Edit and apply effects to photos and other images; crop, rotate, add text, and adjust lighting.
PhotoPad photo editor is a free photo editing software for Windows. It allows you to edit and apply effects to photos and other images. When editing photos you can crop, rotate and resize and, if required, add effects like sepia tones, red eye reduction as well as the ability to change the hue, saturation and brightness levels plus more.
I was looking for a program to edit photos beyond the limited options in iPhoto (and FREE is a good price) mainly I wanted to change an existing photo to look like a painting and this does the trick beautifully without sacrificing image size quality. It was intuitive to use also.
Cons
LIke the editors review says, the user interface is pixelated and not super good looking but the results were so great I didn't care. Slight lag time when applying changes to photos and I am running 2012 MacBook Pro so older, slower processors might have more of a problem there?