Today, with just a week to Turkey Thursday, I found myself in a frenzied state searching my old hard drives for photos for a work "project" ( all will be revealed soon!). I needed to edit a couple of pics and realised I don't actually have Photoshop! Whilst no decent graphic designer would ever be caught short without Adobe's industry-standard image editor, I'm NOT a graphic designer and haven't used Photoshop intensively, since I left the hallowed computer labs of DIT. Google's Picasa is a nice, free tool for simple editing but I needed something with a little more bite.....enter GIMP! Now before you assume that GIMP refers to some old Computer Science college mate - it doesn't! GIMP is an acronym for "GNU Image Manipulation Tool". It's been around a while, but I've only just discovered its power. Oh, and did I mention it's free? Recession-busting software - eat your heart out Brian Cowen! (www.gimp.org)
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