Posted on 07/22/2008 6:32:08 PM PDT by Don@VB
ImageJ is free from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Link is http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/download.html
Does everything you need...for free
Ah, just found out about a “Puppy Linux 4.0” distribution which can be loaded onto a flash drive. Came out a few months ago. A great way to run any machine anywhere. Claims 100MB usage but “robust” with all the usual necessities plus the capacity to add one’s own special needs. Another suggestion for both the original poster and the you, Ouderkirk, if you want to travel “light.”
Ubuntu has support issues? They have a forum dedicated to support that is active (though touchy-feely). Investing a little time there has answered all my questions and taught me something too. I will give Solaris X a run too. Thanks for that information.
It's free. It's got a lot of features but it's not as hard to figure out how to use as gimp is. It's got a nice interface too.
Microsoft Photo Story is also free and works with XP, but not sure about Vista. (check the Microsoft Downloads website)
I played with Puppy for a while on an old computer that was ready to be junked. I found it the easiest to use of the distros - it immediately found my wireless router and went to work. And since it was small, the old machine had no problems handling it (it couldn't deal with Ubuntu, for example). I'm a fan.
Well, if ALL you want to do is stick captions on your photos, you can try doing it online at http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com or http://diy.despair.com/motivator.php which result in the two most common types of captioned pictures on the internet.
If captions are all you need, MS Paint can add them (assuming you’re using a MS OS). Otherwise, as others have pointed out, the GIMP has a good reputation.
GO WITH GIMP! ITS HOT.
I go with what I'm familiar with. I've had Paint Shop Pro for years, and am now with the X version. For awhile my laptop was dual-boot; XP SP2 and Ubuntu 10. Gimp was provided with Ubuntu. I played around with it but found it hard to work in. Maybe it was just getting to know another application, but I always found myself going into XP when I wanted to work with graphics. Now I've done away with Ubuntu completely. That's another story...
I might download the Windows version of Gimp and try it, but I don't do that much with graphics so am not sure it would be time well spent.
Install VMWare or some other virtualization solution, and install XP or Win98 or whatever you used to have inside that. Then you can continue to use your present software.
What’s you old computer’s OS Don?
If the interesting is the text side of the thing [as far as captions and bubbles and arrows are concerned], then I'd be looking more at Adobe Illustrator than Adobe Photoshop.
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Folks’ thanks for your help. I’m old but my computer is new Im trying Picasa and GIMP. Don
You're right. i could have phrased that better. My apologies Don.
If the computer is new, you can try out the GIMP by getting one of the Linux CD/DVD live disks. This will not change the configuration of your system, or use your hard drive at all. You can still get a feel for both the GIMP and Linux that way.
Personally, i prefer KDE to Gnome (those are desktop environments, not applications), and have been running SuSE Linux for about four years now on this computer.
They finally broke me down. I bought an apple....
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