Need Photo Editing Software

[rthomas268]

Hi,
I'm new to Windows 7. I got the Windows 7 Professional to make it compatible with other PCs I have on our home network. I use Picture It! on Windows XP. I believe I have read that there are difficulties using it with Windows 7 even Windows 7 Professional.
So, what program would you recommend?
I take pictures of 3 dimensional artwork, upload it from the camera to the PC, and always crop, sometimes adjust brightness, contrast, and blur, and always resize to the required format for the art festival I am applying to. Sometimes upload to Zapp with the required black background to make all pictures the same size when viewed by judges.

So I think I'm looking for a 'basic' program. I'm not adding or wanting to change anything in the picture.

Thanks,

 

[Lemur]

Gimp:

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

 

[fireberd]

Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 is a very popular program. The free Google "Picasa" will do some basic photo editing. I personally don't like GIMP, I have yet to figure it out.

 

[Prof Kerfuffle]

Paint.net is good, it is native to 64-bit and is free. www.getpaint.net

Photoshop is better but not free.

 

[Lemur]

Photoscape is also a nice image editing sw. I mentioned GIMP b/c it's the most powerful free image sw out there.

 

[Lemur]

Paint.net is good, it is native to 64-bit and is free. http://http://paint.net/

Photoshop is better but not free.

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

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

 

[rthomas268]

Thanks,

Photoscape was recommended on a different search I did, I downloaded it while still reading about it, didn't install because it said it was for Vista - unless there's a patch/update?
DownloadCnet had a couple but thought I'd check in here first.

Thanks

 

[hybridfan]

IRFANVIEW it may look basic but actually packs a hell of a punch

IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

 

[Prof Kerfuffle]

Paint.net is good, it is native to 64-bit and is free. http://http://paint.net/

Photoshop is better but not free.

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/"

 

[Lemur]

Paint.net is good, it is native to 64-bit and is free. http://http://paint.net/

Photoshop is better but not free.

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)

 

[pparks1]

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.

 

[Prof Kerfuffle]

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

 

[Wishmaster]

I use Paint.Net as well.


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

 

[BisVal]

Download Photoscape portable , it don't need instalation and do a perfect editing.

 

[Francis93]

If you want to adjust your image basically, I recommend Paint.NET (requires Microsoft.NET Framework) or GIMP. However, since you are only into basic editing/image adjusting, why not edit your photos in your browser through Picnik or Photoshop Express. They seem to edit like a real photo editor, only online and doesn't need to be installed.

 

[Maxxwire]

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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[Vertex]

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.

 

[Maxxwire]

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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