directly upload the generated album to Sothink photo album sharing site.

Last Updated 28 December 2009
Win XP/Vista/7
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Artweaver
Freeware program for creative painting

Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation is thereby so realistic as possible.

Artweaver Features
Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
A wide variety of adjustment settings to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes.
Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.
Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support).
Transparency and Layers support.
Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic.
Editable text layers.
Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling.
History function to und/redo last editing steps.
Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver Standard).
Support for many languages through language files

Last Updated 20 November 2008
Win 2000/XP/Vista
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Ultimate Paint 

Ultimate Paint is a full-featured 32-bit Windows graphics program for image creation, viewing and manipulation. On this page you can download different versions, see what extras UP gives you compared to other paint programs, take a look at its cool plug-in effects.
UP supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, AVI (reading only), TGA, WMF/EMF, ICO (reading only), IFF/LBM and WAP BMP image formats and Twain compatible scanners. You can easily print your image, setting its size, position and orientation.
Win 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
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ArtRage 2

ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. You can run ArtRage on a normal Windows machine with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet. Even better, running ArtRage on a TabletPC takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel.
Win 2000/XP/Vista/7
Mac OSX (see web site)
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