Most of us have an experience with some photo editors to edit or retouch some of our photos. If you have a good photo editing software like Photoshop, you don’t want to think more. Try to be master in it, by learn it from an expert or by using books/guide available in Amazon or available free on net. But if you don’t have enough money to buy such big software’s, you need to look for some other options. Thanks to technology, now a lot of alternative free tools are available as software’s and as online apps like paint.net. Here we are going to analyze and arrange some well known and new photo editors. Some can download and can take with you and some can only access online. These type of online tools have some good advantages, you can use it anywhere, where having a good internet connection, you can share the files easily with others.
Desktop Tools
Commercial Software’s
Photoshop is the most famous photo editing tool. New features are, archive superior results in fewer steps when you remove noise, add grain, create vignettes, correct lens distortions, sharpen, and create HDR images. And enjoy better-than-ever raw file conversion thanks to improved demosaicing.Explore new creative possibilities with tremendous precision and freedom. Easily select intricate image elements, such as hair. Create realistic painting effects. Remove any image element and see the space fill in almost magically. Photoshop CS5, costs you nearly and an Upgrade from a previous version costs around But if you really need it for your work, like professionals then it is surely a good buy.
Paint Shop Pro offers a great deal of flexibility with features and offers ease of use without being overly simplistic or limiting. Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 is a great buy for anyone just getting into digital photography and image editing and costs you –
Some of the main features of Xara Xtreme are 3D Extrude, Drawing Tools, Transparency, Blend Tool, Soft Vectors, Shadows, Bevels, Contours, Fills, Live Effects, Molds / envelopes, Clip View, Brushes, Pressure sensitivity Profiles, Opacity Masks, Line length and area information, Easy photo enhance, Crop & Rotate, Photo Panoramas, Red Eye Removal, etc. It will cost nearly .
Now Seriff photo editor offer a free limited version of the photo-editing software PhotoPlus SE. PhotoPlus SE features an export optimizer, editable text, layer effects, layer masks, a red-eye removal tool, special effects, versatile brushes, and photo enhancement tools. PhotoPlus SE can be upgraded to the full version of PhotoPlus, with many more features, for a price of nearly
Freewares
Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.On first glance, I thought Photoscape was going to be a dud, but I dug in deeper and realized why so many readers of this site have recommended it as a favorite free photo editor. It is jam-packed with features, while remaining very easy to use. Photoscape provides several modules including a viewer, editor, batch processor, Raw converter, file renamer, print layout tool, screen capture tool, color picker, and more. I’m very impressed overall at what has been packed into this free photo editor without sacrificing ease of use.
GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package. Numerous digital photo imperfections can be easily compensated for using GIMP. Fix perspective distortion caused by lens tilt simply choosing the corrective mode in the transform tools.GIMP is ideal for advanced photo retouching techniques. Get rid of unneeded details using the clone tool, or touch up minor details easily with the new healing tool. With the perspective clone tool, it’s not difficult to clone objects with perspective in mind just as easily as with the orthogonal clone.The file format support ranges from the common likes of JPEG (JFIF), GIF, PNG, TIFF to special use formats such as the multi-resolution and multi-color-depth Windows icon files.
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. Some of the good features are, every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. Support layers-usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience.Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images like blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included.
Another image editing tool for windows.
Automatic photo editing software and one of the fastest editors.
Photo Pos Pro is a free photo editor with advanced features and a well-designed interface.
- Pixia
Pixia is the English version of a popular free painting and retouching software that originated in Japan. It features custom brush tips, multiple layers, masking, vector- and bitmap-based drawing tools, color, tone, and lighting adjustments, and multiple undo/redo. Like many freeware editors, there is no support for saving GIF format. Pixia is also available for many other languages.It works fine in Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.
- PhotoFiltre
PhotoFiltre offers elegant user interface and a lot of one-click image adjustments, filters, and effects. There is a built in image explorer panel for visually navigating your file system, basic drawing, painting, retouching and selection tools, and batch processing capabilities.
- Ultimate Paint
Ultimate Paint is available in both shareware and freeware versions for image creation, viewing, and manipulation. It has been designed to be fast and compact, and if you’re familiar with the old Deluxe Paint program from Electronic Arts, Ultimate Paint is said to be very similar. The freeware version is an older release of the full-featured shareware product.
- ImageForge
ImageForge is a freeware image editor with painting and editing tools. Allows you to import images from scanners and digital cameras, apply special effects filters, and create photo albums and slideshows. Although this is teaser program for the shareware ImageForge PRO, it’s probably a few steps above Microsoft Paint.
Picasa does not allow you to do pixel-level editing. It does have some basic editing functions, it is primarily photo organizing software and a free offer from the search giant Google.
Browser Addons
Aviary screen capture and photo editor add on or extension for Firefox & chrome browser.
Pixlr Firefox add-on also lets you capture the whole or parts of the browser.
- Awesome Screenshot
You can take the screenshot with this tool and have perform some basic editing with it. It is a chrome extension.
Online Photo editors
Pixlr is a free online photo editor. Edit, adjust and filter your images. No registration jump right in!
Edit your photos online on Free Online Photo Editor.com: resize, filters, sepia, crop, rotate and flip, online photo editing, photo editing, photo tool, etc.
Edit photos online, fast and easily — no plugins required. To edit a photograph which is already online, enter the URL ( address) of the image and click the ‘fetch’ button.
Easy-to-use online photo editor, directly supports Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, flickr and many more. No browser plugins required.Probably get confusioned with the name of other online photo editor tool Pixlr.
Conclusion
Your selection should be depends on your needs, if you want some retouching or some editing, free tools are enough. If you need a mobile photo editor tool, online photo editors will be a boon. If you are a professional and having lot of advanced work with a photo editor tool, look beyond for Photoshop, Coral paint shop pro or Xara Xtreme, etc. Which photo editing tool(s) is/are used by you for your purpose, what’s the reason behind to stick with it?
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