PhotoPlus 5.5

PhotoPlus is a fully featured free graphics editor that offers you all the basic functions and more.

You can use it to create new images or animations from scratch or edit existing ones, using a variety of brushes and available shapes. The program also supports Layers and Masks.

Additional features are Smart Shapes which let you easily choose from a panoply of fully adjustable filled shapes to produce chevrons, hearts, badges, teardrops, moons, zigzags, and many more.

The Export Optimizer lets you see how your image will look (and how much space it will take up) before you save it! Its multi window display provides side by side WYSIWYG previews of image quality at various output settings.

Furthermore the program lets you create HTML image maps and also slice images into multiple parts using the visual slicing tool. Additional filters and plug-ns can be downloaded as free add-on packs.

Overall PhotoPlus is an excellent (and probably the most complete) free graphics editor that will by exceed your average editing needs.