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22 Jul 2005, 12:23 am

anyone know of any?


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22 Jul 2005, 3:04 am

Photo Editing:
Adobe Photoshop is the best photo editing software out there. Another cool thing about photoshop, is that is that it works quite well under WINE, so you can ditch The Gimp. The Pricetag for Photoshop can be a bit hefty if you don't use your rescources to find it on the cheap.

Video Editing:
Apple makes iMovie (Still, I think) which is pretty cheap. (Free. I think) . Prices go rapidly up from there. Final Cut Pro, (Apple, again, available for Windows and Mac) as well as Adobe Final Cut, and Avid XPress Pro are pretty much industry standard, and can cost some SERIOUS Cash. On the other hand, Avid has a Free Version of their software here:

http://www.avid.com/freedv/resources.asp

If you're running Linux/Un*x Avid *Might* work under WINE, but don't take my word on it. A free Video Editiing system for Linux is Cinelarra, but the Minimum Hardware requirements for it are REAL steep. (IE , dualheaded AMD 64, not to mention a Rendering Cluster.)



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31 Mar 2007, 1:10 pm

Free! check out
http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm
it is free, has filters and effects and really small too



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31 Mar 2007, 1:16 pm

Photoshop is the best photo editing program, you can download a free trial from www.adobe.com
If you buy the full version the price is maybe a problem, it can be a bit expensive.


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31 Mar 2007, 3:38 pm

I have both Photoshop and The Gimp, and prefer The Gimp. Never used it under Windows, but I see that a Windows version is available: http://www.gimp.org/windows/



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31 Mar 2007, 3:47 pm

geek wrote:
I have both Photoshop and The Gimp, and prefer The Gimp. Never used it under Windows, but I see that a Windows version is available: http://www.gimp.org/windows/


Yeah I use the windows version of gimp.



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31 Mar 2007, 10:35 pm

http://www.jahshaka.org/content/blogcategory/1/46/

Haven't used it or even heard of it, but a google search brought it up.



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01 Apr 2007, 12:08 am

Avid has a free version of their video software,
there's also one called Zweistein, which I haven't tried.
Of course, Windows movie maker (hehe), ah, and Virtualdub.


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01 Apr 2007, 10:45 pm

Paint.net is a good image editing program. You can get it from http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html . It has some of Photoshop's important features (filters and distortions) and a useful GUI.



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02 Apr 2007, 6:25 am

i would suggest Virtualdub MPEG2 for videos and so do most people i have spoken to who actually edit videos for a living