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Unit 10: 3D Modelling and Animation Tools

on the smaller prints, so the smaller images will potentially look sharp when the larger ones do notes
not. The quality of the image will also depend on the capability of the printer.
Take care while performing perspective control and distortion task, as the
image is reprocessed using interpolation of adjacent pixels, which may reduce
overall image definition.

10.3 types of image editing tools

Some of the popular images editing tools are as follows:

picasa (Windows/Mac/Linux, free)
Picasa is the kind of application that geeks love because it is so simple and effective and non-
geeks love because they usually do not have the time or inclination to get bogged down in the
more technical aspects of digital photography. If your tech un-savvy mom or dad emailed you
tomorrow and said she or he needed an easy-to-use program for organizing and editing photos,
you’d likely send them to download Picasa. The built in editor is more than robust enough
for most casual users and includes basic colour correction, cropping, and a variety of special
effects—the majority of which manage to avoid being cheesy. Picasa is not a tool for deep and
detailed editing, but it is extremely easy to use for the kind of quick crop and correct editing most
digital camera owners need.

figure 10.10: picasa—photo sharing Website

Native applications for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X (Intel only) are
available through Google Labs. For Linux, Google has bundled Wine with the Windows version
to create an installation package rather than write a native Linux version, but this version is
severely out of date (the latest Windows version, however, can be run with Wine, see Linux
section). There is also an iPhoto plugin or a standalone program for uploading photos available
for Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer, created by Idealab in 2002 and
owned by Google since 2004.

GiMp (Windows/Mac/*nix, free)
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free software raster graphics editor. It is
primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tooland is freely available in versions
tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X,
and Linux.

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