Advice Please: Image Viewer for Editing in MS Paint

[Darren Harris]

Is there an image viewer that will work with Windows ME, and allow me
to open/edit/close an image whenever I want?

MS Paint loses just about all of the edit options on the particular
image you are working on once you close the program, so you have to do
all your editing before shutting down.(I tried Irfanview to no avail).

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[MightyKitten]

Is there an image viewer that will work with Windows ME, and allow me
to open/edit/close an image whenever I want?

MS Paint loses just about all of the edit options on the particular
image you are working on once you close the program, so you have to do
all your editing before shutting down.(I tried Irfanview to no avail).

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

I'm not sure what the problem is, but if the same thing happens in 2
seperate programs (eg MS-paint and irfanview) I think you have some problems
with your system. You might try a Trojan and virus scan, and maybe a common
dll has been corrupted.

An oter possibilitiy could be the save settings of these programs. Most
tools require images of 16,7 miljons of collors to be displayed to work
(They can only be used in true RBG colors) if you automatically save to GIF
for example (or monochrome, 16 or 256 color bitmap) a lot of edit options
will become unaviable. To corrct this, you could just simply save as JPG,
PNG or 24-Bit (16,7M colors) BMP files

If it has something to do with a corrupt dll. file you could try
The gimp ( http://www.gimp.org ) Though probably overkill, the nature of
this application is such that is hardly requires any aditional DLL files,
since it is unix based, but ported to Windows. AFAIK it should work on
Windows ME)

Other packages you could try:
PhotoFiltre (http://www.photofiltre.com)
Sherif PhotoPlus (http://freeserifsoftware.com/)

Hope it gives you some options

MightyKitten

 

[A.A. Fussy]

I'm not sure what the problem is, but if the same thing happens in 2
seperate programs (eg MS-paint and irfanview) I think you have some problems
with your system. You might try a Trojan and virus scan, and maybe a common
dll has been corrupted.

An oter possibilitiy could be the save settings of these programs. Most
tools require images of 16,7 miljons of collors to be displayed to work
(They can only be used in true RBG colors) if you automatically save to GIF
for example (or monochrome, 16 or 256 color bitmap) a lot of edit options
will become unaviable. To corrct this, you could just simply save as JPG,
PNG or 24-Bit (16,7M colors) BMP files

If it has something to do with a corrupt dll. file you could try
The gimp ( http://www.gimp.org ) Though probably overkill, the nature of
this application is such that is hardly requires any aditional DLL files,
since it is unix based, but ported to Windows. AFAIK it should work on
Windows ME)

Other packages you could try:
PhotoFiltre (http://www.photofiltre.com)
Sherif PhotoPlus (http://freeserifsoftware.com/)

Hope it gives you some options

MightyKitten

Babya Photo Workshop 5 works on 98-XP, Windows Server 2003 and Linux-if you
run it using WINE. Download it from alt.comp.freeware-look for 'Babya Photo
Workshop 5' there, and it has no viruses in the program files.

 

[Darren Harris]

Nothing has worked.

So I guess that the only way to edit images, is to open up the image
file I want to edit and copy it into a new MSPaint window. I can then
edit, until I close the program again.(Time to look into getting
Windows 2000).

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[John]

Nothing has worked.

So I guess that the only way to edit images, is to open up the image
file I want to edit and copy it into a new MSPaint window. I can then
edit, until I close the program again.(Time to look into getting
Windows 2000).

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

ImageForge
http://www.jhoodsoft.org/05_media.html
http://www.cursorarts.com/ca_imffw.html
Really sweet, especially the photo edit capabilities. Anyone who has
used Windows Paint will be able to use this, without the limitations
the Windows product has. There is dithering, nudging and save in
multiple formats.
Sacrifices some higher-end capabilities for ease-of-use.

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Add Functionality To MS Paint!
http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/tweekz1a.html#paint
Do you occasionally do some light graphics editing? MS Paint is
remarkably good at minor stuff
that is just too cumbersome for larger graphics editors.
Unfortunately, depending on the
particulars of your Win9x installation, you may find that you can only
save your edits as
bitmaps. And that's if you can edit them at all; some MS Paint
installations won't even open a
GIF file, much less edit it. But here is a way to enhance MS Paint so
that you can edit GIFs,
JPGs as well as BMP files. The trick is to use an older version of the
MS Paint executable.
This is how to do it:

Download Paint95.zip to a temporary directory. Make note of where
you've stored it.
Open , Windows Explorer > View > Folder Options > View , click on
Show all files , click on OK . Now go to C:\Program Files\Accessories
and locate Mspaint.exe.
Copy Mspaint.exe to C:\Windows\Sysbckup. Now you have a back up of
Paint in case you are unhappy with the results if this tweak.
Now unzip the file you just downloaded to C:\Program
Files\Accessories, overwriting your
standard OEM version of Mspaint.exe.
The next time you launch Paint you should be able to edit a broader
range of graphics files.