Free Photo Editing Software

For those who cannot afford Photoshop or any of the more well known photo editing softwares, there's Photoscape 3.5, a free photo editing program that has many uses under the hood. Read on for more.

Supporting all the usual image formats, even RAW files, this feature rich editor is great for beginners or people who just wish to save time editing photos. Photoscape is also extremely easy to use, we had absolutely no trouble understanding the controls and the interface is very intuitive and only lacks the most advanced of image editing options.

For the most part you're encouraged to drag and drop the images you wish to edit straight into the program. While you won't have access to very sophisticated controls to edit the images, you have a lot of basic presets, filters and effects to choose from. Even if you prefer using professional photo editing suites, Photoscape does help save a lot of time on the editing part with their abundant options.

Apart from photo editing functions, there's also a batch editor available to mass-edit your images, and a very handy simple animated gif creator for those who don't want to fiddle with extensive controls for a simple animation. For those young at heart, you can also add funny and cute emoticons and images to your photos that are included in the editor to spruce up that holiday or family picture.

Users usually have the problem of printing out their pictures but not wanting to waste paper. To fix this problem, Photoscape has a nifty page arrangement feature that lets you arrange your images on a single A4 sheet for printing without interference or worrying about wasting paper for a single photo. On top of that, you'll also find handy tools like a colour picker, which allows you to pick colour out from whatever you are currently viewing, a simple screen capture tool and a face search tool that uses face recognition to find similar faces on the web.

Fast loading times, a great interface and helpful tools makes this a great free photo editor that have on your PC for most editing purposes. If you like it enough, maybe you can drop the developers a donation to help them churn out new versions of Photoscape in the future.