Gimp may be as good as it gets for free software. It's been around a long time and is still being developed, has zillions of downloads and plenty of resources. I've got it on my Ubuntu Linux machine so it's on several platforms.
John Ford http://www.pbase.com/sfzjohn On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Mark J. Bailey <m...@jobsoft.com> wrote: > http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html > > > > Gimp works pretty good under XP > > > > It is not the easiest necessarily to get started with BUT, there are lots > of resources online (youtube included) and it is open source and free (and > runs on linux too). But, it is quite functional. I have done some > photoshop and, while not photoshop, I have managed some pretty sophisticated > things with GIMP. Another **vector** based free drawing tool (along the > lines, I think, of Adobe Illistrator) is Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/). > GIMP, though, is raster graphics and that is what you need for photo > editing. > > > > ________________________________________________________ > > Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. > > 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 > > EMAIL: m...@jobsoft.com WEB: http://www.jobsoft.com/ > > VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 > > > > *From:* Mark J. Bailey [mailto:m...@jobsoft.com] > *Sent:* Friday, January 21, 2011 3:14 PM > > *To:* 'nlug-talk@googlegroups.com' > *Subject:* RE: [nlug] Photo Editing ... Simplified > > > > What about gimp for windows? It has gotten quite functional in the more > recent releases (layers, etc) > > > > ________________________________________________________ > > Mark J. Bailey Jobsoft Design & Development, Inc. > > 104 Arlington Place, Suite 100 Franklin, TN 37064 > > EMAIL: m...@jobsoft.com WEB: http://www.jobsoft.com/ > > VOICE:(615)904-9559 FAX:(615)904-9576 CELL:(615)308-9099 > > > > *From:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:nlug-talk@googlegroups.com] *On > Behalf Of *Paul W. Roach III > *Sent:* Friday, January 21, 2011 3:11 PM > *To:* nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [nlug] Photo Editing ... Simplified > > > > Paint.Net -- it's not photoshop, but it's great. Not sure if it's open > source, but it's free. > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Jack Coats <j...@coats.org> wrote: > > This is to help my wife out, she is looking at using Picnik for online > picture editing. > The problem is we have between no and very low bandwidth available. > > We need a downloadable open source, and simple program that will run on XP. > > This will be used in a 2 hour class, only 1 really at the computer, and > this is > 11 to 18 yr olds. > > Suggestions? (offline responses are OK) > > ><> ... Jack > Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en