PhotoDemon is a portable, open-source photo editor written in VB6. It originally started as a collection of medical and scientific imaging prototypes, and has since grown into a general-purpose editor similar to Paint.NET or GIMP.

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After several years of work, I'm close to finishing a new stable release, and I am *extremely* grateful to anyone who can help test a pre-release build. (A public beta is still a few weeks away, so this is my last chance to catch any horrific bugs. )

PhotoDemon's complete VB6 source code is available at GitHub. You can browse the code there, or download a local copy using the green "Clone or Download" button on the right side of the page (~15 MB download):

https://github.com/tannerhelland/PhotoDemon

If you don't have access to a VB6 compiler, pre-built nightly builds are available at this link (~12 MB download):

http://photodemon.org/downloads/nigh...on_nightly.zip

The usual caveats apply: use at your own risk, please don't edit images you can't afford to lose, etc. I hope the program is largely stable, but you know how these things go...

Because the program is BSD-licensed, you are welcome to use any of its source code in your own projects, even commercial or closed-source ones. BSD licenses only require attribution and a small disclaimer of warranty. If you see anything you'd like to use, feel free to ask for help as it's not always obvious where features are located in the source code. (Managing a project of this size in VB6 is... well, if you're reading this, you probably know. It ain't pleasant!)

Finally, if you do give the program a whirl, please let me know so I can add your name to the contributor list. I genuinely appreciate the help - and not just in this thread, but the countless times that forum members have graciously helped in the past, too. Thank you!