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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT
- Date added: August 29, 2009
- Total Downloads: 9,681,693
- Downloads last week: 148,645
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 341 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 341 votes
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Easy to use and helpful in editing photos"
Pros: Extremely easy to use. Does a satisfactory job.
Cons: None that I have run into so far.
Summary: I would recommend this as a good free photo editor.
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Free Image Editor with an Intuitive fresh look"
Pros: Just a good lightweight image editor (lightweight compared to PS and Gimp). Very easy to use, great for quick scaling and cropping of photos. I use Photoshop and Gimp, but Photoscape is always on my computer as the option for some quick editing.
Cons: Nothing. It's an image editor and it does a great job.
Summary: I prefer this to IrfanView, it just seems better looking and more intuitive. If you want a nice looking lightweight image editor just give it a try. It's free.
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"It does what it's supposed to"
Pros: It does exactly what it says it will, and I haven't had any problems with it at all. You can choose wether or not you want to overwrite the original file or save it as two separates, which is very convinient.
Cons: Wouldn't hurt to have a few more applications, but oh well
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Version: PhotoScape 3.4
Pros: Provides great flexibility for photo editing, it is free and fairly easy to use
Cons: User interface takes some getting used to; no paint-like menu capabilities
Summary: With lots of buit-in options to choose from this program will make just about any of your digital pictures look better
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: PhotoScape 3.4
"Extremely useful program that's easy to use and free."
Pros: I liked the intuitive way it operates requiring no reading of Help Files. It was recommended to me by someone who described the Backlight compensation feature which is cleverer than anything I've used in Photo Software before.
Cons: Nothing to dislike. Even the well ordered "save" routine that offers choice of overwriting the original photo or saving the updated picture separately and leaving the original alone is really well thought out.
Summary: I very soon found what other things it will do apart from Backlight compensation adjustments post-production. I've used Histogram settings and saturation, luminance, shadow, mid-tone and gamma adjustments in such software as Paintshop Pro and this ... read more >>
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