TwistedBrush Open Studio (11.5 MB) is one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines available with more than 5,000 brushes. Features include: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, scanner support, drawing guides, dynamic etc. Designed for all types of digital art. Freeware for all Windows versions.

ColorGrab 2.0 (1.2 MB) is a simple utility for finding the color code (RGB or Hex) for any color on your computer screen. Simply choose the "Get Color From Screen" option, move your mouse to the desired color, and click. Has a handy save feature. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ Vista.

GiftedMotion (184 KB) is a small, easy to use GIF Animator that enables you to design animations from a series of digital images. GIF animations can be created from from png, jpg, bmp and gif images. Features include size adjustment of resulting animations, position adjustment of images within frames and animation preview. Freeware for Linux, Mac OS and Microsoft Windows.

ImageGrab 4.2 (635 KB) makes it possible to extract images from all kinds of videos such as avi, mpeg, wmv, live video streams, not encrypted DVDs, etc. Captured images can be saved in .bmp or .jpg format. Freeware for Windows XP/ Vista.

Pixelformer 0.8.2 (620 KB) is an advanced icon editor designed to give you full control over every pixel of your images. Too many features to mention. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT 4.0/ 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista.

HTML Colors 1.31 (349 KB) is a light color picker that displays the hexadecimal, decimal and RGB values of a color. It allows selecting colors and copying values directly from the taskbar icon, and can copy the color code to the clipboard automatically.

WPClipart 5.8 (655 MB) is a collection of 21,000+ high-quality, public domain images tailored for use in word processors and optimized for printing on home/small office inkjet printers. Includes color graphic clips, illustrations, photographs and black and white line art in PNG format. Freeware.

Image2Html 1.0 (470 KB) is a nifty tool that can convert any image to full color text art that can be rendered in any web browser. Supports single and batch image conversion. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003/ Vista.

HeliosPaint 1.2.2 (791 KB) is a paint program for creating and editing images and drawings. Numerous features with support for bmp, gif, jpeg, pict, pcx, png, psd, ras, tga, tiff, xpm file formats. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ XP/ Vista, Mac OS X and Linux.

Active Pixels 2.0 (7.4 MB) is a powerful graphics editor that can edit existing images, create new images, edit or create animation images with layers, optimize images, etc. Too many features to mention. Freeware for Windows NT/ XP/ Vista.

Palette (143 KB) is a simple and handy color browser that shows you the most common colors used by web designers and developers as well as the HEX and RGB color codes. Freeware for Windows 98 and above.

Peacock Color 1.1 (3.2 MB) is an advanced color picker that can get any color from any screen. Features include zoom, picture loading, capture saving, pallets, movie capture, etc. Supports all popular color formats. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ 2000/ NT/ XP.

Rendera 1.5 (197 KB) is a graphics program for artistic painting, photo-retouching, colorizing, and seamless tile design. Emulates common art tools and features an easy-to-learn interface. Freeware for Windows ME/ 2000/ XP/ Vista.

Simply Thumbnail Creator 2.0 (410 KB) is an easy-to-use thumbnail creator and converter. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ 2K3.

AvancePaint 1.2.7 (1.6 MB) is a complete paint program with an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to learn and use. Open any number of photos or images. A complete set of 20 photo-realistic filters and more then 40 textures are included. Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP/ 2K3.

WebShot 1.34 (539 KB) is a program that allows you to take screenshots and thumbnails of web pages or whole websites. Comes with a command line interface for advanced users. The jpg, gif, png, bmp image formats are supported. Freeware for Windows 98 to XP.

HippoColor 1.1 (164 KB) allows you to find color-harmony combinations instantly. Just select the composition and place it anywhere in the bee's house schema. No help file but fairly easy to figure out. Useful for website color selection. Freeware for Windows 95+.

Universal Viewer 1.5.6.2 (642 KB) is an advanced file viewer that supports a wide range of file formats, including text/ binary/ hex/ unicode; all multimedia formats supported by Windows Media Player; all formats supported by Internet Explorer, etc. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2K/ XP.

Image Minimizer 1.0 (416 KB) is an image utility that can quickly reduce image file size, change image dimensions or convert image format.

Photobie 2.8.8 (2.2 MB) is a feature laden image editing program that includes embedded filters and supports many Photoshop filter plugins. Features advanced screen capture tools, supports photo framing and image directory browsing and can create/edit high quality gif animation. Flash player included. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003. Requires .NET Framework 1.1.

Paint.NET 2.72 (3.7 MB) is an image and photo manipulation program. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Freeware for Windows 2000/ XP/ 2003.

WebRipper (543 KB) finds and extracts pictures and media files from specified URLs and saves them to your hard drive. Input URLs or use the web search function to find images based on keywords. Features filter options, depth settings for site spidering, image preview and multi-threaded downloading. Requires .NET framework 1.1 or higher. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

PicuSizer (524 KB) is a powerful program to batch convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Supports many image formats including formats like gif, jpeg, png, bmp, etc. Freeware for Windows 95 and higher.

