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Advice needed: Best photo editor?
Jazzman wrote:
Would greatly appreciate advice on what would be the best photo editor for me. I use a digital camera, am strictly an amateur, but would like a user-friendly photo editing program to do basic things like removing red-eye, cropping, downsizing file sizes for emailing purposes, etc. Right now, I'm using Adobe's Active Share, but I find it kind of cumbersome and not particularly user-friendly. I read somewhere that Photo Shop is very sophisticated, but has a steep learning curve, which I'd rather pass on. Also, if the editor recommended is Freeware, so much the better. Twobtold's answer, Irfanview, is a good one. It's more a viewer than an editor, but it does all of the functions you mentioned except red-eye removal. It's also easy to use and free. It will do cropping, resizing, simple sharpening, simple color enhancing, and compressing. It can't do sophisticated color work. It won't do things that require you to edit individual parts of a photo, like red-eye removal, eliminating unwanted picture elements, enhancing color, or other aspects of some particular part of the photo, etc. For that you'd need a real editor. Some fairly simple editors I've used are Microsoft's Picture-It, which I think may be free with Windows XP Home edition, and Roxio Photosuite. Photosuite is very easy to use. Red-eye removal is a snap. But I have stopped using it because the interface is dumbed down to the point where easy things are easy but harder things are very much harder or even impossible. Like many photo editors, it tries to force you into it's own idea of workflow, with "albums" that you may not want. It's not free, but it is cheap. My personal favorite is the GIMP. It is completely free, very powerful and very flexible. But it has a significantly steeper learning curve than the lower end commercial programs. Alan |
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Thanks, Alan. Since fixing redeye is the main purpose for my seeking
out a photo editor (VuePrint allows me to do a lot of the other stuff), I'll pass on Irfanview. I'll check on the others you mention. On 27 Dec 2004 11:09:10 -0800, wrote: Jazzman wrote: Would greatly appreciate advice on what would be the best photo editor for me. I use a digital camera, am strictly an amateur, but would like a user-friendly photo editing program to do basic things like removing red-eye, cropping, downsizing file sizes for emailing purposes, etc. Right now, I'm using Adobe's Active Share, but I find it kind of cumbersome and not particularly user-friendly. I read somewhere that Photo Shop is very sophisticated, but has a steep learning curve, which I'd rather pass on. Also, if the editor recommended is Freeware, so much the better. Twobtold's answer, Irfanview, is a good one. It's more a viewer than an editor, but it does all of the functions you mentioned except red-eye removal. It's also easy to use and free. It will do cropping, resizing, simple sharpening, simple color enhancing, and compressing. It can't do sophisticated color work. It won't do things that require you to edit individual parts of a photo, like red-eye removal, eliminating unwanted picture elements, enhancing color, or other aspects of some particular part of the photo, etc. For that you'd need a real editor. Some fairly simple editors I've used are Microsoft's Picture-It, which I think may be free with Windows XP Home edition, and Roxio Photosuite. Photosuite is very easy to use. Red-eye removal is a snap. But I have stopped using it because the interface is dumbed down to the point where easy things are easy but harder things are very much harder or even impossible. Like many photo editors, it tries to force you into it's own idea of workflow, with "albums" that you may not want. It's not free, but it is cheap. My personal favorite is the GIMP. It is completely free, very powerful and very flexible. But it has a significantly steeper learning curve than the lower end commercial programs. Alan |
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the newer versions of IrfanView include red eye reduction. Look under
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the newer versions of IrfanView include red eye reduction. Look under
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There are many ways to edit, store, print and save digital images. I
would suggest that you investigate the Adobe Photoshop Elelments. This addresses all the above, is designed for people with little or no experience, and yet is powerful enough to do many amzing things. Also if you decide that you want to get more involved, it is a direct step into Photoshop. Regards John PC Graphics Report www.pcgraphicsreport.com |
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