Photoscape Review: Free Photo Editing

Photoscape is a feature rich image editor, that surprisingly, is free. The flipside of this is that it leaks memory and consumes a fair amount of it as well. For people who edit at home and are just discovering DSLR cameras, this is an ideal software. If you aren’t yet ready to spend moolah on GIMP or Photoshop, then try this baby out.

Not only is it good for RAW conversion, it also handles JPG to PNG and all popular image formats. You can also create animated GIF’s with the help of it. There are prebuilt templates to create webcomics, fumetti and photo collages. There is also contrast editing, light/shadow and red-eye removal standard capability in this software.

This quick loading program has an interface that is significantly different from the industry leaders. There is a circular navigator and a tabbed nav on the main screen. You can access almost all essential features from both Navs. The unusual layout takes some getting used to, but overall I would call it intuitive and fast. Only the extremely advanced image editing features are missing here.

If you are a budding photographer without the money to buy Photoshop or GIMP, then this program should work well for you.

Add comment February 16th, 2008