“On-The-Fly Image Editing. IrfanView is one of my main image
editors that I reach for, even though I have Photoshop. It loads in
an instant, and has a very rich set of tools, including mutlipage
TIF support, support for multiple animated GIFs, and you can choose
to use a bunch of useful plug-ins. The application isn’t open
source. It’s freeware, but the developers improve it every year and
the plug-in community works like an open source community. It’s
very fast to launch, does great batch image processing, and you may
get things done much faster in it than in more bloated graphics
applications.“A Free Book on GIMP? In our post “6 Ways to Get Much More Out
of GIMP” we collected a number of excellent resources for the
powerful, free, open source GIMP graphics application, available
for Windows, the Mac and Linux. You’ll find a complete, free online
book on GIMP, tips on getting plug-ins and more.”
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