Best image manipulation freeware?

[wayfaring stranger]

Hi gang --
What are your best recommendations for an easy-to-use freeware
version of Photoshop? I've heard The Gimp, but the download site says
you also need to download GTK+2 for Windows. The whole thing seems
pretty complicated. Is there anything better out there?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Jerry

 

[aafuss]

Babya Photo Workshop (needs VB6 runtime-about 1mb):
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037114

 

[Nicolaas Hawkins]

Babya Photo Workshop (needs VB6 runtime-about 1mb):
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037114

What about it?

 

[aafuss]

Babya Photo Workshop is a free and easy to use image editor

 

[David Sizemore]

If downloading GIMP and GTK+2 is "pretty complicated, then MS Paint is
the app for you!

 

[Bebop & Rocksteady]

Babya Photo Workshop is a free and easy to use image editor

The questions was "Best image manipulation freeware?"
somehow I don't tink that app is the best

 

[Kittie Spit]

I think we should consider all postings re: Babya over the next few
days as a sick Halloween joke, no treat, all trick.

 

[aafuss]

No, it works well for various simple editing tasks

 

[wald]

I've heard The Gimp, but the download site
says you also need to download GTK+2 for Windows. The whole
thing seems pretty complicated.

It is not. Just download GTK+2 from the download site (http://gimp-
win.sourceforge.net/stable.html) and install it. Then download the
Gimp (2.2.8 is the current stable version) and install it.

Shouldn't be a problem!

Regards,
Wald

 

[John Corliss]

Hi gang --
What are your best recommendations for an easy-to-use freeware
version of Photoshop? I've heard The Gimp, but the download site says
you also need to download GTK+2 for Windows. The whole thing seems
pretty complicated. Is there anything better out there?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Jerry

Beyond the shadow of any of *my* doubts, that would be Photofiltre:

http://www.photofiltre.com/

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[Lennart]

Op Fri, 28 Oct 2005 02:44:42 -0700 schreef John Corliss:

Beyond the shadow of any of *my* doubts, that would be Photofiltre:

http://www.photofiltre.com/

It has no layers, unfortunately ...

 

[aafuss]

Photo Workshop has a layer style system:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?23500000036618
'

 

[wald]

Beyond the shadow of any of *my* doubts, that would be
Photofiltre:

http://www.photofiltre.com/

Personally, I'm a GIMP man. But one of the big missing things in
GIMP is the limitation to 8-bit images. I recently bought myself a
decent camera that does 12-bit images, and I don't feel comfortable
throwing away quality by editing them in GIMP.

Can you tell me if PhotoFiltre supports 12- or even 16-bit images?
The homepage doesn't seem to give too much info about it. It would
convince me to at least give PhotoFiltre a shot...

Regards,
Wald

 

[Vic Dura]

Photo Workshop has a layer style system:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?23500000036618
'

Does it require an install?

Does it touch the registry?

 

[aafuss]

Yes , but doesn't touch any part of the registry.

 

[aafuss]

Yes , but doesn't touch any part of the registry.

 

[Libor Striz]

Hi gang --
What are your best recommendations for an easy-to-use freeware
version of Photoshop? I've heard The Gimp, but the download site says
you also need to download GTK+2 for Windows. The whole thing seems
pretty complicated. Is there anything better out there?
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Jerry

There is no the best program of any kind.

There are only programs that best suit your need,
or you just think they suit. But everybody has his own needs,
so there are near as many best programs as people talking about them.

For that reason questions like "what is best program"
are not allowed in many forums.
Such poster is considered to violate forum rules,
that are preventing flame wars....

So you can ask a question like that:

"If I am going to do mainly these things,
what program would you recommend me ?"

--
"Libor the Wanderer" <[email protected]>

Any supposed offense is because of my bad english a/o formulation
and was not intended in any way.
ForPrivateResponseRemoveDelAndThisFromAboveAddress.

 

[murray]

Personally, I'm a GIMP man. But one of the big missing things in
GIMP is the limitation to 8-bit images. I recently bought myself a
decent camera that does 12-bit images, and I don't feel comfortable
throwing away quality by editing them in GIMP.

Maybe the answer is to check out cinepaint

http://cinepaint.movieeditor.com/

Formerly FilmGIMP. Forked from GIMP, it is intended for motion picture
work (hence the name) but supports greater colour depth than the GIMP (or
Photoshop).

Windows version is not currently available but is scheduled for December,
so not too long to wait. If you are familiar with GIMP then the program
should be easy to use.

Murray