Need Photoshop? Get this FREE (Photoshop-Like Program) Legal Alternative.

A_S_A · Apr 15, 2007

Choice 1 - PhotoFiltre

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You can get this program here

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Choice 2 - Paint.NET

If you don't have, and need Photoshop, perhaps you would like to try this legal free program Paint.NET. It is a free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

This program also supports other languages, such as:
English,
Chinese (Simplified),
French, German,
Korean, Japanese,
Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish

Nice eh?

Review

If you just want to retouch images a bit, Photoshop is overkill. Check out Paint.NET, an open-source freeware editor with all the essential tools, including those for cropping, rotating, resizing, adjusting colors, and creating collages.

Paint.NET supports the most popular image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others--but not superhigh resolution ones like RAW. However, you'll find such basic effects as Red Eye Removal, Emboss, Mosaic, and Oil Painting, and a few higher-end features such as Clone Stamp, Lasso Select, and Magic Wand. Like a full-fledged graphics package, Paint.NET even supports layers and an actions manager. The interface is very convenient, and the panels are semitransparent, so you won't need to hide them.

Version 3 fixes many old quibbles. Multiple-image editing is done through a convenient thumbnail manager in the upper-right corner of the app; blurry tool icons have been sharpened as well. Paint.NET is far better than Microsoft Paint, and given its free price, it's a no-brainer for anyone who does a lot of minor graphical tweaking.
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Features

Simple, intuitive user interface
Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learn-able without assistance. It is also designed to be immediately familiar to users of the original MS Paint software that comes with Windows.

Layers
Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.

Powerful Tools
Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as a huge improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.

Unlimited History
Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody changes their mind. To accommodate this, every action you perform on an image is recorded in the History window and may be undone. Once you've undone an action, you can also redo it. The length of the history is only limited by available disk space.

Special Effects
Many special effects are included for perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.

Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

Open Source and Free
Paint.NET is provided free-of-charge, and the source code (all 133,000 lines of it) is also available for free under generous licensing terms. The bulk of Paint.NET is written in C#, with only a small amount of code related to setup and shell-integration written in C++.
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Yes, I realize that it is not Photoshop. But c'mon. This is really good for a FREE program. I hope this isn't considered as advertising, cause its free.

sith717 · Apr 15, 2007

Sweet! I am useing it now... i wish i could give you a vouch for this..lol
STICKY THIS PLEASE!

i forgot my password · Apr 16, 2007

nice man real nice...comes in handy.

activ8me · Apr 16, 2007

No, You cannot do .PSD's with this.

It is not anywhere near as good.

Naw, Not good sorry.

jomama189 · Apr 21, 2007

no offense but gimp is like 8 times better then paint.net + its free.

A_S_A · Apr 21, 2007

Its an alternative, Not a replacement.

Post "gimp" Then. a link..anything.

I use Photoshop CS2. Not this.

Crak R o C K · May 10, 2007

sweet i love it

Sparq · May 10, 2007

Or you could try an open source one like gimp or inkscape
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=106
There is a massive list there

OmukasX · May 10, 2007

Looks very nice but I probably use PS anyway

Underground · May 10, 2007

dam why dont any gfx program work on windows 98

be ez · May 18, 2007

Yo are there different brushes for this or is it like just same as it came?

Xjaa · May 19, 2007

be ez said: ↑

Yo are there different brushes for this or is it like just same as it came?
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brushes are for nubs

R_I_P_Lolz · May 19, 2007

Yer, ive had this for a few month now.

server guy · Jun 3, 2007

hmm i got PS 5.0 but ima try this out XD

Cheeter · Jun 6, 2007

The hell with legal things

andren0 · Jun 15, 2007

woot thanks this is so gooooood!!!!

gxmnight · Jun 15, 2007

just to let everyone know that gimp is wayyy... better

Vlad · Jun 15, 2007

jomama189 said: ↑

no offense but gimp is like 8 times better then paint.net + its free.
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Lmao GIMP sucks. I use Adobe Photoshop 2. Not the demo, the FULL version. Am I the only honest person who pays for these things? Nah, couse not. Warez ftw lol.

Paint.Net is a damn sweet program though, I used it before I got photoshop. And before I used Paint.Net I used GIMP. But then again GIMP sucks . Paint.Net = Top Notch Legal Alternative. And no, I'm not telling anyone where I got Photoshop, it's against Sythe rules.

KILLERCHRIS92 · Jun 15, 2007

wdf happend to link

runeowner · Jun 23, 2007

thxx alot dude for the photoshop

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