http://www.gimp.org
The Gimp is a free, very powerful photographic program like Photoshop. It is an open source program that has been available for Linux users for some time and is only now  available in a stable form for Windows users. You just select the size of the image screen from File.

http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/
VCW VicMan's Photo Editor has support for 30 file formats and the ability to create your own brushes.

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_aifw.html
ActivIcons is a free program for making and using icons.

http://www.harmware.com/
sTILE is a program for making tiles for web pages, but could also be used to make textures for working in other programs like Photoshop.

http://www.harmware.com/
BATCHTHUMBS is  to be found here and is a good program for making thumbnails, as it can produce them with ratio constraint applied so you don't have to guess the size before you start.

http://www.corel.com/freebies/CWPfreebies.htm
I didn't know that Corel gave stuff away, but there is a limited edition of CorelDraw 8 for Mac and stuff for Linux and Word Perfect, as well as a slide show for the web. Check the size of the download if you are restricted, as the presentations package is 70 mgs.

http://www.utah3d.com/products/products.htm
InstaCropper, a freeware tool for cropping white from jpg images such as that from a crooked scan. It has batch processing abilities too.

http://graphicdesign.about.com/cs/royaltyfreephotos/
If you are looking for royalty free photos, then try here. It means you can use them without restriction unless otherwise stated.

http://www.b-zone.de/
Gallery Wizard makes thumbnail galleries.

http://www.b-zone.de/
Splitz! is a slicing program for web images.

http://www.b-zone.de/
Buttonz & Tilez! is two programs, one makes textures and the other makes buttons.

http://www.b-zone.de/
Kaos Rhei is a good fractal generator program.

http://thepluginsite.com/
Plugin Commander Light organises your plugins. You will also find free plugins here too. Harry's Filters are quite useful, at least I like them. They, and Plugingalaxy  come from Harold Heim

http://www.zoner.com/draw3/overview.asp
ZonerDraw3 is a free Draw program that is great value.

http://www.grafxfreeware.homestead.com/fontmagic.html
fontmagic will turn fonts into 3D images.

http://www.daansystems.com/freestuff
Bitmap to Html table convertor for Windows will convert a bitmap to html so it is scaleable but cannot be saved from a website.

http://www.daansystems.com/freestuff
Avi2bmp takes an uncompressed .avi and converts it to a series of individual images.

http://www.hodder.com/map.html
Icon Editor is available here from the download page. There
are a number of other free programs, mainly games.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/library/free/blfree_psactions1.htm
Some free actions to make text effects in photoshop 6.

http://www.senosoft.com/
If you want a free graphics explorer for Poser but it seems to work with all images.
there is one here along with other freeware.

http://www.irfanview.com/english.htm
You can download plugins for irfanview which will enable you to
alter images or watch video and a variety of other things. It is
all free and this is a very good image viewing program anyway.
Three programs for doing just that.

http://www.graphics-tools.com/
PicMaster is an image altering program that can do all sorts of things..

http://www.picture-shark.com/
picture-shark allows you watermark your pictures program for you to secure copyright on your images to stop thieves using them as their own.

http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/
Winmorph allows you to play with your photos or images. This should provide hours of pleasure and get your creative juices going.

http://www.v-d-l.com/index.html
Free plugins and a newsletter when more become available.

http://www.2flyer.com/
2flyer is a free screensaver making program supporting many different file formats.

http://www.versee.com/vs.en/av0-1-graphicsviewers.html
32VerSee is a freeware graphics viewer, Image converter, Photo editor, Graphic slide show.

http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/grsoft.html
There are huge amounts of freeware graphics programs here, for all OSes.

http://www.mightylemmings.com/Michael/JigSawedME/jigsawedme.htm  
JigSawedME is a free (for the time being) jigsaw maker for your computer graphics.

http://towofu.s5.xrea.com/soft/e-index.html
@icon sushi is a free icon making program.

http://dimin.members.easyspace.com/software/imgview2/
imgview2 is a free, and good looking image viewer and slide show maker in the same vein as ACDSee and Irfanview.

http://www.fototime.com/pages/ftDownloads
A freeware album for finding and viewing the images in a folder. Mac versions as well.

http://www.ulead.com/download/freeware.htm
Here is a link to Ulead's freeware downloads courtesy of the Langalist. This will give you a freeware image viewer in the same mould as Irfanview.

http://www.gallantcom.com/cyclo.htm
Have a look at this litttle device for taking panorama photos.

http://www.pppr.sk/rainbow/programs.html#JPG%20Cleaner
JPG Cleaner is a program for deleting un-needed information from jpg files, thus rendering them smaller with no loss of quality.

http://home.arcor.de/christian_grau/dir/
The homepage of a digital image recovery program.