Toolbar Paint (57 KB) allows you to design your own toolbar button graphics. It can open toolbar bitmaps with up to 64 buttons and has a wide selection of editing tools. Supports 16 color, 256 color, 24 and 32 bit graphics and button sizes from 16 to 48 pixels square. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT4/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

Anry Color Picker (255 KB) is a color picker and color mixing tool. Features five formats of picked color value, 3x/9x zoom of any screen area, saved picked color history, RGB and RYB color wheels, two harmonious color finders and RGB color mixer. Freeware for Windows 95/ 98/ ME/ NT/ 2000/ XP/ 2003.

Easy Picture2Icon (366 KB) is a tool that converts images or digital photos to Windows icons. The program can convert digital picture formats bmp, gif, jpeg, jpg and png to Windows icons (ICO), has support for making transparent icons and is also able to generate icon files that contain multiple icons of different sizes. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Scan2PDF (495 KB) can scan paper documents and save them to PDF format on your computer for digital archiving or backup. It can also load images from your hard drive and combine them with a scanned document, or combine multiple documents/images into a single PDF file. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

Colour to HTML (1.6 MB) is a small utility for finding html color codes. Select colors from any screen using the color picker. Comes with a CSS Script generator. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

MT Thumbnail Generator (198 KB) is a simple tool that can generate hundreds of thumbnails in seconds! Freeware for Windows 9x/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

mosascii m2 (5.1 MB) converts any image into an html mosaic, made out of ASCII characters. The html mosaics look just like the original image except they are created out of colored text characters. Features include image actions and effects. Freeware for Windows 9x/ NT4/ Me/ 2000/ XP.

2 Pic (1.0 MB) is a graphical program for editing images. Functions are clearly arranged on tabs and include opening two images next to each other, merging and fading images into each other, adding frames and effects to images, inserting layered text, adding gradients, etc. Freeware. Requires Windows 95 and above and a screen resolution 1024x768 or higher.

PFE Text Generator (556 KB) is a 3D text builder. Load any true-type font you like and render full parametrized 3D text. Set the lighting and modify numerous other parameters such as font, bevelling or materials. Export the 3D data to VRML and OpenGL source files or render it to an antialiased jpg file. Freeware for Windows 98/ NT/ Me/ 2000/ XP and individual use.

WebSwoon Beta 6 (3.9 MB) captures and creates thumbnail snapshots of web sites from a list of URL addresses that you provide. Features include image size adjustment and saving to jpeg, gif or png file formats, customizable capture delay and more. Donationware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

Quick HTML Color Picker (233 KB) is a color picker tool. Pick any color from the screen. Preview the color, use mouse or keyboard to select the color you want and then get the color in RGB and HTML format. Freeware for Windows 98/ ME/ NT 4.x/ 2000/ XP/ 2003.

Free Web Buttons (624 KB) helps you create high quality web buttons and menus with ease. Set parameters such as as direction, size, color, font face, font style, shadow, alignment, links, targets, tooltips, word wrap, and more. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

ColorCache (1.0 MB) is a professional color picker, color scheme generator and palette management tool. Use ColorCache to select screen colors, create harmonious color schemes, and to manage and share palettes and color swatches. Shareware $34.99 with 15 day free trial. For Windows 98/ ME/ 2000/ XP.

E-Mage for Web (945 KB) is a simple utility for creating HTML image galleries from pictures on your computer. It automatically generates pages with thumbnail images that are hyperlinked to the original, larger image. Customize parameters such as thumbnail dimensions, compression quality, border color and thickness and more. Freeware for Windows 98/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

PDF4Free 2.00 (627 KB) installs as a virtual printer and allows you to convert any printable document to PDF format. Supports up to 2540 x 2540 DPI printing resolution, custom paper sizes, PDF document information, font embedding, automatic hyperlink detection, print scaling and more. The free version adds a signature line to the bottom of every converted document. For Windows NT/ 2000/ XP.

Easy Color Themes (1.93 MB) is a toolbox for designers, webmasters, paint artists and software developers who do visual color design. Grab colors from any screen using a color picker, create your own color list, specify custom color names and export color themes to a BMP file. Other features include screen capture, project support, zoom and multiple color output formats. Freeware for Windows 9x/ Me/ NT/ 2000/ XP.

GIF Vault (2.2 MB) is a collection of over 7,500 32x32 GIF images (mostly 16 colors) all categorized and ready to add to a web page. All images have a transparent background and most are about 500 bytes in size. Images include cartoons, computer, household, building, Sci-Fi, space, smileys, music, animals, insects and more. Free for all Windows versions.