Many people have been using the same image editing software they started with years ago – is it time for a change?
- Check out these free options:
Best Free photo editing apps
Best free Photo organizers
…a mixture of modern and old ones to try..
- If you are happy to pay – consider
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018
Industry standard – £ 65
Use Photoshop Elements to easily organize your photos and videos, make them look amazing with intelligent editing options, turn them into stunning creations, and quickly share your memories.
(Tom)
- A powerful free alternative is
Gimp
Powerful as Photoshop but free – steep learning curve and old fashioned interface.
(Chris)
GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.
To make the Gimp appear like a normal application:
Windows / Single Window Mode.
Tutorial videos on-line – Here’s a technique to improve photos – it seems to work !
YouTube Channel of GIMP Video tutorials
- Would you like to make panoramas ?
MS Image Composite Editor
Free: makes panoramas out of a series of photos – and fills in missing pixels
(Chris)
- Need to resize or rename a batch of photos ? – Try these small apps
Light Image Resizer
Try ObviousIdea’s image resizer and image converter software. Easy but powerful, it resizes and simply converts images, one by one or in batch mode. Bulk editing can be used to apply profiles to a set of pictures.
Free version Limited to 100 images.
(Tom)
Pixresizer
Free
PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode. It also allows you to keep the original EXIF information from your images. A great companion for webmasters and digital photographers.
(Jacki)
IrfanView
IrfanView is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities.
To rename a group of files all at once:
File / batch conversion / rename. (Can do batch resize from this dialog box too.)
(Chris)
Faststone Photo Resizer
Free
FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter / resizer intended to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.
(Peter)