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
These people brought you icon forge which dealt solely with icons, now there is Image Forge, a free paint program for touching up and distorting images and contains many filters and special effects.

http://www.spinwave.com/crunchers.html
JPEG Cruncher is an online program to reduce the size of either a jpg or gif image for putting images on the web. If you don't have a "save for the web" function which reduces file size, then before you submit images to a site try this site. It is free.

http://www.odi.ch/prog/pomme.php
Pomme is a fractal generator using the Mandelbrot Set, create interesting images and designs.

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/winsite/win95/netutil/pixmakerlite.exe
This is the downloadable exe file for Pixmaker Lite. I thought it had stopped, but found this link so try it if you have a downloader, you can copy the URL. There is no mention of the lite version on the site http://www.pixaround.com/index.php

http://mysoft.s5.com/
GiFFY is for converting bmp files to gif ones.

http://blaizfree.net/
Clic is a free icon editor. Use it to make a favicon for the web, and more.

http://www.webattack.com/get/jpgtofilm.shtml
jpgtofilm takes jpg files and puts them in a film background just for display I think. It looks pretty.

http://www.redfieldplugins.com/filterLatticeComposer.htm
Just for those who can't get enough plugins for Photoshop, here is another free one.

http://www.hushpage.com/Icon_Filter/icon_filter.html
If you are looking for an icon editor, this one is free.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/specialtyfreemac/
Some Mac freeware graphics programs.

http://www.xnview.com/
XnView is a free image viewer and converter which can convert more types of image files than you even thought existed. Runs on ANY platform.

http://www.noping.net/kent/osiva/
A free photo viewing program that allows you to display images in imaginative ways

http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.ez?Who=jrulier
This is the page of a French photographer and Photoshop person. Some amazing images and there appears to be a lot of other stuff to do with Graphics including tutorials and free stuff.

http://www.twofifty.net/
A site where you can submit digital art but it can be no more than 250 x 250 pixels.

http://www.free-graphics.com/
Free clipart here. Now Hosting Over 30,000 Free Clipart Images.

http://www.iconico.com/caliper/
Screen Calipers is a measuring program that gives pixel accurate measuring of images or whatever you have on your screen.

http://www.philipp-spoeth.de/index.html#Photoshop/PhotoshopIndex.html#Retrodots/retrodots.html
Free Photoshop plugins. Some quite interesting.

http://www.softology.com.au/software.htm
Visions of Chaos is a fractal generator, with more features than you can poke a lot of sticks at and which I don't begin to understand, but these make great images for tiles or backgrounds or just to look at.

http://www.serif.com/photoplus5/index.asp
You can download a free version of Serif Photoplus 5. This is a good program and you can get it for nothing and if you pay $1 you can get gif and tiff files as well. This is because gif and tiff are licenced file types, but it is cheap for a good program. Lots of tutorials too.

http://www.html-helper.com/
Icon Studio has many features and looks like a good one.

http://www.anokee.com/downloadi.html
Illuminator is a free image viewer and media manager. Can view many different file types, from video, sound, images, and .doc and html files as well. The producers of this software have made it sort of shareware, if you like it, you are encouraged to send them $10 US, but this is not compulsory.

http://www.homestead.com/xiberpix/
Xiberpix is a fun program that allows you to warp images and text and even create animations using this procedure.

http://www.vallen.de/freeware/index.html#
Vallen JPegger is a tool for showing your images as thumbnails before opening a larger image.

 http://xbytesoft.com/index.php
A small in size, free slideshow maker, it has 80 transitions and can take up to 6000 images.

http://www.dmagic.dk/freeshadow/
Freeshadow will add drop shadows to all images in a folder so they all look the same. Can be done as a batch file. 

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/index.html
This site has some free, but mostly shareware programs to enhance your digital photographs.

http://www.fnordware.com/
Two jpeg compression filters that offer much improved image quality.

http://www.flamingpear.com/goodies.html
More free plugins for your graphics program.

http://www.slowview.at/
SlowView is an image viewer like Irfanview. I don't know which is best.

http:// www.vanderlee.com
Photoshop plugins galore. Mac as well as Win.

http://contextmagic.netfirms.com/image-viewer/
Context ThumbView is a small program for showing thumbnails of images without having to open a viewer for each file, just use a right click.

http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
ImageForge is a useful free graphics (paint) manipulation program, with a lot of bells and whistles.

http://www.angelfire.com/ga/bazuka/
Power Albums is an image album manager. Keep your images organised. (I wish)

http://www.fnordware.com/
A free plugin for Photoshop which allows greater compression of PNG files.

http://www.pixvue.com/
PixVue is a versatile image finder and viewer which allows creation of slideshows to be burnt to CD with autorun included.

http://www.stazsoftware.com/futurepaint/support.php
FuturePaint is just for Mac users who don't have Photoshop or something like it, and it is free.

http://www.mediachance.com/
DCE Free is a cut down version of an image enhancing tool designed to make your digital images better.

