You spent plenty of time shopping for the perfect digital camera, the must have lense and of course the bag to carry it all. Now it's time to dig back into the pocket book one more time. If you want to enhance the photos of your next family camping trip you are going to need a nice photo editing program.
Let me suggest a nicer idea, take the $75 - $700 you would have paid for a decent photo editing program and rather pick up more fun accessories for your new digital camera!
Professional photo editing software should not break your bank, especially when you do not have to pay a cent. Thats right, there is a very powerful professional photo editing package that is absolutely FREE! No catches, simply free amazing tools that rival Adobe Photoshop.
Let's take a look at this amazing free software with the funny name "Gimp".
Gimp is a feely distributed program for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Among the many capabilities, it can 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.
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| Powerful yet easy to use interface |
Painting
- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns
System
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
Advanced Manipulation
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
- Foreground extraction tool
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection.
Extensible
- A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
- Over 100 plug-ins already available
Animation
- Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
- MNG support
- Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
File Handling
- File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export
Much, much more!
Get started today, download your free copy at http://www.gimp.org
Get started today, download your free copy at http://www.gimp.org
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