Free graphics editor .. Can't afford photoshop ..

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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Nagy Vilmos wrote:

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

:rolleyes: I prefer Fireworks - but it's not free.

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OriginalGriff wrote:

I don't normally work with 4GB bitmaps

Me neither, but 4GB are the "perceived" size given the way my computer is slowed down. Typical size are no more than 70MB.

BillWoodruff

BarrRobot wrote:

I've found GIMP to be different to Photoshop.

For Adobe's sake, I would hope so. best, Bill

The glyphs you are reading now: are place-holders signifying the total absence of a signature.

BillWoodruff

UBX wrote:

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

The absence of proper anti-aliasing of text added post-facto to JPG's is going to be shyte, except, maybe, at very large font-sizes. best, Bill

The glyphs you are reading now: are place-holders signifying the total absence of a signature.

Septimus Hedgehog

Paint.Net has helped us in the past. The price is right. Gimp? We installed it but didn't like the learning curve just to achieve a few basics. One person tried Inkscape but we never pursued it in much detail but we sort of thought of it as in-between Paint.Net and Gimp. When we wanted to work with icons, we used Axialis' editor. Okay, you pay about $70 for it but it's a very good tool and has excellent support. And no, I don't work for 'em or 'ave shares with 'em.

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Lost User

Thanks all for your help ! I'm using Gimp and its doing a great job ! UBX .

PIEBALDconsult

Ughh, yes. Back in the 90s there were Web design teachers teaching their students to always do their pages as JPG images -- so they always display as the same size regardless of the computer being used. :doh:

Lost User

Paint.NET can also load and save icons, with a plug in.

Steve Mayfield

Photoshop Elements - most of the tools in Photoshop and < $100

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Bassam Abdul Baki

I use PhotoFiltre[^].

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