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    FreePhotoEditors

    These free photo editors are also simple to useplus they each have some distinguishing features.

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    Why Use Free?

    All are powerful image tools that provide a fullrange of editing features.

    All are simple to learn and have good help.

    One has look and feel of basic Photoshop so ifyou want to learn Photoshop this tool providesfree and fast lessons.

    Another combines an image browser with novelediting features.

    A third provide speed and some simple macros.

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    Essential/Basic Photo Edits

    Image Transformations Rotate, Crop,

    Resize

    Image Color Adjustments:Levels for overall under/over exposure

    Curves

    for adjusting brightness, contrastHue- for correcting color over tintsSaturation for increasing color punchBlack+White changing from color to BW

    Sharpness for correcting photo jitter/blur Smoothing/blur for correcting noise

    Clone tool for image touch-ups

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    Extra Image Edit Features

    Selections or masking to apply basic edits toselect portions of an image.

    Brushes to apply painterly touches to an image.

    Text to provide captions, on image comments

    Layering to provide two fundamental capabilities:1)over-lapped single image blending ;

    2)multiple image compositing.

    ALL 4 Free Photo Editors provide All Basic Features

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    4 Free Photo Editors

    Fastone Image Viewer an image browserwith basic editing features

    ArtWeaver provides a Photoshop cloned

    interface with nearly identical look and feel forbasic photo editing.

    Paint.net has fast editing + extra features.

    Photo Filtre - provides image browsing plusnovel extra editing commands.

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    Fastone Image Browser

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    ArtWeaver 1

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    Artweaver is a Photoshop Clone

    It has all the Essential Photo Edit functions

    Better: they follow the layout of Photoshop interfaceclosely -so you learn Photoshop as you learn

    Artweaver Better: Artweaver has a powerful Brush creation

    tool which allows creating a wide range of drawingbrushes. This is a real strength for artistscommitted to drawing.

    Best: Artweaver provides selection/masking toolsand powerful layer options

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    Masks and Layers in Artweaver

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    Masks and Layering II

    Masks allow users to direct exactly where editswill be applied by drawing the mask or selectedarea region of the image

    One downside is that its very tedious to RefineEdges like in full Photoshop

    Layering allows wonderful photo ef fects to beapplied to an image Orton, Sabatier, Colortouches, etc

    Artweaver lacks the powerful blend effectsavailable in Photoshop

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    Paint.NET

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    Photo Filtre