NeoPaint

This tool is 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, layers, alpha channel, levels/histogram, curves, 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.

Whats new in this version:

Version 5.1.2: Auto Trim special effect, added support for bitmap fonts (in addition to True Type), improved support for transparent GIF images, bug fixes and several other enhancements.