Recommendation for great free editing software (1 Viewer)

gnosis · Dec 5, 2005

I shoot with the Nikon D2x and make my living shooting sports. I like to shoot nature for fun and relaxation. I have found some great software that I would like to recommend. It is called Picassa and it is free from Google. It automatically loads photographs in folders and rotates them too. It has nice batch process for autocontrast and sharpness and the cropping feature is easy to use.

I also teach as an adjunct in computer career and I have access to lots of high priced software, but I like the free Google software best. Give it a try and save yourself some money and frustration.

I would be glad to share tips on the D2X. It is a great camera. you can check out some of my nature photographs at www.wrmn.net which is a non-commercial wilderness site I am helping a friend build.

baillieswells · Dec 12, 2005

Free Editing Software

gnosis said:
I shoot with the Nikon D2x and make my living shooting sports. I like to shoot nature for fun and relaxation. I have found some great software that I would like to recommend. It is called Picassa and it is free from Google. It automatically loads photographs in folders and rotates them too. It has nice batch process for autocontrast and sharpness and the cropping feature is easy to use.

I also teach as an adjunct in computer career and I have access to lots of high priced software, but I like the free Google software best. Give it a try and save yourself some money and frustration.

I would be glad to share tips on the D2X. It is a great camera. you can check out some of my nature photographs at www.wrmn.net which is a non-commercial wilderness site I am helping a friend build.

Regrettably there isn't a version for the best editing computer available i.e. an Apple Mac!

pxl8 · Dec 12, 2005

Picassa has one major failing - there's no option to reduce the brightness of an image.

Wickham · Dec 16, 2005

Irfanview www.irfanview.com is a good general purpose free image editing program. I use it a lot.

Brightness adjustment is an option, as well as cropping, rotation by degree, size, colour, sharpness, file type change and so on.

IanF · Dec 17, 2005

I've just had a look at Picasa Photo as well and it does look to be a very good piece of software. I may even swap over to it myself.

I'd be inclined to use this direct link instead though - http://picasa.google.com/index.html

tirc83 · Dec 17, 2005

IanF said:
I've just had a look at Picasa Photo as well and it does look to be a very good piece of software. I may even swap over to it myself.

I'd be inclined to use this direct link instead though - http://picasa.google.com/index.html

Check out GIMP - may do what you want.

JTF · Jan 3, 2006

I use Irfanview.

Keith Reeder · Jan 3, 2006

Google Photofiltre (sic).

I'm a huge fan of Irfanview, but Photofiltre is in another league in many ways.

Free too.

It saves files much smaller than Irfanview for the same quality, and I find it's "sharpen edges" filter aesthetically very satisfying. And it just plain does more than Irfanview.

Irfanview is still my default viewer, but I edit/enhance with Photofiltre a lot.

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