A free portable photo editor focused on pro-grade features, high performance, and maximum usability.
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PhotoDemon is a portable photo editor. It is 100% free and 100% open-source.
PhotoDemon provides a comprehensive photo editor in a 15 MB download. It runs on any Windows PC (XP through Win 11) and it does not require installation. You can run it from a USB stick, SD card, or portable drive.
PhotoDemon is open-source and available under a permissive BSD license. Contributors have translated the program into more than a dozen languages.
You can support PhotoDemon's ongoing development through Patreon or with a one-time donation.
New contributions from translators, coders, designers, and enthusiasts are always welcome.
No installer is provided or required. Aside from a temporary folder – which you can specify in the Tools > Options
menu – PhotoDemon leaves no trace on your hard drive. Many users run PhotoDemon from a USB stick or microSD card.
Complex editing actions can be recorded as macros (similar to Office software). A built-in batch processor lets you apply macros to entire folders of images.
Many open-source photo editors are usability nightmares. PhotoDemon tries not to be. Small touches like real-time effect previews, save/load presets on all tools, unlimited Undo/Redo, "Fade last action", keyboard accelerators, mouse wheel and X-button support, and descriptive icons make it fast and easy to use.
Current nightly builds offer the following improvements over the last stable release.
use merged image
option allows you to automatically generate icon frames from a merged multi-layer image.[Effects > Transform > Perspective]
tool now supports custom forshortening values in both x- and y-directions.For a full list of changes, visit the project's commit log.
Ongoing PhotoDemon development is made possible by donations from users.
My Patreon campaign is one way to donate. Donating through Patreon comes with extra benefits, like in-depth updates on new PhotoDemon features. To learn more, visit PhotoDemon’s Patreon page.
I am also extremely grateful for one-time donations. A secure donation page is available at photodemon.org/donate. Thank you!
If you can contribute in other ways (language translations, bug reports, pull requests, etc), please create a new issue at GitHub. A full list of (wonderful!) contributors is available in AUTHORS.md.
PhotoDemon is BSD-licensed. This allows you to use its source code in any application, commercial or otherwise, if you supply proper attribution. Proper attribution includes a notice of copyright and disclaimer of warranty.
PhotoDemon uses some 3rd-party open-source libraries. These libraries are found in the /App/PhotoDemon/Plugins folder. These libraries have their own licenses, separate from PhotoDemon.
Full licensing details are available in LICENSE.md.