![]() ![]() The price is very high for all programs, no matter the company behind them. I’m looking for a free image editing program as I don’t want to buy either Adobe Photoshop or Corel PaintShop Pro (or their lighter alternatives – Adobe Photoshop elements or Corel PaintShop Express). And the bonus is that I don’t have all sorts of variants of the same image on my disk. I sometimes use Picasa to crop a photo down to a certain size, email it to someone (I have Picasa options set to size-reduce the image when emailing), and then Undo the crop or other edits to recover my original photo. One big thing I like about Picasa is that it doesn’t affect your original image (as someone mentioned) - you can undo all of your edits. BTW, the result bar says “Displaying 5 pictures in 5 albums (0.000 seconds)”, so the search is really fast. I have almost 33,000 photos (over 80 GB) in my Picasa library and if I type ‘strawberry’ into the search bar, it shows me all the photos that have strawberry in the file name, caption, tag, or name tag. You can put tags and captions on your images, tag people’s faces, and do quite a number of other image manipulation things (straighten, red eye, colour correction, adjust saturation, plus effects like sharpen, b&w, sepia, etc). The added advantage of Picasa over the other image manipulation tools is that Picasa can organize your photos. If you just want to brighten, add contrast, and crop photos, use Picasa. But I’m not a graphic artist and don’t really need the power of Photoshop or GIMP. I’ve used GIMP and had become quite proficient at it (never used Photoshop). Could really mess things up so that you won’t even find your own files… Maybe you know of such a forum?Īlso, I understand that FastStone has a some kind of browser which organize your files and pics. Still they are all three free and if you include Picasa, I’m sure you find one of them fits very well, maybe even a combination of 2 or more, because each may be strong in different areas and be useful for different tasks.īyron – One of the things I take into account before installing new software is if there is a good support forum in case I need help with it, and I’ve noticed that FastStone doesn’t have any (even Google doesn’t find one). XnView does open on last folder no matter what but its interface is a bit more clunky, equal to Irfanview I would say but overall not as capable but I tend to use if more than Irfanview because it also integrates the viewer with the thumbnail browser better. ![]() There’s nothing I don’t like about FastStone except it doesn’t open on last folder if the last folder is a network location. It’s excellent, my number one used program, love the UI, the viewer and thumbnail integration, the compatibility with a wide range of formats, the quality of the resize filter, the batch processing, the full screen editing layout. But when you are blogging, you want to do your graphics quickly and does that very well. I’m an experienced user who would be smart enough to use full Photoshop if he could afford it. Select and Gaussian Blur (most any paint program has this) works nicely. Another thing you often do when annotating screenshots is to redact certain information from the image that you don’t want to show the world, like user names, private IP addresses, etc. It also does level control and has a selection of common filters. ![]() (In fact, I mostly keep the GIMP around just because I have so many old files in that format.) has line tools and arrows–very important for that use.Ĭropping is a two step process in. I have used the GIMP for annotation and it isn’t so good. If you annotate your images–for example, showing a picture of a motherboard and circling the CPU cooler– does this more easily than the other two. Nothing wrong with Elements, but for the day-to-day image manipulations I do, is the most straightforward. ![]() I have and use the GIMP, Photoshop Elements, and. ![]()
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