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Tangledfeet
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Well, GIMP (don't laugh...) is powerful and free!
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Funnily enough, I was thinking it may be some gimp related photo's he's wanting to edit.
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The Seashore Project
Download The Seashore Project for free. easy to use image editor for OSX. Seashore is a free, open-source image editor for built entirely in Cocoa. It features advanced tools like multiple layers and alpha channel editing, alongside basic tools like gradients, textures, text (with subpixel...
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Trust youFunnily enough, I was thinking it may be some gimp related photo's he's wanting to edit.
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IrfanView - Official Homepage - One of the Most Popular Viewers Worldwide
IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.
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Best simple free editor I have found.
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IrfanView - Official Homepage - One of the Most Popular Viewers Worldwide
IrfanView ... one of the most popular viewers worldwide.
Best simple free editor I have found.
Its superb for batch processing; renaming and resizing, etc.!
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Gimp is hideous, anyone who says it's the same or better than photoshop has frankly never used photoshop
I pay for both Lightroom and Photoshop, rarely use PS but lightroom has enough basic editing abilities as i like to get it right in camera, It is mostly used for the storage and indexing of my 110k+ photos
I pay for both Lightroom and Photoshop, rarely use PS but lightroom has enough basic editing abilities as i like to get it right in camera, It is mostly used for the storage and indexing of my 110k+ photos
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Perhaps so...
Nobody here has made that claim and, assuming your Photoshop and Lightroom are legit, perhaps you'd care to share how much they cost you? The OP was after free software...
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Gimp will do everything asked if you put the time In to learning it and there's a huge amount of add ons.
It's not just the price. PS is a huge resource hog.
Yes. I've used both. Still prefer GIMP.
Kritter for drawing.
It's not just the price. PS is a huge resource hog.
Yes. I've used both. Still prefer GIMP.
Kritter for drawing.
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Taking a good photo is art - it is - like painting a painting.
I can't do either...
What I have to do - is catalogue and deal with hundreds of Wifey's photos of puppies and Grandchildren.
Plus I have thousands of photos we deal with out of workshop.
IrfanView is THE BEST FREE SIMPLE EDITOR I have found.
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On the subject of free software - have you lot migrated away from Microsoft to OpenOffice yet? "Apache OpenOffice" is better for spreadsheets than Microsofts Excel offerings and it is FREE.
I can't do either...
What I have to do - is catalogue and deal with hundreds of Wifey's photos of puppies and Grandchildren.
Plus I have thousands of photos we deal with out of workshop.
IrfanView is THE BEST FREE SIMPLE EDITOR I have found.
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On the subject of free software - have you lot migrated away from Microsoft to OpenOffice yet? "Apache OpenOffice" is better for spreadsheets than Microsofts Excel offerings and it is FREE.
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I appreciate Parm wanted free but honestly gimp is hateful, I suppose I could take the time to learn it but it just doesn't do it for me. Its B&W conversion ruins 99% of photos, edge detection on things like hair is terrible and cloning for scratch removal is so bad it would be easier to retouch the actual negatives
I pay £9.98 per month, for Adobe, I don't use the storage or cloud based apps, just installed software on a couple of my PCs
When you have 110k+ photos it's worth the money to keep them organised, they range from small jpegs, through camera raw and all the way up to massively high resolution scans of medium and large format prints, my biggest single file is over 10gb and gimp couldn't even open it last time I tried
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It has been years since I've used GIMP and I do agree that it isn't very, umm, aesthetic! Yes, for someone in your case it is worth the cost for quality software. As I work in education I get access to the Serif suite for free, not that we use all of it, including the new Affinity suite - which I gather is quite potent.
I'm intrugued by Seashore that @Gritineye has mentioned but his link shows only an OSX version and we don't know whether @Parm has a PC or a Mac.
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Its not just this forum but the default reply to any question of this type is "gimp"
I was just pointing out its actually pretty terrible software.
If I could find a cheap or free alternative to Lightroom I'd switch but nothing comes close, takes a bit of time tagging and rating photos as you import but worth it, as my photos are searchable in any way you could imagine
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It's not. It's good software. It just takes time to learn it & get the most from it.
