what is a good free photo editing program?
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take a look at www.gifworks.com
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if you want something user friendly and free get Picasa\nhttp://www.sleekbytes.com/picasa-google.htm
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Get GIMP at http://www.gimp.org/windows/\n\nIt's free and is as good or better than the expensive PhotoShop by Adobe.\n\nGood luck.
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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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Check out IrfanView, http://www.irfanview.com/ or PhotoPlus, http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/key_features.asp both are completely free.
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GIMP! (if you want a freeware). It's a very good photo editor with many plugings and facilities.
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If your looking for a free program that is very similar to PhotoShop, I'd recommend PhotoPlus. The website lists all the features. However, you won't be able to make a blurry picture much clearer with any photo editor. The best thing you can do is reduce the size (height x width) of the picture to see if that helps.
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Picasa2 tops my list.  It has a lot of features that can manipulate your photos but doesn't permanently change it.  They use metadata  layers to "change" your photo but you can always undo to the original.  Also it has a very cool labeling system.  Microsoft Max is another free photo program but I don't really like it much.  You can also try GIMP for image manipulation; it's like Adobe Photoshop except it's free.  Hope this helps.
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◙ The best free image editor/viewer is IrfanView. There are many plugins you can add to this great FREE tool for a variety of tasks. Do you need to resize images, make them transparent, make a photo slideshow? These are just a few of the many possibilities.\n\n◙ Irfanview Main Page\n► http://www.irfanview.com/\n\n◙ Download Irfanview\n► http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm\n\n◙ Plugins Page\n► http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm\n\n◙ Irfanview Help Forum\n► http://irfanview-online.de/\n\n◙ Freqently Asked Questions\n► http://www.irfanview.com/faq.htm\n\n◙ Irfanview Tutorials\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=irfanview+tutorials \n\n◙ Irfanview Examples\n► http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=irfanview+examples\n\n◙ I suggest that you forget this and buy Adobe Photoshop. This is what most professional web designers use to create their graphics.
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Adobe PhotoShop doesn't come free.\nHowever, a lot of people prefer PhotoPlus which is similar but completely free. I use it and love it.\nClick the link below to find out more or download the program.
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http://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_plugins2.html\n\nhttp://www.freephotoshop.com/html/free_plugins2.html\n\nhttp://fraktali.849pm.com/photoshop.html
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Oh yes.  You have two choices.  There is the GIMP which stand for GNU Image Manipulation Program which will require you to install the GTK+ runtime environment first.  Get it here, http://www.gimp.org/\n\nYour second option is PhotoPlus 6.0 which is available for free as well.  Serif software (the makers of PhotoPlus) make the older versions of their software available at no cost, though you will have to pay for the latest version.  PhotoPlus 6.0 is the closest thing to PhotoShop and I have found it to do almost everthing PhotoShop does.  PhotoPlus 6.0 is also compatible with some PhotoShop plugins.  You can't do better than PhotoPlus 6.0 for free.  Get it here, http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/\n\nIf you are looking to organize your photos and all your media, I like Picasa which will organize all your images into one easy to use program and it also has some editing tools as well, available here, http://picasa.google.com/index.html\n\nHappy New Year to you as well!!
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http://www.adobe.com/photoshop\nhttp://www.corel.com
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Try "the Gimp" stupid name but its better than Photoshop and is totally free as its open source! here is some blurb and a link. Honestly its great...very powerful\n\nGIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition, and image authoring. It is a powerful piece of software with capabilities not found in any other free software product. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert-quality photo-retouching program, an online batch-processing system, a mass production image renderer, or an image-format converter. GIMP is modular, expandable, and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image-manipulation procedures to be easily scripted. Version 2.2.11 is a bug-fixing release
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http://www.gimp.org/\n\nThe Gimp is one popular freeware image editor. It's not as powerful or intuitive as the most popular software, Photoshop, but it's a few hundred dollars cheaper :). Alternatively, you can get Photoshop illegally, but I won't dwell on that. Either way, you may find either program difficult to manage if all you've had experience with is MS Paint, but there are many tutorials available online (and included in the software, even) that can help you get started. I don't know of anything simpler, sorry.
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Try GIMP from http://gimp.org I think. Its a good program about like photoshop but free instead of the $600.00 price tag.
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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?