looking for free image manipulation software

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nothing complicated - I just want to be able to resize, crop and convert images from one format to another.

I've used ACDSee for years - I used to have a full-featured-but-supported-by-ads free version which no longer seems to be available.

if anyone can suggest a free, spyware-free alternative I'd appreciate it.

thanks.

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It all depends what all you need it to do but there are two excellent freeware image programs.

IrfanView is my default image viewer and is excellent at resizing images and it has moderate editing capability.

For more advanced Photoshopesque-level editing try The Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) which is actually quite powerful for a free program.

Cheers! 8)

Edit: from The Gimp's website info page:

This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features.

* Painting
o Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
o Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
o Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
o Supports custom brushes and patterns

* System
o Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
o Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

* Advanced Manipulation
o Full alpha channel support
o Layers and channels
o Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
o Editable text layers
o Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
o Selection tools including rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy and intelligent
o Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
o Transformable paths, transformable selections.
o Quickmask to paint a selection.

* Extensible
o A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
o Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
o Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
o Over 100 plug-ins already available

* Animation
o Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
o MNG support
o Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
o Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
o Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)

* File Handling
o File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
o Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
o SVG path import/export

[freelunch]

thanks. I'll take a look at IrfanView.