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Best Windows software for a hard-hit economy
October 30, 2008 3:41 PM PDT
Photo editing
Freeware: GIMP
Replaces: Photoshop Elements
You save: $100
Prepare to be impressed with GIMP. GIMP supports layering and has a good-size tool kit for adjusting colors, curves, and balances, and adding blur, zoom, and distortion effects. Unlike some freeware photo editors, it has an effective red eye removal filter, and tools for creating paths and quickly changing perspective. Tutorials and an active user base help you work through stickier editing tasks. The plug-in GIMPshop unites GIMP's two panes and renames some functionality to match Photoshop's nomenclature.
GIMP is powerful freeware, but unlike Photoshop Elements, it won't create slide shows. Never fear, IfranView does basic slide shows for free, and the Web application SlideRocket makes them glossy and easy to share.
Photo credit: CNET
