Graphics Editors

Whether you want to design a logo or a full web site these are the programs to help you



1 GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

2 FreeSerifSoftware – free software downloads
Free software downloads for desktop publishing, image editing, graphic design, 3D animation, and web publishing.

3 IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

4 Inkscape. Draw Freely.
Inkscape is a Vector Graphics Editor, similar to Adobe Illustrator, that strives to be SVG Compliant, open source, responsive and extensible.

5 Photoscape
Photoscape is the fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.

6 Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

7 ArtRage 2.5 Home
Welcome to the home of ArtRage, the easy to use, stylish painting software for Windows and Mac OS X! With ArtRage you can paint with oils, sketch with pencils, sprinkle sparkling glitter and much more.

8 Photobie: free image editor, photo editor, screen capture, GIF animation, flash jukebox, digital scrap booking, photo viewer, icon editor etc
Photobie is image editing software that combines features amateurs can use with advanced tools professionals will appreciate. Photobie is free for personal use with no Pro upgrade to pay for -- all features are free. Photobie is also a community of people ...

9 RENDERA - Free Graphic Editor
Rendera is a free graphics program suitable for artistic painting, photo-retouching, colorizing, and seamless tile design. It emulates common art tools and features an easy-to-learn, labeled interface. The edge-wrapping and interactive offset functions make it perfect for Web background tiles.

10 Pho.to - Online Photo Enhancement and Presentation Platform
Pho.to makes the best of your digital photos with automatic yet powerful editing tools and services. Enhance your pictures, have fun with them and share your photos for free.

Top tips

Graphics Programs are generally divided into two categories - Bitmap Editors and Vector Graphic Editors. Bitmap editors are generally the ones to use for Photo Editing and will normally have organizers built in to help you keep all your photos in order.

Most good Photo Editors will allow you to crop, sharpen or blur areas of your image, adjust colour, brightness and contrast. Most these days will also allow you to work in layers so that you can adjust any additions or effects without destroying the underlying layer.

Vector Graphic editors are generally used to Web Design work where you want to be able to construct images at differing sizes with no loss of quality, though the final output for the Web is always a bitmap usually a jpg or gif.

Vector Graphics are also more relevant for producing Technical Drawings and Logos where they need to be scaled up or down to be worked on.

The golden rule is always save the originals and the raw edits of your work as you cannot undo your edits once you have left the program.
We are open to suggestions of other Graphcs Editors.
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