 | Distinguished Member with 10,793 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fraser Valley Area of B.C. Experience: Coupla times | | Look Here First For Free Photo Editing Software I just though it was time to start a thread on where people can locate FREE Image Editing Software.
In order to make it easy and user friendly I suggest posters provide a link along with a brief explanation as to it's capabilities.
I'll start it off.
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This little app called " Image Resizer " ( for XP users only ) is brought to you by Microsoft as part of their Power Toys for XP. When used it will give you three selections to resize. For this site it's best that posted pictures be no larger than 640 x 480 which allows the majority of users to view the picture without having to scroll sideways. It will automatically add a new file name and place the picture in the same folder that your selection was made from.
You can find the download it here on the right hand side of the page about 3/4 of the way down. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx
Once downloaded, locate the file and double click it to begin the install process. It only takes seconds. To use the app just locate the picture you want to resize from within the folder, right click it, select " Resize Pictures ", choose the preset size you want and it's done.
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| | Distinguished Member with 2,503 posts. | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Pennsylvania Experience: What's the shiny red button for? <click> | | Gimp - http://www.gimp.org Quote: |
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
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Neat Image - http://www.neatimage.com/index.html Quote: |
Neat Image is a filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, astro) and high-speed (sport, action) photography. It is a tool for both professional photographers and digital image processing enthusiasts
| This is one of my favorites, the freeware version is slightly limited such as only being able to output high quality jpg's instead of lossless formats but for final processing of an image it's outstanding. I do a lot of video work and frequently use screenshots from the video in other applications and this is invaluable for cleaning up very noisy images from old VHS. Also works well for cleaning images that you have scaled up. Standalone or Photoshop plug-in.
Sample:
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Exifer- http://www.friedemann-schmidt.com/software/exifer/
This is image utility program for viewing, editing or even stamping images with EXIF data. Has some other features as well. | | Trusted Advisor with 23,489 posts. | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Hillsborough county, Florida Experience: Advanced | | IRFANVIEW 3.98 http://www.irfanview.com/
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There is both a free and $$ version Quote:
PhotoFiltre is free for a private, non commercial or educational use (including non-profit organizations).
In this case, registration is not necessary. But commercial or professional use requires a registration.
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Originally Posted by buck52 Kind of why I didn't sticky it at first... Why are you guy/girls deleting posts so quickly?
buck | I had a brain burp and we got it sorted out. How did you know what we did? | | Senior Member with 271 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NW CT, USA Experience: Apparently not enough | | My new favorite is FastStone. It does an amazing number of things for freeware. | | Senior Member with 182 posts. | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Experience: Intermediate |
31-Aug-2006, 09:02 PM
#10 | like that faststone too pretty good for cropping & resizing
no layers and limited text though | | Distinguished Member with 12,137 posts. | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Kokomo, IN Experience: More Input Please |
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22-Sep-2006, 08:44 AM
#12 | I found this free software over at Microsoft Research.
It's in the developmental stages, but looks promising.
I haven't tried it yet, but I think some of the camera buffs here might like to play around with it.
One is called Group Shot http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/
which linked to another app:
Interactive Digital Photomontage http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/photomontage/
This was posted at the IDP site: Quote: |
This is research software and code, and thus very messy and poorly-documented. It is likely to contain bugs. We do not promise that it works, and we do not promise to support it. Use at your own risk!
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Originally Posted by Littlefield | Does it handle .NEF files? | | Distinguished Member with 39,505 posts. | | Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Dayton,Oh |
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