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If Windows, and can't afford Adobe, I'd recommend taking a look at FastStone Image Viewer.
Price is right, and pretty powerful. Comparable to Lightroom, afaic.
Price is right, and pretty powerful. Comparable to Lightroom, afaic.
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Karl
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Re: Software
Adobe Lightroom is a good choice. The editing tools are quite powerful, and the slider based interface is simple to learn so you can quickly make a few adjustments to your photos. Lightroom is also very useful for managing, organizing, and viewing your digital photos. There is a 30 day free trial.
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I used Google Picasa for quite a few years, however when they announced it was no longer supported and I started having odd issues with it, I looked at a lot of alternatives. I started to use Cyberlink PhotoDirector, and although I liked most of it, there were a few things about the interface that bugged me. I re-did my evaluation, and ended up settling on PaintShopPro X9. The ultimate edition has a really nice plugin to auto enhance photos - Perfectly Clear SE - plus it allows you to do all sorts of detailed edits if you want to. My evaluation ended up being between Photoshop Elements and PaintShop Pro. I found Photoshop Elements to be very slow at times, plus I wasn't really fond of how it split up functions between programs (one program for organization and a different one for editing). It was also more expensive.
If you are on windows and don't want too many features, you might also look at the Windows Photo Gallery. I was surprised at how much it did, including facial recognition.
If you are on windows and don't want too many features, you might also look at the Windows Photo Gallery. I was surprised at how much it did, including facial recognition.
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Last year on Black Friday, B&H photo had a years subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud for around $80. It contains Lightroom and Photoshop among other programs.
You might wait until the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to purchase something.
I used to use Adobe Photoshop elements, until I started using Creative Cloud. If you know your adobe Photoshop then GIMP is suppose to be a good program and it's free.
You might wait until the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales to purchase something.
I used to use Adobe Photoshop elements, until I started using Creative Cloud. If you know your adobe Photoshop then GIMP is suppose to be a good program and it's free.
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I use the full version of Photoshop, but I don't recommend it for the casual photographer. It has a very steep learning curve and is not intuitive for beginners.
Photoshop Elements is great. It's pretty powerful for a program that costs less than $100 and is MUCH easier to learn than the full version of Photoshop.
Photoshop Elements is great. It's pretty powerful for a program that costs less than $100 and is MUCH easier to learn than the full version of Photoshop.
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Kep thanks for sharing this link, downlaoded it last night & this will be perfect for my needs. I have neither the patients, skill or desire to become a master of photo editing, this little program will meet my needs nicely.kepPNW wrote:If Windows, and can't afford Adobe, I'd recommend taking a look at FastStone Image Viewer.
Price is right, and pretty powerful. Comparable to Lightroom, afaic.
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Glad to hear it, Guy! So many fantastic little gems in there. I do pretty much everything in it, short of actual "photoshopping" (editing at the pixel, rather than image, level). It's one of the few free tools that I actually paid for.Guy wrote:Kep thanks for sharing this link, downlaoded it last night & this will be perfect for my needs. I have neither the patients, skill or desire to become a master of photo editing, this little program will meet my needs nicely.kepPNW wrote:If Windows, and can't afford Adobe, I'd recommend taking a look at FastStone Image Viewer.
Price is right, and pretty powerful. Comparable to Lightroom, afaic.
Karl
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