PhotoDemon
PhotoDemon provides a comprehensive selection of photo editing tools in an 8 MB download. It runs on any Windows machine (XP through Win 10) and does not require installation. It can easily be run from a USB stick or SD card.
Features
- Portable
- Retouch photos
- Support for Layers
- Color correction
- Filters
- Color Picker
- RAW Photo Editors
- Works Offline
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Ad-free
- Dark Mode
- Custom Brushes
- Non Destructive Editing
- Batch Editing
- Photo effects
- HDR Support
- Batch processing
Tags
- Photo Editing
- raster
- icc
- Macros
- Linux
PhotoDemon News & Activities
Recent activities
- tanukileaf liked PhotoDemon
- TBayAreaPat commented on PhotoDemon
Checked layers- that seems easy enough. Wanted to draw rectangle -there's no rectangle tool, but filling the selection rectangle is a workaround. Wanted to fill it white -there's no palette with white (?!?) AI tells me to choose pure white by setting Red, Green, and Blue (R, G, B) all to 255. Moved on to https://www.pinta-project.com/ which I think is rather good for it's lightweightness, but if you really want the portability, PhotoDemon will let you add a color palette.
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- hced rated PhotoDemon
Excellent indeed. The only thing I'd love to disable would be the startup splash image. Does anyone know how to do that?
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What is PhotoDemon?
PhotoDemon provides a comprehensive selection of photo editing tools in an 8 MB download. It runs on any Windows machine (XP through Win 10) and does not require installation. It can easily be run from a USB stick or SD card.
PhotoDemon is completely open-source and available under a permissive BSD license. Outside contributions from coders, designers, translators, and enthusiasts are always welcome.
It is lightweight and completely portable, integrates macro recording and batch processing, provides a comprehensive selection of pro-grade features and tools:
- Extensive file format support, including all major RAW formats
- Powerful selection tools, with support for antialiasing, feathering, and on-canvas sizing/moving
- Color-managed workflow, including full support for embedded ICC profiles
- Non-destructive editing for select features, including resizing and common adjustments
- 2D transformations: advanced rescale operators (Sinc, Catmull-Rom, etc), content-aware scaling (seam carving), crop, rotate, shear, zoom, tiling
- Pro adjustment tools: levels, curves, HDR, white balance, split-toning, sepia, full-featured histogram, green screen, Wratten filters, and many more
- Filters and effects: perspective correction, edge detection, noise removal, content-aware blur, unsharp masking, lens diffraction, vignetting, film grain, and many more
- 150+ tools are provided in the current build.
PhotoDemon information
Developed by
Tanner Helland Licensing
Open Source and Free product.Rating
Average rating of 4.8Alternatives
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- 1,992 Stars
- 233 Forks
- 52 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Excellent, fast, and easy photo editor with a remarkable number of features. I use it frequently to clean up photos and the various great filters are great fun to use on backgrounds for either PowerPoint presentations or my Windows/Mac desktop. Great fun, very useful, and actively developed.
Checked layers- that seems easy enough. Wanted to draw rectangle -there's no rectangle tool, but filling the selection rectangle is a workaround. Wanted to fill it white -there's no palette with white (?!?) AI tells me to choose pure white by setting Red, Green, and Blue (R, G, B) all to 255. Moved on to https://www.pinta-project.com/ which I think is rather good for it's lightweightness, but if you really want the portability, PhotoDemon will let you add a color palette.
Excellent indeed. The only thing I'd love to disable would be the startup splash image. Does anyone know how to do that?
I really like PhotoDemon as a versatile, easy to use, and fast image editor, more powerful than IrfranView or Microsoft Paint, and lighter than GIMP or Krita. In addition, it is open source, compatible with older computers, and portable. A gem of an app that is not sufficiently appreciated.
Simple and effective like Paint.net or Photopea
I never commented here before, but today I have to do it. My photo editing requirements are not many, but I was tired of waiting for my old copy of Photoshop 7.0 to open just to do some basic photo editing. I don't need more than "simple", but I wanted it to be light and fast, like a Snapseed for Windows. I downloaded this program — an it's exactly what I needed. It seems to have all the features I had on my old Photoshop, but it opens in one second and it's very, very light. So, if you're like me and you want a lightweight software to do some basic editing for your imgs on social media or work presentations, this is the app you need!
Limited yet powerful selection of tools, as straightforward as it can get. For example, one of the most important features : W- Magic Wand. By default it can select a leaf on a tree instantly, for example. But it's straight seems to be also a weakness. You can't add or subtract to the current selection. For example: Magic Wand + Polygon - Lasso tool. Correct me if I wrong. 90/100% IMHO.