[abhikerl]

Hi every one, there are many photo editing software. I just want to know which is the best one to use.....

[buck52]

Howdy

It sort of depends on what you are going to do and how deep you are going to get into photo editing...

Adobe Photoshop is considered the top dog and the industry standard but... there are many that are very good for alot less money and easier to get the hang of...

[abhikerl]

I'll try to used adobe photo shop and tried to do a few tutorials. Thanks.

[buck52]

You might have a look at Photoshop elements ...PSE6...

It's darn near as powerful at one quarter the price

[Guyzer]

Originally Posted by rinnii1

Hi
You have done a good question, it’s really interesting. If you get any good reply, so please let me know. So I’ll also get some good idea.
Thanks for your future help.

Buck has given a great reply. What more are you waiting for. Just run out and buy it before they are all gone.

[Dunko9]

Photoshop CS3 but Paint.net is free download ..it just like Photoshop CS3. CS3 is very expensive tho.... here http://www.getpaint.net/ have fun.

[*Torpedo*]

As far as freeware goes the most powerful photo editor available is GIMP, hands down.

It has gotten somewhat of a bad rap from older versions as being hard to install and use. But as far as installing goes, GIMP 2.4 (the current stable version) took care of all the installation issues, as you no longer have to download and install separate parts of the program (GIMP + GTK) because now it's just a normal single installation.

As far as being hard to use, I've found the learning curve no harder than any other photo program. GIMP 2.4 also enhanced the UI to be more user friendly. Some people don't like the multi-window interface that GIMP uses, but I actually prefer that over other photo editors now. A great small program that helps with using GIMP's multi-window setup is AllSnap. It automatically snaps all windows to the edge of your screen. And the next version of GIMP (2.6) which is scheduled to be released in July is porting it to GEGL to make it a more single-window app.

It really is the "poor-mans photoshop", it supports using layers, and layer masks (something that none of the other 40+ free photo editors I've downloaded and used had), supports 50+ file formats, is OpenSource, has frequent bug-fix and feature updates, and has *tons* of plug-ins available that you can download to bring new features to GIMP as seen at the GIMP Plug-In Registry, downloadable brushes, gradients and patterns also, extremely customizable, and works on Linux, Windows, and Macs. In the hands of a skilled user it can produce just as good of results as Photoshop can.

GIMPshop is often mentioned as being more Photoshop-like and recommended over GIMP. True it is a version of GIMP modified to act more like Photoshop, but it's built off an really old version of GIMP (2.2.11) so it is missing all the new more powerful tools that they have added in the last couple years, is way slower than GIMP, crashes frequently, and no longer being developed. So I would stick with GIMP over GIMPshop.

The next most powerful editor though not as powerful or customizable as GIMP would be Paint.net. It also supports layers, and extendable through plug-ins, is OpenSource, but has no layer mask support.

PhotoFiltre is a very good editor to get started learning some of the more basic editing with, and has plug-ins available, but the free version is limited and not going to be updated anymore. More importantly, it's not suitable for the more advanced editing techniques as it does not support layers, let alone layer masks.

[asadkhan25]

I have used GIMP and GIMPShop and both are good, most importantly both are free. I prefer GIMP but for quick edits I usually use Irfanview. It is very simple and fast thats why i like it. You can download it from download.com

[iceman88g]

I for one is for photoshop, expensive? yes. Adobe did a great one in photoshop there will be a CS4 version i heard. Now i would really like to try out GIMP, must be interesting. Thanks guys...

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[Woodham]

like they have said above, Photoshop is the way to go if you are looking for powerful, quality software. but gimp is also very good for its price. I used GIMP to design a yearbook cover for my school, and photoshop to design the title pages. I feel photoshop allows for more. download both and try them out Adobe is very good about free trials.

[tomdkat]

Count me as another Gimp user. I use Gimp on Windows XP and Linux and love it!

Peace...

[tomdkat]

Originally Posted by *Torpedo*

The next most powerful editor though not as powerful or customizable as GIMP would be Paint.net. It also supports layers, and extendable through plug-ins, is OpenSource, but has no layer mask support.

How would you compare Paint.net to PhotoShop Elements? I know PhotoShop Elements isn't free.

Peace...

[*Torpedo*]

Originally Posted by tomdkat

How would you compare Paint.net to PhotoShop Elements? I know PhotoShop Elements isn't free.

Peace...

I can't really "compare" them as I personally don't use PhotoShop Elements, but GIMP's feature set of tools and effects are way more comparable to PhotoShop's than Paint.net's are, if you are going for power, GIMP is the way to go.

[Dunko9]

i used GIMP before...its really hard for me...Photoshop CS3 is much better for me.

[*Torpedo*]

Originally Posted by Dunko9

i used GIMP before...its really hard for me...Photoshop CS3 is much better for me.

If you have money to burn CS3 is (obviously) great. Probably 85% of people that use Photoshop use far less than half the features it's capable of and could easily do in GIMP everything that they use Photoshop for.