Photoshop equivalent freeware

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(e-mail address removed) (Phred) wrote:

About Photofiltre http://photofiltre.free.fr/

It is the fastest paint program/photo editing program in its class.
It is like paintshop pro 7 or 8. But smaller and faster.
The interface is extremely easy to understand and use.
Its home web page is very nice, fast and efficient.

I am not sure about the program itself, but the plugins are open
source and you can develop new ones.

Absolutely. And the author has also created some more programs, an
icon viewer-transformer, and some programs complementing the main
program. My advice is; download everything from the web site, it is
all very good. Copy the pmxxx.zip files into the masks folder, the
moxxx.zip files into a folder called Motifs (create it), the .pfl
files into the plugins folder, the pfs files into the selection
folder, the bmp files into the vignettes folder.

It takes some thought to get it organised, but not too difficult.
Fine. We're all happy. But what the hell is it?
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It is a great paint program and photo editor.
The english translation is very recent, and the program has only
existed for two years.

There is a tutorial in english about how to create reflections in
water surfaces on the web site.
It looks like the person who translates to english is working to make
more of these things translated.

I have a computer with very limited resources, 200MHz pentium, 64MB
memory, and many progs are too big for this computer.
Corel painter 8 works, but freezes if I do too much, if I edit too big
pictures. Paintshop pro 8 is not usable, it needs too much resources,
but Psp ver 7 is working well.

Photofiltre has no problems at all in this computer.
 
On that special day, Art Iculos Libres, ([email protected])
said...
However, they still can't really be called
substitutes for PhotoShop any more than a Volkswagon Beetle can be
considered a substitute for a race-ready Porsche. Both vehicles are German,
both allow you to do basic "car things",
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Just off topic, but:

Did you know that the constructor/engineer that designed the original
beetle (Volkswagen 1300) has been Ferdinand Porsche? And for both he
used the boxer motor as the proper engine.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
 
On that special day, Art Iculos Libres, ([email protected])
said...


Just off topic, but:

Did you know that the constructor/engineer that designed the original
beetle (Volkswagen 1300) has been Ferdinand Porsche? And for both he
used the boxer motor as the proper engine.


Gabriele Neukam

(e-mail address removed)
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Hey, Gabriele.

Yea, I am aware of that (I have a special relationship with a certain
Porsche, thus its use in my analogy). Dr. Porsche designed the Volkswagon
for the masses per instructions from Der Fuhrer. The boxer is a flat,
horizontally opposed piston design that is not as common as inline or V
configurations, but its inclusion in an automobile does not make each that
has that type exactly the same...any more than a V design makes a Chevy
truck the same as a Corvette. It also does not change the validity of my
analogy or my assessment of PhotoShop vs. the freebies.

Lots of product ranges are designed and / or built by the same individual
or company. That does not mean that every product in the range has the same
ability or functionality. I don't think that you were implying the
opposite, but I thought I would say that for those that would assume you
were.

Drive a Beetle. Then drive a 911. I think you'll note the differences as
opposed to the common lineage.

See ya.
 
It is the fastest paint program/photo editing program in its class.
It is like paintshop pro 7 or 8. But smaller and faster.
The interface is extremely easy to understand and use.
Its home web page is very nice, fast and efficient.


I am not sure about the program itself, but the plugins are open
source and you can develop new ones.


Absolutely. And the author has also created some more programs, an
icon viewer-transformer, and some programs complementing the main
program. My advice is; download everything from the web site, it is
all very good. Copy the pmxxx.zip files into the masks folder, the
moxxx.zip files into a folder called Motifs (create it), the .pfl
files into the plugins folder, the pfs files into the selection
folder, the bmp files into the vignettes folder.

It takes some thought to get it organised, but not too difficult.


It is a great paint program and photo editor.
The english translation is very recent, and the program has only
existed for two years.

There is a tutorial in english about how to create reflections in
water surfaces on the web site.
It looks like the person who translates to english is working to make
more of these things translated.

I have a computer with very limited resources, 200MHz pentium, 64MB
memory, and many progs are too big for this computer.
Corel painter 8 works, but freezes if I do too much, if I edit too big
pictures. Paintshop pro 8 is not usable, it needs too much resources,
but Psp ver 7 is working well.

Photofiltre has no problems at all in this computer.
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Many thanks Roger! You're a gentleman!

Bob
 
Drive a Beetle. Then drive a 911. I think you'll note the differences as
opposed to the common lineage.
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I've drove both. I'll take a Beetle any day. The 911 does certain things to
me that I can not discuss in public. ;)

Bob
 
I've drove both. I'll take a Beetle any day. The 911 does certain things to
me that I can not discuss in public. ;)

Bob
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By the way Bob, I appreciate the humor, and I think it has pointed out a
flaw in my choice of analogy (beetle vs. 911 likened to freebie vs.
Photoshop). My intention was to highlight what I considered to be vast
performance / functionality differences, yet I think I may have succeeded
(if at all) in creating a "utility vs. extravagance" analogy. Not my
intention at all. While that can apply to Beetle vs. Porsche, I believe
that PhotoShop is not an extravagance. It has so many extended feature sets
not found in other payware / freeware that it becomes the "utility" one
"needs" rather than "wants".

And while expensive, it certainly is not out of reach to most consumers as
perhaps a high-end sports car would be.

I think I may have focused on the original posters use of "equivalent". To
me, not needing, not wanting or otherwise not being aware of what features
PhotoShop has (or how to use them) does not make the others PhotoShop
equivalents.

If I use my fist to hammer a nail, is it really the equivalent of using a
nail gun?

See ya.
 
I think I may have focused on the original posters use of "equivalent". To
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I took "equivalent" to mean the "Freeware Equivalent" of PS, which I
interpret as being "The closest Freeware program to PS".

In the world of Freeware, this could be even better than PS, just as good,
not quite as good, not as good, or not even close. We all know that "not as
good" is about as good as it gets, because we all know that PS is in a class
all its own.

In some cases a Freeware product is indeed as good or better than the best
shrinkwrap commercial equivalent. Those are the nuggets many of us are
mining for. In this particular case, I consider PhotoFiltre a real nugget,
but PS is a diamond.

Bob
 
I took "equivalent" to mean the "Freeware Equivalent" of PS, which I
interpret as being "The closest Freeware program to PS".
I see that point of view.

In some cases a Freeware product is indeed as good or better than the best
shrinkwrap commercial equivalent. Those are the nuggets many of us are
mining for. In this particular case, I consider PhotoFiltre a real nugget,
but PS is a diamond.
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Agreed... as I stated in an earlier post:

"A lot of freeware is way ahead of commercial counterparts, but sometimes
software costs money for a reason. If ever there was an example of this, it
would be PhotoShop."

Nice "conversing" with you.

See ya.
 
Pardon my French, since I can't speak the language. Is there an English
version available?
 
Must be something about your browser. There's a tall column on the left...a
list of dll's and such that can be downloaded. Anyway, go into
http://www.google.com and enter the name of the ocx (letter O, not zero) and
it'll pull up hundreds and hundreds of download sites. Or try going back to
Web Attack and enter the name into the searchbox.
 
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