What is a Good Image Editing Program?
By cableman67
@cableman67 (872)
United States
July 3, 2009 4:26pm CST
I am running windows xp and would like to put a good image editing program on my computer to use but I don't really know of a good one.
I had a couple on here but I had to restore my system and lost them. They weren't really that impressive anyway. I want something that is simple to use but has plenty of options for editing your pictures. Something that makes resizing pictures a little less of a nightmare and one with touch up options also.
If anyone has suggestions for a good image editing program please let me know. Thanks
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14 responses
@imacRuel1 (258)
• Philippines
3 Jul 09
Ok... if you're looking for a simple but very effective image editor & offered a lot of options while making a project... I wouldn't recommend Photoshop for the job, but it's the most used program out there for image editing... For more lightweight task & simplicity, I'd recommend FastStone Capture or GFX... I use FastStone for resizing my images, & it has an automatic setting to do that...really great app!
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@cableman67 (872)
• United States
4 Jul 09
Thanks for the tip on faststone. I find that some really good image editors lack the simplicity of an easy to use resizing feature and I will also use a separate editor just for resizing. Thanks again!
@kruxius (204)
• Portugal
3 Jul 09
Photoshop CS4 is what you need on it you can do everything you want with a photo a pic image whatever, its just a little bit complex but you can check the tutorials on youtube!
You can get it on the following link with just 60 mb:
http://www.rapidshare.com/files/166723283/AdobePhotoshopCS4.rar
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@angel_of_charm (4134)
• Philippines
4 Jul 09
You can use many photo editing software but I suggest you use Picasa. Adobe photoshop is good also but I prefer using Picasa. It has a lot of editing tools and it can make a picture perfect. What I love the most is the color blending and when I edit my pictures I can make myself look like a magazine model hee hee. That's why I love Picasa.
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
4 Jul 09
I think I'm going to use Photoshop as my main editor but I've never heard of Picasa so I think I'll give it a look, thanks.
@sexy_jessica (105)
• Philippines
4 Jul 09
I think Adobe Photoshop caters all Image Editing Program and you can find many tutorial than the other Image Editor programs.
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
4 Jul 09
Thank you. From everyone's response I think that Photoshop is my best bet.
@shinatan (38)
• Indonesia
4 Jul 09
Photoshop has to be the best for me so far. Even though, if your computer is not all too intelligent, your computer may crash from the overload. But believe me, Photoshop gotta be the best from all the other image editing programs. But, if you really prefer the light program, then try to go with gimp. I don't like it too much because as I said, I prefer Photoshop, but gimp is worth a try. It's like Photoshop, only lighter and I'm sure you will like it :')
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
4 Jul 09
Thanks, I am gong to try the Photoshop and I think my computer will hold up. I am running a 1.8 Gig processor with 1 Gig of memory.
Thanks for your response. I have enjoyed the help I have found here on my lot and I appreciate everyone's comments and help.
@imacRuel1 (258)
• Philippines
4 Jul 09
ooops... I have a better system than yours... Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz & 2 gig RAM, but I wouldn't mind using other options than using a system hog Photoshop & alike... It is really good & could be best use on higher RAM/Cores PC...
@markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
4 Jul 09
There's still nothing that can beat Adobe Photoshop in terms of features, but using it needs some expertise. It's difficult to master Adobe Photoshop but of course, you can first learn the basics of it. But if you want an instant effect, such as instant border, contrast, color, size etc. then you can use some freeware softwares available in the Internet. One which I can recommend is Photoscape. Just search for it. Happy myLotting!
@tonyllenium (6252)
• Italy
3 Jul 09
for windows there are many softwares for image editing i guess the most famous are photoshop from adobe normally it is good and the corel which is ok too!!I guess if you are searching something about freeware or shareware programs you can also find something good for your windows xp os..may be you cna check some in the download.com and so trying to download some and proof them!Nromally in that site the softwares and download ar really dafe not spyware or malicious software will be installed on your pc!!
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
3 Jul 09
Thank you for your response. I am going to try the Adobe Photoshop and of I don't like it I think I have Corel image editing software around here somewhere to try.
@khayshenz (1384)
• United States
4 Jul 09
It depends on what you need it for. Other people have told you about photoshop - I'm using photoshop elements. It's a simplified version of photoshop. For me, I generally don't need the whole package. So Photoshop elements is definitely more than enough for me.
I also use Photoscape. It's very simply and user-friendly. I like their "multiple images" templates.
Picasa 3 is not bad either.
I have all those three and consistently use them for different things depending on what I wanna do to a photograph. Cheers!
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
4 Jul 09
Thanks for your response. I have found that I need different editors depending upon my specific need at the moment. I frequently use a different editor just for resizing because I find that most of the better image editing software makes this job complicated and I will go to a simple application for this job then when I want to touch up pictures I will swap back to my main editor.
I think I will try the photoshop and the faststone and go from there. I have a photo editor that came with corel here somewhere I am going to look for and check out.
@gadget_lover (132)
• India
4 Jul 09
I feel that except Photoshop, no other product offers so many features to edit images.
@entrepinoy (709)
• Philippines
4 Jul 09
I use Adobe Photoshop in editing images because I think it is more powerful than other editing tools and simple to use. But preference for the editing tools will still be the decision of the user.
@crazynified (242)
• Malaysia
4 Jul 09
Photoshop is great. But there's also the free ones with simpler uses such as irfanview.
@Sizzlinkola (20)
• United States
3 Jul 09
Photoshop or GIMP. I'm not totally experienced with these programs but they are great to use once ya learn em.
@cableman67 (872)
• United States
4 Jul 09
Thanks. I have received a lot of responses for Photoshop and I am going to try it for sure. I think I will also look at Faststone for resizing. I have never heard of GIMP but I will it a look, thanks.
