Graphics and Design Category
Free Graphical Art Software – Zip Art
Zip Art is a Free Graphical Art Software Program created by Paul Friedlander. It can be used by kids and adults alike to finger paint, draw, and create beautiful artistic image designs, pictures, and drawings via various included graphical drawing tools and presets. All using only your keyboard and mouse.
Free Picture Editor – PhotoFiltre
PhotoFiltre is a Free Picture Editing Software created by Antonio Da Cruz. This Portable Picture Editor can be used to quickly touch up photos, add effects, resize photos, correct red eye, white balance correction, and much more. PhotoFiltre contains most of the same image editing features found in commercial programs like PhotoShop, and utilizes a familiar tool set. Plugins like Red Eye Removal are also available to enhance it’s Picture Editing potential.
Pipette – Portable Color Picker
Pipette is another great Portable Color Picker created by Stefan Trost Media. It enables you to get the colors from your screen, change or modify the select colors, or convert them from one color mode to another. Pipette can display CMYK, RGB, XYZ, HEX, HSV, or TColor color modes. This tool can be stored and run entirely from a USB device.
ColorFOff – Get Color from Screen
ColorFOff is an Open Source Portable Desktop Color Picker. It can be used to get the HEX color value of any pixel color presented on your screen. Once running, simply left click in the label field and then drag your mouse pointer over any area on your desktop (while holding the left click button), and the HEX value of that pixel will be displayed. The Color Picker can be toggled to and from the system tray by clicking the tray icon.
MobaPhoto – Digital Photo Manager
MobaPhoto is a Free and Portable Digital Photo Manager. It allows you to create professional looking photo galleries for your website or webpages. Additional features include the ability to batch resize photos, correct red eye, batch rename pictures, crop photos, rotate photos and more. More importantly its entirely Free and already available as a portable application.
Portable Tux Paint – Drawing Software for Kids
Tux Paint is a Portable free drawing and painting program that was specifically created for young kids ages 3 and up (preschool age to k-6). This Free Drawing and Painting Software is super easy to use and incorporates an “encouraging cartoon mascot” and fun sounds to help guide your child through the program. Help your child brush up on their art skills and bring out their creative side.
Image Resizer – SmillaEnlarger
SmillaEnlarger is a Free Images Resizer that can be used to resize and enlarge or magnify images, pictures or photo’s while attempting to retain the high quality of the original image file. The tool tries to prevent jagged edges and artifacts from appearing in the resulting enlarged images. If jagged edges are present, the tool can be used to remove them and smooth out the image.
Free Image Viewer – IrfanView
IrfanView is a Free Image Viewer a Free Image Editor and a Free Media Player/Editor that can be used to open, view, edit and convert images and multiple media formats. Use irfanView to sharpen or blur images, cut and crop images, draw lines, circles, arrows, add text, straighten images, rotate images, apply batch conversions, create panoramas, take screenshots, create slideshows and so much more. Supports Adobe Photoshop Filters and many image, video and sound formats, including MP3, AVI, FLV, audio CD, and WMA. You can even use IrfanView to play movies.
Fotografix – Free Photo Editor
Fotografix is a Free Photo Editor that can be used to edit your Pictures, Photos or other images. The Free Image Editor works much like a minimalistic Photoshop, featuring many of the same options without the bloat. Fotografix uses layering and can be used to quickly correct or enhance your photos, pictures and images.
PicPick – Image Editor Color Picker Screen Capture
PicPick is a Free All-In-One Image Editor, Color Picker and Screen Capture tool. Upon launching the software, it resides in the system tray for quick access to it’s tools. PicPick features a Screenshot capture tool, image editor, color picker or chooser, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and more. Moreover, PicPick is portable, so it can be taken with you and run from any PC.
RealWorld Paint – Portable Image Editor
RealWorld Paint is a Portable Image Editor or Free Photo Editor. Much like Photoshop and other high end editors, this freeware graphical editor allows it’s user to edit pictures using layers and assign custom effects to every layer. A layer can have an added text effect, a 3D bevel effect, transparency and much more. One really cool feature of the graphical editing tool is that it always displays a 100% accurate preview of the drawn shape regardless of zoom factor. Tooltips are displayed throughout the user interface to explain meaning of controls.
Font Matcher – Match a Font
Font Matcher is a Free portable Match a Font utility that enables you to match a font from a image or picture. Font Matcher accepts fonts that are in .BMP (bitmap) format. To use the tool, simply take a bitmap image of the letter, select your fonts directory and click Find. Font Matcher will proceed to compare each TTF with your bitmap, listing the font matches by percentage for your bitmap. You can then your suitable font from the matches found.
