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Latest stable release: PhotoDemon 2024.7 (zip file, 18.5 mb)
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Overview
PhotoDemon is a free, portable, open-source photo editor for Microsoft Windows.
Its design is guided by three principles:
Portability
PhotoDemon does not require installation, administrator rights, or Internet access. Its tiny footprint allows it to run directly from USB sticks or SD cards.
Power
The current build provides more than 200 professional-grade tools, including layers, selection tools and digital paintbrushes, content-aware fill and resize, shadow/highlight recovery, perspective and lens correction, and full support for image files from other popular photo editors, including Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Corel Paintshop Pro (PSP), and GIMP (XCF).
Usability
An elegant interface built by designers - not engineers - gets out of the way and lets you work. Usability testing drives our design decisions.
Other cool stuff
PhotoDemon comes with a built-in macro recorder and batch processor. Its UI is fully themable, with built-in light, dark, and monochrome themes. All tools support real-time previews, custom presets, keyboard navigation, and unlimited Undo/Redo.
All Windows versions (XP through Windows 11) are fully supported.
PhotoDemon is available in many languages. If your language is missing, please get in touch. I would love to support it!
Recent news
PhotoDemon 2024.7 is here
A new PhotoDemon release is here! As part of a commitment to more frequent releases, PhotoDemon now uses calendar versioning. The new 2024.7 release includes many new features and improvements, including JPEG-XL support, PDF support (import only, export coming soon!), "magnetic" object snapping and smart guides, a greatly expanded `File > Export` menu, improved PSD compatibility, Japanese language support, and much more.PhotoDemon 9.0 is here
After two years of work, PhotoDemon 9.0 is available to download. New features include an improved user interface, multi-selection support, new image format support (AVIF, PSP, SVG, XCF and more), content-aware fill, new filters and effects, and much more.PhotoDemon 9.0 beta is now available
After two years of work, a new PhotoDemon release is almost ready. New features include an improved user interface, multi-selection support, full support for new image formats (AVIF, PSP, SVG, XCF and more), content-aware fill, new filters and effects, and much more.PhotoDemon Year In Review: 2021
2021 was an exciting year for PhotoDemon. Here's a list of all the new features and improvements that made their way into nightly builds over the past year...PhotoDemon forum is now live
PhotoDemon now has a new public forum! The new forum is hosted by GitHub (the same site that hosts PhotoDemon's source code), and anyone can participate. You can reach the new forum by clicking the "Forum" link at the top of this page.