Graphic Packages

Software Tools

Paint.NET

Paint.NET is a photo and image editing tool designed for computers running Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2000. It serves the digital imaging community as a free alternative to the standard paint application included with Windows. It brings powerful features to the desktop, a myriad of special effects, plug-in extensibility, and layer manipulation. It enhances the image editing experience for tablet owners with Windows XP Tablet Ink support. Digital photographers and artists can enhance their images with features and effects such as levels adjustment, cross-layer cloning, anti-aliased tools, motion blur, and red eye removal.

Pedagoguery Software Inc.

A Smaller GIF Pedagoguery Software Inc. provides a variety of free software packages for both Macintosh and Windows computers. This program reduces the size of animated GIFs without affecting their appearance in any way.

UTHSCSA ImageTool

UTHSCSA ImageTool (Dental Diagnostic Science, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, U.S.A.) - can acquire, display, edit, analyze, process, compress, save and print gray scale and color images. IT can read and write over 22 common file formats including BMP, PCX, TIF, GIF and JPEG. Image analysis functions include dimensional (distance, angle, perimeter, area) and gray scale measurements (point, line and area histogram with statistics). ImageTool supports standard image processing functions such as contrast manipulation, sharpening, smoothing, edge detection, median filtering and spatial convolutions with user-defined convolution masks.

GIMP

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. The GIMP animation package, is also now available.

ACD/ChemSketch

ACD/ChemSketch (Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc) - for drawing chemical structures and graphical images.

Updated: October, 2025