I have been posting about this freeware image editor on several forums. It is quite amazing that when I posted about it on a photography forum, it was pretty much ignored; I guess they must feel that if it is free that it is not good enough for them (their loss).
MAGIX has recently released their Photo Clinic 4.5 as full freeware. This editor handles multiple file formats, does layers, takes Photoshop compatible plugins, and is capable of editing Photoshop PSD files (handy for anyone who has downloaded a free template but does not want to spend 100-600 to edit the dang thing). This is for Windows and is a 10MB download.
You can download the file
http://www.download.com/MAGIX-Photo-...-10576632.html
It never fails that when I post about freeware image editors, some jackass has to come along and try to sing the praises of GIMP. That is despite that GIMP cannot edit PSD files and does not have the plugin support that Photo Clinic has. They seem to coveniently forget to mention to would be users of GIMP that the GTK+ runtimes that you must install in order to use GIMP on a Windows machine requires that you rename two dlls. This is fine, until you have a program which requires those dlls; then you have to play the rename the dll game.
Well, there is an option for those who want to try GIMP without having to play the rename the dll game. It is called Portable GIMP and is the complete GIMP package, but in a portable executable which requires no runtimes to install, and it will run resident on your hard drive or you can run it off of a flash drive.
You can get Portable GIMP
http://portableapps.com/apps/graphic.../gimp_portable
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