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There’s no argument — Adobe Photoshop remains the best photo-editing application on the market. But it’s a difficult program to master without formal training, and it’s not the cheapest option out there.

That’s why we’re taking a look at the best free photo-editing software on the market. In fact, our top pick is sure to grab your attention. GIMP is an open-source photo editing software that is available for all three of the biggest operating systems and offers up a huge workspace and a wide variety of professional editing tools.Related content.We’ve published over 7,000 how-to articles and best-of lists to help you build your photography skills, choose the best gear for your photography needs, and make the most out of your photo equipment. And if our top pick isn’t for you, be sure to check out the other options on this list.

There are great choices for both conventional desktop software and web-based solutions that don’t require installing any software. The best GIMP Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsOften heralded as the best free alternative to Photoshop, (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open-source application that relies on a community of volunteer developers who maintain and improve the product. Available for MacOS, Windows, and Linux, you get a lot of professional-level editing and retouching tools — perfect for designers who can’t or won’t shell out hundreds of dollars for Adobe Photoshop.Once you launch the program, you’ll find a dedicated window that displays the image, and separate windows to organize the toolbox and layers.

When using a large display, or two displays, you have a nice big workspace to play with your images. Icons in the toolbox represent actions such as the crop, lasso, paint and brush tools, and you can apply various effects to your photos. It may seem like Photoshop, but GIMP has its own look and feel.

Making the jump from one to the other will take a little time, but you’ll save yourself a monthly subscription fee if you do.The best of the rest Paint.NETThis is a case where the apprentice becomes the master. Was created as a college undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft and it continues to be maintained by alumni of the program. It was originally developed as a free replacement for Microsoft Paint, which comes as part of Windows. Paint.NET has surpassed in functionality and has some more advanced features as well.Paint.NET features an intuitive user interface that supports layers, an “unlimited undo” tool to back out of any mistake no matter how disastrous, various special effects, and other tools.

Where Microsoft Paint was able to do little more than resize images, Paint.NET is able to handle more advanced photo editing that you’d expect to be limited to Photoshop and other paid programs.Photoshop Express Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsIf the above options seem too derivative or you want more of that Adobe-experience without the associated price tag, is another option worth considering. Although pared down compared to the standard Photoshop, the Express variant does have a number of great options for editing photos with a much more gradual learning curve.With an interface that betrays its mobile roots, Photoshop Express offers quick and easy access to slide bar adjustments and one-touch fixes for photos of all types. Pre-packaged Effects make quick and dramatic changes to images to improve coloring and contrast; crop and transform tools let you tweak a photo’s orientation and focus, and Details gives you control over sharpening and noise.Its file type support is limited to raw camera files, TIFF, JPG and PNG files, but Photoshop Express is a freely available app that you can use on your Windows PC, iOS, or Android device without hassle.Pixlr.com Mark Coppock/Digital TrendsPixlr.com has a tiered offering that is entirely free. The site separates its photo editing into Pixlr Editor (advanced) and Pixlr Express (efficient). The site also offers a mobile suite so you can edit photos on a smartphone or tablet — both iOS and Android versions are available.The is more like Photoshop. It’s a straightforward photo-editing tool that lets you crop, size, and tweak the image.

It has a red eye tool that eliminates those devil eyes that appear when the flash goes off. Express, on the other hand, lets you put creative overlays on your images — this is really for playing with your photos. You can put a stain on a picture to make it look like you rested a coffee mug on the photo, for example.Pixlr straddles the line between web-based and desktop image editors: There are both mobile and desktop versions of the software that you can download. However, it’s usually easier to just pop open and load up the online version.

Note: The download site does require Adobe Flash to run, so you will need to enable that before moving forward.Editors' Recommendations.

.Disneyland Paris, formerly Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort in, a located 32 km (20 mi) east of the of. It encompasses two theme parks, many resort hotels, Disney Nature Resorts, a shopping, dining, and entertainment complex, and a golf course, in addition to several additional recreational and entertainment venues. Is the original theme park of the complex, opening with the resort on 12 April 1992. A second theme park, opened in 2002, 10 years after the original park.

