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PhotoDemon 2025.12 is now available. This release brings improved file format support (DDS, JPEG-2000, and PNG in particular), new viewport options, improved compatibility with Windows XP and 7, and numerous optimizations and bug-fixes.
PhotoDemon 2025.4 is now available. This release brings a new on-canvas crop tool, size and location persistence for effect and adjustment dialogs, support for custom font folders, bad file extension repair, reduced memory usage, import/export support for legacy PCX images, and much more.
PhotoDemon 2024.12 is now available. This release brings customizable keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys), import/export support for HEIF/HEIC image files, and more.
A new PhotoDemon release is here! As part of a commitment to more frequent releases, PhotoDemon now uses calendar versioning. The new 2024.7 release includes many new features and improvements, including JPEG-XL support, PDF support (import only, export coming soon!), "magnetic" object snapping and smart guides, a greatly expanded `File > Export` menu, improved PSD compatibility, Japanese language…
After two years of work, PhotoDemon 9.0 is available to download. New features include an improved user interface, multi-selection support, new image format support (AVIF, PSP, SVG, XCF and more), content-aware fill, new filters and effects, and much more.
After two years of work, a new PhotoDemon release is almost ready. New features include an improved user interface, multi-selection support, full support for new image formats (AVIF, PSP, SVG, XCF and more), content-aware fill, new filters and effects, and much more.
2021 was an exciting year for PhotoDemon. Here's a list of all the new features and improvements that made their way into nightly builds over the past year...
PhotoDemon now has a new public forum! The new forum is hosted by GitHub (the same site that hosts PhotoDemon's source code), and anyone can participate. You can reach the new forum by clicking the "Forum" link at the top of this page.
Building on top of the recent 8.2 release, PhotoDemon 8.4 is another minor update that brings additional stability and usability improvements. I may have also snuck a new tool or two into it...
PhotoDemon 8.2 is a minor update that brings stability and usability improvements to the recent 8.0 release. It is recommended for all users.