RealWorld Paint is a free image and animation editor focused on bloggers and other people who work with pictures and animations online. Notable features include:

  • Support of layers with styles.
  • Import and export of .psd, .xcf, .pdn formats with layers and in case of Photoshop also with some styles (is there any other non-Adobe image editor that imports layer styles?).
  • Ability to use Photoshop-compatible .8bf plug-ins.
  • Many drawing tools (pencil, image brush, rectangle, ellipse, lasso, polygon, flood fill), and photo-retouching tools (red eye remover, clone, shape-shifter (liquify-like) tool).
  • All basic image effects (shadow, fill, outline, bevel, glow, exposure adjustments, content-aware resizing, colorize, shift hue) and some less usual ones like displace or environment mapping. Plus a javascript interface for custom filter creation.
  • Decent gif optimizer.
  • Animation <-> filmstrip conversions.
  • Downloadable plug-ins and media packs.
  • And countless other features.


Download link: www.rw-designer.com/image-editor

There is a .msi installer and a .zip portable version. The installer does not need admin rights if you select an installation folder that is writable without admin rights.

(a review from Raymond would be great!)