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Paint and Retouching Software
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GIMP
Gimp is an application that is starting to compete
(although still not on the same level) with
Photoshop. The difference is that GIMP is Open
Source and therefore completely free.
It is fast, efficient and full of options and
filters of great quality. You may feel a bit lost to
begin with but after a bit of practice you'll
appreciate its worth. Overall a very good paint
software.
download
RATING:
VERY GOOD
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Paint.net
Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation
software. It supports layers, unlimited undo,
special effects, and a wide variety of useful and
powerful tools.
Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing
shapes, including an easy-to-user curve tool for
drawing simple splines or Bezier curves. The
facilities for creating and working with selections
is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up
quickly.
Other tools include the Magic Wand for selecting
regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for
copying or erasing portions of an image. There is
also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a
Recolor tool.
A great paint application, that can be used also
for commercial purposes.
download
RATING:
EXCELLENT |
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Photofiltre (freeware
and shareware)
PhotoFiltre is an image
retouching program. It allows you to
do simple or advanced adjustments to
an image and apply a vast range of
filters on it. It is simple and
intuitive to use, and has an easy
learning curve.
The free version is almost
identical to the shareware one, but with an
important difference: it does not support layers.
You will have all the filters, etc., but you have
only one layer.
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RATING:
VERY GOOD |
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SplitImage
SplitImage is a free software for
dividing an image into multiple
parts: you can use it for web pages
(since it automatically creates a
tab in a html file), or for any
purpose. It is very easy to use and
supports PNG, JPG and BMP. Really a
nice app.
download
RATING:
VERY GOOD |
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PowerBatch
A good batch free application
for pictures (batch means that you
can modify your pictures all
together: for example you have a
directory with hundreds of pics that
you need to resize, change
saturation or contrast, birghtness,
etc., and save in a different
format: with a batch application,
you can do this in a moment).
Irfanview
and XnView
have some nice batch features
(especially the latter), but
PowerBatch is more powerful, and
with it you can achieve more complex
results. Anyway, PowerBatch is more
difficult to master, so if you need
to do something of very simple, you
had better to use IrfanView or
XnView.
download
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GOOD |
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