What to replace MS photoed with?

[Guest]

I hear that photoed is going away with the next release of MS Office. What
should I replace it with? The Kodak picture view apps bundled with XP are
worthless. I have MS PictureIt! 9 but it is slow. I'm looking for something
simpler, quicker, and easier to use (like photoed!). Any suggestions?

 

[Guest]

If you have your old Office CD you can re-install Photo Editor from that. Be
sure to 'X' out all other programs and just select Photo Editor under the
Office Tools menu. I did this and it worked. I found the solution on
Microsoft's website, if you need more help.

 

[Guest]

Good idea. Didn't know you could do that. I suppose that will work OK for
the meantime. Wouldn't it be great if you could just manually copy the
binary over to the new system? (oops, I guess that be might illegal!)

But somehow, somewhere, I'd love to find a simple, easy to use photo editor
program that is a) fast, b) doesn't force you to go through 3 - 5 wizard
steps just to do one thing, and c) has enough of a feature set to get 90% of
my routine photo editing tasks done quickly. Example: photoed has
"despeckle" and "crop circle" which I use a lot!

Anyway, thanks for the tip!

 

[Al Dykes]

If you have your old Office CD you can re-install Photo Editor from that. Be
sure to 'X' out all other programs and just select Photo Editor under the
Office Tools menu. I did this and it worked. I found the solution on
Microsoft's website, if you need more help.

irfanview is a good tool for anyone that does image work. It's fast
and has no software bloat. Look at the plugins to see if there are
any your need. Lots of people meiis them when the d/l the tool.
Editing is not it's major point, but it might do what you want.

http://www.irfanview.com/ free.