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Posted November 20, 2014
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snowkatt: tried gimp yet ?

http://www.gimp.org/
this!
Posted November 20, 2014
For a very simple, lightweight utility I like to use IrfanView. It is basically insta-load and is the quickest way I know to do resize/crop/brightness/contrast of images. It also has batch operations which can be quite useful if processing a lot of images.

For things more intensive, I use Photoshop. However, for 80% of the most common things I need to do I just do quickly with IrfanView or do some prep with it before full editing in Photoshop. Gimp/Paint.net are good free alternatives to Photoshop, but for most basic tasks I find IrfanView quite capable and much faster to use.
Post edited November 20, 2014 by the.kuribo
Posted November 20, 2014
Gimp? Oh wait, there's so many posts here about gimp. lol.
Posted November 20, 2014
A second for IrfanView, been using it daily for a dozen years or more.
Simple but very feature rich. And free. :)
Posted November 20, 2014
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donsanderson: A second for IrfanView, been using it daily for a dozen years or more.
Simple but very feature rich. And free. :)
Indeed. I use Irfanview as my default image viewer, for simple format changes, resizing and cropping. I just didn't think of it as a image editor, but - yeah :)

Oh - and just in case you haven't heard of it yet, [url=http://www.videolan.org/index.html ]VideoLAN [/url]is the awesome for viewing videos :D
Posted November 20, 2014
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donsanderson: A second for IrfanView, been using it daily for a dozen years or more.
Simple but very feature rich. And free. :)
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SalarShushan: Indeed. I use Irfanview as my default image viewer, for simple format changes, resizing and cropping. I just didn't think of it as a image editor, but - yeah :)
Maybe you haven't installed the plugin package or running an older version? For the longest time I didn't realize IrfanView could do these things, but with the plugin package you can also do basic brightness/contrast/color corrections, as well as apply some photoshop filters and make use of a text overly and basic paint tool. Once I realized I could do these things directly in IrfanView it has saved me even more time in my day to day image processing workflow.
Post edited November 20, 2014 by the.kuribo
Posted November 20, 2014
A vote for GIMP from me also. And thanks for letting me know that Irfanview is more feature-rich than I was aware of.
Posted November 20, 2014
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donsanderson: A second for IrfanView, been using it daily for a dozen years or more.
Simple but very feature rich. And free. :)
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SalarShushan: Indeed. I use Irfanview as my default image viewer, for simple format changes, resizing and cropping. I just didn't think of it as a image editor, but - yeah :)

Oh - and just in case you haven't heard of it yet, [url=http://www.videolan.org/index.html ]VideoLAN [/url]is the awesome for viewing videos :D
I second both of these recommendations. Irfanview is a great viewer and good for very simple edits. VideoLAN is just amazing in how it can play such a huge array of files and discs.
Posted November 20, 2014
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SalarShushan: Indeed. I use Irfanview as my default image viewer, for simple format changes, resizing and cropping. I just didn't think of it as a image editor, but - yeah :)
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the.kuribo: Maybe you haven't installed the plugin package or running an older version? For the longest time I didn't realize IrfanView could do these things, but with the plugin package you can also do basic brightness/contrast/color corrections, as well as apply some photoshop filters and make use of a text overly and basic paint tool. Once I realized I could do these things directly in IrfanView it has saved me even more time in my day to day image processing workflow.
I had noticed it could brighten/contrast.I wasn't sure how robust those options were compared with GIMP or Paintshop or Photoshop, and now you've mentioned even more features I didn't know Irfanview had. I'll have to check that out and update my program if necessary. Thanks!


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chevkoch: thanks for letting me know that Irfanview is more feature-rich than I was aware of.
^This^ was most of it
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