The image on the right tells it all. If you want a photo editing software; first of all, don’t jump into the wagon immediately and start splurging on expensive photo editing softwares. In most cases, you’ll probably find some excellent photo editing applications over the Internet for FREE. No, not pirated copies, but truly available free for download, just like Photobie 2.8.4.

The latest version of Photobie even supports Photoshop filter plugins. This also means you have found another attractive way to enjoy filtering plugins without having to use expensive Photoshop softwares. Photobie is a free image editing application with multilayer support, and fully customised to meet the task of photo editing.

It is featured with advanced screen capture tools, simpliest gif animation tool and photo framing tool. Furthermore, Photobie provides an image diectory browser with batch resize/rotate, full screen slide show features.

The image on the right just illustrates how useful Photobie is to edit your images (Click image to enlarge).

It supports the following image formats:

• Bmp, Png, TIF,
• Gif — support transparent hight quality encoding Gif.
• Ico — can save image as true color Icon with 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16 sizes.
• Jpg — support various encoding quality (1–100)
• Pob — Photobie specific multi-layer image format. format used to keep the work in progress for future retouching.

And features including:

• - Multi-layer
• - Painting
• - Text editing
• - Filters
• - Screen Capture
• - Framing
• - and more…. click here.

Developed by Cheng at UMass Boston, do note that Photobie is a .NET windows application, therefore .NET framework 1.0 or higher must be installed. There is also a blog site catered for Photobie.

Download Source:
Photobie 2.8.4

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