Photo Editor

[richk]

I like Photofiltre for certain features..I like Picasa for some of its
editing features..What I like best about Picasa is its fill light
feature. I dont know if the brightness level feature on Photofiltre is
supposed to do the same thing.but having used both ,Photofiltres
brightness level doesnt work as well as Piccases fill light feature. As
far as Picasa as a program as a whole I dont like the way you have to
import and expost a picture to save changes its bs.

Photofiltra I guess is the best and I take it If I want a better one I
have to go up to a commercial product.

I'm a student photographer and need something solid for editing and
enhancing

rich

 

[philo]

I like Photofiltre for certain features..I like Picasa for some of its
editing features..What I like best about Picasa is its fill light
feature. I dont know if the brightness level feature on Photofiltre is
supposed to do the same thing.but having used both ,Photofiltres
brightness level doesnt work as well as Piccases fill light feature. As
far as Picasa as a program as a whole I dont like the way you have to
import and expost a picture to save changes its bs.

Photofiltra I guess is the best and I take it If I want a better one I
have to go up to a commercial product.

I'm a student photographer and need something solid for editing and
enhancing

here is a good freebie to try:

http://www.irfanview.com/

 

[aafuss]

Babya Photo Workshop-a free image editor with a nice feature set
(plenty of image effects), and has Babya Presenter for creating
slideshows:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037114

 

[Oscar]

I'm a student photographer and need something solid for editing and
enhancing

the gimp!!!!!!!!

http://www.gimp.org/

 

[Ron May]

I like Photofiltre for certain features..I like Picasa for some of its
editing features..What I like best about Picasa is its fill light
feature. I dont know if the brightness level feature on Photofiltre is
supposed to do the same thing.but having used both ,Photofiltres
brightness level doesnt work as well as Piccases fill light feature. As
far as Picasa as a program as a whole I dont like the way you have to
import and expost a picture to save changes its bs.

Photofiltra I guess is the best and I take it If I want a better one I
have to go up to a commercial product.

I'm a student photographer and need something solid for editing and
enhancing

rich

You may already have this, but one free tool that anyone involved with
digital photography needs to have is Free Digital Camera Enhancer:

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm

It's usually the FIRST tool I use to get a decent image to work with.

Ron M.

 

[philo]

enhancing

the gimp!!!!!!!!

http://www.gimp.org/

oooh my gosh
how could i have forgotten that there is a version for windows...
the gimp has to be one of the best pieces of software out there!
(lousy name though)

here is one i did using gimp

http://www.plazaearth.com/philo/electric.jpg

once i got used to it...it was quite easy...
in some ways i like it even better than photoshop!

 

[Roger Johansson]

You may already have this, but one free tool that anyone involved with
digital photography needs to have is Free Digital Camera Enhancer:

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm
It's usually the FIRST tool I use to get a decent image to work with.

I tried DCE now. I miss the possibility to switch between fullscreen
and the program size which was very small on my screen.
Maybe it is made for a low screen resolution.

It seems to have a good auto-enhance system.
It can be used in automated enhancement for many images, I hope it has
a batch mode.

For a high priority picture I would not use this, except as a test, to
see if this program can make a better enhancements than I can do
manually.

There is a program called "Image Analyzer" from
http://meesoft.logicnet.dk/

This has very good functions, especially histogram adjustments.
Image analyzer has a place beside Photofiltre in my toolbar, good
toolboxes for image processing.

For painting I use pixia.

 

[miskairal]

You may already have this, but one free tool that anyone involved with
digital photography needs to have is Free Digital Camera Enhancer:

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/enhancer.htm

It's usually the FIRST tool I use to get a decent image to work with.

Ron M.

I can't quite follow what to download here for the free version. Can you
help? Looks good.

 

[Ron May]

Ron May wrote:

I can't quite follow what to download here for the free version. Can you
help? Looks good.

Scroll down to the section headed "Stand-Alone (EXE) version 1.3 ( 524
kB)" and click on the link "dcenhanc.zip."

<OT> The XTR plug in is for their Photo-Brush, $ware product. </OT>

Direct download link for the standalone:

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/dcenhanc.zip

Ron M.

 

[xtort.net]

Thats absolutely amazing Philo!

I have had not too much luck with the Gimp on Windows -- everytime I
try to run certain script-fu commands, there is always crashes. (But
this likely is MS's fault, as its an inferior OS anyways...)

 

[miskairal]

Scroll down to the section headed "Stand-Alone (EXE) version 1.3 ( 524
kB)" and click on the link "dcenhanc.zip."

<OT> The XTR plug in is for their Photo-Brush, $ware product. </OT>

Direct download link for the standalone:

http://www.mediachance.com/digicam/dcenhanc.zip

Ron M.

Thankyou

 

[John Corliss]

I like Photofiltre for certain features..I like Picasa for some of its
editing features..What I like best about Picasa is its fill light
feature. I dont know if the brightness level feature on Photofiltre is
supposed to do the same thing.but having used both ,Photofiltres
brightness level doesnt work as well as Piccases fill light feature. As
far as Picasa as a program as a whole I dont like the way you have to
import and expost a picture to save changes its bs.

Photofiltra I guess is the best and I take it If I want a better one I
have to go up to a commercial product.

I'm a student photographer and need something solid for editing and
enhancing

A neat tool that I use a lot is the Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal Utility:

http://www.polaroid.com/service/software/poladsr/poladsr.html

I should have recommended it as Pricelessware, but I stay out of that
business altogether.

--
Regards from John Corliss
My current killfile: aafuss, Chrissy Cruiser, Slowhand Hussein, BEN
RITCHEY and others.
No adware, cdware, commercial software, crippleware, demoware, nagware,
PROmotionware, shareware, spyware, time-limited software, trialware,
viruses or warez please.

 

[philo]

Thats absolutely amazing Philo!

I have had not too much luck with the Gimp on Windows -- everytime I
try to run certain script-fu commands, there is always crashes. (But
this likely is MS's fault, as its an inferior OS anyways...)

thanks for the comments.
i used gimp on my linux machine...but have at least tried it on windows
and it seemed to work OK.

believe it or not...the image received very little manipulation.
all i did was to use a very little bit of trial and error with some of the
filters etc.
it was about 5 or 10 minutes at the most. (and i am quite a gimp newbie)
i was able to do the same thing im photoshop...but it was not quite as easy
to do.

of course in all fairness i'm sure photoshop has features that are easier to
sue then
gimp.

anyway...for those who want to give gimp a try...i;d say it's worth it