Photo editing program

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Originally Posted by WhiteD3

I've got an 8 megapixel Konica that takes these humongous photos which are absolutely fantastic quality, etc. I really don't want to do anything else with them other than crop sections and save as, in various resolutions and sizes.

What I've found is many programs seem to struggle with 7MB jpegs, especially when they try to catalogue every bloody photo on my PC at startup, of which there's a thousand or so.

Infranview and Gimp seem to do what I want quite well.

Cheers.

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And there in is the answer to this thread. For me, I shoot almost exclusively in RAW and Nikon View NX, Nikon Capture NX and Adobe Photoshop CS3 allow me to do what I want. This is not to say they suit everyone any more than Adobe Photoshop Elements, Infranview or Gimp. Even Google Picasa has its followers.

One thing with any software or freeware is that it is not suitable for everyone. But if it serves your purpose then there is absolutely nothing wrong with it and that has nothing to do with the cost of the software.

The most important part of any picture is at the point when you press the shutter release. Post processing should be then just crop, resize and save.

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Originally Posted by WhiteD3

It wasn't by choice. Had to get my folks their first PC (they're both in their 70s) and it came with Vista, so I thought I'd put Vista on mine so I can answer their questions.

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Only having a loan .... ;)
Came across a laptop with vista on my recent travels and was singularly unimpressed. As usually happens to me, whilst we were away one of the boxes on my small office network decided to go to the big Bill Gates resting place in the sky. My IT supplier bloke advised strongly against it also.

Cheers

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Originally Posted by Rosco

Only having a loan .... ;)
Cheers

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NO worries, no offence taken :)

I find OS all about expectations. My expectation is that with every MS upgrade (Since DOS to Win 3.1) there'll be blood, sweat, frustration and strange looks from people who have no idea why we computer geeks do it to ourselves.

Vista did not disappoint in the regard :(