Being someone who is fairly decent in Adobe Photoshop considering I’m a coding monkey, it always bothers me to not have it at my disposal when needing to edit or create an image. In general I haven’t had a license for it at work at my last couple of jobs, and at times it can be quite limiting in those rare cases where I need an image for something.
The past week or so I’ve been playing around in Paint.NET which is developed at Washington State University with some help from Microsoft. It seems to be an excellent facsimile of Adobe Photoshop– I highly recommend that check it out if you need something to create/edit images in with Photoshop-like capabilities but don’t use a graphics application often enough justify the cost of a license of Photoshop.
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Love the Halo theme on the Paint.NET website.
Take a look at GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
An excellent cross platform FREE image editing program.
Unless it’s changed a lot recently, I honestly think the GIMP interface makes the baby Jesus cry in comparison to Photoshop, IMHO.
True, Photoshop has a refined interface, but…
GimpShop is an OSX fork of GIMP with a GUI similar to Photoshop http://freshmeat.net/projects/gimpshop/ as well as a linux port http://codemills.com/blog/?p=4
Sadly, I haven’t seen a skin for the windows port yet.
Hmm, cool stuff Christopher. Unfortunately I don’t have anything that will run OSX (yet), and I’m still not quite sold on using Linux as a desktop OS. It’s certainly making some huge strides, though…
I should mention that I forced myself to use SuSe Professional 9.3(?) within the last year at home for a month. At first I was very pleased with it.. as time went on I got more and more frustrated with little things, especially the frequency of how often various applications crashed, etc..
Brandon,
if you looking for free photoshop alternative under Windows? then try GimPhoto.
Actually GimPhoto is GIMP modification with new PS menu layout, packed with many great plugins, such as: separation, save for web, batch process, noise removal and photography filters, and also improved with new brushset, new gradientset, every aspect is tweaked to improve user usability.
this is GIMP mod with Photoshop look and feel, try it to believe it (^__^)=b
http://www.gimphoto.com