Can't afford Photoshop

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Permalink Reply by Peter Waller on December 24, 2010 at 11:47am

http://www.getpaint.net/ isn't a bad free program and fairly user friendly. -  here is what the 'blurb' says -

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paintsoftware that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe^® Photoshop^®, Corel^® Paint Shop Pro^®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

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Permalink Reply by HEMANT on December 25, 2010 at 2:00pm

 

hello dear 

go for gimp or paint.net  or u can do editing in picassa also :)

merry Christmas :)

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Permalink Reply by Ed on January 7, 2011 at 4:39pm

picasa from google, free

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Permalink Reply by Juanita on January 18, 2011 at 12:18pm

Photoscape is a great little program, light, quick and easy has some fun filters and they have now a clone stamp.

GetPaint-Ive used, it's decent program. Irfanview -which take lots of ps plugins. It doesn't keep raw data and think paint net doesn't either. I tried Zoner (12) from a suggestion in this thread, 'cause I was curious-it seems to do a nice job. I always look for easy and will try out new just for something different, but I always end going back to Irfanview for my viewer and use the other programs for whatever better editing options that it doesn't have....I tried the trial of PS5 and like very much the 'content aware', which i used the most. And once you figure out what you like, a work flow will come into play of your best liking of a program or programs...

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Permalink Reply by Edgar Alegre on January 18, 2011 at 9:43pm

my best advice is to start with the easy ones like Irfanview or Picasa, then once you've learned the basics then you can try programs like GIMP. The learning curve of some of these rich featured softwares are overwhelming to newbies unless you have an IQ of say 200 or higher...:)

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Permalink Reply by Penny Alderman on January 21, 2011 at 11:26am

Find a student and get it legit for 80% less of the cost.

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Permalink Reply by Brad Whistler on January 21, 2011 at 12:22pm

I use Paint Shop Pro for the majority of my editing. Not free but an amazing program if you learn to use it. Online and free ... try Picasa and Pixlr.com. I have used Pixlr and have a friend that does all of her editing on Pixlr, the images are great. Some limitations, but.... its free.

 

I never used Gimp so I cant comment.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Houston on January 24, 2011 at 7:43am

I just bought Photoshop Elements 9 for under $100. US, it is a great program and more user friendly the the CS 3-5

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Permalink Reply by Antisocialite on January 29, 2011 at 4:59am

Paint.net is free and really effective, I'd definately reccomend that

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Permalink Reply by Munsel on January 30, 2011 at 4:02pm

;-)

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Permalink Reply by Munsel on January 30, 2011 at 4:03pm

hi check out www.faststone.org/

Its a cool viewer and has basic but good editing functions and alot of useful functions ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Shaun McCann on January 31, 2011 at 3:15am

Thank you all for your suggestions,

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