Digital Photography

  • Thread starter Thread starter richk
  • Start date Start date
R

richk

I need some reccomendations on some decent easy freeware solutions in
picture editing software and picture managing software..
 
I need some reccomendations on some decent easy freeware solutions in
picture editing software and picture managing software..
Click to expand...


CAM2PC - Freeware
http://www.nabocorp.com/cam2pc/freeware.php

- Automatically download pictures from your camera
- Explore your images with the Image Browser
- View your images in full-screen
(automatic slideshow with more then 80 transition effects)
- View your video files in full-screen
- Batch rename/resize/convert your pictures
- Locate your pictures with "Go To Folder"
- Print individual images and contact sheets
- View EXIF metadata
- Lossless rotating and flipping
(automatic if supported by camera)
- Link to up to ten external image editors
- Automatically rotate your desktop wallpaper using your images


GIMP for Windows
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
Image processing


FastStone Image Viewer
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

- Image browser with a Window-Resource-Explorer user interface
- Common image formats support, including loading of JPEG, JPEG2000,
GIF, BMP, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, TAG, EMF, PXM, WBMP and
saving to TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, ICO, PNG, TGA, PXM, WBMP, JPEG,
JPEG2000, PDF.
- Full screen viewer with Select - Zoom support
- Crystal clear and customizable magnifier
- Resizing, flipping, rotating, cropping, color adjusting tools
- Image EXIF metadata support
- Batch image converter/resizer
- Slideshow with dozens of transitional effects and MP3 support
- Compare images side by side
- Undo, Redo and Mouse Wheel support
- And much more


Picasa
http://www.picasa.com/
Picasa is software that helps you instantly find,
edit and share all the pictures on your PC.


IfranView and XnView
http://www.irfanview.com/
http://www.xnview.com/
Image viewer/converter


/CoMa
 
richk said:
I need some reccomendations on some decent easy freeware solutions in
picture editing software and picture managing software..
Click to expand...


I'd recommand:

Photofiltre (Photo editing)
http://www.photofiltre.com

Pixort (Photo Sorting)
http://www.pixort/com

Fast Stone Image viewer (Viewing)
http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

RawShooter Essentials *! Register ware* (for RAW format photo's photo's)
http://www.pixmantec.com/products/rawshooter_essentials.html

Movies 13 (Animated gif)
http://www.jansfreeware.com

Inkscape (Bitmap to vector)
http://www.inkscape.org/

Sherif Draw Plus 4 *! Registerware* (Vector Graphics)
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/DrawPlus/default.asp


Picture Cooler *! Registerware* (Photo Noise reducer)
http://denoiser.shorturl.com/


Though thee are 3 Registerware solutions here, I only received one mail from
them in the past year (from Rawshooter, telling me there was a new version)
Newer got any other email from those companies


Jeroen de Bruijn
 
richk said:
I need some reccomendations on some decent easy freeware solutions in
picture editing software and picture managing software..
Click to expand...
For managing I use:

Pixort, www.pixort.com, for sorting.
Pixvue, www.pixvue.com, for editing EXIF-info and adding embedded keywords
to pictures.
Picasa, www.picasa.com, for editing and cataloguing.

Both Pixvue and Picasa can be used to search for specific EXIF-data or
keywords.

Regards.
 
For managing I use:

Both Pixvue and Picasa can be used to search for specific
EXIF-data or keywords.
Click to expand...
I prefer to use the cmdline jhead. It is quick free and useful for
a multitude of often repeated tasks. For example .. Why not cut out
about 7-10k from your jpegs with *no reduction in quality* almost
instantly! Jhead will do it.
A recent thread at:
http://tinyapps.org/blog
gives a few details
oops.. direct download here:
http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/jhead/jhead.exe
I have used Picassa but recently deleted it when I found the secret
stash of database information had grown to 23Mb on my hard drive.
This was *not* in the program folder.
Of course it writes invisible files to folders, so I had quite a time
removing them .
Again a small dos app to the rescue.
sweep attrib -h picasa.ini etc.
 
I need some reccomendations on some decent easy freeware solutions in
picture editing software and picture managing software..
Click to expand...

File management and downloading: Windows XP Explorer

Viewing, manipulation, re-sizing, light editing: FastStone Image Viewer

Editing: PhotoFiltre

Gallery Creation: EGG

-- Bob
 
richk said:
Whats EGG
Click to expand...

The Vision Egg is a high level interface between Python and OpenGL. In addition to
methods for automatic generation of traditional visual stimuli such as sinusoidal
gratings and random dot patterns, it has a number of functions for moving numeric
data, images, movies, text, and 3D objects to and from your video card and allowing
use of some of its features like perspective distortion. Therefore, it is also useful
for anyone wishing to make use of the features of today's graphics cards.

a.. Perform experiments using an inexpensive PC and standard consumer graphics
card
b.. Perform experiments using a graphics workstation if special features needed
c.. Data acquisition and other realtime hardware control capabilities useful in
electrophysiology and fMRI experiments, including gaze-contingent stimuli
d.. Dynamically generated stimuli can be changed in realtime via software or
external hardware
e.. Produce traditional stimuli to replace legacy systems
f.. Produce stimuli not possible using other hardware
g.. Demo programs to get you started right away
h.. Run stimuli on your laptop - great for talks
i.. Free, open-source software
By harnessing the incredible power of today's consumer graphics cards, producing
visual stimuli of research quality now requires no specialized hardware beyond a
relatively recent computer and graphics card.

Based on open standards, it runs on anything from cheap PCs to expensive special
hardware for special needs. For example, running on some platforms, such as SGI
workstations, the Vision Egg has a 10-bit luminance dynamic range (both pixel depth
and DAC) and precise frame-by-frame control.

http://visionegg.org/
 
Whats EGG
Click to expand...

EGG - Easy Gallery Generator
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/tirain/egg/index.htm

EGG is a freeware gallery generating program

The basic idea of this program is to take some picture files,
and build a gallery suitable for uploading to the web.

The gallery consists of a main page which shows "thumbnails"
(smaller versions) of the original pictures, and a page for each
individual picture. Clicking on a thumbnail in a web browser
brings up the individual page which has links to the next
picture, previous picture and back to the main thumbnail page.



/CoMa
 
Back
Top