Disneyland Paris celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2017. Within 25 years of opening, 320 million people visited Disneyland Paris making it the most visited theme park in Europe. The Parisian resort is the second to open outside the United States following the opening of the in 1983 and is the largest Disney resort to open outside of the United States.

Disneyland Paris is also the only Disney resort outside of the United States to be completely owned by The Walt Disney Company. 'Disneyland Hotel'. Through the hotel is the entrance ticket hall to the Park.In order to provide lodging to patrons, it was decided that 5,200 Disney-owned hotel rooms would be built within the complex. In March 1988, Disney and a council of architects (, and ) decided on an exclusively American theme in which each hotel would depict a region of the United States. At the time of the opening in April 1992, seven hotels collectively housing 5,800 rooms had been built.An entertainment, shopping, and dining complex based on Walt Disney World's was designed by Frank Gehry.With its towers of silver and bronze-coloured under a canopy of lights, it opened as.

For a projected daily attendance of 55,000, Euro Disney planned to serve an estimated 14,000 people per hour inside the Euro Disneyland park. In order to accomplish this, 29 restaurants were built inside the park (with a further 11 restaurants built at the Euro Disney resort hotels and five at Festival Disney).

And prices were varied with an American flavour predominant and Disney's precedent of serving alcoholic beverages was continued in the park.2,300 seats (30% of park seating) were installed to satisfy Europeans' expected preference of eating outdoors in good weather. In at Walt Disney World, recipes were adapted for European tastes. Walter Meyer, executive for menu development at Euro Disney and executive chef of food projects development at Walt Disney World noted, 'A few things we did need to change, but most of the time people kept telling us, 'Do your own thing. Do what's American'.' Recruitment/employment Unlike Disney's American, Euro Disney aimed for permanent employees (an estimated requirement of 12,000 for the theme park itself), as opposed to seasonal and temporary part-time employees. Casting centres were set up in,.

However, it was understood by the French government and Disney that 'a concentrated effort would be made to tap into the local French labour market'. Disney sought workers with sufficient communication skills, who spoke two European languages (French and one other), and were socially outgoing. Following precedent, Euro Disney set up its own to train workers.

24,000 people had applied by November 1991. Controversies The prospect of a Disney park in France was a subject of debate and controversy. Critics, who included prominent French intellectuals, denounced what they considered to be the of Euro Disney and felt it would encourage an unhealthy American type of in France. On 28 June 1992, a group of French farmers blockaded Euro Disney in protest of farm policies supported at the time by the United States.A journalist at the centre-right French newspaper wrote, 'I wish with all my heart that the rebels would set fire to Euro Disneyland.' , a Parisian stage director, named the concept a 'cultural ', a phrase which would be echoed in the media during Euro Disney's initial years.In response, French philosopher noted, 'It is not America that is invading us. It is we who adore it, who adopt its fashions and above all, its words.' Euro Disney S.C.A.'

S then-chairman responded, 'We didn't come in and say O.K., we're going to put a and a on. We are who we are.'

Topics of controversy also included Disney's American managers requiring English to be spoken at all meetings and Disney's appearance code for members of staff, which listed regulations and limitations for the use of makeup, facial hair, tattoos, jewellery, and more.French labour unions mounted protests against the appearance code, which they saw as 'an attack on individual liberty'. Others criticised Disney as being insensitive to French culture, individualism, and privacy, because restrictions on individual or collective liberties were illegal under, unless it could be demonstrated that the restrictions are requisite to the job and do not exceed what is necessary.Disney countered by saying that a ruling that barred them from imposing such an employment standard could threaten the image and long-term success of the park. 'For us, the appearance code has a great effect from a product identification standpoint,' said Thor Degelmann, Euro Disney's personnel director. 'Without it we couldn't be presenting the Disney product that people would be expecting.' Opening day and early years Euro Disney opened for employee preview and testing in March 1992. During this time visitors were mostly park employees and their family members, who tested facilities and operations.

The press were able to visit the day before the park's opening day on 12 April.On 12 April 1992, Euro Disney Resort and its theme park, Euro Disneyland, officially opened. Visitors were warned of chaos on the roads. A government survey indicated that half a million people carried by 90,000 cars might attempt to enter the complex. French radio warned traffic to avoid the area. By midday, the car park was approximately half full, suggesting an attendance level below 25,000.

