Vistronic

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
PhotoPlus 6 is the fun photo editing software that brings professional image editing to everyone with just a few clicks of the mouse. This free download enables beginners and professionals alike to produce incredible images for print, multimedia and the web.
Great I was working with it right off! Use for web banners and so on

http://www.irfanview.com/ Works
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

Button Maker v1.0 Freeware
http://www.inet2inet.com/
An extremely easy to use piece of software with immediate results. If you are a Web Designer or Games / Media developer and need to create a few Buttons, Bullets, Banners etc. or Hundreds then this is an invaluable tool for you!

http://www.likno.com/
Likno Web Button Maker v2.0
Design an endless variety of 2D & 3D web
buttons with different themes, effects, backgrounds, text options, shadow, lighting, & more.

http://www.gimp.org/windows/ (ahh kind of confusing)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. The terms of usage and rules about copying are clearly listed in the GNU General Public License.

22 Best Free Digital Photo Organizer
It’s rare for me to be utterly wowed by a product but this one certainly did it. When you first run Picasa it offers to scan your whole hard drive (or designated locations) for photos and videos.
http://picasa.google.com/index.html

http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
PhotoPlus 6 is the fun photo editing software that brings professional image editing to everyone with just a few clicks of the mouse. This free download enables beginners and professionals alike to produce incredible images for print, multimedia and the web.

http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
ArtRage 2.0 is a fun and easy to use painting tool for Windows and Mac OSX that lets you play with realistic paints on your computer. You can create your own paintings from nothing, load in photos and recreate them with oil paints, pencils, felt pens, or any of the other tools ArtRage has to offer. You can experiment with metallic paint for gold leafing, sprinkle shiny glitter, fill in large areas with the paint roller, and generally paint, smudge, and smear your way to your very own masterpiece.

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

http://www.ultimatepaint.com/download.php
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
Imageforge

http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/
The original Japanese Edition was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software to be quite unique and different from other tools.

DRAWING
http://www.networknotepad.com/
Network Notepad is a Freeware program for creating interactive network diagrams.
Runs on Microsoft Windows 9x, NT, 2K, XP
Point-and-Click Telnet/ Browse/ User-definable Network Management.
Simple Drag and Drop interface.
Open, Text Based File Format.
Printing.
Linked Diagrams.
Flow Charts.

ICONS
Icon Scanner 1.2
From the developer: “This utility scan folders and drives on your computer and extract icons and cursors, contained in ICO, CUR, EXE, DLL files, icon libraries and other types of files. You can view icons as thumbnails in a resizable window, select and save them as icons or bitmaps. Explorer like interface, recursive directory search, file types filtering allows you to quickly find and save hundreds of icons with minimal effort.”
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