Introduction Whenever I write an article I have trouble getting the images for it just right. I used to pass on the task to my graphic artist. But now he’s busy so the image editing has been reverted back to me. To get myself up to speed with the basics of photo editing software, I decided to write an article comparing free photo editing options. To start my mission I downloaded paint.net, Photo plus, Photobie and Photoscape. As I explored these freewares I soon discovered I’d made the wrong choice in topic for the article, since all of them just had the same options in a different interface, all except for Photoscape. Photoscape was strikingly good compared to the others and so my article evolved from what would have been a pretty boring comparison of similar freeware, to an article focused just on Photoscape. The world of photography has undergone many changes. A decade back we were dependent on film negatives and photographers had to pay close attention to the composition of a shot before they clicked. The rise of digital cameras opened photography up to a much broader consumer base, which in turn has led to a surge in photo editing software, some free and some costing hundreds of dollars. Photoscape is free and it provides all of the basic functions you need for editing digital photos. The Interface Photoscape’s initial interface has a clean white background with all the options in a rather unique jog wheel format. Apart from the jog wheel graphical navigation there’s also a tool bar at the top that can be used to access the application. A beginner might get confused with so many options but actually, it’s a pretty good design, with easy access to all options. 
Viewer Once you grab your pictures from your PC and dump them on your PC hard drive, the viewer option allows you to view all pictures in the selected folder in a thumbnail format. The interesting feature of this view option is that if you right click on a thumbnail you get a handful of options to view your picture in full screen, slide show, set as wallpaper, rotate the image in four different angles, delete and rename. The pixel size and the file size are displayed at the bottom of the image. To have more fun and perform some basic changes, just double click on the image and the image will be displayed full screen. Right click on the image (in full screen mode) to reveal options to zoom in, zoom out, adjust the brightness, darkness, auto level, stretch the image in three different levels (stretch, Image full, paper full) and finally options to set the background color. 
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