Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Software: Image Editors

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Name: AAA Logo
Version: 3.20
License: Shareware
Language: English
Official Website: http://www.aaa-logo.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Official HTTP Download (6.8MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: This powerful and easy-to-use logo maker will help you to design professional logos for printing or the Web in minutes. Start with one of more than 100 built-in logo templates or create your custom logo from scratch. This logo-design software comes with a huge library of more then 2,000 easily customizable logo objects and clip art. All built-in logo objects are vector-based and easily can be scaled and rotated. You also can apply different styles to any individual object to get an almost unlimited combination of objects and effects.

Name: Adobe Illustrator 
Version: CS6
License: Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.adobe.com/
Download: Official Program Page
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Systems. Illustrator is similar in scope, intended market, and functionality to its competitors, CorelDraw, Xara Designer Pro and Macromedia FreeHand. Refer to this link to discover more.

Name: Adobe Photoshop
Version: CS6
License: Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.adobe.com/
Download: Official Program Page
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: Adobe Photoshop is a image editor software developed by Adobe Systems. Photoshop is the most advanced and feature-rich program for image editing. It is the ultimate solution to photo/image editing needs. With Photoshop, you can deliver lots of  imaging magic to images. What limits you will be your creativity. Refer to this link to discover more. 
Name: GIF Movie Gear 
Version: 4.2.3
License: Shareware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.gamani.com/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (964KB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: GIF Movie Gear is going to change the way you create GIF animations. Building on an intuitive user interface, GIF Movie Gear adds powerful tools to help you get your animations in gear. This is a professional level tool for the web designer or anyone who works with animations.

Among its many features, GIF Movie Gear offers:
  • Easy-to-use intuitive interface that lets you see all the frames at once and to use the mouse to interact directly with the frames.
  • Multiple selection of frames for easy manipulation of more than one frame at a time.
  • Control of all aspects of animation from delays to removal methods to palette management directly from the toolbar.
  • Edit Timing quickly and easily directly in the pDescription window, either frame by frame or using relative or absolute global changes.
  • "LiveEdit" lets you edit a frame or the whole animation (as layers in Photoshop) directly in the image editor of your choice. 
  • 24-Bit Color support to let you build animations (AVI) without losing any color data.
  • Palette reduction with a before-and-after animated view to help get your file size down while maintaining the animation's image quality.
  • Inter-frame optimization to shrink the file size even more.
  • Blend Two Animations frame by frame to easily generate a composite animation. It's never been easier to put two animations side by side or a new background behind a sprite animation.

Name: GIMP
Version: 2.8
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.gimp.org/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (72.7MB)
Updated: 2012/5 by Webmaster
Description: GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. Click here to view all features.

Name: Paint.NET
Version: 3.5.10
License: Freeware
Language: English, Multinational
Official Website: http://www.getpaint.net/
Download: Official Program Page | Offficial HTTP Download (3.55MB)
Updated: 2012/1 by Webmaster
Description: Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as AdobeR PhotoshopR, CorelR Paint Shop ProR, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
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    Will's Tips

    1. What is the use of an Image Editor?
    An image editor is helps you to do adjustments to images. Transform, extract background, add effects/texts, crop and rotate are just common tasks that an image editor would do. The most popular image editor is definitely Adobe Photoshop. It is said to be the "King" of digital image editing (graphic designing) programs.

    2.  Do I need Photoshop?
    Photoshop is amazing. But you do necessarily need it to make awesome images/photos. There are many free  alternatives which are also professional and feature-rich. Software such as Paint.NET and GIMP are good examples and are believed to be the "Free Photoshop" They are designed for average user who cannot afford the expensive Photoshop.