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Picasa is a picture viewer that has some simple editing tools built in to do tasks such as removing red eye and cropping photos. It is great for computer novices to use to manage all of the photos they take with their digital camera. Picasa is no Photoshop killer, but I put this software on my father's computer and he was able to use it without any problems. Give it a try and I don't think you will be disappointed. Picasa can syncronize your photos to Picasa Web Albums, it can create slideshow movies and upload them to Youtube, and add text and watermarks in your pictures. |
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XnView is a picture viewer and converter. It supports over 400 image formats, so it is very unlikely that you will come across a picture that you cannot open. It also has some basic editing options, such as rotate, crop, brightness, contrast, filters, effects, and more. It can also rename and convert images in batch. I personally think this program is better than IrfanView, which is another freeware picture viewer. |
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PhotoFiltre is a graphics editing program is by far the best and easiest to use out of all of the freeware editors that I have tried. It has a good selection of filters and many nice additions like 'autocrop' that make image creation and editing easy. You won't have to spend much time trying to figure out how to do something because the interface is well designed and clean. I would not recommend it to replace Adobe Photoshop for professional users, but for most people it should do fine. |
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GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. If you haven't heard of one of the best and most popular open source programs, take a look. It has tons of features, filters, brushes, and tools. It supports many different types of files. It can be extended even further with plugins. This is one powerful image editor! This program has support for layers, a very powerful feature that many other graphics editors lack. Layers allows you to make you image into separate parts that can be worked with individually. It also does simple animations with the optional GIMP Animation Package. |
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ArtRage is a painting program where you can paint with oils, chalk, pencil, knife, eraser, and markers. It does an excellent job of emulating the look of the real art media and you can control many aspects such as the size and wetness of the brush. It has support for drawing tablets, multiple undo/redo, zoom, custom canvases, and multiple monitor support. The interface is simple, self-explanitory and does a good job of staying out of your way. ArtRage also comes in a pro version that only costs $25 dollars, which is much cheaper than the real world costs of paint, brushes, and canvas. The pro version comes with more brushes, metalic paints, rulers, stencils, support for layers and Photoshop documents. |
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