Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Alternative to Photoshop

  Lot of people would love to own Adobe Photoshop.  But it’s  expensive, especially for the high-end versions.  The elements and “light” version do not have all the functionality built in.

If you ever wanted to learn photo manipulation or just have a useable alternative to Photoshop, try Gimp.

Gimp stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.

GNU stands for General public License.

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. “

Give it a try, you may end up with a new skill.

http://www.gimp.org/

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