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Our friends at The PC Support Group are back with the final part of their 7 point guide to free software. This week, they're suggesting a free alternative to costly photo manipulation software.

For anyone wishing to manipulate or retouch digital images then Adobe’s Photoshop has been the benchmark for a number of years. Unfortunately the full version (as used by many professionals) is fairly expensive. A great free alternative is Gimp.

Not only does Gimp provide you with the basic functionality required by most amateur photographers such as red-eye removal, special effects like tint, and retouching operations, but it also has more sophisticated features such as perspective and barrel distortion correction.

You can find Gimp at www.gimp.org

Photo credit: Flickr user, nixArt.

• Phil Bird
  The PC Support Group