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/
PhotoRescue is a program that enables you to recover data from memory sticks and other devices used by digital cameras. Even after formatting. As it is only free for a short time before you pay for it, you may need to just hold on until it is needed, but then it will be vital. Mac is supported too.

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/services/webspace/503.html
Free Photoshop plug-ins.

http://www.mywebattack.com/gnomeapp.php?id=105191
Fractalus for those who are into fractal generators and even making movies of them, then try this one.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/3d/3d2/index.asp
3DPlus 2 is a new offering from Serif. They make good products and this looks like a good one. From just extruding text to full animation, this program has it.

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/products.asp
PhotoPlus 5.5 is a photo paint program from Serif.

http://home.pacbell.net/michal_k/exif_v.html
EXIF Image Viewer is especially for viewing images taken with a digital camera and displays all the information contained in them.

http://www.tgtsoft.com/
resBuilder allows you to alter alpha mask bitmaps.

http://www.boxshotmaker.com/
Scott's Box Shot Maker will create a virtual box for your downloadable software or create a book cover for an e-book.

http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/10_oct/reviews/gimpprint021022.htm
Gimp Print is a free printing program for Mac OS X users. Apparently this fixes a flaw in the printing from that OS.

http://www.mways.co.uk/plugin.php
Photoshop plugins - free.

http://www.creativemac.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/10_oct/features/download2021011.htm
Photoshop shapes as a free download, with instructions, Mac as well as PC

http://www.html-helper.com
Thumbnail Factory> what more can I say.

http://www.html-helper.com
Icon Studio new version of this program, heaps of features.

http://www.hotfreeware.com/
20/20 is a really good screen capture program with heaps of new features. It is one of the best I have used, and now comes with all sorts of added extras. It is ad supported, but only by their own ad support engine. No spyware.

http://www.gertrud.com.ar/index.htm
Gertrudis is a program for turning photos into line drawings in a very interesting way.

http://www.conware.org/products/ia/about.php
Make your own icons.

http://www.netoffices.com/articles/software/iomegaphoto.htm
Iomega Photo Printer allows you to print multiple images on one page.

http://mapage.noos.fr/cedricdj/re.html
Resize! is a sort of batch converter to change the sizes of images, either singly or an entire folder. Works on Mac OS Classic and OSX as well as Windows.

http://www.colorpilot.com/magicmap.html
MagicMap breaks an image into layers for different effects.

http://home.bip.net/baxtrom/imageenhance.htm
Image Enhance is a useful looking image editing program. Seems to have a lot of features.

http://www.albatrossdesign.com/products/panorama/
ADG Panorama Tools, 360 degree panorama program.

http://www.croaghross.com/itsatheory/xero/home.cgi
Photoshop filters with a bit more subtlety than some.

http://www.fnordware.com/
SuperPNG 1.0: is a Photoshop beta plugin for creating .png files.

http://www.fnordware.com/
j2k 1.1 is a Photoshop beta plugin for creating jpg2000 images. This is a new compression type which is not supported by earlier versions of PShop.

http://www.erational.org/software/jpg2swf/
Jpeg2swfconverts jpg and mp3 files to swf ones.

http://www.freeimagebrowser.com/
Visualiser<is an image browser so you can find images in files quickly.

http://www.zspline.com/
Zspline is a new way of enlarging images without degradation of the image. It does not use the same methods of interpolation of the image as Pshop and other image programs.

http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
zlibis a new and apparently brilliant lossless compression program.

http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/SmartMorph/
SmartMorphis a fun program for altering your images.

http://www12.brinkster.com/greenkhan/enhancer.asp
Oriens Enhancer looks like a good image viewing/manipulating program.It apparently does anything and everything.

http://www.simtel.net/pub/oth/20663.html
wtmk will embed a watermark in either a bmp or jpg file.

http://www.gimp.org
Gimp is a freeware open source photographic paint program. It is available for Mac and PC and Linux.

http://www.corporatemedianews.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2003/01_jan/features/download13030117.htm
This will get Mac users a load of brushes for Film Gimp. Not available for Windows users.

http://www.nicocuppen.com/downl.html
Nico's viewer looks like a useful image viewer. His Photocopier is really good.

http://www.reddragonsoftware.com/
Exposed will find all image files on your computer and allow you to sort or delete space wasting files.

http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA024811/download.html
Bunny Paint is a Japanese paint program that supports Photoshop plugins, but does not support .jpg files, only .bmp and Tiff. To download it visit the following URL and use the second link from the top to download the English version: - Harald Heim

http://www.xat.com/xatshow/
xatshow is a program for creating slideshows and screensavers.