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fef | September 17, 2009 06:21 AM | in Software

What is a cheap alternative to PhotoShop?

It needs to have lots of the same features, like filters, layers, grouping, color enhancing, etc...

Something that uses a similar interface so the user doesn't have to relearn shortcuts, menu items, and other basic functions.

Something more powerful than MS Paint and in the $50 - $200 range

tags: photoshop , adobe , illustrator

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BEST ANSWER decided by votes | amplifyy | September 17, 2009 07:41 AM

GIMP. It's free and easy to download. (http://www.gimp.org/)

Extremely comparble to Adobe Photoshop.
I have both on my computer, and GIMP has practically the similar features as Photoshop.

Photoshop:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p74/musicflow/3164430426_5ea9b684b1_o.png

GIMP:

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p74/musicflow/windows_crop.jpg

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lucg | September 17, 2009 06:47 AM

I'm using GIMP, it's free open source SW: http://www.gimp.org/

From all I've read, it's really comparable to Photoshop.

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fef | September 17, 2009 07:09 AM

Thanks for offering that option.
Have you used PhotoShop to make a fair comparison?

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nhs4you | September 17, 2009 07:41 AM

I would also recommend GIMP - it's open source Software and very very well maintained. Apart from GIMP i would also recommended following web based photoshop alternatives. Try it out.. Some of them are very basic but it worth to try it out.

1. Picnik - http://www.picnik.com/
2. Splashup - http://www.splashup.com/
3. Phoenix - http://a.viary.com/
4. Photoshop Express - https://www.photoshop.com/express/
This is nice tool by Adobe itself but its web based Photoshop. They are also giving 2 GB free space.

5. Snipshot - http://snipshot.com/
6. flauntR - http://www.flauntr.com/
7. Pic Resize - http://gui.picresize.com/picresize2/
8. Pixenate - http://pixenate.com/
9. FotoFlexer - http://fotoflexer.com/
10. Phixr - http://www.phixr.com/

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http://www.lifeclever.com
http://www.picnik.com/
https://www.photoshop.com/express/
http://www.splashup.com/
http://snipshot.com/

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safiqulislam | September 17, 2009 11:10 AM

No cheap Gimp is totally free....that is an open source software.
But so good photo editing software...

Now I am using it. Follow this link and download it and start editing.....
gimp download
Fair compression means are you want to say save image as .gif or .jepg format?

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rajivjackz | September 17, 2009 01:58 PM

1. basic crop
http://www.gimpguru.org/AskTheGuru/G20050312/
2. red-eye
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Red_Eye_Removal/

3. lighting
http://www.forum4designers.com/archive57-2004-12-155553.html

4. and i would like to make my pics a little more creative.
Try Gimp.

Also, try http://shorterlink.com/?PYIL1H

I use Microsoft PictureIt!, which came as a free program on my photo disc, when I had my film developed at Walmart. I don't think Walmart offers it anymore, but some of the other 1 hr photo places might have it on their discs. It is a great program and lets you do just about anything you want, including crop, rotate, re-size, convert to black & white, convert to negative, manipulate color, lightness and contrast, add text, as well as sort, save, print, and email. It even lets you save pics in web-ready format, and it allows printing in mirror image and in any size you wish.

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