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    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub View Post
    Photo editing
    The Gimp is pretty good for photo editing, but the learning curve is sort of steep if you've never used Photoshop. On the other hand, if you've got photoshop, you wouldn't bother using The Gimp.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ldub View Post
    Others you find useful ?
    • Foxit Reader - Replaces Adobe Acrobat with something quite a bit faster and one might argue safer.
    • Media Player Classic or VLC - Replaces Windows Media Player
    • Password Safe - Stores all your passwords safely
    • TightVNC - Allows you to remote control your machine (use carefully!)
    • OpenOffice - 80% of what you need from MS Office. Works great 80% of the time, but will make you pull your hair out when you need the other 20%.
    • FooBar2000 - Lightweight replacement for WinAMP
    • Google Earth, SketchUP, Picassa
    • 7-Zip - Better than WinZip
    • Putty and GVim - If you ever talk to unix machines

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    Everything's free if you know where to look
    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on me.

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    I use AVG anti virus and have had no problems.
    Also like Open Office a lot.

    And as Ascinder said most anything can be "found" out there!
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    Thanks all, for the replies so far...

    I've DL'd gimp & photoscape, & have been perusing some online tutorials for the gimp. Though I'm having trouble adjusting to the ball gag......
    Also played with photoscape a little, & right out of the box did some conversion to greyscale...nice!
    Also, I've been using irfanview for years to resize pics (thanks Boss...)

    Keep em comin'...

    I'm gonna try to post up some examples in the near future.

    Also...whaddy'all think for pic storage?...photobucket the best?

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    Here's a great "all in one" for gimp tut's...

    Lot's of cool stuph I'll never be able to get my head around...

    http://garmahis.com/tutorials/gimp-tutorials/

    Also, a nice cross section of available photo editing freeware

    http://garmahis.com/software/photosh...-alternatives/
    Last edited by Ldub : 06/29/2010 at 12:50 AM

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascinder View Post
    Everything's free if you know where to look
    x2

    Bart

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascinder View Post
    Everything's free if you know where to look
    Quote Originally Posted by nfpgasmask View Post
    x2

    Bart
    You two might find this hard to believe, but weren't niether of those comments wuz very helpful...

    Dang young wisenheimers......
    Last edited by Ldub : 06/29/2010 at 10:23 AM

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    Ok then, this is the best freeware I have seen in a long time:

    http://supermariocrossover.com/

    Bart

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    i ve found google sketchup very cool for drawing things in "3-d"
    you can draw it, spin it around. ive drawen presentation drawings for customers, then taken them on virtual tours of the house, etc. pretty cool!

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