Digital Software

[mike]

Hi, TCH er's ,

 

 

My daughter wants to start diddling with software for digital photos that she can manipulate them with , etc.

 

What does everyone like / recommend?

 

Any good free programs out there that you have tried?

 

thanks

 

Mike

[TCH-Don]

Depends on what you mean by manipulate

if you mean with blended layers like Photoshop

then Paintshop Pro or Paint.Net or Gimp

 

Or if you just need to crop, resize, correct brightness/color and print

Googles Picasa is a great program

also Irfranview is worth looking at.

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

Free wise, I use Irfran and old versions of Paintshop pro.

 

I also use photoshop too

 

JimE

[mike]

Thanks for the input guys.

I use Irfran also and paintshop.

Thought I might try Googles Picassa.

 

thanks again

[carbonize]

I personally use Irfanview for quick viewing of files, resizing images, converting formats and folder browsing. For my image editing/creating I use Paint.NET as it's powerful but easy to use. I also have Gimp installed but found it complicated which is also why I don't use either Photoshop nor PaintShop Pro. Googles program is good for doing simple things like red eye removal and colour/hue/saturation adjustments but then Irfanview does these as well.