Explanations of the lower-than-expected turnout included speculation that people heeded the advice to stay away and that the one-day strike that cut the direct railway connection to Euro Disney from the centre of Paris made the park inaccessible. Due to the European recession that August, the park faced financial difficulties as there were a lack of things to do and an overabundance of hotels, leading to underperformance.A new Indiana Jones roller-coaster ride was opened at Euro Disney in 1993. A few weeks after the ride opened there were problems with the emergency brakes which resulted in guest injuries.In 1994, the company was still having financial difficulties. There were rumours that Euro Disney was getting close to having to file for bankruptcy.

The banks and the backers had meetings to work out some of the financial problems facing Euro Disney. In March 1994 Team Disney went into negotiations with the banks so that they could get some help for their debt. As a last resort, the Walt Disney Company threatened to close the Disneyland Paris park, leaving the banks with the land. Financial, attendance and employment struggles.

Disney's Newport Bay ClubIn May 1992, entertainment magazine reported that about 25% of Euro Disney's workforce – approximately 3,000 people – had resigned from their jobs because of unacceptable working conditions. It also reported that the park's attendance was far behind expectations. The disappointing attendance can be at least partly explained by the and increased unemployment, which was affecting France and most of the rest of the developed world at this time; when construction of the resort began, the economy was still on an upswing.Euro Disney S.C.A. Responded in an interview with, in which claimed only 1,000 people had left their jobs. In response to the financial situation, Fitzpatrick ordered that the Disney-MGM Studios Europe project would be put on hiatus until a further decision could be made.

Prices at the hotels were reduced.Despite these efforts in May 1992, park attendance was around 25,000 (some reports give a figure of 30,000) instead of the predicted 60,000. The Euro Disney Company stock price spiralled downwards and on 23 July 1992, Euro Disney announced an expected net loss in its first year of operation of approximately 300 million. During Euro Disney's first winter, hotel occupancy was so low that it was decided to close the hotel during the season.Initial hopes were that each visitor would spend around US$33 per day, but near the end of 1992, analysts found spending to be around 12% lower. Efforts to improve attendance included serving alcoholic beverages with meals inside the Euro Disneyland park, in response to a presumed European demand, which began 12 June 1993.By the summer of 1994, Euro Disney was burdened with $3 billion worth of debt.

Disney CFO and Wall Street financier Steve Norris worked with 's business advisor Mustafa Al Hejailan to rescue the company. In that deal, the Walt Disney Corporation's 49 percent stake was reduced to 39 percent, the banks agreed to forego interest payments until 1997, Disney wrote off royalties and fees until 1999, and Alwaleed agreed to pay $345 million for a 24 percent stake in Euro Disney.

1995 turnaround On 1 October 1994, Euro Disney changed its name to Disneyland Paris. On 31 May 1995, a new attraction opened at the theme park. Had been planned since the inception of Euro Disneyland under the name Discovery Mountain, but was reserved for a revival of public interest.

With a redesign of the attraction (which had premiered as at the 's in 1975) including a 'cannon launch' system, inversions, and an on-ride soundtrack, the US$100 million attraction was dedicated in a ceremony attended by such as, and.On 25 July 1995, Euro Disney S.C.A. Reported its first quarterly profit of US$35.3 million. On 15 November 1995, the results for the ending 30 September 1995, were released; in one year the theme park's attendance had climbed from 8.8 million to 10.7 million – an increase of 21%. Hotel occupancy had also climbed from 60 to 68.5%. After debt payments, Disneyland Paris ended the year with a net profit of US$22.8 million.

2000 onwards As of March 2002, Disneyland Paris underwent a second name change to Disneyland Resort Paris. In 2002, Euro Disney S.C.A. And the Walt Disney Company announced another annual profit for Disneyland Paris. However, it then incurred a net loss in the three years following.

