Phantasmagoria is a fun, light-weight image editing application. The main focus is to apply effects to images, along with the basic editing that might be required after a sub-par shoot. In other words, what most of us actually need.

Need layers, vector graphic, and color models suitable for professional printing? You won’t find any of that here. Purchase Photoshop from Adobe instead. Don’t need all that, then don’t waste money on an extremely big worksuite, with an equally steep learning curve. Do download Phantasmagoria however, as you’ll get the functions you need at no cost.

Phantasmagoria is completely free for personal, non-commercial use. It will run on any platform that supports the standard edition of Java, which is about any modern operating system. Extensive testing has been performed on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux Gnome and Linux KDE. No installation is required, so it’s easy to download simply to test it out.

So what are you waiting for? Your images is just beggin’ for some regal treatment. You can even upload them directly to Flickr afterwards, straight from your desktop.

Requires Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or above. Get It Here.