FuturixImager is a lightweight image viewer and editor for image manipulation. It supports most of the image file formats and with the help of plugins the image format support can be extended. This also supports raw camera format DCraw.
FuturixImager is a freeware for windows and compatible with Windows XP and Vista. Using this app you can view your photos, edit them with a simple editor that allows you to do things like crop, rotate, red eye removal etc. It can display EXIF meta information of the opened images. It supports lossless JPEG transformations to preserver the file data while allowing you to edit.
The edited files can be saved to variety of formats including common image formats like GIF, PNG, .tif and Jpeg. Other formats it can save include .PS, .PDF, .pbm etc. This can also the save the images as ASCII Text, so this can be used as a tool to convert images to text art.
If you want more advanced editing tools check out previously mentioned Artweaver. [Via Lifehacker]
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