Editing Photos

[mumswhobake]

Hi,

My hard drive has died and has taken along with it my copy of fireworks (that I used for editing photos). :(

I'm wondering what I could use now instead - fireworks & photoshop are so expensive and I really only used it for changing the size of the pictures and putting a border round them. I also need to be able to join photos together to make one big image (if that makes sense!)

Any suggestions?

Thx

[MrTempleDene]

the gimp? (http://www.gimp.org/)

Open source and free, I use it quite a bit

[mumswhobake]

thanks - not heard of that - will take a look! :)

[Fritha]

I like paint.net (http://www.getpaint.net/), it's pretty similar to photoshop but free :-)

[obscure]

If you are familiar with photoshop then gimpshop is a photoshop skinned version of gimp.

Quite a few of my clients have purchased photoshop elements - its around £30 or so but is an excellent piece of software. Perfect for removing backgrounds / cropping / optimising images for websites.

:) Sadie

[mumswhobake]

Have just taken a look at gimpshop - thanks for the info on it. Just a quick question though - how do you purchase photoshop elements?

thanks :happy72:

[obscure]

Have just taken a look at gimpshop - thanks for the info on it. Just a quick question though - how do you purchase photoshop elements?

thanks :happy72:

Pretty much anywhere!

There are a number of people on ebay selling brand new retail wrapped Photoshop Elements, or you can buy it on amazon / play etc.

Infact now that photoshop elements 7 is out you can get a bargain on the previous version which will no doubt do everything you need and more (certainly I know people still using version 3 as it does all they need).

For example
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Systems-Inc-Photoshop-Elements/dp/B000VZEIOS

HTH :)
Sadie