Photo Shop Freeware Equivalent

ikofun · 06-16-2006, 04:56 AM

Is there any freeware that can do the same stuff as Photo Shop? I am looking to embed captions into photos.

Thanks.

Inactive · 06-16-2006, 10:30 AM

GIMP is worth a look. it's hard to get free stuff with that kind of quality.

ebackhus · 06-16-2006, 02:20 PM

To an extent you can do that in MS Paint. GIMP, as Freddy mentioned, is probably the closest you can get for free.

jub_jub_kiwi · 07-08-2006, 12:02 AM

Try searching on a tucows or a filehippo website.

**grizzly_uk** · 07-28-2006, 06:54 AM

Yes its possible to use MS Paint, but if you intend to do a large quantity of images over an extended period of time, Paint will ultimately lead to your premature death. Just go for GIMP, it is a great tool, it isn't often you get freeware of such high standard and there are alot of extensions available for it.

E-Liam · 07-28-2006, 01:34 PM

Hi,

As a fairly serious photographer, I use GIMP. It's excellent. If you've already used PS, then you may want to try GIMPShop, which is a modified version of GIMP, for use by people that have used PS before. It shallows out the learning curve a bit.

Cheers

Liam

wilson44512 · 07-28-2006, 03:39 PM

http://www.photofiltre.com/
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/

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jub_jub_kiwi Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 27 OS: XP	Try searching on a tucows or a filehippo website.

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grizzly_uk Tech, Visual Arts Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: UK Posts: 265 OS: XPpro & OSX	Yes its possible to use MS Paint, but if you intend to do a large quantity of images over an extended period of time, Paint will ultimately lead to your premature death. Just go for GIMP, it is a great tool, it isn't often you get freeware of such high standard and there are alot of extensions available for it.

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wilson44512 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 28 OS: xp	http://www.photofiltre.com/ http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/