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Overview of Popular Image Editors: Features and Tools

This article reviews several popular image editing software options available in 2007, including Adobe Photoshop, a professional tool widely used in journalism, and its hefty university license. Alternatives like Paint.NET, a free Windows-based editor, and The GIMP, favored by Linux users, are discussed for their transferable skills. The focus is also on Artweaver, highlighting its features for photo retouching and image composition. Key tools like selection, cropping, painting, and text editing are explored, emphasizing their capabilities and user assistance resources.

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Overview of Popular Image Editors: Features and Tools

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  1. Madeleine Wright Peter Wentworth PUBLISHER 2007

  2. Some Popular Image Editors • Photoshop • Professional tool, packaged with Adobe Creative Suite, an expensive ( > R15 000) publishing package. • Student / university license is about R1 700 per machine. • Used here in Journalism and a few other departments. • http://www.getpaint.net/ • Free image editor. Works on Windows. Many skills transferable to Photoshop. • The GimpAn open source package popular with users of Linux / Unix systems, but also available for Windows. • Artweaver – the tool we'll use, which has a free version

  3. Key uses ... • Photo retouching • Image composition • Image authoring.

  4. Images currently open Title Bar Menu and toolbars

  5. Preview • See as much close detail as you want

  6. Colours

  7. 'Paper' Types

  8. Brush Types

  9. Fine-Tune the Brush

  10. Tools Brush tool; Move Tool; Shape Selection Tool; Magic Wand ToolLasso Tool; Crop Tool Perspective Grid Tool; Text Tool Eraser Tool; Stamp ToolDropper Tool; Paint Bucket Tool Zoom Tool; Hand Tool

  11. Shapes

  12. Shape tools • Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Freeform. • Tip: for first four, holding Shift constrains aspect ratio to be square (i.e. Ellipse becomes a circle)

  13. More fun tools • Lasso - draw your own selection around something... • Magic wand: select all pixels similar to this one... • Paint bucket: fill pixels adjacent to, and approximately similar to this one. • Recolor – substitute one (approximate) colour for another

  14. Read the Help file • It is well organized, and helpful!

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