Dave's Favorites: Release Your Inner Child With FingerPaint
When we think of image editing, we usually means things like cropping, resizing, and color correction. Recently, though, I discovered MindScope Software's FingerPaint, which offers an interesting array of realistic painting tools for modifying images.
What can you do with FingerPaint? You can convert a digital photo into a finger-painted masterpiece, for instance, by tracing over the lines in your picture with authentic-looking brush strokes, paint textures, and canvas styles. There's a cool "finger" tool that lets you smear and feather your picture as if you were working with real paint. The program also comes with a small collection of filters and effects.
FingerPaint is easy to learn since it mimics the Adobe Photoshop experience; there's a number of floating palettes for selecting tools, brushes, strokes, and settings. But without tips to help explain the purpose of each tool, the tool palette is disappointingly mysterious. Nonetheless, FingerPaint is quite affordable: You can download a free trial, or buy the full program for a mere $20. At that price, it's well worth investigating.
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