Photo Mud
Photo Mud is a very nice program. You can have a free copy and use it all you want. There is no DRM, Copy Protection, Authentication, Product Key, or other nonsense.Click here to download Photo Mud -- Version 6, October 9, 2019
There are no guarantees, but I would like to hear from you if you have any problems, questions, comments, suggestions, or general harassment: bob@xpda.com
Most people use Photo Mud to browse and edit photos. Actually, most people have never even heard of Photo Mud, but those that use it generally use it for photo browsing and editing. You can also use Photo Mud for various image tasks such merging black and white photos from filtered cameras on NASA spacecraft into single color images, finding duplicate images on your hard drive, printing a calendar with all your relatives' birthdays and ages (except your annoying kids), or adding comments to your images so they can be printed, displayed on your calendar, or output to a thumbnail web page.
The thumbnail web page use images you select from one or more folders, and automatically make thumbnail copies at a specified resolution, such as 240x180. You can add captions, or import comments from the image. You can also import date, time, latitude, longitude, and altitude from the .jpg information. The thumbnails can be displayed with a dropped shadow, and you can specify colors, borders, etc. Here's an example of a web page generated by Photo Mud. Here's another.
The calendar function is pretty nice because you can maintain a file with your own birthdays and special dates. Photo Mud normally prints out the age of the person along with the birthday. You can also add holidays, moon phases, eclipses, and Turing Award Winner birthdays automatically. Beethoven's birthday is included at no extra charge.
Photo Mud has splendid batch processing capability. For example, last week I had a folder with a some photos in it, from a web page. The web page was old, and the photos were lower resolution (800x600) than I now prefer (1600x1200). I automatically tagged photos with identical names in the folders containing the original photos. I made copies of the tagged photos at 1600x1200 resolution, and then copied the comments from the old 800x600 photos to the new 1600x1200 photos. It was easy! If you didn't follow all of that, just pretend you did and act impressed.
Enough sales pitch. Here are is a partial feature list:
- The Explorer-type interface makes browsing photos easy in thumbnail or details mode.
- Print single or multiple photos, with one or more photos per page.
- Email one or more photos, optional resize.
- Tag photos in one or more folders for batch operations: email, printing, thumbnail web page, file conversion, color adjustment, resizing, and calendar creation.
- Flexible user interface with customizable toolbars, draggable windows, etc.
- Extensive support for internal photo information, including Exif information, maker notes, XMP, GPS data, and IPTC captions.
- Create thumbnail web page, automatically linking to full-size photos from thumbnails. This has options to extract comments, date, time, and GPS altitude and coordinates from the photos, automatic Google Map links from GPS data, and Google Analytics support. Several options for text, thumbnails, and color are available.
- Create a slide show, with fade transitions and speed selection.
- Create Windows wallpaper
- Search for photos using comments.
- Search for duplicate photos using the image itself.
- Print photo calendars with custom dates, birthdays, holidays, and other events.
- Create a photo mosaic -- a copy of a photo consisting of many smaller photos.
- Direct scanner support is included.
- Fast, simple user interface for zoom and pan, with multilevel undo for editing operations.
- Extensive help system
- Combine photos using average, add, multiply, replace, minimum, maximum, or, xor, subtract, and divide operations.
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Image Editing
- Resize
- Crop
- Flip
- Rotate
- Stretch
- Blur
- Sharpen
- Noise removal
- Edge detection
- Create and apply your own image filters. It's fun.
- Red eye removal
- Special effects (emboss, posterize, mosaic, solarize, intensity detect, add random noise)
- Artistic effects (balls, bricks, clouds, colored pencil, gas plasma, glass cells, impressionist, lens flare, pixellate, pointillist, polar transformation, puzzle pieces, rev effect, ripples, segment by color, shadow, skew, swirl, warp, water reflections, wave effect, wind effect, zoom wave)
- Border
- Expand
- Paste a new image from the clipboard into Photo Mud
- Merge color separations
- Color Editing
- Auto Enhance
- Brightness, contrast, saturation
- Color adjustment
- Histogram adjustment
- Hue, saturation, intensity
- Light amplifier
- Halftone
- Grayscale
- Negative
- Sepia
- Drawing
- Draw text, line, curve, arrow, circle, box, and sketch
- Line patterns and line width
- Color sample
- Fill selected area
- Fill area of similar color
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Photo Mud reads most image file formats:
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
- TIFF (.tif, .tiff)
- Raw Photos (various extensions)
- PNG (.png)
- GIF (.gif), including multipage and animation
- Photo CD (.pcd)
- Targa (.tga)
- Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
- Windows Cursor (.cur)
- Windows Icon (.ico)
- PCX (.pcx)
- Enhanced Metafile (.emf)
- Encapulated Postscript (.eps)
- Mac Pict (.pct)
- Photoshop (.psd)
- Commodore 64 Koala format (.koa)
- Amiga IFF (.iff, .lbm)
- Multiple Network Graphics (.mng)
- Portable Bitmap (.pbm)
- Portable Graymap (.pgm)
- Portable Pixelmap (.ppm)
- Sun Rasterfile (.ras)
- Wireless Bitmap (.wbmp)
- Dr. Halo (.cut)
- X11 Bitmap Format (.xbm)
- X11 Pixmap Format (.xpm)
- DirectDraw Surface (.dds)
- High Dynamic Range (.hdr)
- Raw Fax format CCITT G3 (.g3)
- Silicon Graphics SGI image format (.sgi)
- OpenEXR format (.exr)
- JPEG-2000 format (.j2k, .j2c)
- JPEG-2000 format (.jp2)
- Portable FloatMap (.pfm)
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Photo Mud saves to the following file formats:
- JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
- TIFF (.tif, .tiff)
- PNG (.png)
- GIF (.gif), including multipage and animation
- Targa (.tga)
- Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
- Windows Cursor (.cur)
- Windows Icon (.ico)
- PCX (.pcx)
- Photo Mud runs on Windows versions less than 15 years old, including Windows 10, 7, XP, and Vista. It does not run on Windows 98 or earlier.