Good free alternative to photoshop?

**Accordion** · February 21st, 2007, 22:08

best not to bother for now then...

...however, the student edition counts as a full retail version...so all updates fall under the upgrade category for premium users...saving alot of money for you, as the total cost of student CS2 and update to CS3[when it arives] will be cheaper than a full package of CS3 .

something to remember later in your education, if you wish to follow such a path.

as a side note: look around for education deals there are huge savings to be made everywhere

**gdf** · February 21st, 2007, 22:21

cool, that's very useful for future reference. btw GIMP is finally done, over an hour after my first attempt. with broadband it would have taken, ohhhhh, roughly 1 minute. DIAL UP SUCKS!!!!!

**VampDude** · February 21st, 2007, 22:25

download a LEGAL trial version, then find somewhere with a serial or keygen - I think they have a trial option?

**gdf** · February 21st, 2007, 22:27

yeah, legal is the way forward. i've had my winace free trial and am now overdue for evaluation by 200 days lol!

***quzar*** · February 21st, 2007, 23:16

Originally Posted by VampDude

download a LEGAL trial version, then find somewhere with a serial or keygen - I think they have a trial option?

Despite how that might seem, it's quite illegal. Similar to how lockpick tools are legal, walking into an unlocked house might be legal (depending on your locale) but using the lockpick tools to make the house unlocked is illegal.

Originally Posted by gdf

i'm at school in 4th year (i'm 15) but i never took art...also it is illegal to download it free. why is it only iso sharing that is frowned upon, but not anything else??? (not that i condone iso sharing that is)

The forum treats ALL warez the same. The two of them got warnings for this.

Also, I'd reccomend getting 7-zip to replace winace. It is more compatible in terms of what it can open, faster, gets better compression with it's 7z format, and is totally free.

**S34MU5** · February 21st, 2007, 23:24

yeh GIMP paint.net or google picasa.

GIMP is deffinatly the best free editor

just "aqquire" photoshop xD

and i find winrar is the best compressor

***quzar*** · February 21st, 2007, 23:33

Originally Posted by S34MU5

and i find winrar is the best compressor

7z gets higher compression levels than winrar does. by a few percent. The 7zip program can also open rar files perfectly fine. About the only thing I havn't been able to open with it is lzh.