Photo Editors some of the BEst !!!!! (PhotoImpact 8.0)

Member Name: smisbahuddin

Product:	PhotoImpact 8.0
Date:	19/02/06 (791 review reads)
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Advantages: Good interface and easy to handle, quality work

Disadvantages: Transparent Gif cannot be made

<b>Ulead Photo Express </b>
Very useful functions are available in graphics editing, the
Menus are in two rows vertical row you have main categories
like editing, touch up, scanner, etc., in horizontal categories are the sub tools of vertical heading tools, in editing menu You have clone tool. This is magic, you select this tool on any area of a photo or anything and open a new file and hold shift key and Lo and Behold the area you clicked on the the photo can be drawn here perfectly. The clone spreads from the point of contact to the surrounding area. If you master this tool I promise you there are unlimited possiblities. Suppose you have a picture with seaside railings on Tigris River, select clone tool click on your good picture and go to the railing picture of Tigris River and start drawing your Clone : You are standing near Tigris River. There is a Magic Wand tool, this tool has its uses but it looses the Quality of copied area once its pasted on other place. The clipping tool is very flexible, its has drag and drop mode of selecting the Clip area. Text insertion is also very good in this software.
Colour Pick up tool is so perfect, once I tested it for human skins It picked up very well and I used Autofill and did it to a rectangle The rectangle looked perfectly like skin.
THUMBNAIL browser is a good tool of this software. If used this tool brings all the graphics files contained in the directory on this Browser/Explorer.
<b>www.ulead.com</b>

<b>IRFANVIEW</b>
This is the king of Graphics editors. Eventhough pasting one graphic over Another graphic cannot be done in this editor, you can always collage 2 graphics in EXCEL or WORD programme, let me tell you how it is done A Rose file and Your Girlfriend picture, insert both of them thru insert
Picture file in excel and bring them overlapping each other or whatever pattern you want to achieve. Once its done select all the cells surrounding The 2 files and copy and bring it to Irfanview thru past and you can a collage of your girlfriends face beside rose flower ready to send it to her
on Valentine Day, New Year Day or anyother greetings you wish to convey to her, you can always say , see for yourself how pale even the rose looks in front of you. You have a girlfriend loyal to you all her life.
This software is free downloadable from internet www.irfanview.com it is very Light , has all the tools, clip, extract all frames of a animation graphic, it
supports 1000 file formats, it has graphics explorer, it has effects and it has 3D effect in the list. its so vast and beautiful , its the most easy slide show
maker in the whole world today. it has compression function. The best of all functions is LOSSLESS JPEG file function. No matter how many times You edit JPEG files there will be no loss in quality. I can go on describing Good function contained in this editor. You test it to believe it.
You have a function called automatic viewing. It shows a graphic file for the amount of time you set for the viewer and automatically it moves on to next file, it means you can look at all files in your viewer with only 1 click.
Imagine , if you have 1000 graphics in 1 directory, you can see all of them with this function and just keep a pencil with you to take the names of the Files you like among the 1000. Your work is done.
It comes with a cute multimedia player which is a few KB in size but can play most of the files Avi, Mov, Dat, Mpg, Mpeg etc., The whole graphic can be given a border/frame with size of our choice.

We can make custom selection of the image by giving x & y coordinates from the top as well as from the bottom. And the selected area can be formatted with effects, like explosion, etc., there are many more effects you can use as
Plugins, they support many plugins of popular software like psp etc., This graphic editor plays animation files like HTML browsers.
<b>www.irfanview.com</b>


<b>Microsoft Photo Editor</b>
Its one main and useful function is choosing the Transparent colour in your graphic, this is useful when you are posting html pages on web where you want the colour of the page to merge with the the background colour of your graphic file. Apart from few effects and contrast, light, dark
tools it has usual tools which are commonly available in all graphics editors in the market. The effects you have in this editor are very limited Embossed, Charcoal, Glass etc., There is no 3D effect.
<b>www.microsoft.com</b>

<b>Microsoft Paint.</b>
Dont underestimate this programme, this is a very beautiful programme for BMP files, its main merits are focused for BMP files but it works very beautifully with other simple graphics requirement. The biggest drawback is converting file formats, supposing you save Jpeg files into
Gif files you will loose lot of colours and quality of graphic suffers.

The best tool in this Accessory is increasing the graphic to large size and we can do cell editing on the graphic. Suppose we have a graphic we want to make changes in it by ERASER tool, its a picture of a Rose Flower we erase everything around it, still Eraser has its limitations , it cannot
Erase the finer cells just on the boder of rose itself. You go to VIEW Select zoon, large size and scroll to specific cells and make the outline perfect as per your liking.

The Colour Pick up tool when used in some cases if it finds there are no references in its limited base of colours, just brings the most approximate Colour picked up. That means you will have not exactly what you wanted.
<b>www.microsoft.com</b>


The other reputed graphics editors are psp etc., I am myself rate them as too flashy and heavy on the system and they are all cumbersome. But they have many good features. I dont use them because of them being heavey
and cumbersome.

Summary: I have described 4 or 5 Photo/Image Editors to compare and choose

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