free photo editing software?

[hagishogas]

Hmm, most of your stuff is meh, but you've got some useful photos. Thanks for not plastering watermarks all over them

 

[Randyh]

If you don't need RAW FastStone is a great free program for organizing and viewing photos,Also some editing that is easy.

And Irfanview is also a good one.

Sorry FastStone does handle RAW files also now.

 

[mlorcap]

Hi all,
I'm new taking photos and very new in this Forum.
I would suggest you to try Sagelight free edition (2.0) -- Sagelight Image Editor Video Tutorial
I am newby and the program is great. I tried different free software to manage or edit photos, and the easier program was Sagelight and I can get the best results with Sagelight. I downloaded the 30-Trial (version 4) and I bought the license after two weeks (pretty cheap actually, USD $39).
I tested Picasa, Gimp (hard to use for newbies like me), PhotoScape, Zoner Photo Studio free, Oloneo, Pho.to!, Photo Pos Pro, Pictomio, Blue Marine, StudioLine free, Stoik Image 4 and 5, PhotoFlexer (Online), Picturenaut (Online), Helicon Filter 4 free, and others less renowned. Believe me, Sagelight is great for persons (like me) looking for improvement to photos with the knowledge to manage Curves and others Pro stuff.
Btw, to manage photos I use Helicon Photo Safe. It is free too and I can "program" a button to call external editors. I think Helicon Photo Safe and sagelight are the best combination to me.
Hope it helps.

 

[mlorcap]

I forgot to tell you, I also tested Irfenview, FastStone, Pixia, Serif Photo, Paint.NET (good program btw), XnVie, Magix Photo Designer, Ashampoo Photo editor ... and others (yes I spent a lot of time testing).

 

[mlorcap]

I do not know why, but my first post is missing.
My name is Manuel, and I am looking to learn and take good pictures.
I have tried a lot of Free software (Picasa, GIMP, Photo Pos Pro, Zoner Photo Studio, Stoik Image 4 and 5, Pho.to! Editor (standalone version), and more as I stated in my previous update), but I felt very frustrated with the results.
I found a program called Sagelight, and I downloaded the free version (Sagelight Image Editor Video Tutorial) and it was great! Easy to you, fast way to get great results (to me), very impressive indeed. Then I downloaded Sagelight 30-Trial version (version 4), and it was like a dream come true, so I finally bought the License (pretty cheap, USD $39) and I can not be more happy with the results. I am not a Pro anyway, they can get wonderful results with expensive, complex and cool software, but it is nice to get a good program for the rest of us, not expensive, easy to use and fast results. The results are far superior to Free software.
Hope it helps.

 

[marmots]

They are both have more features than GIMP.

no they dont
gimp has more features for advanced users than photoshop element
but less for beginers

 

[CCericola]

Just use the software that came with your camera.

 

[ghache]

Hmm, most of your stuff is meh, but you've got some useful photos. Thanks for not plastering watermarks all over them.

Help yourself dude, as far as i know, they are no good for advertisement, no good for stocks and you cant resell them to the client, they already have the photos. all my stock worthy shots are not posted anywhere but my the stock site i use...you can claim them as yours. I don't mind helping a ****ty photographer feel good about himself and once your clients feel like the work you provided them is not at least up to your portfolio, that will be your problem.