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Photo editing software
Browser - 5/2/06 at 08:37 PM

As title, which is the best for a reasonable price? I'm only doing stuff at home, holidays etc but want to be able to crop/resize, alter colours etc. Advice welcomed

graememk - 5/2/06 at 08:38 PM

paint shop pro,
or
www.download.com and have a look around at the freebie stuff.

donut - 5/2/06 at 08:50 PM

Photoshop is the best!!!!!! Very expensive though but you can get OEM software which is much cheaper!

britishtrident - 5/2/06 at 08:57 PM

For freeware

Picasa (good basic tool very easy to get great results)
http://picasa.google.com/index.html

The Gimp will do anything but is much more complex.
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/


For payware for home use I hate to say it Microsoft is the best for home use by a mile --- both Photoshop and PSP have been left behind

[Edited on 5/2/06 by britishtrident]

simonH - 5/2/06 at 10:04 PM

the new microsoft image editor is ver good and cheaper than Paintshop pro.



But the Gimp is the best for the pice (free)

Peteff - 5/2/06 at 10:39 PM

Free serif software . These are older versions of the range to get you interested but they are perfectly functional.

ecosse - 5/2/06 at 11:01 PM

Try Paint.net
Its not up to photoshop standards but its free(!) and well rated.

Cheers

Alex

akumabito - 6/2/06 at 03:58 AM

Photoshop!

Who pays for their software anyways?

Hellfire - 6/2/06 at 10:30 AM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
For freeware

Picasa (good basic tool very easy to get great results)
http://picasa.google.com/index.html

The Gimp will do anything but is much more complex.
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/


For payware for home use I hate to say it Microsoft is the best for home use by a mile --- both Photoshop and PSP have been left behind

[Edited on 5/2/06 by britishtrident]


Interested to hear your opinion on Photoshop BT. What in your opinion supercedes it - I have Photoshop CS2 which is frankly a belting piece of software!

ned - 6/2/06 at 10:42 AM

The Gimp rules, its just figuring out what everything does as its a very powerful program.

Ned.

Jasper - 6/2/06 at 05:10 PM

Depends what you use it for Photoshop is superb, but complicated to use. If it's just for basic photo editing the new Micrsoft software is meant to be the daddy, very easy to use and cheap if you pay for it. It was very well reviewed on the Gadget Show.

donut - 6/2/06 at 05:36 PM

If you just want to do basic stuff then stick with a freebee but if you really want to do clever stuff then you can't beat Photoshop. here is an example of something i did years ago for a website of mine. it's all handmade so to speak with layer upon layer. All the screws were made and took about 30 mins each to preduce.

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