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Looking for a good photo editing software that doesnt quite cost so much as Photoshop

I would like it to do more than what all these free programs do. I dont mind spending some money, but not laying down $700 for photoshop

Any suggestions would be appreciated

The GIMP is free and nearly as powerful as Photoshop Pro, with most of the same tools available. I use it pretty often, but its got a different learning curve than regular old Photoshop. But there are a bunch of tutorials out there.

http://www.gimp.org/



Photoshop Elements is under $100 and can do about 90% of what its bigger brother can do. I use this for just about everything, especially retouching. The differences being a couple tools and printing options, which professionals might needing more. Elements lacks layer masks, but there is an easy workaround for making layer masks.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop ... moid=BPDEM

Download a free trial if you think you might be interested.


Not sure if you're into video editing, but Premiere Elements is absolutely fantastic and under $100. You can't have concurrent timelines like in Premiere Pro, but there aren't too many times I've found needing that. DVD authoring isn't as refined as Pro since Pro is packaged with Encore, but it does its own authoring quite well. I liked versions 3 and 8 more than version 7. Ver 8 just came out in September.

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Thanks for the recommendations. Downloaded GIMP2 and its not too bad at all.

I will download trial version of Elements and see what I think. 100 bucks I dont really mind. Thanks again!

I've been using this app called Paint.net to edit some of my photos for about a month now. It works great, has tons of features and best of all, it's free!

http://www.getpaint.net/

Thanks will check that one out as well