PhotoScape

PhotoScape, Although it eats and leaks about as much memory as Firefox, this editor is perfect for those making the jump between JPEG and am-pro dSLR work.
It supports RAW, as well as all other major image formats from JPEG and PNG to animated GIFs. It comes with prebuilt templates for users to create photo collages, fumetti, and Web comics, and has a standard set of red-eye removal, light/shadow, and contrast-editing features. One warning about the RAW processing: although it looks like you can drag and drop, the converter doesn't change RAW to JPEG unless you load the RAW file from within the native file navigator. It's a minor bug, but one that can lead you to believe that there's no RAW support at all. You can also batch edit images, combine them, and print them out one at a time or several at once.

PhotoScape belongs to this category, bundled with the most common image manipulation tools, while preserving a fun and accessible environment. In terms of functionality, the application performs regular photo enhancements, such as resizing, graphic effects, crop, printing and GIF animations. Most image editors can’t compete with the sharks in the image editing category. As a consequence, they prefer to pack the basic features without sacrificing ease of use, which results in a large crowd of fans.

The first encounter with PhotoScape is pleasant to say the least. The menu is structured in a circle with animated icons that stand for different modules. These include a viewer, editor, batch editor, page creator, image combiner, GIF animation, printer, splitter, screen capture, color picker, RAW converter, photo renamer, and paper print. All these titles are at least self-explanatory.

In addition, you can develop photographs from an online studio, and find similar faces on the Internet (including but not limited to celebrities). So, here's what you can do: combine photos to create a single one, slice an image into several pieces, capture a screenshot (which is no different from Print Screen), batch edit a bunch of photos, use the editor to create special effects (e.g. red eye correction, mole removal, paint brush), and several others.

PhotoScape is fun to work with although it doesn’t bring outstanding or unseen features to the table (except the face search feature). You can spend quality time with it when you need to make small changes and don't want to burden yourself with heavier software. It’s recommended especially for beginners, but professionals can still rely on it for some of the most basic image editing capabilities.

 

PhotoScape loads fast and possesses an interface completely different from those familiar with Adobe's industry-leading tools. Users are greeted by circular navigator complemented by a tabbed nav on the top of the main screen. Most but not all main features are accessible from either nav. It might take some people time to get used to the unusual layout, but it's only unusual for an image editor; otherwise it's intuitive, fast, and lacks only the most advanced of image editing features.

PhotoScape is an all-in-one style photo editor with fun and ease of use. Major capabilities are: viewer, editor, batch editor, page, combine, animated GIF, print, splitter, screen capture, color picker, rename, raw converter, resizing, brightness/color/white-balance adjustment, backlight correction, frames, balloons, text, drawing pictures, cropping, filters, red eye removal and blooming. PhotoScape has been used for two years and is expanding its features continuously.

What's new in this version: Version 3.6 improves 'Full Screen' and 'Slide Show' features. 'Screen Capture' feature improved and bugs fixed. Windows Vista/7 Library Folder supported. Photos can now be rotated using the Batch Editor Tab.

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