Photography buffs, do you know of a good digital paint program? see below
By mommyboo
@mommyboo (13174)
United States
January 3, 2009 7:40pm CST
I'm trying to find an easy to install and use paint type program to manipulate digital images. I mostly want something where I can greyscale the photo and then just 'paint' in color where I want it, change the color of things I choose to color (for instance give someone green eyes instead of brown or blue).
Suggestions? I use kodak photo gallery for my uploading so as long as it's compatible or I can use it for all my editing purposes that's all I would need.
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@xomgitskamax (937)
• United States
4 Jan 09
Photoshop is the best for anything. I know it works great for what you are look to do.
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@owlwings (43897)
• Cambridge, England
4 Jan 09
You may find that Paint.net will do what you want. It can use layers and has some quite sophisticated (and useful) tools. I find that it's perhaps not as powerful as The Gimp (another open-source one) but is rather easier to use.
The website is at: http://www.getpaint.net/
Photo-freeware.net has this to say about it:
"Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#. Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. We welcome any suggestions, and provide the source code for final releases under the MIT License. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those other expensive or complicated applications."
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. Does it work with Vista? I'm not well versed in using programs that have a lot of parts, the layers thing might take me awhile to figure out. I use a digital scrapping program, maybe it works like that.
@newzealtralian (3930)
• Australia
27 Feb 09
I don't have any suggestions, but I'm interested to see what other people recommend.
I am not the best with editing software, though that could be because I haven't allowed myself to experiment with the one I have which is Corel Photo-Paint Essentials 3.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
7 Jan 09
some one told me you can do some cool things with picnik.com as far as choosing to emphasize 1 color or do cool things but i have never tried it.. as far as regular programs i love photoshop but its expensive 
