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Photo creator programs are also known as photo editing software--and they come in several options. The industry standard is Adobe Photoshop, retailing from $700.00 to $1,000.00, according to a 2010 pricing index. Other programs rated from Top Ten Reviews such as the Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo, Photo Explosion and Photo Impression range from $100.00 or less. You can also use free photo editing software programs that include many features to enhance your images. - Gimp is a GNU image manipulation program available to download and use for free at gimp.org. This program offers photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It operates on several systems including Windows, Mac OSX, and Linux. GIMP 2.6 features a basic toolbox with layers, colors, tools and filters for photo enhancement. GIMP allows you to pan beyond your image and create decorative boarders with a brush accessory. It includes online help for technical support. GIMP also offers enhanced text layout, screen shots, a layout tool, backgrounds and a variety of paint brushes.
- Photo Plus is a free photo editing software program published in Europe. It's free to download and use at freeserifsoftware.com and requires Windows XP or Vista. Photo Plus features paintbrushes, airbrushes, removing unwanted objects or blemishes, adjusting airbrush size, shape, softness and fading. With Photo Plus you can layer images and text, add shadows, glows and bevels without compromising the original image. It also includes a Quick Fix studio so you can easily crop photos, remove red-eye, correct color, saturation, contrast, highlights and shadows. This program includes a rotation tool and filters--and it comes with a Quick Shapes feature for adding shapes such as speech bubbles.
- Photoscape 3.5 is a free photo editing software program available for download at photoscape.org and is compatible with Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7. If you're using Windows 98 or ME, use Photoscape 3.4. The Photoscape program enables you to view photos and create a slide show. The photo editor included allows you to resize photos, adjust brightness and color, correct white balance and back light--along with creating frames, balloons and mosaics. You can use this program to add text, draw pictures, crop photos, create filters and remove red-eye. It includes a batch editor which enables you to edit multiple photos, merge various photos on the page frame and add multiple photos vertically and horizontally to create one consolidated photo.
You can use the animated GIF to use a variety of photos and create a final animated photo. Photoscape 3.5 also includes printing portrait and passport photos, splicing photos, capturing and saving screen-shots, zooming in on subjects and highlight coloring, converting raw images to JPG--and printing on lined, graphed, music or calendar paper.
