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Free photo editors for Linux, Mac, and Windows

Can't afford Photoshop? Can't justify the expense? What do you need in a good photo editor anyway? To me, the absolute essential features necessary for any photo editing app are: Layers and layer masks (alpha editing). These features let you selectively apply edits and filters to portions of the image that [...]

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Picasa for Mac

Picasa, Google's free photo-editing software, recently became available for Mac users (running OS X 10.4.9 or above). It has a few nifty features that iPhoto (or iPhoto '08 at least) doesn't and is very easy to use. It's got all the basic editing tools - crop, straighten, remove red eye, [...]

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Microsoft Image Composite Editor: Easy to use, good results

Image Composite Editor is Microsoft's over-engineered way of saying "panorama stitcher." This software takes multiple images and stitches them together automatically, blending seams, cropping, the works. It's extremely simple to use: just drag and drop a batch of images onto the interface and it gets to work immediately finding overlapping [...]

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Poll: What software do you use to edit your photos?

As one of our most recent polls shows we have photographers of all skill levels here from beginners to experts. We all have different reasons for taking photographs and a different workflow. Part of virtually every digital photographer's workflow is editing photos in software. So I'm curious what software you [...]

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Review: Adobe Photoshop goes online with Photoshop Express

Adobe has finally opened up the beta of Photoshop Express, the long-awaited online version of Adobe Photoshop. I've just finished running it through it's paces and I am impressed. Photoshop express requires registration to use. You get access to the online editing tool and a relatively meager 2 GB of [...]