To help you find the image-editing software that's right for your organization's Web needs, TechSoup compares the features found in five popular commercial and free image-editing applications in our article
Five Image-Editing Programs to Polish Your Web Site.
Have you tried Adobe Photosop CS2, Corel Paint Shop Pro X, FastStone Image Viewer 2.4, GIMP, or IfranView? Tell us what the benefits -- or drawbacks -- were, and which one you'd recommend.
Have questions about any of these programs or want to know about an image-editing feature that wasn't covered? Share them here.
Joined on 03-20-2006
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if i were doing web site graphics i would also highly recomend Macromedia, now Adobe Fireworks for creating templates/pages/graphics..
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If you're looking for a good, free vector graphics program (vs Corel Draw, Xara Xtreme, etc.) look at
Inkscape. LOTS of features, very easy to use. A vector-based graphics program is the best type for overlaying text on existing images like I do at our church as the text won't "pixelate" when enlarged.
For a free diagram/flowchart/network/organization chart-drawing program (like Microsoft's Visio), see
Dia.
Joined on 01-24-2006
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Photoshop Elements should have been included in this review. CS2 is great but expensive and for the type of image processing you are reviewing, Photoshop Elements would be fine and less expensive.
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I see the article mentions GIMP2 which I use and love. It does not mention that it runs on Linux. I believe it was first written with Linux in mind and then ported to the other OS's. :-)
Anita
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I've recently come across XnView, a freeware image viewer and editor that overcomes Irfanview's limitation of working only with local printers, and not working with shared network printers -- and that's not its only superiority to Irfanview.
You'll find it at xnview.com.
XnView also offeres a version for the PocketPC.
Hi Anita,
Thanks for pointing out our oversight; the GIMP does indeed run on Linux. We've amended the article to include that information.
Joined on 07-03-2007
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Photofiltre Studio (v9.0) is Shareware and very reasonably priced.
Photofiltre (v6.2.7) is free.
Both take up very little hardware real estate
and overall, I think the program is very user
friendly.
Google: photofiltre
I love Photoshop, but over the years I have found that it has evolved to the equivalent of driving a tank to the grocery store. Just way to bulky for the vast majority of my needs, which are primarily focused on creating and editing graphics for web site usage.
I have tried a bunch of the other editing programs, and I keep going back to version 4.01 of Photoshop! I dare say it is the oldest program I use!