Photo editing program

**WhiteD3** · 14th September 2007, 05:06 PM

Maybe this should be in the IT section but maybe not.

Looking for recommendations on freeware/shareware (ie cheap

) photo editing software.

Don't want it to do too much other than crop, rotate and most importantly, resize in terms of resolution and/or pixels. And of course be able to save in jpg, tif, etc.

...and I do NOT want to have to create an album or "search" and find all 2000 odd pictures on my PC just to open one!

I used to use MS Photo editor under XP and Office 2000 but since upgrading to Vista and Office 2007 I've found the new MS Picture Manager too dumbed down.

Cheers.

**EchiDna** · 14th September 2007, 05:29 PM

the gimp...

no question in my mind at all - the best freeware on the planet

**dmdigital** · 14th September 2007, 05:40 PM

Adobe Photoshop Elements would be my pick. OK, its not free but for the price would be the pick of the products with lots of support, tutorials, how to's and other info available on the web. You don't need to use the album feature either.

**Slunnie** · 14th September 2007, 05:49 PM

I'd just use Irfanview.

I'll do all of these in batches also which makes processing 2000 holiday snaps very very quick.

http://www.irfanview.com/

**dmdigital** · 14th September 2007, 05:56 PM

I'd completely forgotten about irfanview. Good product, used to be a bit fiddly, but that was several years ago.

There's also Google's Picasa

**camel_landy** · 14th September 2007, 05:58 PM

Should have bought a Mac... That kind of stuff comes bundled with the OS.

M

tombraider · 14th September 2007, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by camel_landy

Should have bought a Mac... That kind of stuff comes bundled with the OS.

M

Love your thinking!!!!

**JDNSW** · 14th September 2007, 07:37 PM

The Gimp. Comes bundled with almost every flavour of Linux, also available for Windows and, I think, OS-X.

John

mittadisco · 14th September 2007, 08:12 PM

paint

**Bushie** · 15th September 2007, 06:54 AM

I'd go with the Gimp as well, very capable. For windows you will need to load the GTK=2 runtime environment first

go here
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html

The user manual is here
http://docs.gimp.org/en/

For tutorials go here
http://gimpguru.org/Tutorials/

For irfanview
http://irfanview.com

Martyn

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