HeliosPaint

Many designers and photographers use professional editors, like Corel or Photoshop, for photographic editing and desinging. But for the users that don't want to learn how to use an application as complex as the one named above, there are other tools that can offer good results and to make it even better, they are free.

  HeliosPaint is one of these examples, because apart from being a simple free editor, it is completely written in Java, so it can work on any platform and it doesn't use up too many of our systems resources.

  The program offers the basic editing tools, is compatible with nearly all the common image formats (.bmp, .gif, .jpg/jpeg, .pct/pict, .pcx, .pgm, .png, .ppm, .psd, .ras, .tga, .tif/tiff, .wbmp and .xpm)  and the option to export our work to PDF, so we can share it with anyone over Internet without worrying about it being edited.

  Other practical features are that HeliosPaint can print an image adjusting the image to the page, pixed by pixel editing or element editing using transparency.