Photo editing software can be very expensive. Why pay for something you can get free. There are a number of free open source photo editing software that can be used as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop.
GIMPshop
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to duplicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
It shares all GIMP’s advantages, including the long feature list and customizability, while addressing some common criticisms regarding the program’s interface: GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop’s, adjusts the program’s terminology to match Adobe’s, and, in the Windows version, uses a plugin called ‘Deweirdifier’ to combine the application’s numerous windows in a similar manner to the MDI system used by most Windows graphics packages. While GIMPshop does not support Photoshop plugins, all GIMP’s own plugins, filters, brushes, etc. remain available.
FotoFlexer
FotoFlexer is an advanced Web-based image editing solution, providing the power and functionality of desktop photo editing software. FotoFlexer integrates with social networks, online photo sharing sites like Flickr, Photobucket, MySpace, Facebook, and other image-based social applications to enable users to access all of their images for editing, regardless of where their images reside.
FotoFlexer holds its own in other areas, namely layering, animations, and scrapbook-like page creation. FotoFlexer’s layering tablet, in particular, is likely the most facile and intuitive available in any online photo editing program, allowing users to quickly and painlessly duplicate, group, merge, and re-arrange at will.
In addition, FotoFlexer has advanced tools and features, namely its RGB and individual color curve adjuster and recolor tool are some of the more precise and accurate found in any online image-editing program.
Picnik
Picnik offers dozens of tools to improve picture quality, countless filters, and effects to stylize photographs and images while integrating seamlessly with many of the post popular photo-sharing and social networking sites on the Internet, including Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, Photobucket and others. Picnik also offers the following browser extensions.
Picnik Firefox Extension
This incredibly handy Firefox extension not only adds an ‘Edit in Picnik’ option to your right-click menu, it even lets you screen capture an entire website and edit it right in Picnik. Great for quickly adding some spice to your blog posts or saving a hardcopy.
Picnik Chrome Extension
The Picnik Extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images you come across while browsing the web. With a click, you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing. Do the same for the entire image on the current page — just pick the image from the dynamic hot list and then edit, annotate and share with Picnik.
Picnik Internet Explorer Extension
Quick and easy Picnik editing access, right inside Internet Explorer. This extension adds an ‘Edit in Picnik’ right-click menu options for all website images.
Paint.Net
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
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