Pixie – Portable Color Picker
Nattyware Pixie is a Free Portable Color Picker. Pixie can be used to display the HEX, HTML, RGB, CMYK, and HSV values of any pixel color presented on your screen. Once Pixie is running, simply drag your mouse pointer over the selected area and the details of the color at that pixel are displayed. The colors can then be reproduced and used in your favorite color editor.
Photo Resizer – Batch Picture Resizer
Photo Resizer is a Free Batch Picture Resizer that can be used to resize single .jpg images or entire image directories by simply dragging and dropping them onto the executable. All options can be set by the name of the program, making it easy to have custom versions of the executable for specific image resizing (example: photoresize400.exe, photoresize600Q90.exe). New picture names are based on the original names, appending a suffix indicating their size (example: mycar-400.jpg.
FastStone Portable Image Viewer
FastStone Portable Image Viewer is a Free, fast and user friendly image browser, converter and editor. It houses many cool features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, and even musical slideshow creation with transitional effects. FastStone Image Viewer supports BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA and popular digital camera CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG Raw formats.
FotoSketcher – Make Photos Look Hand Drawn
FotoSketcher is a Free photo editing tool that can be used to manipulate pictures to make them appear that they have been hand drawn or sketched by an artist. It can convert your photo’s into either black and white or color drawing or painting. FotoSketcher is easy to use and image conversions only take seconds to perform. This application requires roughly 2MB for complete stand alone portable software installation.
FastStone Photo Resizer
FastStone Photo Resizer is a portable image editing tool that can be used to easily convert and resize images. In addition it can also be used to rename, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images all via the easy to use GUI applet or simple drag and drop operation. Edit single images or bulk edit in batch mode many images (resize multiple images) at once. The FastStone Photo Resizer requires 1.37MB of disk space for installation. If you deal with images, this is an essential tool to add to your portable USB flash drive collection.
Pivot Stickfigure Animator
Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a portable tool that can be used to create simple stick figure animations. These animations can then be saved as animated gifs. Some basic stick figure animations are included to help get you started using Pivot. This tool can be run directly from a portable USB flash drive.
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XBlender – Portable 3D Creation
XBlender is based on Blender (Popular Open Source 3D Creation Software) but contains a wrapper to allow a user to run it directly from a portable USB device. With this Portable XBlender, you can model, shade, render and create all kinds of 3D graphics and effects. Best of all, XBlender is Free Open Source 3D Creation Software that can be stored on a portable USB device.
Portable Scribus – Desktop Publishing Tool
Portable Scribus is a stand alone, USB flash drive installable version of Scribus, the very popular open source free desktop publishing tool. This portable application makes for a great alternative to Adobe PageMaker and can be used to create professional looking documents, PDF files, newsletters, magazines and much more.
XnView – Image Viewer and Converter
XnView is an free image viewer and graphical file converter. It can import close to 400 different graphic formats and can export around 40 different formats. XnView offers it’s user the ability to apply filters, effects, resize images and modify number of colors as well. It also supports batch processing, allowing the user to resize a group of images at once. Best of all, XnView can be run from a USB device.
Icon Sushi – Image to Icon Converter
Icon Sushi is another great Free portable icon creation tool that can be used to convert images to icons and vice versa. It also supports Windows XP 32bit icons, Windows Vista large icons, multiple icons and more. Icon Sushi can open ICO, BMP, PNG, EXE, PSD, ICL and DLL files and can convert files into ICO, ICL, PNG or BMP.
Inkscape – Portable Vector Graphics Editor
Inkscape is an FREE Open Source portable vector graphics editor that sports drawing tool features typically found in applications like Adobe Illustrator, Xara X, CorelDraw and Freehand. Some key SVG features include, shapes, paths, text, clones, blending, transforms, gradients, patterns and grouping. Inkscape can be stored and run directly from a portable USB device thanks to a portableapps (portable wrapper) and should be a part of every graphical editors collection.
CatchColor – Reveal the Hex Value of any Pixel
CatchColor is a handy little FREE portable application that can reveal the Hex value of any pixle displayed on your screen. Once the Hex value of the color you have selected is revealed, you can import or copy the Hex value to another applications or attribute it directly into code such as html. CatchColor is perfect for those that dabble with graphical art work or Website design and need to be able to color match parts of their work.
IcoFX – Icon Extractor Editor and Creator
Now you can create and edit icons portably while on the move. IcoFX is a simple and very easy to use Portable Icon Editor. It is a great portable solution that contains over forty effects for icon creation, extraction and editing. IcoFX was also designed to work with Windows XP and Windows Vista icons supporting transparency.
KompoZer – Portable Web Page Editor
KompoZer Portable is an advanced html web page editor or portable web editor that is made to run directly from a portable device. KompoZer is based on and is a fork of the Nvu editor but addresses many of the bugs found in Nvu. This application is easy to use assuming that you have used html web page editors like dreamweaver or frontpage before.