First we told you about photo editors, then photo organizers. But perhaps your current photo program has almost everything you need, and the previous free programs are missing a feature or two. Or perhaps you just need a program that will do one specific thing you rarely have to do.

Here are a few very specialized programs that could help in some cases. And they’re still free.

36-Image Converter

This program has some basic photo editing and special effects tools, but it’s not nearly as powerful as some of the editors we told you about previously.

The strength of this program is in its powerful ability to convert photos to another graphics format. Its range is amazing; it doesn’t just convert the usual file formats, like .jpg, .gif, .png, .tif, and .bmp. How would you like to turn your favorite photos into icons and cursors? Well, this program can convert pictures to .ico and .cur formats, which means you can do that.

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Photo Dater

If all of your photos are from digital cameras, then every photo you have probably has a date stamp on it somewhere. But chances are you have photos without dates, such as photos scanned from paper. Photo Dater 1.2 allows you to add dates or other basic information to photos. You can add a date or short text (it doesn’t force you into a certain date format) to one photo, or a whole batch of them. It also allows you to choose the font, color and size of the text stamp, and also allows you to put it wherever you want it in the photo; in one of the corners, or even in the center, if that’s what you want.

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VisiPics

If you’re a typical photographer, you have tons of photos on your hard drive, and most likely hundreds of duplicates are taking hundreds of megabytes, or even a few gigabytes of hard drive space. Trying to weed through all of those photos can be a daunting task.

But VisiPics will do all of that for you. The best part is, It doesn’t just look for duplicate file names; it actually compares the images in the photos themselves. As you prepare to run Visipics, tell it whether you want a Strict, Basic or Loose comparison, and the program will adjust how it will evaluate your photos. After searching, it will show the duplicates it uncovers, side by side. Mouse over any set of supposed duplicate photos, and the preview pane will come up, and you can decide whether they’re actually the same. If they are the same, then you can direct VisiPics to delete the duplicates or simply move them to a separate folder; it’s up to you.

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