By March 2004, the Walt Disney Company had agreed to write off all debt that Euro Disney S.C.A. Owed to the Walt Disney Company. On 1 December 2003, Euro Disney S.C.A launched the 'Need Magic' campaign, which lasted until March 2006 to bring new, first-time European visitors to the resort. And by 2005, having been open fewer than fifteen years, Disneyland Paris had become the number one tourist destination for Europe, outselling the and the.In March 2006, Disneyland Resort Paris launched the advertising campaign, 'believe in your dreams' and paired with the TGV East European Line to encourage European family attendance to the resort. Shortly after announcing a 12% increase in revenues for the fiscal year of 2007, Euro Disney S.C.A. Implemented a 'reverse split' consolidation of shares of 100 to 1. August 2008 brought the resort's 200 millionth visitor, and made for the third consecutive year of growth in revenues for the resort as well as record a record of 15.3 million visitors in attendance.In 2009, the resort demonstrated dedication to the recruitment of new employment positions, especially for the Christmas and summer seasons, which continued in 2010 and 2011 when 2,000 and 3,000 employment contracts being offered, respectively.

The 2009 fiscal year saw a decrease in revenues by 7% and a net loss of 63 million followed by stable revenues at 1.2 billion in fiscal 2010. Euro Disney S.C.A. Refinanced their debt to Walt Disney Company again for 1.3 billion euros in September 2012.A study done by the Inter-ministerial Delegation reviewing Disneyland Paris' contribution to the French economy was released in time for the Resort's 20th anniversary in March 2012.

It found that despite the resort's financial hardships, it has generated '37 billion euros in tourism-related revenues over twenty years,' supports on average 55,000 jobs in France annually, and that one job at Disneyland Paris generates nearly three jobs elsewhere in France.For the first time in the resort's history, both the and closed from 14 to 17 November 2015, as part of France's following the.On 19 June 2017, the resort's operating company, was acquired by, in the process, giving them full control of the resort. In December 2018, Natacha Rafalski took over as CEO.

On 1 September 2017 the resort's second nature resort opened as Les Villages Nature Paris.On 27 February 2018, Walt Disney Company CEO announced that company would invest €2 billion into the Disneyland Paris resort. The Walt Disney Studios Park will be expanded with three new areas based upon,. In addition to the three new areas, the expansion includes a new lake, which will be the focal point for entertainment experiences and will also connect each of the new park areas. The first phase of the expansion will be completed in 2021.

In April 2019, the location hosted a tournament.On 1 June 2019, Disneyland Paris sponsored the, an celebration. Previous similar events have taken place at the park since 2014, but were not officially sponsored by Disney. Name changes Disneyland Paris and its properties have been subject to a number of name changes, initially an effort to overcome the negative publicity that followed the inception of Euro Disney. 19Entire complexEuro Disney Resort 1Euro Disneyland Paris 2Disneyland Paris 3Disneyland Resort Paris 4Disneyland ParisFirst parkEuro Disneyland 1Disneyland Park/Parc DisneylandSecond parkWalt Disney Studios ParkEntertainment districtFestival DisneyDisney Village. 12 April 1992 – 31 May 1994: Euro Disney Resort. 1 June – 30 September 1994: Euro Disneyland Paris. 1 October 1994 – 15 March 2002, 4 April 2009–present: Disneyland Paris.

16 March 2002 – 3 April 2009: Disneyland Resort ParisThe complex. 2009 - 15,400,690. 2010 - 15,158,800. 2011 - 15,700,000. 2012 - 16,000,000.

2013 - 14,900,000. 2014 - 14,200,000.

2015 - 14,800,000. 2016 - 13,400,000.

2017 - 14,860,000. 2018 - 15,141,000Electroland Festival On 8 July 2017, Disneyland hosted its first-ever EDM festival entitled Electroland, in celebration of Disneyland Paris’ 25th anniversary., & were the main highlights of the first edition. The second edition of the festival was held on 29 and 30 June 2018 which featured, Mosimann and Lovely Laura & Ben Santiago. The third edition was held over a span of 3 days from 5 July through to 7 July in 2019. The theme of the third edition was based upon Disney's movie The Lion King. The lineup included,The Magician, etc. Disneyland also announced the fourth edition of the 3-day festival in 2020 starting from 4 July.

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