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Kathleen_137290 Senior Member artist Posts: 498	Free software find Feb 9^th, 2011, 6:22pm Just wanted to share an image editing software find for those of you on windows who don't have photoshop and it's free. Was recommended to me by a friend. He says it works very well, is user friendly and has layers. Cannot be used on mac. http://lmadhavan.com/software/fotografix/#highlights
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Randall_140313 Gold Member artist Posts: 1013	Re: Free software find Reply #1 - Feb 13^th, 2011, 10:48pm Kathleen, How's that Madhavan photo editing download working for you? I tried to download it, but haven't been abale to find it again on my computer. Do you have to download it each time or do you have it saved to your computer? I noticed he advertises it as being unobtrusive, well mine really is! LOL
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Reply #2 - Feb 13^th, 2011, 11:07pm

Hi Randy,

I don't use Madhavan because I have Photoshop CS and a mac. But will ask my friend how to find... the unobtrusive little rascal.

I mentioned the program because as I was reading forum threads and questions, realized, many don't have the software for design editing and working in layers which is really helpful. There's gimp, which is a free online software, that can be used but can be quite daunting for beginners. When my friend was telling me how neat Madhavan was and that it was free thought.. aha must share with GCU.

Will be interesting to hear what you think of it, after it's found.

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Reply #3 - Feb 13^th, 2011, 11:34pm

I actually tried downloading it twice and going back in on the computer, it's nowhere to be found, desktop, tools, programs ??? Maybe I missed something, so if you ask, I'd really appreciate that. The layers is what I'm looking for. I like my Picasa and Piknik, but it takes a lot of ingenuity, not to mention time to do a lot of things I know in photoshop CS-5 is a breeze.
You have an extra key for CS5? LOL
Thanks for checking this out Kathleen!
UPDATE! 12:15 A.M. - Ok, have it saved to my computer on my desktop now. Have been playing with the masks and some of the effects. Pretty cool and if you know photoshop will be easy for you. Going back to play some more an will give a review in a day or two.
Thanks Kathleen!

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Kathleen_137290 Senior Member artist Posts: 498	Re: Free software find Reply #4 - Feb 22^nd, 2011, 10:01pm Randy, Great! My friend is off to Chicago on some kind of business trip and although I emailed him, have gotten no response. Glad you figured it out. I noticed on the Fotografix site there is a user guide that might be helpful.
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Jannina_152182 Junior Member artist Posts: 59	Re: Free software find Reply #5 - Apr 9^th, 2011, 12:07pm I had to reply to this, even though it's an older post. One of my most favorite freeware photoshop-esque programs is GIMP (GNU image manipulation program). It is completely free, has versions for windows, mac and unix. It uses layers, too. You can get it at Gimp.org Jannina
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Angela_151919 Gold Member artist Posts: 552	Re: Free software find Reply #6 - Apr 24^th, 2011, 8:34am I like these free software programmes.... http://www.5dfly.com/ http://download.cnet.com/Fly-Free-Photo-Editing-and-Viewer/3000-2192_4-10962116. html
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