I am by no means a graphic designer, but from time to time I need to manipulate and create graphics for various projects that I am working on. I have used everything from MS Paint to Adobe Photoshop. MS Paint usually is not powerful enough and Photoshop is obviously the gold standard but is not cheap! And considering I don’t need to use it every day, the cost is not justified for me. So what is good solution??
I recently found an awesome free online image editing program that is very similar to Photoshop called pixlr. I couldn’t believe that this program was free when I saw how powerful it is.
It has many Photoshop like features including layers, magic wand, filters and a lot, lot more. The best part about pixlr besides being free is that it is an online application so you can access it from anywhere anytime. Also this means you are always using the latest version with all the latest and greatest functionalities, and never have to worry about updating. And of course you can save your pixlr file so you can come back and edit it like a PSD file, meaning it will have all your layers and effects…very cool.
So if you need to edit graphics and don’t feel like throwing down the big bucks for programs like Adobe Photoshop this is the way to go.
Check them out here:
The pixlr editor – http://www.pixlr.com/editor/
Twitter – http://twitter.com/pixlr
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pixlr/35846011511
The Gimp is also a great free CLIENT app. this web editor is pretty cool though. I love web apps.
This is cool:
http://www.gimp.org/
Nice