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Desktop alternatives to MegauploadAdobe Photoshop is a legend of a program. Unfortunately, it is also legendarily complicated and expensive, which makes things difficult for the average user. Even if you get past the intimidating price tag, Photoshop's maze of layers, masks and magic tools can make even the bravest prospective user doubt their ability. Surely there's an easier alternative?!
Luckily for us, there is. Most people don't actually need a photo editing program of such epic proportions, which is why developers have created a raft of alternatives that area easier on your wallet AND your blood pressure.
Photoscape - Photoscape has to be number one on any list of free and easy alternatives. Full of features, simple to use and, best of all, completely free, this program is pretty much freeware's image editing poster child. Come on, with over three MILLION downloads in the last two years on Softonic alone, it has to be doing something right!
GIMP - In second place comes GIMP. Somewhat of a giant, despite the odd name (it's actually an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program), GIMP scores slightly below Photoscape because its installation process can be a little scary. Since we're looking for stress-free alternatives, this means it loses a few points, but once you get GIMP safely installed on your computer, you'll find it's full of features and has an impressive range of cool plug-ins that are almost sure to meet your editing needs.
Photofiltre - Photofiltre scores high in terms of price - it's free - but a little lower on ease of use. Like Photoshop, its interface is a bit overwhelming at first glace, but the learning curve isn't half as steep and it is an ideal starting point for budding graphic designers who might well move on to Photoshop in years to come.
PhotoImpression - ArcSoft PhotoImpression come in at number 4 because its major pro is counterbalanced by a major con. This Photoshop-like program is full of features, but way, way easier to use than the original. It'll give you good practice for the 'real thing', helping you to learn the basic concepts of more advanced image editing. The major con? Well, it's not actually free, but you can try it out and get used to the basics. When you have them down, you can move onto the more complicated tools.
Before looking at the last program in our run-down, ask yourself a question. Do you really need a tool like Photoshop? Although you might want to crop a few photos, tweak color balance or create a fancy slideshow, you probably don't need to go as far as seamlessly adding an image of Bigfoot into the pictures of your family's last camping trip in the woods. Photoshop is for professional level photo editing, and most people really don't need such power.
Picasa - If you need a simple and effective photo editor, but not exactly an alternative to Photoshop, give Picasa a try. The newest version of the Google tool is better than ever, and provides some really slick features for ordinary photo editing. It has none of the headache-inducing options of the more advanced editors, but will still give you fantastic results.
I have both Photoscape and Picasa loaded. I like Picasa for the straightening feature, but use Photoscape for everything else.
Well Photoshop is deinitely the best option and in my opinion it is easier than it looks, or at least for me with a few good tutorials I was able to make a really nice start with understanding the most of the tools and then it was all about trying and imagination - with the trying, the layers are really the best thing ever ever invented. I don´t know about photoscape, but I have also gimp - it is almost the same as photoshop, or at least that way it is viewed between those who can do a lot but not everything in photoshop. If you want to try something like photoshop, I´d definitely recommend gimp, for which it also looks similar in design and also HAS LAYERS (yeah, am obsessed, but try it and you won´t wanna let go - that is after you learn to use it) and Picasa, I have that as my basic image viewer, but it can do almost nothing. But as a "viewer" it´s better than windows photogallery
There is also another program i use, wich works way better for me than Photofiltre, Its called Paint.net (Thats the real name, yes) And has a lot of features. Best of all, it's freeware. I'd recommend it.
Other good FREE photo editing software you missed: 1. Paint.Net is free, easy, and loads pretty darn quickly. Useful if you're on a netbook. 2. PhotoPos Pro just became freeware, also has great features, and a more familiar interface than PhotoScape 3. Photobie is also friendly for the advanced user and i think it can create animated gif although I haven't tried it yet. What is a bit irritating for me about Picasa is that I do not want my computer constantly scanned for new images and having them regrouped. I just want an image editing software, not a re-organizer.
There's a big drawback in Picasa that almost nobody mentions while reviewing it. The Picasa adjustment gliders do not start in the middle but on the left lower end side of the scale. So it's impossible to independently adjust light and dark parts of an image. One can only scale up light, highlight and shadow. That sounds very weird to me. It throws Picasa miles back from Windows Live Phot gallery f.i. that's also for free.
i like this software which mean is the very good animation setup
Im looking for a photo editing software that edits and enhances the face of a person....For example, removing dark circles, pimple spots etc and bringing a clearer and brighter tone for the face. I have downloaded photoscape and trying to learn and understand it, but i dunt think it has wat i want....can anyone please tell me if im missing dat option somewhere in the photoscape software or if i need to download some other software dat will give me this option. thankyou :)
Huda, you want the best quality for facial tonal changes and I've looked at all these wanna be programs and i may use a couple but - simply put, if you want it done right - then you need and can feel confident with Adobe Photoshop.
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For dedicated facial cosmetic adjustments, try Cosmetic Guide. For a simple online 'one-click fix' alternative (it also has individual sliders for finer adjustments) with a dedicated facial cosmetic touch-up component, try Pho.to Online at http://enhance.pho.to/
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