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Poladroid - The Easiest and Funniest Polaroid Image Maker

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PoladroidDo you miss the days of the Polaroid camera, when you took a picture and a print came out instantly (or after giving it a few shakes)? Do you like the look of photographs taken back in the day? Now, in just three simple steps, you can indulge in that nostalgia. Poladroid is a Polaroid Image Maker, a simple program which allows you to take photos and turn them into Polaroid pictures almost instantly. All you need to do is drag and drop your photo to the program to get a Polaroid version of the original picture!

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Picasa - a free photo editor & organizer from Google

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picasa_logoPicasa is a great free beginner to intermediate software for photography enthusiasts from Google. It allows you to do almost everything imaginable with your pictures - import from digital devices, automatically organize into albums by date, print, edit, compress, create collages, slide shows and even edit with the short videos you've taken with your digital camera. You can even email your creations directly from the build it mail client or upload them into either the Picasa Albums Online or YouTube to share with friends and family.

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Inkscape - free & open source vector graphics editor

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Inkscape is a great free & open source alternative to expensive Adobe & Corel programs. It has similar capabilities to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. If you've ever thought about learning graphic design on your own, Inkscape is the program to have. It not only has a full range professional features, but it's extensive user documentation & multitude of tutorials available online will never let you get lost.

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ImageSizer - a quick way to batch-resize your photos & compress into one zip

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ImageSizer is one of the easiest photo tools I've used in a long time. It serves a simple purpose of batch resizing your pictures and then either saving them in a folder or compressing to a .zip file. So simple, yet so useful. If you ever find yourself gathering images from across different folders for somebody and you want to have a nice preview of what you've collected and then be able to save all of them in a uniform way - ImageSizer is your app. One of the newest features includes the ability to crop your images on a fly (very helpful) and the creator of this nifty tool, James Ford, promises many more to come - like a rotate function, Twitter and Flickr uploading, JPEG file metadata editing and an image enhancing tool.

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Pencil - An incredible animation tool

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pencil.appEver feel like creating a great animation or drawing, but don't have Adobe Flash or Illustrator? Or maybe you have them, but you know they will take forever to open and set up when all you need is a quick canvas to work on. These situations are where the free, open source Pencil application comes in. This multiplatform application allows for quick and easy animations and drawings, using both bitmap and vector graphics. It's only real limitation is your talent and imagination.

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Gimp - a free & open source photo retouching and authoring software

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GIMP means GNU Image Manipulation Program. It was first released in 1996 by two students from Berkeley University and it has been getting better and more widely used ever since. This freely distributed program is used for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It offers all the basic and many of the advanced features of applications like Adobe Photoshop: layers, channels, paths, different painting tools, etc. so it can be a perfect tool for both beginners and professionals.

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