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Posted by Philip Herlihy on 08/21/05 14:41
DrawPlus, from Serif, is simply marvellous. It's a vector drawing program,
which generates images which scale without loss of quality - a bit like
illustrator at a fraction of the cost. It will also import raster images
(bitmaps, jpegs, etc) but isn't geared up to do photo editing (they have an
application called PhotoPlus which does that). DrawPlus has a huge number
of fonts built-in, and has facilities for complex fills, transparency - the
list is very long. I see it as a complement to photo-editing software -
it's a drawing package - but I'm using it more and more in web work. See
http://www.serif.com/
For basic image editing, try irfanview - free, and very good!
http://www.irfanview.com/
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"Tony" <nobody@nowhere.not> wrote in message
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> "David T. Ashley" <dta@e3ft.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to do some basic graphics. For example, if you look at:
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>> http://www.marshallaviationcenter.com
>>
>> the banner graphics at the top that apparently used an image editor with
>> some fonts built in and the way the airplane pictures are faded around
>> the edges.
>>
>> I've heard that Adobe PhotoShop is the gold standard, but that is $500
>> (about $300 more than I'm willing to spend).
>>
>> Can anybody recommend a graphics package for Windows that will help with
>> basic web image editing tasks and isn't so expensive?
>
>
> Photoshop Elements, about $100 last time I was at Office Depot. Still a
> very powerful program. I use it all the time, and I have the full version
> of Photoshop.
>
> The nice part is that the interface is almost identical, so if you ever
> had the chance or need to use Photoshop, you wouldn't be too lost.
>
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