Friday, May 25, 2007

Photo software and image manipulation software

Once you have taken a photo you may decide to make some changes to it, like resizing or cropping the photo. You may get a little more creative and want to change the colour or remove something from the image - like a lamp post in an out side shot! There are many different bits of software on the market that you can buy or use for free, they can range from £20 up to £500 or £600 professional packages such as PhotoShop CS.

IrfanView
Irfanview is a very popular free to download image viewer and audio player. Its not designed to be a full blown image editing peice of software like PhotoShop for example, instead its main features are image resizing, cropping and taking screen shots - and these features can not be faulted, it rivals many of the exspensive bits of professional kit. These are only a few of its many features, its free and a small file size so why not download it from the official website: http://www.irfanview.com/. Irfanview Photoshop

Photoshop
Photoshop has long been the photography industry standard for professionals. There have been 17 upgrades to the software over since febuary 1990 and the most current version is Photoshop CS (version 8). The features that this offers are vast, for digital photos it can offer all you will ever need and more, from colour management, cropping, resizing, cloning with advanced colour spaces and advanced printing. It also provides everything a desktop publisher could wish for and the images that can be created from scratch are only limited to your imagination. For full spec visit the Adobe Photoshop website.

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