If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever.
Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
"Thames_side" wrote:
I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. IrfanView is pretty versatile, for the price. (It's free!) Of course, it doesn't do everything that Photoshop does. -- Martin S. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
Thames_side schreef:
I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
"Rob Weekhout" wrote in message . nl... Thames_side schreef: I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. Thanks Rob. I like this program. Brigitte |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
Brigitte schreef:
"Rob Weekhout" wrote in message . nl... Thames_side schreef: I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. Thanks Rob. I like this program. Brigitte Brigitte, One important thing. I have read several reactions from new Picasa-users that they didn't like the way Picasa handles your folders on your harddisk. They all thought Picasa made a mass of it. Nothing of that kind !. Remember that all your subfolders are being seen as "stand-alone"v folders within Picasa. So when you give your photofolders a name like : "yyyy_foldername" you can find them easily in your Picasa library. One other thing : your menu-item "tools" (or is it the menu-item "extra" ?, because I have the Dutch Picasa-version !!) has an option something like "folder-watcher" or something like that. Here you can tell Picasa what folders should constantly be watched and which absolutely do NOT. Further on : read the on-line manual visit the picasa forum read the online support-page of Picasa mail me if you want to know more and hate to read manuals remove the "NOSPAM" from my emailadress. Rob. |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
Rob Weekhout wrote:
Thames_side schreef: I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. Hi, I agree that Picasa2 is excellent. It sharpens nicely with one keystroke, can crop manually or to a format, can change brightness, contrast, color, etc.. Verticals can be rotated to appear vertically onscreen with no detail loss or pixel loss. Your changes are kept separately from the original image, which remains pristine and lossless. It is free. Morton |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
"Rob Weekhout" ""r.weekhout NO\"@SPAM wrote in message . nl... Brigitte schreef: "Rob Weekhout" wrote in message . nl... Thames_side schreef: I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. Thanks Rob. I like this program. Brigitte Brigitte, One important thing. I have read several reactions from new Picasa-users that they didn't like the way Picasa handles your folders on your harddisk. They all thought Picasa made a mass of it. Nothing of that kind !. Remember that all your subfolders are being seen as "stand-alone"v folders within Picasa. So when you give your photofolders a name like : "yyyy_foldername" you can find them easily in your Picasa library. One other thing : your menu-item "tools" (or is it the menu-item "extra" ?, because I have the Dutch Picasa-version !!) has an option something like "folder-watcher" or something like that. Here you can tell Picasa what folders should constantly be watched and which absolutely do NOT. Further on : read the on-line manual visit the picasa forum read the online support-page of Picasa mail me if you want to know more and hate to read manuals remove the "NOSPAM" from my emailadress. Rob. Thanks! |
#8
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
Thanks for all the input. Picasa certainly seems popular. Anybody tried
Adobe Photoshop Elements? Doug "Morton Linder" wrote in message ... Rob Weekhout wrote: Thames_side schreef: I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. Hi, I agree that Picasa2 is excellent. It sharpens nicely with one keystroke, can crop manually or to a format, can change brightness, contrast, color, etc.. Verticals can be rotated to appear vertically onscreen with no detail loss or pixel loss. Your changes are kept separately from the original image, which remains pristine and lossless. It is free. Morton |
#9
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
ACDSee is excellent, well at least the full version is ... I use it
for photo management and as a front-end to 3 different editing tools: - Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Adobe Photoshop Elements - Microsoft Digital Image ..... I suggest downloading the Elements trial at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/main.html "Thames_side" wrote in message ... I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. |
#10
|
|||
|
|||
Photo software
"Markeau" wrote in message ... ACDSee is excellent, well at least the full version is ... I use it for photo management and as a front-end to 3 different editing tools: - Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Adobe Photoshop Elements - Microsoft Digital Image .... I suggest downloading the Elements trial at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/main.html "Thames_side" wrote in message ... I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. I use Serif PhotoPlus for serious editing and did use Irfanviewfor for quick image adjustment resizing/resampling etc. It's my default viewer. I recently downloaded FastStone. This is an excellent replacement for Irfanview and is superior except for batch resampling/renaming, for which Irfanview is still tops. After all the fuss over Picasa, I dowloaded and tried Picasa2. In the absence of those mentioned above I suppose it would be a good choice, but I much prefer FastStone. The choice of a more serious editor is more difficult. Prior to retirement, I could evaluate applications as part of my job for free. I certainly can't go out and get say elements, Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro etc.to determine which I like best. Since I already use Serif PagePlus and have been doing so for many years, I was able to get PhotoPlus as part of a good offer. It does far more than I will ever use. I did download The Gimp, this is probably excellent, but I don't like the interface and probably will continue with what I have. I should add that I use my own scheme for storing cataloging pics, so that might be a factor in what I have said above. Dave Cohen |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
RAW files and photo software to read them | Jeremy Nixon | Digital SLR Cameras | 67 | May 16th 05 07:25 PM |
HTML Photo Librairy Software. (Casio Photoloader equivalent) | Laurent Gelu | Digital Photography | 0 | May 5th 05 06:28 PM |
please help - photo slide show software packages | agirl | Digital Photography | 4 | March 14th 05 09:01 AM |
reply to Best digital photo album software | [email protected] | Digital Photography | 1 | January 18th 05 06:04 AM |
Google gives away Picasa photo software | Fuzzy Logic | Digital Photography | 15 | July 22nd 04 07:58 AM |