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What’s A Good Image Editor?

October 29, 2007

Paint.netEven though I outsource most of my graphics work, I often keep an image editor at hand to quickly whip out stuff like signature graphic. A picture of myself for a web site or sometimes I just want to change the color of an image and don’t want to wait around for the designer.

Problem with many image editors is the price! I’m not saying I won’t pay for a good software program. People deserve to be paid for their work. But I’m not a professional designer. So, I’d rather save my cash for something that is really needed to perform my work.

Until now, I’ve always recommended Gimp which is a fantastic image editor. Unfortunately, Gimp can be huge and confusing. It’s often overkill for my simple needs. Recently someone brought Paint.NET to my attention. Verdict? I love it!

PicnikPaint.NET is much lighter, very easy to use. The interface is not cluttered with stuff that’s plain confusing. As with any software especially image editors, if you’ve never used one before you’ll need to spend a little bit of time with it. But if you’re familiar with image editors you should pick it up right away. Oh and best of all, Paint.NET is open source
software so you don’t have to whip out your wallet. Just head on over to GetPaint.net and grab a copy.

If you prefer an online based editor, give Picnik a try. It is very cool and certainly super useful for those times when you’re on the road or using a friends’ computer. You can create an account for free and pretty much use most of the features for free. If you want to upgrade to get extra features, it’s $24.95 a year. The thing I really like about Picnik is the fact you can grab pictures you’ve already uploaded to other websites like Flickr, PhotoBucket,
Picasa or Facebook. Once you’re done editing, you can save it back into those places. No downloading and uploading.

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Lynette Chandler is a mompreneur who has a knack for teaching other entrepreneurs about the technology and how to recognize and apply its power and trends to their marketing. Lynette brings to the table a marketing career of sixteen years as well as four years of experience doing technical management. She is the owner of TechBasedMarketing.com and is a married mother of 3, living in Eastern North Carolina.

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4 Responses to “What’s A Good Image Editor?”

  1. Mara B. on October 31st, 2007 8:46 am

    Lynette, you always tell us about the most useful things! I have an older version of Paint Shop Pro, and I used it to create the header for my blog, but I’m not really comfortable with it. I will definitely take a look-see at both of those resources and see if they better meet my needs.

    Thanks, again, for sharing for your wealth of knowledge. :)

  2. Tishia Lee on November 1st, 2007 10:10 pm

    I’m not comfortable with any sort of resource like this - I had one on my old computer but it was like Foreign language to me and I was so totally clueless about what I was doing.

    I’d like to take the time to learn how to use a resource like this but it seems like it’s so far above my head…lol.

  3. Lynette Chandler on November 5th, 2007 10:27 am

    I hope these work better for you Mara.

    Tishia. Yes graphic editors can be so intimidating. I had a really hard time when I first started too but after a while it’s not that bad. I highly recommend you try Picnik in this case. Paint.net may still be a bit geeky for you but Picnik is super easy - I promise.

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