I need to put some ballons, arrows and text on a large digital photo - other than Paint what is a good, and free, option?
Will Gimp allow me to easily do this?
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Oct. 21, 2009 6:44 a.m. fastEddie Dork
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Oct. 21, 2009 6:48 a.m. Grtechguy SuperDork
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Oct. 21, 2009 6:58 a.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor
I'm no fan of GIMP, but the price is right.
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Oct. 21, 2009 8:50 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
GIMP, although it's a pain to install on Windows (you might just want to try an Ubuntu boot CD, it already has GIMP on it)
Paint can do the job fine though, just be sure to save it as a BMP and then save it as a JPEG using Irfanview, since Paint only saves JPEGs with maximum compression.
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Oct. 21, 2009 9:52 a.m. Grtechguy SuperDork
Gameboy? a pain to install? what are you doing? compiling from source?
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Oct. 21, 2009 9:58 a.m. GameboyRMH SuperDork
Grtechguy wrote:
Gameboy? a pain to install? what are you doing? compiling from source?
Never mind, last time I tried it was a pain but I see it has a nice convenient one-piece installer now.
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Oct. 21, 2009 10:15 a.m. WilD Reader
I've been using GIMP for years. It has worked wonderfully for all of my needs including preparing/altering images for work and making docotored photos of my friends in compromising circumstances. I'm sure it will do what you need it to.
