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    Home PC Photo Editor Buyers Guide 2009 Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Dustin Sklavos, Sep 1, 2009.

  1. Dustin Sklavos

    Dustin Sklavos Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    By: Dustin Sklavos

    Believe it or not, there is photo editing software available between the price and functionality extremes of Adobe Photoshop CS4 and MS Paint. We've given four consumer-grade image editing applications the once-over. Whether you're an aspiring design professional or just looking for the perfect app to spruce up your family photos, we've got the scoop on which software is right for you.



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  2. jonlumpkin

    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    What about the GIMP? It works great and it's FREE!
     
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    I have CS4 and I still use PSP for some things. Some things are faster and/or work better. The other couple I have not tried. Compression sucks terribly though and ultimately everything goes through Photoshop to convert (or even get saved as a simple JPEG), so there's no way I could take it as a stand alone program. It has come a long way though PSP 7 was much much worse.
     
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    My wife and the friends she turned onto it love Picasa ( http://picasa.google.com/). It's free and works great. Anyone looking to get software for photo editing should definitely try this program.
     
    Tyler Durden, Nov 4, 2009
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    A word of warning to anyone who is thinking of using Paint Shop Pro X2 with geotagged photos (ie with embedded latitude / longitude): When saving a file this program fails to record the north / south or east / west fields in the EXIF data. So all photo locations end up in the northern hemisphere and east of Greenwich!

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Nov 5, 2009
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