digital photo program

[Allan]

I need to buy a program like photoshop as i currently don't have one to play with my dodgy pics, just need some advice on which one is user friendly but still has enough tools to be usefull as my skills improve, i'm sure their has already been a post on this subject but i couldn't find one.

My comp doesn't like the nikon program that came with the camera d70 :(

[mole2k]

GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) Is quite a good free one. I dont have any first hand experience with anything other than Photoshop and Lightroom, both of which are quite pricey.

[mark christopher]

i can supply addobe photoshop7 fully working if you care to pm me.

[jimmy]

now now, please no dodgy business :o

[mark christopher]

shhh

[P_B]

A chap at the Oswestry dog show on Sunday was telling Jimmy and I about how wonderful Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/) is. Whilst he may have been an uneducated canine licker it is a good (and free) utility for basic enhancements. Other decent free ones are Irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/) and my favourite Fastone Image Viewer (http://www.faststone.org/).

The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) as already mentioned is a powerful (and again free) Photoshop alternative but can be a little intimidating to get to grips with at first.

At least one of these should suit your needs.

[Allan]

thanks people will have a look at them

[VintageRacer]

You might also like to look at Paint.net

Also free, not particularly capable at the moment, but very easy to use from what I've seen.

[JCJC]

Picasa is great for keeping track of pictures on the puter, will do quick crop/adjustments etc, also good for uploading pics to the web for others to view.......easypeasy & free and no anoying adverts.

[Halcalanky]

Photoshop is the best software ever ;) Picasa is good for batch handling - resizing aload of photos to upload to the internet etc.

[JCJC]

Yes they are totaly different tools, we have photoshop and only scratch the surface of what it can do, Elements is pretty good for adjusting photos, and being sub photoshop the tools are the same, no need to learn again if you upgrade.

The Ulead programmes are also nice, Photoimpact will do most things and if you use video, is compatabale with Ulead VideoStudio & DVD movie factory, 3 nice pieces of software that are stable on XP and cheapish.

[Allan]

I'll be going down the photoshop route and hopefully i'll have some nice piccys to post on here too, thanks everyone for your advice

[taz84]

I have a Canon Digital Rebel Xti and both the full Photoshop and Elements programs. I've found using the Canon in manual mode (usually shutter priority) and burst photo mode along with max .jpg ( plus RAW format) allows me to get great controlled action shots of almost anything ( sole exception so far has been internal shots of turbo generator running at 1800 RPM, trying to catch blade deformation) I almost always need only use the Elements program as it can do 85 to 90 percent of what Photoshop does. And costs considerably less! The range of lenses are great for the Canon series of (D)SLRs. Just play around, great thing about digital is no film developement costs, so more is better!:wtf:

[kstanley7]

Something thats cheap but powerful... Well I would recommend photoshop cs2 itself, either that or jasc paint shop pro. But if your not sure on what to do. Then if you want, one thing I can suggest is if you post your images either on here, or contact myself or someone else thats advanced in graphics manipulation, then it would not be a problem to create something specific for your needs regardless of techniques. I've been doing graphics manipulation for sometime now, so as I said you can contact me via here and I'll do the work for you, which is easy as I have plenty of time on my hands as I work from home.