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Latest stable release: DownloadPhotoDemon 9.0 (zip file, 14.3 mb)

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Overview

PhotoDemon is a free, portable, open-source photo editor for Microsoft Windows.

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Its design is guided by three principles:

Portability 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 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 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

  • Sep 8, 2022

    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.
  • Aug 15, 2022

    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.
  • Feb 23, 2022

    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...
  • Feb 7, 2021

    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.
  • Sep 22, 2020

    PhotoDemon 8.4 is now available

    Building on top of the recent 8.2 release, PhotoDemon 8.4 is another minor update that brings additional stability and usability improvements. I may have also snuck a new tool or two into it...

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