Re: Photobie

de John Corliss 01/14/2007 08:39

John Corliss wrote:
> Frank Bohan wrote:
>> <quote> Photobie is a complete image editing software customized for
>> photo
>> retouching. Photobie is free to use and to distribute. Unlike other
>> commercial and free image editing softwares, Photobie is more like a
>> homemade cookie, which has much more flavor. Photobie developers
>> intend to
>> build an easy-to-use and feature-packed tool for graphics amateurs.
>> Although, it is not yet a perfect tool for professionals, it does contain
>> many handy tools to help professional to achieve simple task quickly.
>> </quote>
>>
>> http://www.photobie.com/
>
> Thanks for posting this, Frank. Looks like a good one even if it does
> require dotnet 1.1. Just downloaded it and will definitely be checking
> it out.
>
> I hope it supports MDI and has an adjustable cropping frame. Will post
> my observations back to this thread.

Well, I gave it the old college try. It does have an MDI as well as an
adjustable cropping frame, but the interface is difficult to get used
to, there is no "Preferences", "Options" or any other kind of settings
in the menu that I can find and the program takes inordinately long to
both start as well as to open image files.

Guess I'll pass. I removed it from my system. It has potential, but it's
got a ways to go.

YMMV.

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