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PhotoDemon for Windows

  • Free
  • In English
  • V8.0
  • 4.5
  • (13)

Free and portable photo editor

PhotoDemon is a free and portable photo editor that you can use to enhance your graphic collections. This multimedia app stands out from its competition with its plethora of features and multiple effects. Its rich feature set is then accompanied by an intuitive interface, which emphasizes on accessibility and usability. More than that, it does not require installation, internet access, or administrators. Its tiny footprint allows you to run it directly from your USB devices

Diverse tools and graphics effects

For a free photography app, PhotoDemon boasts an impressive selection of tools. The current build holds more than 200 professional-grade tools. The range of functions that this app comprises is diverse enough to meet your requirements as far as basic editing options are concerned. With the app, you can crop, rotate, and flip images. Of course, you can also make adjustments to your photo’s composition, such as brightness, contrast levels, and white balance. More than that, the app also includes digital darkroom essentials, such as multi-channel curves, shadow/highlight recovery, and content-aware resizing. It even has full support for Adobe Photoshop files. 

The assortment of filters is also just as rich, with options such as blur and distort, embossing and engraving, noise adjustments, and more. It even has artistic filters that you can use. If the provided collection is not enough for you, the app can assist you in creating your custom filters

PhotoDemon has an elegant UI that is fully themeable, with built-in dark, light, and monochrome themes. More, it has a built-in macro recorder and batch processor, allowing you to edit, rename, or convert multiple photos at once. All the tools in the app support real-time previews, keyboard navigation,  custom presets, as well as unlimited Undo and Redo. As benchmarks are showing, this app is also more rapid in editing operations than other editors, like GIMP and Paint.NET

Impressive photo editor

All in all, PhotoDemon is a powerful photo editing app. It bundles an impressive set of tools that you can utilize to improve the quality of your image and make them more eye-catching. All of these tools are delivered inside a lightweight package, which does not need installation. More than that, the design-oriented UI makes it suitable for all users.

  • Pros

    • Impressive and extesive set of tools
    • Intuitive and fully themeable UI
    • Supports batch processing
    • Extensive file format support
  • Cons

    • Some stability issues
    • A few bugs
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App specs

  • License

    Free

  • Version

    8.0

  • Latest update

  • Platform

    Windows

  • OS

    Windows 8.1

  • Language

    English

  • Downloads

    1.4K

    Last month's downloads

    • 35
  • Size

    14.22 MB

  • Developer

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PhotoDemon for PC

  • Free
  • In English
  • V8.0
  • 4.5
  • (13)

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