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Free Photo Editing Software - Paint.NET a Photoshop Alternative
Written by admin on 18th July, 2008 ..... Print This Post Print This Post

As you post on your Blog there will come a time when you want to add graphics and pictures to your website. The most popular software for creating and editing pictures is Adobe’s Photoshop. However it costs lots of money. There are several great alternatives. Two of my favorites are Paint.NET and GIMP. The power of this program is remarkable - far beyond what most of us need or will ever use. However some image editing always does have to be done, if only to crop out an unwanted area of a picture to resize an image for putting it on the web.

Paint.NET logo

I use Paint.NET because its easy to use for the graphically challenged among us. Paint.NET will accept Photoshop files. It will also edit, crop and save your images into different formats, all of which are necessary for getting pictures onto the web.

This is what the Paint.NET website says about the program:

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

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Below is a screenshots of Paint.net in action. Another great tool that doesn’t kill your wallet, in fact it’s (can you guess what I’m going to say?) Free Quick and Easy. Cheers.

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Paint.NET Photoediting software



A Great FREE HTML Editor
Written by admin on 9th July, 2008 ..... Print This Post Print This Post

As you know I’m a big fan of Wordpress because you don’t have to be technical or be a programmer to use it. However recently I’ve come across situations where I need to have some information in html (the web language). For example, when publishing articles some sites want the article in html format so that the titles and margins are pre-formated for the web. MS Word doesn’t work because it puts in strange codes and has special characters. Using the Windows Notepad means having to learn html and code every instruction. No way.

Well for such a simple thing I didn’t want to spend a fortune for software. Sure website creation software such as Dreamweaver or Frontpage are great and powerful. However they cost hundreds of dollars and have pretty steep learning curves. Fortunately I just found a Free web page editor and creator and couldn’t wait to share it with you.

KompoZer is a complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. It is designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.

Oh and did I mention that it’s Free. Try it out here:

http://kompozer.net/



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