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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- Date added: December 07, 2008
- Total Downloads: 317,781
- Downloads last week: 1,707
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 99 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 05, 2009
By providing normal editing techniques and adding some unique twists, the free Photobie takes aim at its higher-priced competition. Although novices will be overwhelmed by the numerous options, the program proved to be a very good image editor.
This freeware program even emulates more popular apps like Photoshop in its presentation and interface. The screen is dominated by a generous space for the picture to be touched up. Along the top are simple, colorful icons for saving, starting new projects, printing, and the like. Along the right side is a color palette with a box of tools for color fill, creating lines, and other basic options. In addition, a separate box monitors each of your steps and lays them out in order for users to keep track.
The most unique additions are embedded in a gray bar at the very top of the program. Here you can create a 3D cube, make a screen capture, and actually produce GIF animation with your picture and changes. The animation is a little hard to master at first, but proves to be a lot of fun. We don't recommend this program for those new to image editing, since it may be over their heads, but old pros will find a lot to love with the free Photobie.
Publisher's description
From Photobie :Photobie is a free advanced image editing software that support layers and masks. Photobie includes many embedded filters and supports most Photoshop filter (.8bf) plug-ins. Photobie is featured with advanced screen capture tools; It can create/edit high quality gif animation. Photobie is full feature packed, which enables you to create eye-catching images and animations. Image directory browser feature allows you to open as many image directories and browse them in a simple fast way, and it also provides batch resize/rotate tools. Photobie can generate high quality PDF file. Photobie provides professional designers the integrated tools to create Photo Template and Scrapbooking Template.
Version 5.2 adds new feathering feature.
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User reviews of Photobie 5.2
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 99 votes
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Version: Photobie 5.2
"Love it. Have recommended it to friends. user friendly"
Pros: It is user friendly
get fantastic results
I use mostly the editor and gif animationCons: Nil so far
Summary: It is easy to use.
I have recommended it to other users of www.frenzoo.com who have competitions and need to create scenes of their avatars with animation.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Photobie 5.2
Pros: lots of features.
Cons: It is too complicating for the average photo editor.
Summary: i would have to study a while to learn how to use it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Photobie 5.2
Pros: works great
Cons: dont know but if i find one i will write it down later
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Photobie 5.2
"There's better stuff out there. Surely."
Pros: Its a good enough image editor and everything you need. LIke generic photoshop with no sugar.
Cons: Lacks special effects, undo function is tricky.
Uses alot of memory.Summary: All in all, its good for making my simple designs and it doesn't crash very easily.
Saving is a breeze.
I recommend it if you are a beginner like me.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Photobie 5.2
Pros: It has the usual functions of an image editor
A very easy to use animatorCons: It uses up loads of RAM and can slow my computer down to an almost halt with bigger images
Summary: This is nothing special, doing what you'd expect with a few extras, but all in all there are better programs out there
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