The computer applications listed here are free to use. Some programs may have restrictions. Before using any software on a corporate or business computer check the usage restrictions of the product and check your company policy. All of the software listed here is free for home use. Graphics/Photo Infranview Paint.net - 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.
Gimp Shop - GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
- Link: http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml go to GIMPshop 2.2.4 for Windows then to alternate download
Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor). - What is a stitch program? Quite simply, if you have taken a series of photographs of a scene that you would like to piece together as one picture, then this is what you're looking for.
- Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor), very, very impressed with this photographic image stitcher.There are four modes of camera motion to stitch your sequence of images, three fixed and one that you can adjust the distortion and that the 'Rotation motion'. When in this mode just click the 3D icon on the top taskbar, where you can tilt, zoom in and out. When you are happy with your construction then you can leave the cropping to another imaging software or auto crop. The finished panoramic image is exported into:
- JPG, TIFF, Adobe Photoshop HD View Tileset, Deep Zoom Tileset, Windows Bitmap, PNG, HD Photo image.
- As an added bonus .psd you can export in layers! Any other alterations can be achieved in your image software. The project can be saved as a .spi file enabling quick access if you so wish to return and alter the image again.
- Link: research.microsoft.com/ivm/ice.html
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