Free photo editing software?

[DaveCarter]

Ive been having fun with iPhoto and Photoshop on the macs at Uni, so Im now wanting to have something similar on my PC (laptop)...but I dont want to pay for it

Can anyone recommend a decent program that is available for free?

Cheers

 

[Adamh1331]

Ever tried Picasa? Its not as advanced or detailed as Photoshop but it does what i need it to do.

 

[DaveCarter]

Nice one, I'll check it out!! Cheers

 

[hufschmid]

Ok can I suggest something?

If you want a free software, you will find Gimp, problem is GIMP sucks big time....

You have 2 solutions here:

1) you go and get a free trial version of a ulead software

2) you go and buy a software worth every penny...

I recommend those ones here because i'm using them everyday for my texture, photo and virtual creation work....

go to the website and download a trial version...

and this one here which is much more sofisticated

 

[kazzie]

Ulead is pretty decent.

My best suggestion, depending on how honnest you are...would be to just get photoshop online.
If you don't wanna risk anything, then just play around with the very decent 30 day trial (full features if I'm not mistaken)

I've heard GIMP was very good stuff, it was developped for Linux though but there is a Windows version. The only thing throwing me off is that it was developped for Linux, which to me, is every multimedia user's nightmare. I think it's still BETA, but as much as BETA can be buggy, it's also forgiving...and free!

Photoscape? I think that's what it's called. I saw this girl's work with it, it does the job.

As for Picasa, I had it for awhile but never explored it....personally, I thought it was just to keep your pictures together and transfer them from your camera. I never saw its purpose? I don't think you can edit with it...can you?

 

[troyguitar]

You can do some editing in Picasa but it's very very basic. It's all I use since I'm not a photophile at all - I really only crop stuff and occasionally mess with contrast a little.

 

[kazzie]

You can do some editing in Picasa but it's very very basic. It's all I use since I'm not a photophile at all - I really only crop stuff and occasionally mess with contrast a little.

Yeah, Im a self conscious facebook display picture-whore...

wait, and a graphic designer


yeah!

 

[arktan]

Paint.net






www.paint.net


It's freeware

 

[rahul_mukerji]

There are a lot of alternatives:

Link 1
Link 2
Link 3
Link 4

The first 2 links have free alternatives and the third link has some pay for software and the 4th link has web based editors (no install needed)

 

[MrJack]

Gimpshop, basically it's GIMP with the Photoshop UI.

 

[DaveCarter]

Cheers for all the replies, Ive definitely got some good options there

 

[Misanthropy]

just downloaded photoshop cs4! time to check out some tutorials, il be a pro in no time