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Picasa. Organizing Sharing your photos Editing One-click corrections Red-Eye correction Color Lighting Create collages Slideshows Add Photo text. What is GIMP?. First release: Feb. ‘96 GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool.
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Picasa • Organizing • Sharing your photos • Editing • One-click corrections • Red-Eye correction • Color • Lighting • Create collages • Slideshows • Add Photo text
What is GIMP? • First release: Feb. ‘96 • GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. • GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. • The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
Features and Capabilities • A full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning • Image size is limited only by available disk space • Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space) • Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
Basic Concepts • Images • Layers • Channels • Selections • Undoing • Plug-ins • Scripts
GIMP Tutorials • Tutorials • www.gimpusers.com • http://gimp-tutorials.com • www.gimp.org/tutorials
Paint.Net • Layers • Active online community • Online forum • Tutorials • Frequent updates (4 – 8 weeks) • Special Effects • blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing • Unlimited undo history
Gimp http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ • Paint.net http://www.getpaint.net/download.html • PhotoScape http://www.photoscape.org • Pixia (Windows only) http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/download.htm • Seashore (Mac only) http://seashore.sourceforge.net/download.php • Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en • Photoplus (Windows only) http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/commence-download.asp?CommenceDownload=photoplus&navproduct=photoplus • CinePaint http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75029 • PhotoFiltre (Windows only) http://photofiltre.free.fr/download_en.htm