Photo editing software

[Sparky 45]

Originally Posted by literally2

You can still find the old Microsoft Photo Editor, which is the one I think you referred to. I works still on XP, not tried on Vista or Windows7. Freely available, just search. I use this to resize, compress, convert to jpg from other formats, and most important, make compilations.

For editing, like masking faces, touching up, and adding lighting (for those ladies who wear black and no bra!), I use Photo Editor. It is available at hxxp://pho.to/editor. It is currently on version 1.1, easy to use, no manual required.

For general resizing, cropping, red eye fixes, auto colour or brightness, I use Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

Hope that helps.

I downloaded and tried the pho.to editor and it most closely resembles the MS Photo Editor I had. One of the functions I wanted was the ability to change formats. I have some bitmaps that I want to convert to jpeg and although the others will crop and resize, most won't allow a format change. MS paint works for editing but is a little tedious to use.

Thanks again to those who replied to my call for help!

[doublefister]

Originally Posted by Sparky 45

I downloaded and tried the pho.to editor and it most closely resembles the MS Photo Editor I had. One of the functions I wanted was the ability to change formats. I have some bitmaps that I want to convert to jpeg and although the others will crop and resize, most won't allow a format change. MS paint works for editing but is a little tedious to use.

Thanks again to those who replied to my call for help!

Just if you or somebody else is following this thread Polyview from polybytes.com handles batch image conversion to multiple formats. It is shareware so might not suit all, but at least you could give it a go. It can even run on Windows 95/98 and NT so could be a way of keeping an old machine doing something useful.

[mewsick]

by far i found photoscape to be the best free editing software out there. I would recommend it to anyone.