which would you recommend me win xp plus or corel for photos & editing?
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Corel Photopaint, or Adobe Photoshop
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So many answers and so much bad info. I use both on a daily basis. Neither is a piece of junk or a wrong choice just because of what it is.\n\nFirst, I'll explain the bad info and then give you some straight dope:\n\n"Macs for one there's no right click" -- hold the Command key when you click, same. How often do you right-click? Most people, about twice an hour. No big deal.\n"...confusing to go from a PC tool bar where it seems so simple..." -- I use both Windows and Mac, no problem with the toolbar. It's almost the same as on Windows.\n"... costs $300 or more for software, you'll find almost no shareware or freeware..." -- I haven't found any $300 or more programs except the ones that cost $300 for Windows also, such as Photoshop and Quark XPress. Tons of Mac freeware /shareware. I have dozens of them. Try versiontracker.com\n"You have to buy all your motherboard and internals from Mac franchised dealers there is no OPEN SOURCE like on a PC" -- not true. You can buy NVidia, ATI, Beldon, etc. at almost any large computer store such as Comp USA, Fry's, etc. The motherboard is not made by third-party companies but do you plan to change the motherboard in your laptop? Come on, guys!\n"Do NOT, however, expect easy data exchange UNLESS you buy Mac/PC compatible programs." --I exchange Excel, Word, JPEG, HTML files, no problem. Microsoft made some Word and Excel bottle-necks for Mac software ten years ago but now they have figured it out.\n"pictures made with the "free" software that came with his Mac. Totally unreadable in a PC" -- Huh? I make JPEG and PDF files on my Mac using Preview and screen capture and send them by email to my brother's Windows box, no problem. Someone has a lame Windows setup if they can't read standard JPEG and PDF files.\n"...he has to compress them using a Mac compression tool that does not work well with Win Zip" -- I don't have to compress my files at all. If I do, I can unzip them fine on my Windows box and so can my friends.\n"You will not find familiar, easy to use tools.  ...Fetch for FTP" -- If you don't want to see something unfamiliar, stick with Windows. And vice versa for Mac users, don't look at Windows, it's unfamiliar. About FTP, just use web-based such as www.01ftp.com\n"if you do picture work you may HAVE to buy Adobe at $600 if you want to exchanged images with PC users, because we can't deciper their PCT images" -- Not true, get GraphicConverter or QuickImageCM for free and don't save in PICT format unless you plan to publish or print it from your Mac.\n"Too many "Mac" proprietary formats to deal with..." -- Maybe your Mac using friends don't know what formats are good for Windows. They can save files in almost any format that other platforms need. Not true for Windows, but never mind. They needn't use the TWO OR THREE Mac proprietary formats.\n"...only good exchange is Apple Quicktime" -- No, Macs can use almost any video format. Microsoft has stopped making Internet browser plugins for Macs since they got mad at Apple for offering Safari to replace Internet Explorer so their PROPRIETARY WMV format needs a third-party plugin.\n"...not for casual computing, game playing or even Internet browsing, since many of the sites are Linux or NT based" -- Huh? Since when does the type of server affect your browsing ability? Many web sites use Mac servers and that doesn't keep Windows boxes from browsing. No sense here.\n"You CAN expect to have problems seeing some sites" -- older versions of Safari were totally wacky but with newest version or Firefox, this is not an issue.\n"I never got the hang of macs. they are way too complicated to operate." --  My friend's 8 year old learned to use my Mac in about ten minutes. You just have to relax and accept new ideas.\n".
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Best is relative. There are a bunch of good ones out there. For basic home movies I would recomend Premiere elements for about $70. It is fairly simple to use but very powerful. It is also bundled with photoshop elements for $140. The nice thing about this one is that it leads nicely into more advanced editing programs like premiere pro when you get more advanced.\n\nIf you are looking for a free program then try this one from avid.
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gimp, if you cant afford photo shop then gimp is good to use as it is open source. Also if your looking for a alternative for Photo Shop then Paint Shop pro is a good low cost solution. Microsoft is working on a product to compete with photoshop called Microsoft Expression part of the Expression Suite. \n\nThe CTP is free right now and i am sure they will release a free beta when Vista Comes out.\n\nAlso note Any Macromedia products will be replaced by the Adobe equivlent as Adobe and Macromedia are one.
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It depends on what you want to do -- art or photography. I use PS to adjust my photographs and so Elements is all I need. But, if you're doing artwork, you'll want the full-blown CS version. (Expensive!!)
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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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As a graphic design professional, I prefer photoshop CS2 because of it's power... as a lay person my dad prefers corel because it's simpler to learn.  I can do things in photoshop that he can only dream of in corel, but he can recolor and do that sort of thing just fine (he does some ameuture textures for video games he likes that are decent textures... but the photoshoped one's still outclass the corel ones).\nIn the end photoshop will get you by no matter what kind of project you end up doing, whether that's logo's, t-shirts, digital art, you name it.  But if you're not planning on doing pro work, then corel or photoshop elements is your best bet.  However, if you want to seriously draw, then you'll probably want a pressure sensitive tablet and/or scanner too.\nAnd finally, as a side note, Illustator is almost entirely a vector tool... although it's more a photoshop symbiote for making logo's and brochures.
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http://www.adobe.com/photoshop\nhttp://www.corel.com
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Most of us pro's use photoshop, it integrates seamlessly with all the other Adobe suite too.  If you want to go pro, then you should get photoshop.  However, if you just want to mess around with graphics and not have anything published or turn a reasonable profit, then Corel will do fine.  I use photoshop for video, web, and print... it will take a long time to master, but once you do you can stylize and manipulate nearly any image into a masterpiece.
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Irfan View, Vicman's Photo Editor or Serif Photo Plus\n\nSee: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/ for the latter.
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well it depends on ur requirement but WindowsXP professional service pack 2 is the best so far
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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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Nero.  I suggest this one, I like it alot, create your own menus, graphics, sections, titles...  Just about everything
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Well, PhotoPlus is free, but it does come with all the extra tools, layers and such. I use it all the time and have found it easy to do pretty much anything I want with it. Here's the page listing the key features: http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/key_features.asp\n\nThey also have a DrawPlus program available with extra tools specially designed for creating new images from scratch.
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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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Xandros would most likely work, I have the community edition installed. Its a great candy coated linux with the ease of Win/OSX. As for running windows program, if you have bought it with the CodeWeaver software which is a commercial WINE, its able to run IE, MS Office and Photoshop. A few other programs I tried did not work too well on it. Hope this helps and good luck.
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adobe photoshop or adobe CS