In case if your want to make amazing backgrounds using light, fire, neon etc then here are few tools for you to do that. For example the picture on the right was made using the flame tool by escape motion.

Error level analysis can help you work out if a photo has been digitally altered. Photos in a jpeg file format actually lose quality each time they are resaved. We can take advantage of this to try and work out if an image has been digitally manipulated.

ComparePSD compares two Adobe Photoshop PSD files for you and highlights the differences. Layer by layer. Effect by effect. Simple. A must-have tool for Photoshop professionals.

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

SunlitGreen Photo Editor is a free, lightweight yet powerful photo enhancer and editor. It provides an intuitive and efficient way to batch process your photos. The use of regular expressions and actions make the tool extremely powerful.

Showzey will collect all of your photos along with shared photos from your Gmail mailboxes, Facebook account, Picasa albums, and Flickr albums. You can share photos, copy them between sites, make funny captions, create RSS feeds, etc.

Animated .gif files cab be really large in size. If you want to reduce and compress animated gif images upto 90% then here is a perfect lossless compression tool for you.

StylePix, is a free image editor with a number of advanced features just like any other popular photo editing softwares. But StylePix is nice because it only 600KB and portable.This means you can edit your pictures with nice style and less memory load on your pc.

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The following tutorial is a step by step guide on how to use FTP with Windows Explorer to upload content to your Photobucket account.You must be a Pro Photobucket account holder. This tutorial is based on using Windows and Explorer (‘Explorer’ is built into the Windows operating system, this is NOT [...]

Today’s high resolution digital cameras produce multi Megabyte photos. These are great for printing but cause a heavy burden when sending over the Internet. In most cases, the task of resizing images could go to be annoying and time consuming, requiring the use of specific software used for photo editing.