This is a versatile editing software that supports creating or modifying photos, animations, filmstrips, and albums. It has custom brushes, Smudge and Scatter tools, Effects Filters, Scanner and camera support, and features for cropping, enlarging, and resampling. It is also free to use.
The software comes with an array of tools and controls that allow you to edit images with pixel-level precision. The preview window with zoom and other controls is incredibly helpful when retouching photos. Soft and patterned brushes, clipart brushes, scatter and spatter tools, and special effect filters are just a few of the various features that make ImageForge an impressive image editing program.
The clone tool allows reproduction of areas of an image for retouching. Additionally, you can clone between two open images, which is a compelling feature not found in other image editing software. ImageForge supports TWAIN device, which offers support for scanners, cameras, etc.
The software also boasts a semi-transparent "Intensity" control that enables painting, text, and pasted items. You can choose from normal, fill-to-border, and color-replacement flood fills with options to use patterns, gradients, and semi-transparent fills. The software offers gradients and patterns, crop, enlarge, resize, high-quality resample, skew, rotate by degree, GIF, and AVI animation. You can even export to BMP filmstrip panels.
ImageForge provides tools to produce and distribute stand-alone .exe image libraries, complete with viewer utility, editor, transitions between images, install programs, etc. You can use this feature to create family albums, portfolios of your work, screensavers, slide show presentations, and more. With support for many image formats, including .JPG with adjustable quality and compression, GIF (normal, transparent and animated), PNG, etc., the software has many more powerful features to offer.
Version 3.60: adds support for GIF and various other minor enhancements.