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Gimp?
photo editing software ?
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The industry standard for 2 decades has been Photoshop, which I still use, but Lightroom is very popular. You say that this will be for business application, so how much of that business is manipulating images? If you will be doing a lot of this kind of work then I would use Lightroom because of the easy batch features. Also Adobe sells Photoshop Elements which is the consumer level version of the software and is very reasonable.
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bugloss":2a4pihjw said:
Thanks. I'm getting old you know.
integerspin
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Another one for processing pictures from Linux, but I use on windows now, is Imagemagic. You can have an entire directory of photo's and resize, strip the exif data, set the compression, add watermark and probably a load more things all with one single command.
And it's free.
I have used the same version of paintshop pro since something like 1998, it's basically a knock off of photoshop and even simpler.
And it's free.
I have used the same version of paintshop pro since something like 1998, it's basically a knock off of photoshop and even simpler.
You can get Gimp for Windows: http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard, but it's very expensive and at 6 to 10 times the price of alternatives, like much of Adobe's other software, in my opinion, way over priced. It probably is the best, but just no where near as much better than the free or cheaper alternatives to justify the price. The new pay monthly, subscription model isn't much good for occasional users either.
Prior to the subscription model Adobe would release roughly yearly updates to it's software and charge a fair amount for you to upgrade and while they would add new features and make the interface prettier, sometimes, infuriatingly, the new release would contain the same clunky, buggy bits of the prior release, making their high prices something of a slap in the face. As you can probably tell, I have rather mixed feeling about Adobe. :?
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... re-1170380
Adobe Photoshop is the industry standard, but it's very expensive and at 6 to 10 times the price of alternatives, like much of Adobe's other software, in my opinion, way over priced. It probably is the best, but just no where near as much better than the free or cheaper alternatives to justify the price. The new pay monthly, subscription model isn't much good for occasional users either.
Prior to the subscription model Adobe would release roughly yearly updates to it's software and charge a fair amount for you to upgrade and while they would add new features and make the interface prettier, sometimes, infuriatingly, the new release would contain the same clunky, buggy bits of the prior release, making their high prices something of a slap in the face. As you can probably tell, I have rather mixed feeling about Adobe. :?
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/ ... re-1170380
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For anyone wondering, GIMP stands for the GNU Image Manipulation Program and I think it's more useful than Adobe because it does the stuff the average person needs without endless menus and sub menus.
