PhotoScape is a graphics editing program, developed by MOOII Tech, Korea.

The basic concept of PhotoScape is 'easy and fun', so that allows users to easily edit photographs taken from their digital cameras or even mobile phones. PhotoScape provides a simple user interface

User interface

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 to perform common photo enhancements including color adjustment, cutting, resizing, printing and GIF animation.

Photoscape operates only in Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

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 systems and is not available in Mac

Macintosh

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 or Linux

Linux

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 systems. Its default languages are English and Korean, with additional language packages available for download.

Version 3.5 is the current stable release. However, older versions are still available for the sake of Windows 98 or Me users. It is distributed free of charge for all users including commercial bodies.

Significance

PhotoScape is considered as 'easier editor' to edit photos. It is sometimes recommended for beginners to edit photos as an alternative to Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop

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Features

PhotoScape can perform tasks of:

Photo Viewer: Browse and organize photos

Photo Editor: Enhance and balance color, resize, add effects and clip-arts

Photo Batch-Editor: Process multiple photos at once, rename multiple photos at once

Page Creator: joins multiple photos into poster-like single page or into one final photo

GIF Animation: Make multiple images into GIF-animated image

Featured Printer: Print photos for particular occasions, such as Passport photo, or lined page such as graph, calendar or music paper

Screen Capture: Save monitor screen into a image file

Color Picker: Pick color from screen pixel

RAW Converter: Convert RAW format picture into JPEG format

Face Finder: Find similar faces through internet