Yes, there is free program for photo editing/manipulation, actually a lot. But If I have to make a recommendation, I would suggest Paint.Net or for those more advance kind of users if would recommend the GNU Image Manipulation Program or simply called as GIMP
Paint.Net would be suitable for everyone from the beginners level to those more advance level, or for those who just need the basic on photo editing, cause it was actually build to replace the Microsoft Paint program that every standard windows operating system had. But, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program, into a powerful editor with support for layers, blending, transparency, and plugins.
So, Paint.NET has evolve from a simple replacement program for Microsoft Paint into a program that have many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. The down of Paint.NET that it was created for Windows, and has no native support for any other system. And please note, that in order to run this program, you'll need .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 which you can get from the windows update website if you didn't have it install on tour windows operating system (Windows XP users)
On the other-hand, GIMP would be the best free photo editing software to replace those insane expensive photo editing & manipulation software. And the part is, it is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems, including but not limited to Microsoft's Windows, Apple's Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
As a popular application, GIMP is regularly reviewed. The reviews often examine the fitness of GIMP for use in professional environments; as such GIMP is often cited as a free replacement for Adobe Photoshop.
In addition to detailed image retouching and free-form drawing, GIMP can accomplish essential image editing tasks such as resizing, editing, and cropping photos, photomontages combining multiple images, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in the GIF format.
GIMP's product vision is that GIMP is or will become a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements
Here is some screen shot from both program which I got from various source at the internet, sorry as I said earlier I'm a bit busy lately ;p
GIMP
Paint.Net
Here is the download link for both software :
- GIMP Download
- From GIMP official website : gimp.org
- From Softpedia : GIMP at Softpedia
- From CNET Download.com : GIMP at CNET Download
- Paint.NET
- From it's official website : Paint.NET
- From Softpedia : Paint.NET at Softpedia
- From CNET Download.com : Paint.NET at CNET Download
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