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Graphic Imaging Editing Utilities Details Resources Version: 2.4.2 GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program is a free open source piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. One little quirk of GIMP is that instead of your artwork, palettes and toolbars appearing within the application's main window, they each have their own separate windows. It takes a little bit of getting used to, but there's nothing that you can't do with the GIMP. A good example of open source development, but not as user-friendly as other programs. Examplar/Lesson plan: Reviews:
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Developer: GIMP.org (open source) Category: Graphic, image and photo editing Platform:Multi OS Minimum specification (recommended) Click to enlarge
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Corel Paint Shop Pro X2 | ||
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Version: now X2 |
Paint Shop Pro is a comprehensive painting and image manipulation package, Paint Shop Pro will enhance the image editing power of business and home users with speed, ease of use and affordable functionality. A huge range of editing tools make this a useful program. Paint Shop Pro was originally developed by JASC that was bought by Corel in 2004. If you mainly want to correct and enhance photos, Paint Shop Pro Photo XI and is easy to use, with a Learning Center palette to help first-timers. The photo editing and graphic design tools been improved under Corel ownership, there's a brand-new integrated learning system that's easier to use than ever before. A decent program for beginners, but some more experienced users should still find it useful. |
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Developer:Corel (formerly JASC) | ||
Category: Graphic, image and photo editing | ||
Platform: Windows 2000, XP, Vista | ||
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Adobe Photoshop CS3 | ||
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Version: CS3 |
Adobe Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals. Photoshop incorporates raster and vector drawing tools, allowing you to work with bitmap images and scalable graphics at the same time. It has has a high learning curve due to its range of features so it is usually worthwhile to complete a training course to the get the full value of the software. It also one of the more expensive products in this area. |
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Developer: Adobe | ||
Category: Graphic, image and photo editing | ||
Platform: Windows Xp, Vista, Mac OS X, | ||
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Irfanview | ||
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Version: 4.1 |
Irfanview is a lightweight image viewer and editior which is very easy to use and is capable of using a wide range of image formats. It has many capabilities including it's ability to play audio and video formats. It can be used as a simple paint program, although it does not have the range of features that some of the other packages featured above, it still allows the user to complete basic functions of cutting, croping, rotating etc. Useful things you can do with Ifranview is create .ico files for websites and basic screensavers with attached audio mp3 files.
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Developer:Irfan Skiljan (Freeware) | ||
Category: Graphic, image and photo editing | ||
Platform:Windows only | ||
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