As we know, the well-known image editor is Adobe Photoshop. It’s very powerful and I think it is the most popular image editor in the world. The consequence is the price is far from cheap. It’s fair enough I think. But, as user, the control is in ours. We are free to choose which one the best for us. There are two choices, using free online image editor or install freeware image editor. Based on the title, we will only talk about freeware image editor (We had shared powerful and free online editor in another article before). Ok, let’s begin…
1. Photos Pos Pro (http://www.photopos.com)
Photo Pos Pro allows you easily create, edit, enhance, print, and manipulate your digital photos and computer graphics, and easily create eye-catching graphics, beautiful collages, greeting cards, business cards, website designs, buttons and much more. We decided to comply with our tens thousands of satisfied users and turn Photo Pos Pro into a freeware.
System requirements:
Pentium(R) 350Mhz/equivalent processor or faster.
256 MB of RAM.
300 MB of free disk space.
16-bit color display adapter.
800×600 resolution.
Windows 98/Me/XP/Vista.
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2. Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net)
“Paint.NET is just about perfect …”- Lifehacker (June 2010)
“Impressive.” – PC World, Top 100 Products of 2007
“It raises the quality bar,” – Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
System Requirements:
Windows 7 (recommended), or Windows XP SP3, or Windows Vista SP1+, or newer.
800MHz processor (CPU). 512MB RAM. 1024 x 768 screen resolution. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (free download from Microsoft).
Download from dotpdn.com:
3. Photoscape (http://www.photoscape.org)
Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos. Photoscape is provided free of charge. We are always upgrading Photoscape. This software is Microsoft Windows compatible. (Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7).
Interested? Click here to download.
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4. GIMP (http://www.gimp.org)
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It 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.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
Download FREE GIMP here (for Windows, Unix/Linux, MacOS)!
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5. Pixia (http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/index.html)
This website is to introduce a graphic software, Pixia. The original Japanese Edition was created and developed by the author, Isao Maruoka, but has also been aggressively raised by its fans, which makes this software to be quite unique and different from other tools.
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Many ways to do photo manipulation, now many online services that provide services for photo manipulation, but I prefer to use Photoshop to perform manipulation. Photoshop tutorials are very interesting to learn. With Photoshop we can create to generate a variety of photo look more attractive.