// September 12th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Freebies, Software
Scenario:
Sometimes, there will be friends that asking me if I can help them re-size an image, crop an image and just some other simple editing to an image. Well, I am happy to help them out, but if they can do it themselves then that will be great!
This is because it takes time when they send me an image takes like 5 minutes or more ( due to the speed of internet connection in Malaysia) and it only takes me 20 secs to re-size the image and then takes another 5+ mins to send it back, so that just not worth the time.
So DIY will save a lot of valuable time and you can upload your images to facebook/blog faster too!
Solution:
What you need is an Image Editing software, Photoshop? Not everyone can afford to get one, it is too expensive, heavy and complicated for most of the people that are not using it for their everyday life. But if you have it, then it is good but that is not our topic today.
So here comes Paint.NET, a free image and photo editing software for computers that run on Windows. The file size is less than 2mb. In this less than 2mb free software, it has quite a lot of features and effects such as image re-sizing, cropping, level, color adjustment, blur, oil painting effects and much more that you can play with.
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Interface of paint.net
Features
- Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
- Layers
- Active Online Community
- Frequently Updated
- Special Effects
- Powerful Tools
- Unlimited History
- Free!
System Requirements (Minimum System)
- Windows XP (SP2 or newer),
or Windows Vista,
or Windows 7,
or Windows Server (2003 SP1 or newer)
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (free download from Microsoft)
- 256 MB of RAM (Recommended: 512 MB or more)
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- 200+ MB hard drive space
- 64-bit mode requires a 64-bit CPU and a 64-bit edition of Windows
Of course this is not the only free image editing software for you to choose, there are still some other great freeware like GIMP, Picasa, PhotoScape etc. which I did not try before.
So take a bit of time to explore and play around on the software and hope you can pick up some skills without have to buy expensive software! Feel free to ask me how to do some simple task and I might make a simple tutorial if I have time.
