by John Greece

Created on: November 01, 2008   Last Updated: August 22, 2011

There is a large number of free and different kind of photo editing software programs which are offered by various manufacturers over the internet. When the price cease to worry us concentrated ourselves more in specific characteristics of each program like functionality, ease of use, simplicity, security and final result.

The selection process of a free program is not easy. Many times we find "bad" applications that do not function properly reducing the speed of the computer or offering limited features. Let us see some reliable photo editing software programs that personally i was amazed with their results.

• Photoscape is a free and easy to use photo editing program with a lot of features that enables users to make photos and images to show very attractive. All the standard key features (resizing, brightness and color adjustment, white balance, red eye removal, cropping) that makes an image processor are including plus some very cool effects such as back-light correction, frames, balloons, mosaic mode, adding text, drawing pictures and more. Users will also find a batch editor, an image-page maker, a gif animator, a splitter and a screen capturer. All these features make PHOTOSCAPE a very strong tool essential for any use even for professional work. Try it!

• Paint NET is another impressive photo editing software program. It is 100% free and since now has earn lot of attention from internet's users. Runs on windows platform and contains all the essential features of a processor. Plus unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP. A trial enough to convince you.

• GIMP is an acronym of the words 'General Image Manipulation Program,' which for brevity reasons is simply called GIMP. It is about a free (part of the GNU Project) versatile graphic package used to process digital graphics and photographs. Users can customize the interface with the available colors and themes under their wishes. Features such as photo enhancement, digital retouching, file formating (including jpeg, gif, png, tiff etc) are available for use. GIMP can run equally well on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD and Sun OpenSolaris platforms.

• Picasa is a program that offered by Google free of charge. It is an easy way to find, edit and share photos and images across the internet. Organize, view and edit photos (cropping, red eye correction etc) are some of the features of the program but the most exciting part of PICASA is that users can simply create amazing collage and projected slides.

• Fast Stone Image Viewer is a free and fast multi-tool (browser, converter and editor) for photographs and images. Users can do all the ordinary stuff (cropping, resizing, remove red-eye) plus thumbnail browsing and access to the exif information. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slide-show with 150+ transitional effects. Definitely one of the best in the category.

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