Freeware: Get Your Free Images Editor

Digital images brings faster ways to manage photos, editing and making it better. But what will you do when you’re failed to buy high priced cost of photo editing software? No ways, you have to buy good one, with high price and then use it. Where as, on web lots of website based and desktop clients photos editors available which may doing the same things bit differently. Lets see in below:

How To Edit Images With Gimp:

The GIMP an images editor which is so powerful tools and it has built in lots of features such as airbrush, selective blurring, cloning and path tools which are usually being using in paid but over all it’s open source based and free for everyone.

How To Edit Your Photos In Website:

Pixenate which is web based photo editing free service and you can quickly touch and fix photos, just you have to connect your camera and upload the images to the websites and their you can set the performs such as red-eye reduction, cropping, changing colors, contrasts and so on. However, it’s web based and it’s not fully compatible with advanced tools but it’s totally user friendly and for basis edit of photos, it’s working smoothly.

How To Upload and Manage Your Photos Using Picasa:

Picasa desktop client which brings a free software and easily that will find out your computers all photos except the hidden files. Easily you can effect your photos differently and cropping, straighten, redeye, auto contrast, auto color, test, retouch, fill light all features available and even you can upload your photo to web by using Picasa.

How To Edit Photos With Advanced Features:

Splashup an web based free images editor which enabled multiple images editing service simultaneously. It has advanced features such as layers, path and more. Even, you can compare with photoshop you’re using in web, without installing any applications, you can enjoy it.

How To Make Animated Images:

Photoscape an image editor which brings batch editor, animator, combiner and easy to screen capture, combine photos, making animated gifs files and converting raw files under this small software and you can say, all in one and so smoothly and friendly.

Some Free Alternatives to Pricey Software

Most of us don't want to spend $600 for a program to edit pictures (Adobe Photoshop or CS3 Suite) or $400 for a text editor and spreadsheet program. And for those of us that detest Outlook, but like the calendar features, we've felt left out since Thunderbird doesn't offer a calendar in its standard install. And then there's that pesky problem with Adobe Acrobat Professional; unless you are an educational buyer, Adobe Acrobat licenses are a bit on the pricey side.

There are some free alternatives to all of these things that I'd like to share with you today.

Microsoft Office: For most purposes, you can replace the expensive Microsoft Office 2007 with OpenOffice, the free office suite. OO comes with frequent and regular updates and patches, and offers complete versatility. You can even save your text documents in an MSWord format when you're done, so you can send it to your client who doesn't have OO. Open Office also has a spreadsheet program and presentation program, so is virtually a full replacement for the MS Office Suite.

Adobe Photoshop/CS3: If owning Adobe Photoshop is too rich for your budget, and all you're doing is editing your digital photos and making a few signs or drawings, then a decent replacement is GIMP. GIMP provides all the tools you need to crop, resize, adjust, and retouch your photos before you send them to your printer or to the store for printing.

Outlook Calendar: While I am a huge fan of Thunderbird and use it for all of my pop3 and imap email, the one thing missing is a calendar. You can download and install the Lightning plug-in to add a calendar to Thunderbird, or you can download Sunbird instead, which runs as a standalone product. Visit Mozilla.org for these two products.

PDF: Creating PDF's is about 50% of what I do on a daily basis at work. I have Adobe Acrobat Professional at work to accomplish this, but when I'm doing things at home that have nothing to do with work, I am in need of a stable PDF-production tool that won't cost me anything, and gives me all the same tools that Adobe does. I'm using PDF Creator for most things, and find it to have all the tools I need for basic PDF production.

Microsoft Publisher: Need to make a flier, brochure, or handout but don't have MS Publisher? Never fear, Scribus is here to do your dirty work for you. This intuitive, easy-to-use, tiny-footprinted program is the best free tool I've found to replace Publisher and the well-loved Adobe Pagemaker (long gone from Adobe's lineup these days).

QuickBooks: Need to do your home or small business finances but would rather not spend the big dollars to get QuickBooks? Try out TurboCash. And for a $49 optional support fee, you get access to technical support and corruption help, should that ever happen to you.

Why buy it when you can get it for free? That's my motto.

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How to remove red-eye from your digital photos using GIMP

Yesterday one of my roommates (Chris) finally got to meet one of his shero’s - Tori Amos. The pictures turned out great, but one of them came with the dreaded “red-eye”. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to remove red eye from your digital photos using the GIMP image editor.

• Launch GIMP and then open your photo. Select the rectangle tool.

  

• Draw a rectangle around the red eyes.

  

• Now select Filters -> Enhance -> Red Eye Removal…

  
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• The Red Eye Removal tool will pop up. Use the Threshold scroll bar to adjust the eye color as you see fit. Click OK when you’re done.

  

• The changes will be applied to your photo.

  

• Use the Zoom feature if you need to remove red eyes from someone who also has red hair (or a wig) that’s getting in the way. You can even select one eye at a time.

  

• And the finished product -

  
  finished product - click to enlarge

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