Free online image editors

There is not doubt that the king in the image editing world is Photoshop. Photoshop is very costly and for house hold, a common person cannot afford it. However there are some free programmes, this really sounds crazy but it's true, you can effectively replace costly photoshop by these free programmes. Here are some free online image editing programmes for your help, by using these programmes you can get effective touch to the photoshop.

GIMP: it stands for GNU image manipulation programme. An open source programme which was started by in 1955 by two persons named peter mattis and Spencer kimbell. It was maintained by large source of volunteers. GIMP comes in many different versions, the best book on the GIMP usage is grokking. Linux and windows are different operating systems which are supporting different versions of GIMP.

Paint. NET: it is a very usable and intuitive user interface, interms of power it is not as powerful as GIMP but it run a lot faster than GIMP. Paint.net in the year 2004 started as a computer science design project as Washington state university. It works in C+ programming language, needs net frame work to run. Window xp, vista and 2000 are supporting this design.

To create graphics for the website, image editing software is very helpful. Adobe Photoshop and macromedia fireworks are popular image editing software applications. New user can easily use these software applications after some training.

Before selecting online image editor, keep few things in mind:

• It is supporting the operating system
• It is working with window vista as some of the softwares are designed for apple mac computers.
• Quality of the tool used