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Scanning and Photo Management & Photo Editing Software Options

Digital Conversion Unit University of Michigan Library 837 Greene St. Room 3212 http://www.lib.umich.edu/node/19943 Scanning and Photo Management & Photo Editing Software Options (many free) Windows Scanning (& Camera) Wizard- A Windows utility for PC users. An easy alternative to the software included with most scanners. Available for free download if not already installed. It has a VERY simple interface for single page scanning, but it might be too simple if you are an advanced user. Gimp- http://www.gimp.org/ Free image editor Photoscape- http://www.photoscape.org Free image editor and simple animator Paint.net- http://www.getpaint.net Free image editor Picasa-http://picasa.google.com/ Free image manager & includes some image editing and tagging ability. Picnic- http://www.picnik.com/ Free basic image editor. (associated with image display website-www.flickr.com) Irfanview- http://www.irfanview.com/ Free image manager/viewer/tagger Aviary-http://aviary.com/ Free online suite of tools for all sorts of creative content including images and audio. (for advanced users) Polyview- http://www.polybytes.com/ Image manager, viewer and printing utility Cost- $30 ACDsee- http://www.acdsee.com/ Image manager, viewer, printing utility, simple fixes editor Cost- $70 Corel Paint Shop Photo Pro- http://www.corel.com Photoshop alternative image editor Cost- $80-100 Adobe Photoshop Elements- http://www.adobe.com This is basically Photoshop light and contains the tools to do most image touch-ups. Cost- $80-100 Digital Conversion Unit May 5, 2010 University of Michigan Page 1 .

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