Whats a good low cost photo editing tool?
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PhotoPlus is a great free photo editing program. It has all the basics - crop, brightness, hue, smudge and everything else you'll need. It's similar to PhotoShop, but without the pricetag.
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Paint Shop Pro (any version). They are a lot cheaper than Photoshop and do basically the same functions.\n\nFor nice photo editing (like touchups), I recommend Paint Shop Pro X. Paint Shop Pro 7 is easier to use, probably cheaper, and the most popular PSP.
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photoshop is more for digital editing, the basic package doesn't include the basic paint tools such as "circle", or "square".\n\nPaint shop has a quicker learning curve, photoshop has better effect filters.  Both offer comparable packages though.\n\nKeep in mind though that there are a lot of alternatives out there though including many that are free.  \n\nFXFoto (http://www.fxfoto.com/), The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/), Pixia (http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia/) and PhotoFilter (http://www.photofiltre.com/).  All of these have features comparable to the tools you mentioned.  See the individual websites for more info.\n\nThe key though is not which features are better (most are coparable), but rather, mastering one tool and it's features.  Once you pick the tool you like best you will be well on your way to mastering your talents.\n\nGood luck :-)
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Yes , see this Free program : http://downint.googlepages.com/photosoftware
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Photo Editors I can do:\n\nPhotoPlus, http://freeserifsoftware.com/\n\nPaint.NET, http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ (Probably easier to use than PhotoPlus but it lacks a few advanced features such as drop shadows but everything else is there including, layers, levels, cloning and effects)\n\nPicasa, http://picasa.google.com/ acquired by Google this is a simple editing tool to fix red eye and crop (I'm not sure what else it does) but I use it to keep track of all the images on my PC.\n\nThose are my favorites but just so you have some more options check out Irfanview, http://www.irfanview.com/ and Ultimate Paint, http://www.ultimatepaint.com/ (that one is not free).\n\nThose are free (with the one exception), there might be some that you can pay for but why would you when you can get these for free.  I don't know of any easy to use video program but you can check out Windows Movie Maker (it's free) but it lacks many advanced features available in commercial packages, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx
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photoshop elements is easier to learn and cheaper, and should do most anything you want it it for.  It's about $75 US.  You can get a free trial here:  \nhttp://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/tryout.html\n\nPaintshop Pro is also excellent, more capabilities than the above, if you want to learn to do a lot of cool things. It's $99 US.  I prefer version 8, but you can get a free trial of version 10 here:\nhttp://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=Corel3/Trials/DownloadContainer\n\nYou can get Gimp free, and there are lots of free tutorials available for it, get it here:\nhttp://www.gimp.org/windows/\n\nHope this helps.
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Yes, Use Photoshop imageready and CS2.\n\nTake free online classes.
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Photoshop - it's not specific for this but it does a fantastic job of it. Plus you can do lots of other cool stuff with it.
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I know of three.\n\nFirst the GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).  Offers almost all of the features of PhotoShop.  It requires the GTK+ runtime environment, get GTK+ here, http://www.gtk.org/ and then you can download and install the GIMP here, http://www.gimp.org/\n\nSecond (and my favorite) PhotoPlus 6.0 is another free program which is very very similar to PhotoShop only it doesn't cost anything and has almost all the same features organized in an almost PhotoShop like way, get it here, http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.asp\n\nThird there is Picasa which will organize any and all Photos and Videos on your hard drive and provides you with basic editing tools, get it here, http://picasa.google.com/index.html
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Try the gimp - it's free, and works similar to photoshop\n\nhttp://www.gimp.org/
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Good, Free , Easy photo editor and the product doesn't expire ? I think you are looking for the ideal software those people are talking about : http://downint.googlepages.com/photosoftware
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Here are two of my choices:\n\nFor a professional-like but totally free great photo editing software try GIMP. You will use it for many other editing jobs too:\n\nhttp://www.gimp.org/\n\nFor a less sophisticated but still totally free program try Paint.NET. It looks and feels like the original Windows Paint but much more muscle power:\n\nhttp://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/\n\nOK...For a REALLY simple editor which can resize and crop images to specific sizes try:\n\nhttp://www.softforall.com/Multimedia/MediaManagement/CoffeeCup_Free_Viewer_Plus07060042.htm
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I use Paint.NET  Its free and does almost everything photoshop can. try it
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mihov image resizer\n\nit's free, easy, and you can do a whole bunch of pictures at once.
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Since thats all you want to do i would recommend photoshop elements its a pretty cheap program and its pretty powerfull.  Also I recommend using Adobe products.
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Photoshop has lots of plug-ins... Some may be free. The program itself is like $700... What plug-in might you be looking for?
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look up the GIMP - it is a free download and almost as good as PhotoShop (when I last used PhotoShop, 2 years ago)