Photo Editor for Windows

Name: Photo Editor
Rating: 3.1 (36 reviews)
Author: Program4PC

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Download.com staffFebruary 25, 2026

This free graphics editor offers a comprehensive suite of tools for amateurs and professionals. Its intuitive interface supports numerous formats, making image editing accessible and efficient.

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Pros
- Supports a wide array of graphic import and export formats.
- Offers 15 distinct filters and effects for creative editing.
- Includes 11 adjustment commands for precise color and tone control.
- Features intuitive tools for rotations, perspective, and skewing.
- Scanner support allows direct import of scanned documents.
Cons
- Described as suitable for amateurs and professionals in a hurry.
- May not offer the depth of features found in professional software.

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GENERAL

Release: April 8, 2020

Latest update: February 25, 2026

Version: 7.4.2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 8
Windows 8.1
Windows 7
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 997,789

Downloads Last Week: 0

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3.1/5

36 User Votes

Warning - Installs 3rd party .NET and other junk!
thebequertoolsJuly 4, 2016
Pros
It's garbage.... don't waste your time with this.
Cons
Warning - Installs 3rd party .NET and other junk without your permission! Unsolicited software and utilities of *any* kind are totally unacceptable. I had to use task manager repeatedly to kill the processes.
Summary
Warning - Installs 3rd party .NET and other junk without your permission! Unsolicited software and utilities of *any* kind are totally unacceptable. I had to use task manager repeatedly to kill the processes.
MALWARE, MALWARE
ZEUS9812September 17, 2015
Pros
NONE, NONE
Cons
INSTALLER LOADED WITH YAHOO SPIGOT BOT MALWARE THAT HIGHJACKS YOUR BROWSER. BAD PROGRAM ANYWAY, LIMITED FUNCTIONS, CAN'T CROP PHOTOS EASILY
Summary
MALWARE!!! INSTALLER LOADED WITH YAHOO SPIGOT BOT MALWARE THAT HIGHJACKS YOUR BROWSER
I recommend it, Excellent for a free software
benpakenhamApril 18, 2013
Pros
Nice and handy, it does all I wanted to retouch my images.
Cons
Nothing found yet.
Summary
Good program to edit images, if you need a simple and meanwhile powerful image editor, then this is your choice.
Simple, but still limited and buggy
YOOPITSMarch 8, 2013
Pros
NOW HAS ZOOM!!! Also, has many nice basic features: resize, rotate, flip. And numerous visual effects.
Cons
No crop tool!!! Without this, even the most basic image editor is not worth the trouble. Undo & Redo are buggy.
Summary
Nice, but still not a winner. Updated on Mar 8, 2013I intended to give this 3 stars. Sorry about that.
Buggy - Not Ready for Prime Time
free_usa_shippingJuly 13, 2012
Pros
Chose this program to use with my old Pentium 4 with Windows XP SP2. Simple layout - similar to MS Paint.
Cons
Buggy and missing basic functionality. Wasted my time using this program. Examples: Saved docs with changes but then appeared as blank pages. Had to minimize program to regain use of PC desktop. Could not find how to copy one document into another (merged) - easily done in MS Paint. A couple other stupid things like this. Switched to MS Paint and got the job done.
Summary
Use MS Word instead.
Better than others
djgoo2000October 7, 2011
Pros
I was looking for a free and handy tool for my daily works, i needed one for charity and it does what i want, best part is its price (for my work which is not commercial) that is FREE :)
Cons
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Summary
thank you guys
No zoom tool
skaizunJuly 4, 2011
Pros
None for me
Cons
Without a zoom tool, this is useless for me
Summary
I clicked on the "squiggly (curved) line" widget in hopes of getting a simple arc in my very small, hand-drawn image. Instead of getting something of comparable size that could be shaped, bent, curved, etc, a huge squiggle ran throughout the inside and even outside the borders of the image! Although the squiggle could be distorted, I couldn't figure out how to change its shape, thickness, or even move it. Not very user-friendly, especially without a zoom tool, which is either very well hidden or an unbelievable omission of functionality (yes, there's a "resize" tool, but that can introduce distortions, both in zooming in, and, zooming out to "restore" it to its original size).
A decent addition to MS Paint
steveweingApril 11, 2011
Pros
Free. Has a lot of features in paint that allow you to add effects to photos.
Cons
It doesn't seem possible to zoom. You have to resize the photo rather than just zoom in and out through the application.
Summary
I couldn't zoom so that rendered this useless for basic image editing. MS Patin is better. Images from cameras come in big. I want to edit them without shrinking the image down and lowering the quality. If you only want to apply a photo affect, for free, this is one of many applications that works well.
efficient, compact replacement for MSFT's paint
MILESCFADecember 27, 2010
Pros
efficient, compact
Cons
nothing for what it is/does
Summary
I use an older XP PC and MSFT's paint quit working. Paint.net has a lot of cool features BUT bogs my old system down - have to close it to easily/quickly do other things. Thus PC Image Editor 4 is very clean and efficient pgm for replacing MSFT's paint.
Sufficient and good for home/office use
wilson_paul_okSeptember 13, 2010
Pros
Very user-firnedly as developer says, very handy and good for home-make images and small editor for my camera images, even works faster than camera built-in app. specially when comes with no money. Thanks guys and good job.
Cons
i didn't get problem with this program.
Summary

Developer’s Description

By Program4PC

Edit images and photos to create your own unique one with a variety of filters and effects.

PC Image Editor which is a free graphics editor which is packed with a good lot of features, so many in fact, that it is almost as good as a professional product and hence is a really good option for amateurs looking to expand their visual experience.

The PC Image Editor is designed to be easy to use and user friendly. It is a product for amateurs and professionals (who are in a hurry). This highly intuitive piece of software supports a high variety of formats which allows you to edit a vast number of images and save it in any format you want.

Starting from the very bottom, the PC Image Editor is equipped with some of the slightly higher level editing options & adjust colors in photos; apply filters such as Hue, Invert, Colorize, Mosaic, Twirl, Emboss; rotations; Perspective and Skew; blur images; sharpen images; and image resizing if you ever want to do a hands on job in customizing your images.

For all those in a hurry, here is a quick look at the features of the PC Image Editor: You can both Import and export various graphic formats, such as BMP, GIF, JPG, TIFF, PCX, PNG, TGA, J2K, WMF, EMF, and RAS through PC Image Editor. While you are at it, you can also apply 15 filters and effects such as Blur, Sharp, Add Noise, Diffuse, Mosaic, Twirl, Emboss, and many, many more. Image effects like rotate 90 or 180 degree; and Arbitrary, Flip Horizontal and Vertical, Perspective, Skew, and others are extremely easy to use and produce only very high quality results.

You will have 11 adjustment commands such as Auto Levels, Auto Contrast, Brightness, Contrast, Gamma Channel, Hue, Saturation, RGB Channel, Invert, Colorize, etc with the PC Image Editor. Supporting Scanner will bring your paper-documents directly scanned and make it ready to retouch.

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User Reviews

Warning - Installs 3rd party .NET and other junk!

MALWARE, MALWARE

I recommend it, Excellent for a free software

Simple, but still limited and buggy

Buggy - Not Ready for Prime Time

Better than others

No zoom tool

A decent addition to MS Paint

efficient, compact replacement for MSFT's paint

Sufficient and good for home/office use

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