If your editing requirements are not too high you might like Fast Stone
Image Viewer <http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm>
It started out as just an image viewer and a bit of a clone of Breeze
Browser <http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/> which is what I use
along with PhotoShop for editing (since BreezeBrowser does no editing at
all). However, as time has marched on, the Fast Stone author keeps
adding editing features. I just took a minute to review what it's doing
these days and was a bit surprised to see not only "Powerful image
editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust
lighting/colors/curves/levels etc." but also
- Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
- Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely
- natural looking end result
- Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
plus lots of other stuff.
It's what I advised my kids to use years ago when it was much less
powerful than it is now. They never came anywhere near using all of its
capabilities back then.
If I didn't have BreezeBrowser I'd go immediately to Fast Stone since,
from its earliest incarnations, it has copied one of my most used
features of BreezeBrowser... side-by-side image comparison of 2-4
images. That is simply invaluable when trying to pare down an image
collection of many similar images. Especially when trying to choose
amongst kid's portraits with indecisive moms. Show 4, force a choice of
1. Show 3 more along with the last choice. Force a choice of 1. Show
3 more... etc.
ps: Perhaps Adobe Bridge can do everything that BreezeBrowser does and
more but I've just never been inclined to dig into it. I just got an
offer from Tim Gray for a $15 training DVD on Bridge. I just might
follow up on that. But for free I'd certainly try Fast Stone.
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/5/2011 3:46 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> Thanks Jim.
>
> Any suggestions on free photo edit programs?
>
> Anyone?
>
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