Popular Image Editing Software
There are a lot of powerful and high quality Image Editing Software programs available today. These range from expensive, professional grade programs to free open source and freeware programs. The program you choose should largely depend on your needs, financial situation, and your own personal taste. Do not fret about choosing a program; most commercial Image Editing Software is available as a free trial that ranges anywhere from 15 to 60 days. If your computer has sufficient space, memory, and power to run them concurrently you can compare them side by side before you make your choice. Here is a brief rundown of some of the more popular programs in this market:
Photoshop is a powerful, yet expensive program developed by Adobe and is well known among the professional graphic artist community. Many graphic artists consider Photoshop the industry standard. However Photoshop is out of the range of many consumers who want professional quality Image Editing Software, but cannot afford Photoshop. To fill that gap is Corel Paint Shop Pro. This substantially cheaper program is sometimes referred to as the "poor man's Photoshop." Both are popular, easy to use, and well supported Image Editing Software programs.
One of the most popular programs on the free side of Image Editing Software is an open source program called GIMP. This program is often compared to Paint Shop Pro in terms of features, but is entirely free thanks to its license under the GNU General Public License. You may have to do a bit of web searching as well as check out GIMP message forums, being a free program the amount of support is limited, however the third party support is perhaps as great as with Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.
GIMP, however, is not your only open source Image Editing Software solution. Paint.NET is an open source, raster graphics editing program for Windows, developed on the Microsoft .NET Framework. Originally created as a Washington State University student project, Paint.NET has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program (a program famous for being included with Windows) into a powerful editor with support for layers, blending, transparency, and plug-ins. It is often considered to be a free alternative to the costly Photoshop. It is available under the MIT License, which differs from the GNU General Public License in that it does allow for commercial programs to use Paint.NET code without making them public. Due to its .NET platform, it is the only Windows only application in this list.
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