Freeware windows digital photo editors (did we miss any)?

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:00:16 -0400, Robert Coe <bob@1776.COM> wrote:


> Canon's Digital Photo Professional... and its cropping tool is the best I've seen.

Faststone Image Viewer has the best cropping tool I have seen so far.
Their redeye tool is surprisingly good too. It easily and quickly
fixes all but the worst cases of redeye.
-

Bob

Wlm Singleton wrote:

> Cribbed from another thread, here are the freeware digital photo editors.
> Did we miss any?

ANY? You know not what you ask. . .

SOME of the free apps that have been mentioned in alt.comp.freeware are
listed in these subcategories on ACF's Graphics page:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...#1.10Editor:3D
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...or:Photo-Paint
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...o-PaintForKids
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...SpecialEffects
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...php#2.50Viewer
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...ImageOptimizer

> OFTEN RECOMMENDED
> http://www.gimp.org/ (The Gimp, functional editor)
> http://www.irfanview.com/ (Irfanview, fast viewer)
> http://www.getpaint.net/ (Paint.Net, functional MS Paint replacement)
>
> SOMETIMES RECOMMENDED
> http://www.xnview.com/ (XnView, fast viewer on Mac & Linux too)
> http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (Faststone, image viewer)
> http://picasa.google.com/ (Picasa, what is it's claim to fame?)
> http://photoscape.en.softonic.com/ (Photoscape, functional editor)
>
> NOT RECOMMENDED
> http://www.snapfire.com/ (Snapfire, suspect Corel bait-n-switchware)

Susan
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:39:04 +0000, Wlm Singleton wrote:

> Cribbed from another thread, here are the freeware digital photo editors.
> Did we miss any?
>
> OFTEN RECOMMENDED
> http://www.gimp.org/ (The Gimp, functional editor)
> http://www.irfanview.com/ (Irfanview, fast viewer)
> http://www.getpaint.net/ (Paint.Net, functional MS Paint replacement)
>
> SOMETIMES RECOMMENDED
> http://www.xnview.com/ (XnView, fast viewer on Mac & Linux too)
> http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (Faststone, image viewer)
> http://picasa.google.com/ (Picasa, what is it's claim to fame?)
> http://photoscape.en.softonic.com/ (Photoscape, functional editor)
>
> NOT RECOMMENDED
> http://www.snapfire.com/ (Snapfire, suspect Corel bait-n-switchware)

BTW - GIMP, et. al. are technically not 'freeware' but rather OpenSource.

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:25:28 -0500, Bob Adkins <bob.adkins@gmail.com> wrote:
: On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:00:16 -0400, Robert Coe <bob@1776.COM> wrote:
:
:
: > Canon's Digital Photo Professional... and its cropping tool is the best
: > I've seen.
:
: Faststone Image Viewer has the best cropping tool I have seen so far.
: Their redeye tool is surprisingly good too. It easily and quickly
: fixes all but the worst cases of redeye.

What sets DPP apart from most of the cropping tools I've tried to use is that
it lets you create a frame at an arbitrary fixed aspect ratio and then both
easily re-size it and easily move it around.

Bob

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:00:16 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:

> Does the software included with a camera purchase count as freeware?

Good question. I'd say no as that software isn't easily downloadable (I
would think) so let's restrict it to free software that can be downloaded.

I have a summary which isn't finished yet as shown below ... but I haven't
added Susan's information yet ...

So far, these are the windows freeware photo editing recommendations:

OFTEN RECOMMENDED
http://www.gimp.org/ (The Gimp, functional editor)
http://www.irfanview.com/ (Irfanview, fast viewer)
http://www.getpaint.net/ (Paint.Net, functional MS Paint replacement)

SOMETIMES RECOMMENDED
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/ (CinePaint, GIMP+)
http://www.xnview.com/ (XnView, fast viewer on Mac & Linux too)
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (Faststone, great cropping)
http://picasa.google.com/ (Picasa, what is it's claim to fame?)
http://photoscape.en.softonic.com/ (Photoscape, functional editor)
http://photofiltre.free.fr/ (Photofiltre, claim to fame?)
http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version (Artweaver, creates too)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com (PhotoPlus6, claim to fame?)
http://www.vicman.net/ (Vicman, claim to fame?)
http://www.mediachance.com/dce/index.html (DigitalEnhancer, claim to fame?)

