Best Free Photo Editing Software

[Danny McGee]

Any suggestions as the title suggests?

Dont fancy splashing of out photoshop at the moment so want to see if there is anything free out there.

Cheers

Danny

[_sleigh_]

GIMP is pretty good

[Dave Dodd]

+1 for Gimp and also Gimp shop both free and very good.

[JCJC]

If you want to trail photoshop then both CS5 & Elements can be downloaded http://www.adobe.com/uk/downloads/

Advantage of this software is the guides that are available on the web and books. Photoshop is vast and can be found for less £170 as student/education licence. (software4students or Amazon)

Picasa has some basic tools, crop, colour adjust etc

[eyeayen]

+1 for GIMP, totally free, masses of on line stuff about it, can put photoshop shortcuts on if you already know photoshop. Perfectly capable program.

http://www.gimp.org/

[av4625]

Im sure if you looked youtube or somewere u could get photoshop for free!

[/tobys]

Paint.NET is also worth a look...

www.getpaint.net

HTH :)

[MatJohnson]

Paint.Net. Gimp pisses me off with its many windows it opens.

[mark christopher]

danny drop me pm

[coleman758]

Photoshop CS5 :thumbsup:

That's free if your in the know!

[colmo]

My own workflow is Rawtherapee > GIMP - on Linux, but also doable in Windows.

You could also check out Cinepaint - glacial development, but has it's niche uses.

[Conrad]

Paint.net for me, fairly straight forward to use and does everything you need. Gimp is more capable but it's a pain to use and seems geared more to photo correction rather than creation.