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Nov 11 '09 by ladykat

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Free Photoshop Alternatives?

I have a work-related question and you guys can answer this better than just about anyone else I know.

I need to do some image editing at work. Nothing major - basically adding text to an image, cropping, etc. At home, I'd use Photoshop - but I don't have that here.

Are there good, FREE alternatives out there? I'm looking for something that's legal for me to use at work.

BIG THANKS IN ADVANCE!!!!

robroy05 on Nov 11 '09 at 2:49pm

MS Paint

jillustration on Nov 11 '09 at 2:50pm

Gimp. You can find it here.

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 2:50pm

NO.

robroy05 on Nov 11 '09 at 2:50pm

Save As Jpeg.

I'm telling some sad things about myself.

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 2:51pm

Sorry, the NO was to MS Pain.

Thanks jillustration! I was considering Gimp, I remember people mentioning it before but that was ages ago... so I wasn't sure if it was still the way to go. :-)

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 2:51pm

*MS Pain = MS Paint.

robroy05 on Nov 11 '09 at 2:52pm

;)

outline on Nov 11 '09 at 2:54pm

splashup.com is kind of nice if you are just doing a few things

jillustration on Nov 11 '09 at 2:54pm

It's pretty good for basic stuff, way better than MS Paint! Glad I could help.

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 3:03pm

Yeah, I figured I'd go ahead and try it out - thanks!

Liz, do you know how splashup compares to Gimp?

outline on Nov 11 '09 at 3:05pm

oh..hmm..no idea. i just know that splashup is basically an online photoshop. :/

tracerbullet on Nov 11 '09 at 3:13pm

GIMP is a fantastic program once you learn how to use it

tracerbullet on Nov 11 '09 at 3:14pm

if you're using windows, you can also try Paint.net, which i've heard good things about

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 3:34pm

lol... yeah, I was having trouble figuring out how to access the different layers, until I realized that there was a window for that - it was on my other monitor for some reason. Oops!

But most of it is intuitive for someone who's been using Photoshop.

Algi on Nov 11 '09 at 5:04pm

Check out Aviary.com. Good suite of free tools.

Bio-bot 9000 on Nov 11 '09 at 5:37pm

I actually use Microsoft Word for a lot of basic image stuff. you can insert images, format them to be outside of text (so you can drag and reposition), add text boxes, rotate, align, and flip images, crop, enlarge, etc. It also scales high res images pretty nicely. I use the office 2003 version; i havent found all hte equivalent features on newer versions.

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 6:37pm

Algi - I'll look into it. Thanks!!

Bio-bot - believe it or not, I don't actually have Office. I think I can ask for it, I'm not sure how the licensing works for those things - for now I'm using Open Office.

angelatag on Nov 11 '09 at 9:37pm

I think there's a Powerpoint equivalent in Open Office, and the features are basically the same as in the MS Office. So you should be able to crop, add text, adjust brightness, contrast, rotate, etc. Then when you're done, just select everything you want included with the picture (like text) and hit 'save as picture'.

ladykat on Nov 11 '09 at 9:40pm

Ooh, I definitely should explore that - thanks for the tip!

tracerbullet on Nov 11 '09 at 9:49pm

OpenOffice Presentation is the Powerpoint equivalent

angelatag on Nov 12 '09 at 2:34am

happy to help!

trindli on Nov 12 '09 at 4:12am

the only drawback i found so far in open office is that Impress (powerpoint equivalent) won't let me embed movies, has anybody here ever done that?

slightly offtopic, but your question was answered with gimp i guess :)

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MR Productions on Dec 04 '09 at 12:05am

If you do decide on using GIMP, I have some Tuts here:

Basic GIMP Tutorial, START to FINISH

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