What is the best image editing software besides photoshop?
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Well, PhotoPlus is free, but it does come with all the extra tools, layers and such. I use it all the time and have found it easy to do pretty much anything I want with it. Here's the page listing the key features: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/key_features.asp\n\nThey also have a DrawPlus program available with extra tools specially designed for creating new images from scratch.
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We use Xara X, a European graphics program.  It's really easy to use!  And it does annimated gif's too.  Compared to Photoshop, it's a very reasonably priced graphics software package.  I think it's like $60 now.  Go to Xara.com to see what I'm talking about.  \n\nIt's a great alternative graphics program to Photoshop.
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If you're a photographer, cosider waiting for Adobe's new development, called Lightroom. It is organisation and VERY PRO editing all-in-one, specifically for photographs (i.e. not for graphic designers, illustrators or web designers). There is Apple's alternative (only for Macs and 'Books) called Aperture.\n\nOnes listed above are great if you're a beginner. Then again, you just can't beat Photoshop (but avoid CS) - CS2 is much better, or 7.0.
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photoshop is an awesome program for things like that
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as they all said Picasa is what you need , it's free , easy to learn , it can be used to edit , re-size and even search and lapel photos. http://downint.googlepages.com/photosoftware\ni think they are right it is the ideal photo editing software
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GIMP! (if you want a freeware). It's a very good photo editor with many plugings and facilities.
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Try GIMP from http://gimp.org I think. Its a good program about like photoshop but free instead of the $600.00 price tag.
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Just about any of the phote editing packages will do what you want.  Check out these links:\n\nhttp://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/main.html\n\nhttp://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Products/Display&pid=1047025487586\n\nhttp://www.broderbund.com/jump.jsp?itemID=839&mainPID=839&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=print+shop+21&ovchn=GGL&ovcpn=Print+Creativity&ovcrn=sr2br7go581gx2718pi8ai3113+print+shop&ovtac=PPC&SR=sr2br7go581gx2718pi8ai3113\n\nGood Luck
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PhotoShop is good. You can get it at any office supply store.
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gimp, if you cant afford photo shop then gimp is good to use as it is open source. Also if your looking for a alternative for Photo Shop then Paint Shop pro is a good low cost solution. Microsoft is working on a product to compete with photoshop called Microsoft Expression part of the Expression Suite. \n\nThe CTP is free right now and i am sure they will release a free beta when Vista Comes out.\n\nAlso note Any Macromedia products will be replaced by the Adobe equivlent as Adobe and Macromedia are one.
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The best one is undoubtedly The Gimp. It's almost professional-quality.\nhttp://www.gimp.org
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There are lots of photo editing programs. Adobe Photoshop is one of the top programs. I personally prefer Paintshop Pro X. It has so many pre-defined effects that are super easy to apply.
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Photoshop is a program that allows you to edit photos in several different ways, such as removing "red eye", removing the "grain" from older photos, modifying the color and tint, etc, etc.\n\nSorry, but it's not free.\n\nThere are a number of free "look-a-likes", but I've never used one of them.\n\nHope this helps.
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Oh yes.  You have two choices.  There is the GIMP which stand for GNU Image Manipulation Program which will require you to install the GTK+ runtime environment first.  Get it here, http://www.gimp.org/\n\nYour second option is PhotoPlus 6.0 which is available for free as well.  Serif software (the makers of PhotoPlus) make the older versions of their software available at no cost, though you will have to pay for the latest version.  PhotoPlus 6.0 is the closest thing to PhotoShop and I have found it to do almost everthing PhotoShop does.  PhotoPlus 6.0 is also compatible with some PhotoShop plugins.  You can't do better than PhotoPlus 6.0 for free.  Get it here, http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/\n\nIf you are looking to organize your photos and all your media, I like Picasa which will organize all your images into one easy to use program and it also has some editing tools as well, available here, http://picasa.google.com/index.html\n\nHappy New Year to you as well!!
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photoshop is more for digital editing, the basic package doesn't include the basic paint tools such as "circle", or "square".\n\nPaint shop has a quicker learning curve, photoshop has better effect filters.  Both offer comparable packages though.\n\nKeep in mind though that there are a lot of alternatives out there though including many that are free.  \n\nFXFoto (http://www.fxfoto.com/), The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/), Pixia (http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/) and PhotoFilter (http://www.photofiltre.com/).  All of these have features comparable to the tools you mentioned.  See the individual websites for more info.\n\nThe key though is not which features are better (most are coparable), but rather, mastering one tool and it's features.  Once you pick the tool you like best you will be well on your way to mastering your talents.\n\nGood luck :-)
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There isn't a good freeware version of Photoshop. You can download a trial version from the Adobe website or chooes an alternative program like Gimp, which is a free Photoshop-like image editing program:\n\nhttp://www.adobe.com\nhttp://www.gimp.org/
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I agree with IrfanView.  It's small, free and I've been happily using it for years.  Can handle many graphic formats:\nhttp://www.irfanview.com\n\nIf you want more editing features, the Gimp is good at coping with PSD files and they retain their layers:\nhttp://www.gimp.org