Comparesoft ComparePhoto | 
 enlarge | From: Comparesoft
Category: Software
List Price: $79.95
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 14835
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp Home Edition
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP Home Edition
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: 4610
Model: 4610
UPC: 018059046108
EAN: 0018059046108
ASIN: B000CBC88O
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Common photo retouching tasks become simple - Removing red eye, blurring out a background, or correcting color are done with a click | | • | Make advanced Web animations easily - Watch graphics and logos dance, fly, jump, and spin | | • | Import and export in formats like GIF, JPEG, PNG, and PDF | | • | Open license - buy just one copy, use it throughout your office, dorm, or family! |
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Product Description
ComparePhoto is a complete image editing package that handles your photo retouching tasks easily and quickly. It's got color-correction and image-enhancement tools for your digital photos, and a great GIF animation studio for producing motion from your still photos. Whether you want to correct home photos, produce a web sites, or just experiment and have fun, ComparePhoto offers a combination of features and value that you just couldn't get before.
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| Customer Reviews:
Just an old version of The Gimp which is FREE! May 16, 2008
Leah Cowan
The Gimp is a free program that is offered as "open Source", which means that other companies or people CAN modify the source code, and sell it as their own, as long as they give credit to The Gimp. From what I see here, this is not even modified, but they did add some extra plug ins on the CD. The problem is that the plug ins can also be downloaded for free from the gimp users forum, and this is a very OLD version of the Gimp, and even the newest version crashes on my Vista computer.
HOWEVER, the written manual that came with it was ALMOST worth the money. It was less than $[...], but I felt very cheated, although, I think that this is an old product that is being sold from companies that just happen to have bought the old stock. I know that Avenquest is not selling it anymore, and maybe the plug ins that were on the CD were not available when it came out. The manual has 2004 as the publishing date.
I guess if you are running XP or even Windows 98, and don't want to take the time to download the plug ins (it does take hours to go through them all, download and install them correctly), and want a good written manual on how to use the program and even write your own plug ins, than it would be worth the money. You can always update to the newest version of The Gimp, but I don't know if the plug ins would work. There are 452 pages of books on The Gimp, and it is a VERY GOOD PROGRAM, but it does have a steep learning curve like photoshop. In fact it is very comparable, if you take the time to download plug ins, and use the forum. If you are going to spend the money though, I would get a good book that includes a cd with plug ins, and download the Gimp yourself. Here are a few: Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional (Beginning from Novice to Professional),AND
The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers,AND
GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software,ANDGrokking the GIMP. Grokking The Gimp is said to be the best one out there, but I would start with the beginners guide. You can download the manual as a PDF as well, but I like to hold books in my hands.
One more thing, I have tried MANY graphics programs, and own several. My favorite is Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 WITH Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 for Photographers, but There is another free one called paint.net that is backed by Microsoft, and is also open source. It has a user forum as well, and hundreds of user created plug ins. I find it much easier to use, and it works on Vista. It is also updated regularly. Just do a search for it, and make sure you go to the official paint.net website. Unfortunately it's not paint.net :)
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