PhotoDemon is an ultra-lightweight, installation-free, open-source photo editor. PhotoDemon is only 14 MB in size, but provides comprehensive photo editing tools.It runs on any Windows machine (XP to Win 11) as a portable application, you can put it on a USB drive or SD card and take it with you becauseit doesn’t need to be installedand does not require administrator privileges to run.

Integrated macro recording and batch processing

Complex editing actions can be recorded as macros (similar to Office software). The built-in batch processor lets you apply macros to entire folders of images.

Availability

The usability nightmare of many open source photo editors. PhotoDemon tries to avoid usability issues such as support for live effect previews, saving/loading presets on all tools, unlimited undo/redo, “fade last action”, keyboard accelerator, mouse wheel and X button support, and descriptive Small touches like icons make it fast and easy to use.

Professional-grade features and tools

• Extensive file format support including Adobe Photoshop (PSD), Corel PaintShop Pro (PSP), GIMP (XCF) and all major camera RAW formats
• Advanced multi-layer support, including editable text layers and non-destructive layer modifications
• Color managed workflow, including full support for embedded ICC profiles
• Canvas tools: digital brushes, clone and pattern brushes, advanced selection tools, interactive gradients, and more
• Adjustment tools: Levels, Curves, HDR, Shadow/Highlight Restoration, White Balance and more
• Filters and effects: perspective correction, edge enhancement, denoising, content-aware fill and resize, unsharp mask, gradient and palette mapping, and more
• More than 200 tools are available in the current release.

limit

• PhotoDemon is not designed for operating systems other than Microsoft Windows.picture Wine Such a compatibility layer might allow it to work on macOS, Linux or BSD systems, but these configurations are not officially supported.
• Due to its portability, PhotoDemon is only available as a 32-bit application. (This means it cannot load or save images larger than ~2 GB.)