Photo Editor

[Damon's]

I am really getting into my new digital camera and the things you can do to photo's on a computer. I would like to take this up as a serious hobby but am not sure what would be the best Photo Editor software package to buy would be.

Any ideas?

[cascarelli]

a lot of pro's use PhotoShop but it aint cheap. GraphicConverter (shareware I think) is cheap but not as slick - does most things but the interface isnt quite as good.

[vehelpfulguy]

Well here are 8 free ones.

I have not used any of them so cannot suggest which is best, I found them by doing a Google search

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imageediting/ tp/freephotoedw.htm

[vehelpfulguy]

And here are 5 beginers products (for Windows platform)

http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imageediting/ tp/beginphotoedw.htm

In fact the site below looks a great site with LOADS of information.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/

[vehelpfulguy]

Note that most (if not all) companies who produce photo editing software provide demo versions that you can download from their website.

Also often digital photo magazines have cover CDs or DVDs with free demo software (30 days or 60 days for example).

Two of the best known products are:

Photoshop Elements (which you can download from here)
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/

Paint Shop pro, from here
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite?pagenam e=Corel3/Products/Display&pfid=1047024307383

[fo3nix]

As the above say, the industry standard is Photoshop (you may have heard of people "Photoshopping my picture" or something like that?)

It's very expensive though, but they do another product called Photoshop Elements which is much cheeper and does a lot of the same things, but often more easily. It sometimes comes free with a scanner or similar peripherals.

[mark_mad]

Type Your Answer Here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEMimiD9VbM&feature

[mark_mad]

"Use Amazifier; which is a nice and simple photo editor.

It has nice photo effects, photo frames, stickers, etc..

You can get it from their website at www.amazifier.com.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEMimiD9VbM&feature http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIkGt6eDgLM&feature

[vanessadean]

I think there are a lot of alternatives to programs that were mentioned above. For me, the best is https://aurorahdr.com/. This software allows you to edit photos in such a way that even the most unsuccessful photos become masterpieces.