NOT RECOMMENDED:
http://www.snapfire.com/ (Snapfire, suspect Corel bait-n-switchware)

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:36:43 -0600, ray wrote:
> BTW - GIMP, et. al. are technically not 'freeware' but rather OpenSource.

We know. We know. Let's keep "free" free of esoteric encumberences. Free
mearly means, in this thread, that it doesn't cost any money.

So far, these are the windows freeware photo editing recommendations:

OFTEN RECOMMENDED
http://www.gimp.org/ (The Gimp, functional editor)
http://www.irfanview.com/ (Irfanview, fast viewer)
http://www.getpaint.net/ (Paint.Net, functional MS Paint replacement)

SOMETIMES RECOMMENDED
http://www.xnview.com/ (XnView, fast viewer on Mac & Linux too)
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm (Faststone, great cropping)
http://picasa.google.com/ (Picasa, what is it's claim to fame?)
http://photoscape.en.softonic.com/ (Photoscape, functional editor)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/ (CinePaint, GIMP+)
http://photofiltre.free.fr/ (Photofiltre, claim to fame?)
http://www.artweaver.de/index.php?en_version (Artweaver, creates too)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com (PhotoPlus6, claim to fame?)
http://www.vicman.net/ (Vicman, claim to fame?)
http://www.mediachance.com/dce/index.html (DigitalEnhancer, claim to fame?)

NOT RECOMMENDED
http://www.snapfire.com/ (Snapfire, suspect Corel bait-n-switchware)

Does anyone know what the main claim to fame of the following are?
Picasa
PhotoFiltre
PhotoPlus
Vicman
DigitalMedia

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:39:06 -0400, Susan Bugher wrote:

> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...#1.10Editor:3D
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...or:Photo-Paint
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...o-PaintForKids
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...SpecialEffects
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...php#2.50Viewer
> http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...ImageOptimizer


Hi Susan,
Some of these "freeware" photo editing programs listed come from Corel (eg
photopaint) so I'd be very suspicious of the bait-and-switchware inherent
in them. Are you SURE all of these are what we'd consider Windows freeware
and not adware or switchware?

On Jul 2, 9:39 pm, Wlm Singleton <william.j.single...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Cribbed from another thread, here are the freeware digital photo editors.
> Did we miss any?

90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources, from Mashable:
http://mashable.com/2007/06/23/photography-toolbox/

Online Image Editors Compared:
http://www.smileycat.com/miaow/archives/000267.php

Photo Freeware website:
http://www.photo-freeware.net/

Wlm Singleton wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:39:06 -0400, Susan Bugher wrote:

>>http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...#1.10Editor:3D
>>http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...or:Photo-Paint
>>http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...o-PaintForKids
>>http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...SpecialEffects
>>http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...php#2.50Viewer
>>http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...ImageOptimizer

> Hi Susan,
> Some of these "freeware" photo editing programs listed come from Corel (eg
> photopaint)

I don't know what app you're referring to - more info please.

AFAICT there are only 3 Corel apps listed on the ACF program information
pages. See the full list of apps sorted by company:
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...sortby=Company

The programs are:

Corel InfoCentral
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...IZERS.php#1383
(Freeware) LFW (v 7.0)

Corel Presentations
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...PHICS.php#1384
(Freeware) (Spyware)? LFW (v 9)

Snapfire
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf...PHICS.php#4357
(Liteware) (Registerware) (free) Pivacy waiver: the EULA requires
consent to monitoring; data collection; advertising solicitations from
third partiy marketing partners

so I'd be very suspicious of the bait-and-switchware inherent
> in them. Are you SURE all of these are what we'd consider Windows freeware
> and not adware or switchware?

I've shown the "ware descriptions" above. LFW = last Freeware version.
See the notes at the bottom of each page and ACF's Ware Glossary if
you're unsure about how to interpret other notations.
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/WareGlossary.php

The ware descriptions are accurate "to the best of my knowledge and
belief". They're based on info posted in ACF and/or info available on
the internet.

Susan
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Wlm Singleton wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:00:16 -0400, Robert Coe wrote:

>>Does the software included with a camera purchase count as freeware?

> Good question. I'd say no as that software isn't easily downloadable (I
> would think) so let's restrict it to free software that can be downloaded.

If you have to BUY something to be *entitled* to a "free" program it's
neither free nor Freeware. (Software that's included in a camera
PURCHASE is not free - it's part of the package you BUY.)

Susan
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