AltPE

AltPE stands for Alternative Picture Editor, a free alternative to picture editor
Here are some key features of "AltPE":
ï¿­ photo editing and retouching
ï¿­ painting with brush/spray with color, pattern or cloning
ï¿­ nearest, linear, cosine, spline, Lanczos and Mitchell image resampling
ï¿­ transparency painting and pasting
ï¿­ bucket filling with full tolerance and transparency
ï¿­ color replacing with full tolerance and transparency
ï¿­ add transparent, resizable, text as moveable, rotatable layer
ï¿­ layer blending
ï¿­ alpha blending of filters/effects
ï¿­ layer transparency feathering, copy/paste and inversion
ï¿­ blending from buffer, file and undo
ï¿­ JPG opening and saving with adjustable JPEG compression
ï¿­ PNG/BMP/GIF/TIF/PPM/PGM/PNM opening and saving
ï¿­ JPEG2000 open/save support
ï¿­ RAW open support (via DCRAW)
ï¿­ background transparency saved on PNGs
ï¿­ mirror, flip, rotate, crop and resize with quality filtering
ï¿­ color, light and contrast adjustment
ï¿­ hue, saturation and luminance adjustment
ï¿­ color rotation and tinting effects
ï¿­ blur, sharpen, emboss, etc, and even user defineable filters
ï¿­ various sort and rank filters including new kuwahara rank filter
ï¿­ special unsharp mask, sobel and prewitt filter dialogs
ï¿­ mosaic, quantize and spray filter dialog
ï¿­ effects and filters applying, image wide or localy as brush retouching
ï¿­ 2d multiple level undoing, redoing and undoundoing ...
ï¿­ single image printing with preview and size adjusting
ï¿­ scanner support with TWAIN support
ï¿­ EXIF JPEG information viewing and preserving
ï¿­ Plugin Development Kit and Spray/Mosaic plugins available with 0.8.7
ï¿­ effects 1, red eyes and interlaced plugins included