[Dabhand16]

I've seen several requests from time to time asking for reccomendations for inexpensive editing software. Mostly we tend to mention the availability of free trials from the major players and the free Gimp software.

Now there is a new kid on the block. Tesco Photo Restyle retails at £9.97, yes, £9.97 and supports cropping, selections, blur, curves, levels, hue/saturation, amongst other features AND layers! There are one-click fixes and lots of manual tools.

I bought a copy for one of my Sons for a tree pressey at Christmas after he took umpteen shots of my Grandson with his compact, all of which had red-eye! I've only just got around to installing it on his computer, and I was really impressed.

The supported file types are a bit lacking, no tif is available, but at the price it is a steal.

I've seen reviews that say the quick-fix feratures are not so good, but overall the package scored 4/5 stars. Certainly, for my computer illiterate Son, who only wants to do the very basic corrections and cropping, it is both cheap and very easy to use.

[silver]

free Picasa - really handy,. some neat features and very easy to use

Sil

[silkstone]

Also look at FastStone Image Viewer - Powerful and Intuitive Photo Viewer, Editor and Batch Converter. It's a great browser with some very useful editing functions too - including cropping, resizing, colour and tonal adjustments. You can also use it as a front end to any image editor - a single key click will open the selected image in any application, and you can have number of linked programs.

What's more.... It will read and open RAW files from most cameras. I wouldn't necessarily recommend it as a RAW editor, but it does allow you to browse a RAW folder and perhaps even do a preliminary sort/discard before opening the files in your favourite converter.

And.... It's free!

[sejanus]

If you have a Mac, look for Gimpshop - a version of The Gimp with the menus and tools made to look like Photoshop. Very effective and free!

[silver]

pretty cool + free IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide - good for batch resizing and stuff (it does do more but that's normally what I use it for)

Sil

[Steve]

Originally Posted by silver

free Picasa - really handy,. some neat features and very easy to use

Sil

Originally Posted by silver

pretty cool + free IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide - good for batch resizing and stuff (it does do more but that's normally what I use it for)

Sil

Both are already in our download section

Its worth checking in there for any software that you might require or if you think something is missing and should be added please suggest it