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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: August 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 10,691,802
- Downloads last week: 156,557
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 355 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 06, 2008
Add another name to the roster of feature-rich freeware image editors: PhotoScape. Although it eats and leaks about as much memory as Firefox, this editor is perfect for those making the jump between JPEG and am-pro dSLR work.
It supports RAW, as well as all other major image formats from JPEG and PNG to animated GIFs. It comes with prebuilt templates for users to create photo collages, fumetti, and Web comics, and has a standard set of red-eye removal, light/shadow, and contrast-editing features. One warning about the RAW processing: although it looks like you can drag and drop, the converter doesn't change RAW to JPEG unless you load the RAW file from within the native file navigator. It's a minor bug, but one that can lead you to believe that there's no RAW support at all. You can also batch edit images, combine them, and print them out one at a time or several at once.
The program loads fast and possesses an interface completely different from those familiar with Adobe's industry-leading tools. Users are greeted by circular navigator complemented by a tabbed nav on the top of the main screen. Most but not all main features are accessible from either nav. It might take some people time to get used to the unusual layout, but it's only unusual for an image editor; otherwise it's intuitive, fast, and lacks only the most advanced of image editing features.
Publisher's description
From Mooii :PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor with fun and ease of use. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, raw converter, resizing, brightness/color/white-balance adjustment, backlight correction, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming. PhotoScape has been used for two years and is expanding its features continuously.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.4 supports 27 languages: English, Korean, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Dutch, Spanish(Spain), Spanish(Mexico,latain-america), French, Japanese, Russian, Polish, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese(Brazil), Thai, Hungarian, Turkish, Catalan, Slovak, Czech, Norwegian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Estonian, Danish, and Romanian.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 355 votes
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"simple yet just as good as Photo Shop"
Pros: Very simple to use. friendly for people that are unfamiliar with photo software. Results are Extremely amazing
Cons: none, expect the save dialogue is a little odd
Summary: does everything you will ever need it to do.
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
Pros: User friendly, with a lot of resources to be explored as you learn.
Cons: Doesn't have the brush type tool as the original Microsoft Photo Editor used to have.
Summary: Very good tool for editing. However misses the blurring brushes, which would make it perfect, presenting awsome results without the need for being a "specialist" as for using Photoshop
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Delighted about this program ! Thank you PhotoScape !!"
Pros: Extremely simple to use.Amazing amount of features for a free program.
Cons: No cons.Maybe the 'save' options are not clear to use, but I like this user-friendly program so much, that to me there is NO CON !
Summary: The numerous features of photo editing are very easy to use for an average user and deliver unexpected excellent results, without spending too much time to figure out each feature. I've recommended it to manyof my friends. I would happily pay for i... read more >>
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Better than I expected, Photoscape is a nice free app"
Pros: Unlike many free photo-editors, this one allows incremental rotation, batch processes, and more, in addition to expected features: brightness/contrast, crop, and so on.
Cons: The "save" dialogue is a little unexpected. You can't get the "save as" menu until you first click "save." This is counter-intuitive and should be corrected in future versions.
Summary: Bottom line. Of the dozens of free photo-editors I've tried, this is the best so far for the average user. (For power users, try the GIMP).
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
Pros: easy to use, and delivers excellent results
Cons: hard to make panaramas
Summary: does everything I need it to with intuitive controls
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