Graphics Editing Software?

Graphics Editing Software?

by Tim Allen -
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Hi fellow moodlers,

Can anyone recommend a good quality but cheap/free graphics editing program (Windows compatible)?  I have screen capture software already, but what I am after is something that is good at manipulating images.

I have heard of Irfran View - any comments on this one?  Or are there any other recommendations?  I am on a real learning curve and I want to learn to edit images now.

TIA,   Tim.  smile

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Re: Graphics Editing Software?

by Paul Norrod -
Tim, there is the Gimp for free at http://gimp.org/  (scroll down where it says What about Gimp for Windows?).

I personally like Paintshop Pro 8 at http://www.jasc.com/products/paintshoppro/  which has a free trial but costs $100.  You can buy it for $70 if you are an educator (search for "academic software pricing" in Google).

I am sure other Moodlers will add a host of others to the list wink
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Free Image Editing Tools Re: Graphics Editing Software?

by Robin Good -

IrfanView is certainly one great freeware tool and I personally recommend it to anyone. IrfanView though is hardly an editor, and outside of cropping, resizing, converting to a slew of professional graphic file formats and applying image filters it does not resally give you the tools to "edit" a digital image.

For some great free image editing tools, these are my personal recommendations:

602Photo
part of 602PC Suite a fully working Microsoft Office suite clone that includes a full image editor compleytely free - no spyware
http://www.software602.com/
download it here: http://www.software602.com/products/pcs/business.html

Serif Photoplus 5.5
This is a little Photoshop, including layers, transparency, clone tool, image optimization tools and a lot more. The tools is not difficult to use and the interface is rather simple. There a few bugs here and there but the tool is more than usable. Serif commercializes version 9 of this tool today and distributes the older version for free to let its brand get known. (Nice marketing no?)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
donwload it here: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/serif/ph/ph5/index.asp

Oriens Enhances is a third possible alternative.

I do not recommend GIMP if you are a casual user.

Here you can find some more information:

"Best low-cost and free image editors"

http://tinyurl.com/ys2n8 

and also:

"Feature-rich Free Digital Image Editor"

http://tinyurl.com/2wfdx

"Serif PhotoPlus"

http://tinyurl.com/ytxgg

Enjoy!

Robin Good

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Re: Graphics Editing Software?

by Sean Keogh -
Irfanview is excellent at manipulating images, in the sense that you can resize, crop, alter palletes, change parameters like brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, process images using filters, rotate (to very small angles if needed), resample and so on.

You can't edit the pictures as in adding text, or arrows, or painting over (re-touching) the picture, like you can in paintshop pro or the GIMP.  But worthwhile all the same....and free.


Oxford Beardie
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Re: Graphics Editing Software?

by Nicholas Cutajar -

Tim

Are you using MS Office? If you are MS Photo Editor is great tool that comes with the package. My students use for simple image manipulations: crop, resixe, autobalace, rotate, an array of special effects, smudge, sharpen, etc.

Nicholas

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Re: Graphics Editing Software?

by Tim Allen -

Thanks everyone for the great recommendations.  I have learnt so much here at moodle.org, it's wonderful.  smile

I'll try some of them out soon. 

Tim.

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