Image Editor Needed...

3eighty · 19 Oct 2009, 05:20

Looking for a truly good image editor...Nothing fancy except for excellent picture results..Easy to use would be nice..Any names are welcome..

Thanks folks

Ecuadorian · 19 Oct 2009, 06:02

Free:
GIMP (The one I use)
Paint.Net

Paid:
Adobe has a tempting offer of Photoshop Elements + Premiere Elements for $120.

What will be your main use, by the way?

Gaieus · 19 Oct 2009, 09:42

I have both GIMP and Paint.NET .
Like them especially that they can do everything I can with an image editor (which is unfortunately not much of course).

GIMP is also a good choice because being some sort of a freeware "PhotoShop clone", many PS plugins are also available for it.

Ecuadorian · 19 Oct 2009, 10:10

Forgot to mention Irfanview! It's also freeware, very, very basic, but accepts Photoshop plug-ins and has batch resizing/batch compression of photos.

NewOne · 19 Oct 2009, 10:20

Try FastStone. It can offer a lot. http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

Gaieus · 19 Oct 2009, 10:24

For a simple image viewer, I use FastStone image viewer (cropping and especially annotating by adding screen text, arrows etc. for fast upload to the forums is very handy) and it can also do some basic image editing, too.

Then fro batch processing (even batch cropping), I use it's "sister", FastStone Image resizer

Frederik · 19 Oct 2009, 11:14

You might also find the free XnView handy...

NewOne · 19 Oct 2009, 11:26

@frederik said:

You might also find the free XnView handy...

Yes, it's very handy if you use HDR's ... since no other image viewers don't create thumbnails for HDR-s