Photoshop & Gimp simpler alternatives [closed] - photoshop

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While doing web development, I often need to edit images. Not photos, not creative work, just simple editing. For example: adding shadow on a button, resizing multiple images, tweaking few pixels here and there, etc.
Photoshop always felt like a huge overkill (not to mention the price). Gimp's price tag is right, but it's still an overkill and somehow I feel clumsy while using it.
So what free/ open source Windows products are simpler yet do the same job?
Note that if product was really great, I would consider paying up to $50 but no more than that.

PAINT.NET
This may be an option. I know that I have used this in the past but it may not be exactly what you need. There are plugins for it though I believe.
http://www.getpaint.net/

you can use Paint.Net on http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
Its free

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Which documentation package more actively maintained: NaturalDocs or RoboDoc? [closed]

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I am documenting a small itcl project. Due to shortcomings in itcl support in doxygen, and the fact that Ruff! does not support itcl, I am left with NaturalDocs and RoboDoc as the leading candidates. However, I don't want to pick an unsupported system, and was wondering which is going to be there in the long term?
What will be there in the long term? Who knows! It depends on how much people use it, really, as with all open source code systems. It should be noted that both the tools you refer to are really slow developing at this point: they do what they do and need little significant change to keep on doing it.
As far as I can see, ROBODoc requires that you do pretty much all the annotation work yourself, whereas NaturalDocs will derive a bit more for you. Not very much though; in particular, you will have to write plenty of annotations on things whichever route you use. (I've no particular experience with either though; I tend to prefer to maintain documentation in a separate file with something like doctools but that's a very different approach. I've also done nasty custom things in the past; you really don't want to use them.)

PSD full of lines [closed]

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Anybody know what this is about? (I'm on a PC, btw - I'm not sure if it has to do with that?)
Besides the fact that these are guides, and this question is not about programming (check the footer of this site, there's several other sites in this format for questions that are not about programming, such as graphics design), your PSD file looks corrupted.
I'm guessing a bad transfer or something. Ask the guy who sent you that to send it again, maybe.
Go to the view menu and uncheck "extras" :) These are the "guides" that can help you with things like alignment.
or press Ctrl + H. Those are guiding lines for your help to better know the coordinates or whatever you want them to be for. You can add them by clicking on the ruler and draging mouse towards your image.

How to prove that images were stolen? [closed]

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How can I prove that images were stolen from a website?
Is there any way to check from when an another website have the same images? I have no any access to the server.
Thanks for any idea!
UPDATE:
No, I'm not the one who forgot watermark. An old client of mine just found me with this question. Actually found Google cached page which we can use, but still interested if any other solution is exist. Like any image format contains any date attribute in it?
If you're using a Unix-based operating system, you might have access to cURL. Try running
curl --remote-time --remote-name http://url-to-your-image/
and see if you get a timestamp that is different from the exact time you downloaded the file. Not all servers respond with the time, but it might be worth an attempt.
But generally, if it's your original work, then you should have a copy of the image with higher resolution and/or lower compression rate, right? That should be enough to prove which of the images is the stolen one. Intellectual property rights on the Internet is a mess, though, for several reasons. But even if you can't take legal actions, you might have better luck convincing an administrator to remove the content.

Is pac-man still protected by copyright? [closed]

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I am planning to write and distribute a pac-man like game. So I would like to know if It is still protected by copyright.
Can I use the word pacman in the title? What are the limits that I will have?
PS. I can conclude from the first answers that I can't use the name and may be a very similar art work. If I keep that in mind, will I have any trouble. And I don't want to do something unethical, is it unethical to write a pac-man like game? I see tons of them on the internet.
It's a matter of trademarks, not copyright. Trademarks don't run out, though they must be continually used. I'm pretty sure Pacman would be considered to be in use, as it's a very well-known brand.
So you'll have to use a different name.
A visit to Namco will show you they are still actively promoting it by porting it to new platforms, as well as continuing to develop it as a franchise.
So the answer is: No. No. Also, no.
I think no??? since this is game we are seeing since childhood so , you cannot use its name. And its the most popular game in world, just like mario, tetris etc. So better dont use names that exists from decades instead use some other similiar type names, if you want.

Painting-look-alike filter [closed]

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Does anybody know where I can find a free filter that would make a picture look like a painting?
I have tried to play around with some of the build-in filters but none of them really made it look like a painting.
It's not a single filter, but a working tutorial - at least for me: http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161032&page=1
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Painting is much more than that. What kind of painting ? Are you looking for an oil paint look ? Something close pointillism, impressionism, abstract painting, modernism, suprematism ? etc...do you want to make you picture look like a cheap copy of Van Gogh's style ?
If you're looking for free why not use GIMP ? There is an awesome set of brushes and other tools that make Gimp comparable to Corel Painter called Gimp Paint Studio.
Have a look on Google Code and check the wiki/video/etc. Ramón Miranda makes some amazing things with it.