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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: August 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,152,666
- Downloads last week: 146,669
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 334 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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- Average user rating: 4.3 stars out of 334 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PhotoScape 3.4
Pros: Easy to use photo editing program. The interface is simple, uncluttered & easy to find what you're looking for. Don't expect the range of features that you get with Photoshop but what it's designed to do it does well. It's free - download and try it.
Cons: Only one. It will overwrite a previously edited picture without warning.
Summary: Really no reason not to download. First timers will be able dive straight in & start using it with out having to memorise a manual. I use it in conjunction with Photoshop Elements and prefer it certain instances. It's great as a quick viewer, an... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Confusing at first, once I figured it out it was great"
Pros: Lots of variety of effects, easy to use once I figured out how to use it
Cons: Confusing at first very different setup especially at first, I'm still trying to figure out some of the apps.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: PhotoScape 3.4
Pros: Great software. No-brainer! Anyone who knows how to use a mouse and keyboard can mess about with photos, and the best part is that it's free.
Cons: Wish there were more features.
Summary: Why I liked it- Free, easy to use, plenty of the most basic fixes on photos, and the GIF creator is just perfect.
Why I didn't like it. There's not all the features that a pro would need. Some features like what Photoshop has.
But hey, w... read more >> -
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Give photoscape 3.4 a chance"
Pros: You can definetly go beyond the basic "tweaking" of photos. Has some really nice features such as; Region(out of focus), back lighting by %, decolor -1 to -10 (which is a pretty sweet feature), smart blur, and noise reduction just to name a few.
Cons: Lacks some of the super fine tuning features that are found in programs such as photoshop. But for free I think anyone can live with these deficiencies.
Summary: Like all software if a user is new to it, well it's going to take a little messing with to get up to speed on all the features you can utilize. I've been a photoscape user now for about two years. Give it a week or so and I think most people will ag... read more >>
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PhotoScape 3.4
Pros: I guess if got no computer savvy this software would not challenged you.
Cons: The features and the layout are almost childish.
Summary: There are just too many better photo shop programs to choose instead of this one.
The difference between this photoshop program and a good photoshop program is similar to the diff... read more >>
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