Picasa Organizing Sharing your photos Editing –One-click corrections Red-Eye correction Color Lighting –Create collages –Slideshows –Add Photo text
What is GIMP? First release: Feb. ‘96 GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.
Features and Capabilities A full suite of painting tools including brushes, a pencil, an airbrush, cloning Image size is limited only by available disk space Multiple undo/redo (limited only by disk space) Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
Basic Concepts Images Layers Channels Selections Undoing Plug-ins Scripts
GIMP Tutorials Tutorials – – –
Paint.Net Layers Active online community –Online forum –Tutorials Frequent updates (4 – 8 weeks) Special Effects –blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing Unlimited undo history
Gimp Paint.net PhotoScape Pixia (Windows only) Seashore (Mac only) Inkscape Photoplus (Windows only) download.asp?CommenceDownload=photoplus&navproduct=photo plus download.asp?CommenceDownload=photoplus&navproduct=photo plus CinePaint PhotoFiltre (Windows only)