Are there any inexpensive Photoshop-like programs?

[mykpart]

I wanna do silly pictures too! But I'm cheap!

[billyskank]

1. There's the GIMP (don't laugh)

It's free, so that's good. It's quite capable, but it's notoriously tough to get to grips with. Could be worth a look though; I use it myself. http://www.gimp.org/

[Omphaloskepsis]

2. a few..

I assume you use Windows.
The Gimp with some photoshop flare. (free)
http://plasticbugs.com/?page_id=294 -- A Windows link is on that page.
A fantastic free program: -- made by students for a class project... Amazingly good and free.
http://www.getpaint.net/index.html --

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. GIMP.

It's a pain in the ass to learn, but it's free and good.

[Madrone]

4. I'll 3rd GIMP.

As for PITA to learn ---- and PhotoShop ISN'T?

[sendero]

22. Good point..

... but really, PS makes a lot of stuff really easy to do, once you learn the little tricks.

Gimp, not so much. But it is a great program.

[radwriter0555]

5. Picasa by google is FREE and awesome.. it is just a fantastic program

that works great, is really user friendly and takes up very little space.

[Nicole]

10. Thanks!

Sounds interesting.

[qnr]

6. Another vote for The GIMP n/t

[bif]

7. Photoshop Elements

It's quite affordable and does just about anything you need to do.

[Taverner]

11. Yeah I think the only diff between Elements and Standard are the plugins

Right?

[Chiyo-chichi]

15. Photoshop Elements is very good.

I second that.
These were done with PS Elements: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[El Fuego]

8. Corel Paint Shop Pro

I bought it on Amazon for $49.95. It's a great program, supposed to do anything Photoshop does and is much cheaper. I LOVE it.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I have Corel Paint Shop Pro X

and it's great, at a fraction of the cost of PhotoShop. I think we paid about a hundred bucks for it, but you might find it cheaper. This version is much more user friendly than early versions of Paint Shop, at least for this newbie to photography.

[hunter]

12. A free one that works fine on older machines -- Pixia

http://park18.wakwak.com/~pixia

It's weirdly Japanese sometimes, but it'll run without problems on a Windows 98 machine.

[Courtesy Flush]

13. A few free ones

ArtRage - http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Artweaver - http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version
ColorPic - http://www.iconico.com/colorpic /
Delineate - http://delineate.sourceforge.net /
Inkscape - http://www.inkscape.org /
JPEGCrops - http://ekot.dk/programmer/JPEGCrops /
Paint .NET - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net /
Pixia - http://www.ab.wakwak.com/~knight /
Pixie - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html
PhotoFiltre - http://www.photofiltre.com /
Sodipodi - http://www.sodipodi.com /
The Gimp - http://www.gimp.org /
Tuxpaint - http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint
Wax - http://www.debugmode.com/wax /
Wink - http://www.debugmode.com/wink /
WinMorph - http://www.debugmode.com/winmorph/

[Bucky]

18. bookmarking, for referencing later

[texanwitch]

14. I have one that nice.

I like to use Pro Photo by Printshop, has some really nice features and cost about $50.

[hyphenate]

16. Depends what you call "cheap"

Paint Shop Pro is great and a lot of people use it. It can use almost every single filter and special effect that Photoshop uses as well. It's $80 at most stores--I saw it at Best Buy.

[chrisau214]

17. Yet Another GIMP Vote

It's about as close to Photoshop as you can get and it's FREE!!! It does have a steep learning curve but so does Photoshop. That steep learning curve involves completely mastering the program. It's pretty simple with both to simply start messing around and creating new things.





Chris

[Deja Q]

19. GIMP is free, but Nova PhotoImpact 10 looks and feels similar to photoshop

and is $90 before rebate. Worth the price; GIMP is rather tedious to use and whose user interface is unrefined.

[datasuspect]

20. MS Paint

[LSK]

21. another GIMPer here