Asked By
sandra
710 points
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Posted on - 05/25/2011
I want to download a free (Let me reiterate I mean FREE, like originally free, not the illegal copy) drawing/graphics software. You know, like Corel Draw, Paint Tool Sai, Adobe Illustrator, and other softwares. Here is the catch: they all need Administrator privileges and some, passwords! I cannot access the Administrator for my own reasons.
Anyway, does any of you know a drawing/graphics freeware that doesn't require Administrator rights?
Thanks guys.
Answered By
Harry
200 points
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#103961
Freeware graphics that don’t require administrator rights
Why don't you use the GIMP portable version? It's freely distributed program. As it is portable you don't need administrative privileges.
Answered By
Harry
200 points
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#103962
Freeware graphics that don’t require administrator rights
GNU Image Manipulation Program, shortly call as GIMP.
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You can install it on any operating systems, means that it is cross-platform software. It has over 100 plug-ins already available now. Plug-ins which are allowed for add new file formats and new effect filters.
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Basically it is written and developed under UNIX platforms. But can run the same code on Mac OS and MS Windows OS.
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 It is a freely distributed software piece which can use for image authoring, photo retouching and image composition tasks.
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Other than above it has many capabilities:
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You can use it as an easy, trouble free paint program or an expert quality photo retouching program.
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Or else as an Online Batch Processing System, an Image Format Converter, and Image Renderer for mass production and many more.
Features include:
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Customizable Interface.
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GIMP allows you to customize the interface the way you like it.
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Widget theme.
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Allows you to change colors.
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Widget spacing and icon sizes to custom tool sets in the toolbox.
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Docks.
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Allows stacking them into tabs or keeping them open in their own window.
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Full screen mode.
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Not only preview your artwork but also do editing work while using it.
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Photo Enhancement.
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Fix perspective distortion.
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Channel mixer.
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Black and White photography.
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Digital detailed image retouching and free-form drawing.
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Clone tool for get rid of unneeded details.
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Healing tool for touch up minor details.
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Perspective clone tool for clone objects with perspective back.
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Painting.
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Painting tools such as Pencil, Brush, Clone, Airbrush, Custom brushes and patterns. etc.
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Anti-aliasing.
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Blend.
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Gradient Editor.
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Advanced Manipulation.
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Fully supported alpha channel.
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Channels and Layers.
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Undo/Redo Multiple chances.
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Text layers.
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Transformation tools such as Scale, Rotate, Flip and Shear.
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Resizing, editing, and cropping photos.
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Selection tools such as Rounded Rectangle, Rectangle, Ellipse, Free, and Fuzzy.
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Foreground extraction.
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Photomontages combining multiple images.
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Advanced Path Tool (Bezier curves and Polygonal Selections).
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Transformable Paths.
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 Transformable Selections.
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Quick masks.
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Extensible.
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Advanced Scripting such as Python and Perl.
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Animation.
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Frame-as-Layer Format.
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MNG support.
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Blue-box.
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Frame Navigator.
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Onion Skin.
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Basic animated images in the GIF format.
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File Handling.
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Supported file formats.
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Tiff, ps, tga, svg, bmp, gif, png, psd, jpeg, xpm, mng, pcx, pdf, etc.
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Display, converting between different image formats, Load, saves into numerous file formats.
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Import/export SVG path.
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So I think GIMP is ideal software for your requirement. Freely available raster graphics editor for image retouching and editing.
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GIMP's product vision is “Becoming a free software high-end graphics application for the editing and creation of original images, icons, graphical elements of web pages and art for user interface elements".
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So what do you think? Want to use it? I bet you do.
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Use a portable one from https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable
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The installable one you can take from https://www.gimp.org/
