Upaint (2mb) is a easy to use paint and photo editing program for those who don't wanna pay $200+ for a commercial package (1.9 is freeware while the new 2.x is shareware)

Eyedropper (200kb) will spit out the html or RGB code of any color you select with the tool from your dektop, freeware

Reptile It generates cool images specially for backgound tiling. Although it's free, you need to register to get the unlock code.

XARA 3D 0.7mb, create 3D Titles with preset colors or with your own texture. You can even make simple rotating animated gif images and adjust the different light sources

HJmorph is a cool app for morphing 2 images and playing it as avi

Irfanview (0.3mb) is a free graphic files (jpg, gif, bmp, png, tif) viewer that allows you to view all images ina directory or view them quickly as slideshow