The best Graphics programs
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The best free image browser/organiser
Picasa: http://picasa.google.com/
The best free image viewer
(Note: These also have limited editing...brightness, contrast, crop etc.)XnView: http://www.xnview.com/
Irfanview: http://www.irfanview.com/
Faststone: http://www.faststone.org/
The best free Photoshop replacement
The Gimp: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
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I've had some students swear that Paint.NET is a more logically designed Photoshop replacement, PC only.
Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.
(www.getpaint.net)
but I haven't tried it myself.
There is a hack of GIMP called GIMPshop, which is some guy's attempt to rationalize the monstrously confusing GIMP user interface and make the various menus and tools behave more like Photoshop's. It seems to me that this variant of GIMP was problematic on Windows, but I prefer it on Linux.
OF course, both GIMP and this are essentially eccentric clones of a late-nineties version of Photoshop. Many features I've grown used to in the real thing (like Adjustment Layers and Smart Objects) are just not there, to my great frustration whenever I have to use this thing.
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Thanks lewis.
Yes, I believe GetPaint is very good and less confusing than The GimpThere is also:
PhotoPlus
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.aspPhotoFiltre
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I'm using Gimpshop on linux and vista. It doesn't exactly clone Photoshop but it is more familiar than Gimp. That said, I don't mind standard Gimp. There is only a couple of areas where Photoshop CS is significantly more capable - alpha channels and perspective/distort tranforms, although the next release of Gimp will improve on this.
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@unknownuser said:
I'm using Gimpshop on linux and vista. It doesn't exactly clone Photoshop but it is more familiar than Gimp. That said, I don't mind standard Gimp. There is only a couple of areas where Photoshop CS is significantly more capable - alpha channels and perspective/distort tranforms
...and pathsand smart objects and the Filter Gallery and Liquify and Actions and warping transforms and full CMYK support and adjustment layers and 3D layers and video layers and scale markers and no doubt some thousand other things that I take for granted until the next time I try to do some image editing in Linux...
This is why there was such rejoicing recently when the latest version of WINE permitted one to install and run PS CS2 on Linux. GIMP, at best, has the functionality of Photoshop 5.
I actually had higher hopes for Krita, on KDE (which should port to Windows eventually), but it too never seems to go anywhere.
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Ok Lewis, point taken, and I agree, Gimp is not as advanced as Photoshop. In terms of basic day to day functions though it is pretty good.
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Scribus
is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout.Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
http://www.scribus.net/Inkscape
Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
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