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GIMP or Paint.NET are popular choices.

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Lost User

I find GIMP very good for things I can do. For things I cannot less so. For things that I can nearly do it can be incredibly frustrating. I am quite prepared to accept that is down to my limitations rather than the software though.

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Lost User

Paint.Net is, IMHO, the easiest to use, free, most powerful(for the money) option. Gimp has more functionality but at the expense of a steeper learning curve. Both are bitmap editors Inkscape is a vector drawing tool - which I dont have much experience with - but I'm downloading it for the mac as we speak!

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There used to be a Gimp plugin (Gimpshop IIRC) which made Gimp's UI the same (ish!) as Paintshop Pro's....might help

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Lost User

Protip: don't put words on JPG's.

kid sister

I found GIMP in my dad's laptop.

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But it doesn't process bitmap images - except to overlay vector graphics (i.e. text annotations, draw an "X marks the spot") on a photo. I've found GIMP to be different to Photoshop. On the few occasions that I've needed to use it, it's done what I wanted.

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kid sister wrote:

I found GIMP in my dad's laptop.

Be glad you posted that in the lounge. The reply in the Soapbox would have been very different!

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OriginalGriff

It's not free, but it's cheap - PaintShopPro 9 (The last version before it was Corelized). Get yourself a graphics tablet (WACOM do some very nice ones) and a copy of PSP9 from FleaBay - lovely! But never store images as JPEG - it's a lossy compression algorithm and you will loose detail each time you save, regardless of which program you use. Changing the settings for Jpeg files can make a big difference though! A quick look at FleaBay shows PSP9 new at under £10 (not sure I believe it's real, but...) and brand new tablets for about £20. A pressure sensitive pen and decent software can make a big difference in the quality of your output!

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Mike Hankey

Agreed, use them both and they are great.

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Why am I not surprised that you'd go for GIMP...

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OriginalGriff wrote:

But never store images as JPEG

Yes, 4GB bitmaps are your friends :rolleyes:

Julien Villers

+1000000. Don't use JPEGs for something the format wasn't designed for (photography). For instance, XKCD would look terrible using JPEGs.

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Julien Villers

You sure are working on mighty big pictures ;p Deep space photography?

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Mark_Wallace

kid sister wrote:

I found GIMP in my dad's laptop.

Ah! I knew I'd left it somewhere!

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Chris Losinger

UBX wrote:

Words on JPG files come out blurry after you save it.

that could be a matter of changing the JPEG compression setting. higher quality will do a better (tho never perfect) job of preserving edges. depending on your needs, it could be good enough, though. none of the formats which will preserve edges (PNG, GIF, etc) will do a good job of compressing photographs, so you have to decide which is more important: edges or file size.

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OriginalGriff

What I meant was to save as jpeg as the last operation - and go back to the original file if there are changes to be made. But I didn't express myself well. I don't normally work with 4GB bitmaps, around 700Mb is the largest I have needed. Even that size was a PITA to play with.

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