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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
alpha, color swap, and color curve controls. To these the developers have added useful
painting tools including pen, shape draw fill, airbrush, eraser, line/curve with arrows,
and smudge. The screen capture tools and Plug-in Manager let you use free Photoshop
.8bf filter plug-ins to create special effects.
If all this is not good enough value, there are also tools for GIF animation editing, complete
with simple timing controls; a Flash Jukebox with a playlist manager that lets you
add or remove Flash .swf files to/from your list; and—perhaps the key feature of all—
template design and editing tools that allow users to create their own templates and
share them with others.
To get full benefit from Photobie you really need to belong to the Photobie Club, the
community of users who share their experiences, templates, and even some of their designs.
The image editor itself comes in two versions: Photobie and Photobie Design Studio
(Photobie DS), the latter of which is freely available to members, although it may eventually
be spun off as commercial software. The club, which has a highly active online
forum, is free to join.
Figure 10.3
Photobie offers transparency, masking and layers, all for free.