Photo Editing
Welcome dearies to Aunt
Digi’s place. Having taken lots of photos on my
little holiday by the sea, I got to thinking
about photo editing. With money being tight
these days it is always nice to get something
for free! Here is a nice little free photo
editing program called Photo Plus 6.0 from those
nice people at Serif. Check it out
here . When I was playing with it, you
could upgrade to Photo Plus 8.0 for only $9.99.
That has a lot more bells and whistles on it and
could be worth the money.
It was easy to download and
install and I set to playing. What a fun little
bit of software and very like a simple version
of Photoshop Elements, without the bells and
whistles.
It has
all sorts of tools like a paintbrush, airbrush,
clone, eraser and smudge with different settings
for each, as well as color palette to choose
custom colors. You can import pictures direct
from your camera or open up a variety of formats
such as jpg and png on your PC. There are
editing menus at the top and tools to the side
and your windows on the other side for color,
tool properties and layers (Figure 1). I felt
quite at home.
There is a deform tool for
resizing, rotating and skewing, shapes to create
like the flowers below (Figure 2).
You can edit your photos for
red eye, brightness, contrast, hue and so on,
and you can use the filters supplied and even
add in your special filters in the preference
menu (Figure 3). You can also add text to your
creations and use drop shadows and bevels for
each layer.
You can do animations and
set your pictures to point to other web pages
complete with HTML provided. I didn’t have time
to play with these dearies, but I was pleased
with the little card topper I got done (Figure
4)!
So dearies, a great little
bit of software for free to play about with for
photos or even digi scrapping and I bet the next
version is even better! Have fun playing with
your pixels.... ‘til next time!
