Need Photo Editing Software

Paint.net is what I use. It's a 4MB download, does all of the stuff you want well, and it's absolutely 100% free.

Lemur said:

Prof Kerfuffle said:

Lemur said:

Hi Prof. Your URL got a little jumbled. Plus it's a redirect to:

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

That is the link it gives me "http://paint.net/"

Prof, yours was just listed as "http://http:// (just had an extra http. nothing major)

I spotted it and said you corrected me, thanks

I use Paint.Net as well.


Fairly simple to learn & use, and works quite well especially considering its small size.

I've been using GIMP 2.6.10 x64 ever since I got my Win 7 x64 desktop and the number of functions it can perform are only limited by your ability to learn how to use this versatile image management program. I do a lot of digital photography and although I shoot in manual mode and correct for white balance using a BaLens white balance filter the Levels function in GIMP is always able to do a final correction that makes the pictures look true to the original subject.



~Maxx~
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Gimp for me is a complicated graphics program like Photoshop but I do have it on my Linuxes.

If I wanna edit or even draw pictures, I only use 2 programs. One is MS Paint in Windows 7 because even if its abilities are limited, it does the job for me- resize, crop or even change and modify things in the pictures.

Another one use I Photo! Editor. Its not s perfect program though as it would bug up from time to time so I had with me its installer to do reinstalls in case it fails. But disregarding this bug, it works well. It has cropping, resizing, color enhancement, blur, sharpen, makeup and caricaturing abilities, so its not all bad. It has a tabbed interface so its so much more easier for me to use.

Photo! Editor - The perfect choice to edit and improve your photos


The combination of these two programs allowed me to make some good artworks, though I'm no professional but at least, its something I can show.

I used GIMP to go in and transparently remove the specs of dirt that were in the water drops in the original version of this photo on this photo and then employed the excellent Advanced JPEG Compressor to reduce the size of the original 2 MB .png image by 1,000% to this 200 KB .jpeg version without noticeably diminishing the visual quality of the picture. There are a lot of photo enhancement programs available and I have tried quite a number of them, but when it comes to compressing images to be posted online or for email I have not found any other program that can come close to matching the quality of the Advanced JPEG Compressor because it has Detail Quality Equalizer adjustments for 5 levels of detail each of which can be independently adjusted for the best results when image compression is required to meet bandwidth limitations.

~Maxx~
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