Photo Editing Programs

doteroo

16 years ago

What program do you use and why? Is it a free program?

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lazypup
16 years ago
I use three programss

1. Pentax Photo Laboratory, which is a proprietary program that came with my Pentax DSLR

2. Photoshop Elements 7- Fairly inexpensive on Ebay.

Both of those programs have exceptional capabilities but they have a long learning curve to become comfortable with them.

I also have "Photoscape" which is a free download that works very well with general editing and corrections. There is only one slight fluke in this program. It will not read single photos directly from your computer "My Pictures". You must first put the photos in a file, then read the file in photoscape but that is not really a problem because it is easy to set up a new file in "My pictures" then drag and drop the individual photos into the file.

In fact, I find myself primarily using Photoscape because it is easy and I only resort to the Pentax or Photoshop program when I need to do more advanced editing or corrections.
pfmastin
16 years ago
Irfanview is very good for basic edits...resizing, cropping, etc. Picasa has some basic editing also. Both are free online.
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For those who would like to try making a collage but either don't have the necessary program or find that your program is difficult to deal with, I would like to recommend PhotoScape. PhotoScape is a free download and I found it to be not only an a very powerful photo editing program, it is extremely user friendly. As I stated before, the Cardinal collage I posted was my 2nd attempt at making a collage, here is my first attempt, which I titled "My Backyard Friends", For those who would like to try PhotoScape, go to your browser homepage and input the word "Photoscape" in your search bar, you will find numerous sites where you can download it free.
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Are you on Mac or Windows? I use iPhoto for almost of my editing - it does just about everything that needs doing: cropping, levels, effects, etc. Also what kind of camera are you using? My Nikon Coolpix can do a number of those things right in the camera. Oh hhah - just noticed the date of the OP - imagine the class is over now... This post was edited by carolb_w_fl on Sun, Jan 25, 15 at 10:43
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I don't know anything about Mac's but all of my computers have come with a paint program or Photo Editing of some sort. Check your program files. Maybe under "accessories" or something like that. If you don't already have something, you can download one of the programs that the paint companies have such as Benjamin Moore. I think theirs is around $10 and totally worth it in my opinion. I use it ALL the time! Just beware that the colors on a virtual drawing aren't usually very accurate. They are only to give you an idea which direction to go when you're searching for paint samples to try. Good Luck! Lindy
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What do you mean by photo editing? Do you want to correct the color on old pictures? Do you want to add text? Do you want to superimpose images or move stuff around? Do you want to eliminate noisy backgrounds? There are photo editors that make some of these things simple...or you could learn to use Gimp. Gimp does much of what Photoshop does and is only slightly less cumbersome to learn. I typically clear up old images, change the size to add room for text, and then add text. For those functions I use the free program called Irfanview with the Irfanview add-ins. Irfanview is more of a viewer that will open ever image format and make some adjustments. It's the add-ons that give it super powers. There is another free program called XnView. I dropped that one back in the 90s in favor or Irfanview, so I don't know what the capabilities are.
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zitro_joe
16 years ago
Ahh, man. I really dont care for photo editing program. Soem people turn into graphic artist rather than learning to take good pictures.

IF I want to adjust levels of any sort, I use Photoshop Lightroom
anna_lisa
16 years ago
I used photoshop and paintshop I also took a free online course in both program I have added filters to both programs I also like makeing birthday card for my children with the picture I have taken with my camera they also enjoy them I have not brought a birthday card in years
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juanital
16 years ago
I use Irfanview alot with quite a few added plugins, some free (Xero Graphics, Filter Forge,Virtual Photograher by Optik Verve)some paid for (such as TopazLabs plugins, some compatible PS plugins) something a little beyond basic editing...The only thing I don't like about it is it doesn't keep your EXIF data when you save RAW to JPG's.

As mentioned above-Photoscape is a nice Free little program, it recognizes raw files but when you bring them up in photoscape they are small...Most of the time I shoot jpg, but have been doing alot of raw's lately...

Paint.net is another free-doesn't recognize raw files-I use that to clone out any dust from the sensor if it shows up or some small thing...I'm not that great otherwise for heavy duty into editing-like layers, cuts, so on...it does have that capability...

I do have Capture NX that came with the Nikon I bought a few years ago...If the pics are shot in raw and I want to save the exif-I'll open with Irfanview as my viewer-then choose open with NX. that saves the exif when saved...I don't care for the viewer of NX-seems cumbersome for me-thats why I like Irfanview as my viewer...

I know this an older post-When I started photography it took me awhile to understand everything on what to get or to buy..So I hope this was helpful.

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