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Linux: The default image scanning app on most Linux desktops, XSane, has many, many buttons and sliders. When all you want to do is make a PDF from text, or scan a picture, Simple Scan is there for you.

Google today announced that they've acquired Picnik, a great web-based image editor that we've highlighted in the past.

Photos still look great for web-viewing even when they're at resolutions well below the optimal size for printing. Resize and resample your images down to a more reasonable size at Web Resizer.Photo by docentjoyce.

Aviary Phoenix, a really powerful and reader favorite online image editor, used to charge $25 per year for private online image saving and other select features. As of yesterday, though, the Phoenix editor's gone entirely free.

Windows/Mac/Linux: If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the coders of Pinta love the heck out of the Windows-only image editor Paint.NET. Luckily, they also want to make it available on every OS, and are faithful to its just-enough interface methodology.

Windows only: If you find yourself stuck with multiple copies of the same Photoshop project, free utility ComparePSD might help—it quickly compares PSD files layer-by-layer, effect-by-effect to find the one you're looking for.

Windows only: Image resizing tools are a dime a dozen, but free utility Shrink Pic is actually an extremely clever original: Instead of requiring manual processing, it runs in the background and automatically resizes images whenever you attach or upload them.

Chrome/Chromium: If you're running a daily build or development version of Chrome that can install extensions, online editing suite Aviary has a really handy one. It takes snapshots of web pages and transports them to its online editing tools.

Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It's a interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work.