Gimp Photo Editor
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Quite often it is necessary to lighten or edit a photo you have taken so that the anomalies are clearer and easier to see.  There are many programs out there but Gimp comes very close to all the features that programs like PhotoShop and Paint Shop Pro have.  It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

• Painting

• Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
• Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
• Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
• Supports custom brushes and patterns

• System

• Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
• Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time

• Advanced Manipulation
• Full alpha channel support
• Layers and channels
• Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
• Editable text layers
• Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
• Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
• Foreground extraction tool
• Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
• Transformable paths, transformable selections.
• Quickmask to paint a selection.

• Extensible
• A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
• Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
• Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
• Over 100 plug-ins already available

• Animation
• Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
• MNG support
• Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
• Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
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• File Handling
• File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
• Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
• SVG path import/export

• Much, much more!

Gimp is open source software and distributed under the GNU General Public License.


We offer Gimp on CD and virus free plus we'll take a look at photos you may need help editing or reviewing.

Audacity Audio Editor

Recording
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidisks. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

* Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
* Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
* Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
* Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import and Export
Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

*  Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
*  Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
*  Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
*  Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
*  Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
*  Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.

Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.

Editing
*  Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
*  Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
*  Very fast editing of large files.
*  Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
*  Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample points.
*  Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the Envelope tool.

Effects
*  Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice versa.
*  Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
*  Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost
effects.

Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
Other built-in effects include:
*  Echo
*  Phaser
*  Wahwah
*  Reverse

Sound Quality
*  Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples.
*  Record at up to 96 KHz.
*  Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
*  Mix tracks with different sample rates or formats, and Audacity will convert them automatically in realtime.

Plug-Ins
*  Add new effects with LADSPA plugins.
*  Audacity includes some sample plugins by Steve Harris.
*  Load VST plugins for Windows and Mac, with the optional VST Enabler.
*  Write new effects with the built-in Nyquist programming language.

Analysis
*  Spectrogram mode for visualizing frequencies.
*  “Plot Spectrum” command for detailed frequency analysis

Audacity is open source software and distributed under the GNU General Public License.


We offer this program on CD along with a brief written and video tutorial plus assistance via email with editing your EVPs: