updated: July 9, 2006

Viewing & Editing

 EVE 2.27 [55k] + Vector graphics editor  

 PictView 1.94 [104k] + Multi-format image viewer and converter. DOS and Windows versions available.  

i.Mage v1.05 [663k] {S} Graphics editor "designed to be a better Deluxe Paint IIe"

IrfanView 3.80 [822k] + Graphic viewer & editor. Tutorial  

XnView 1.66 [898k] + Graphic viewer and converter with support for more than 400 formats. Many *nix ports also available.

Measuring

 Screen Calipers v1.0 [136k] + Measure screen objects in pixels using a calipers  

JR Screen Ruler [100k] + Measure anything on your screen in pixels, inches, picas or centimeters  

Optimizing

JPG Cleaner 2.6 [from 8k] + Strip non-picture data from JPGs. Several versions included.

 jhead 2.3 [94k] {S}+ Extract/modify digital camera setting information from exif JPEG files, strip unncessary data, more. Precompiled binaries available for Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris.  

 pngquant [109k] {S}+ Command-line utility to quantize and dither 32-bit RGBA PNGs down to 8-bit (or smaller) RGBA-palette PNGs, usually with a significant reduction in file size. Batch processing, palette optimization, more.

 Pngcrush [146k] {S}+ PNG optimizer with binaries for several platforms

 GIF Optimizer v1.0 [258k] + Reduce the size of GIFs.

 Trout's GIF Optimizer [365k] + Shrink GIF files. Batch processing, color palette reduction, more. Donation required to remove nag.  

Screen Capture

Screen Thief for DOS v2.01 [37k] + Capture DOS screens as BMP, TIFF, PCX or TXT files.   

MWSnap [601k] + Screen capture program which supports BMP, JPG, TIFF and GIF formats. Custom color depth & quality settings, zoom, screen ruler, and color picker.  

CamStudio 2.0 [1331k] {S} Screen recorder able to save captures as AVI or SWF (Flash) files. (Source code available here)    

Fonts

FontSelector 1.3 [277k] + Browse and print all your installed fonts.  

The Font Thing 0.80 [483k] + Powerful TrueType font manager  

Other

 jRes [5k] {S}+ Switch screen resolution or color depth from the system tray.

 WHATPIC 4.0 [18k] + Command line utility that returns the format, width, height, number of colors, filesize and drive volume of graphic files.

Fatbits [32k] + Screen magnifier  

IconShop 1.13 [90k] + Manage icon libraries

 Nadger 0.5 [213k] + Color grabber which returns hex, websafe, and RGB values. Save colors to custom groups.   

 Resize 2.6 [335k] + Batch resize images by percentage, height, width, or maximum dimension while maintaining aspect ratio. From the website: "The resizing algorithm produces high quality images because it uses all available information from the source image. Most other image resizing software only use a small amount of information from the source image."  

Easy Thumbnails [542k] + Thumbnail generator from the maker of NoteTab. Compressed version  

 Metamorph 3D [578k] + "Fast, sleek, little image morphing utility"  

 YASRT v0.1 beta 12 [890k] + Yet Another Simple RayTracer. Generates realistic pictures from text descriptions. Versions available for a wide range of OSs.