OT; Photo Editor

[Ian Jackson]

FastStone Image Viewer (also freeware). If you want, you can slip them a small, optional donation (which I did - I believe they take something like a fixed $10).

don't really need the other FastStone programs.

Although I have others image programs, I use FastStone most of the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't have a 'clone' tool - and you need one if you want to repair photos.

Gimp comes well-recommended (and has a clone tool). But, as others have said, "it has a steep learning curve", ie it's a bugger to use until you you've spent a lot of time mastering it. One day, I might get the hang of it!

[Huge]

Err, no. You're standing at the bottom, scrabbling at a shear surface with your fingernails.

[John Rumm]

A leaning "curve" is a graph of knowledge against time. The steeper the gradient, the faster the learning. The only time you can really equate a steep learning curve to a difficult task is when there is a time constraint as well. i.e. you have a subject to learn that naturally has a shallow curve and one would expect it to take a long time to master, but you are being asked to compress that into a reduced time.

[Roger Mills]

Are you sure that she hasn't already got one?

Most things capable of creating photo images (e.g. digital cameras and scanners) invariably come bundled with software for manipulating the images. Have a look to see what software CDs you've got! The bundled stuff will probably be OEM versions rather than "fully featured" - but are usually sufficient for most purposes.

If you can't find anything, Google for IrfanView - it's free, and probably easier to learn than The Gimp.

[pete]

The convention when creating graphs (to show the learning curve) is for the independent variable to be along the X axis and the dependent variable up the Y axis. In this case, time is the independent variable and expertise or skill is dependent on it. So a correctly drawn learning curve graph for a difficult topic _should_ show lots of time passing for little knowledge gained. I.e. a gently rising line/curve. The problem is the metaphor ("a steep learning curve") is wrong - presumably first uttered by someone still at the bottom of the learning curve, learning curve :)

[Bob Eager]

Well, it's been helping me!

[Spamlet]

Depending on what exactly she wants to do she may even find that something as basic as free Picasa is all that she needs.

S

[Tim Lamb]

In message , Jeff Gaines writes

I have that (elements 7.0)

It does more than I am capable of using:-)

Pressie last year.

regards

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[Huge]

Sounds good to me.

[PeterC]

Glad you mentioned IV - very quick and easy for many basic tasks. Now includes text and red-eye reduction. Can reduce the size of an image in a few seconds - could be useful?

BTW, I have an app. called Corel_PaintShopPro1010_EN_LEXAR_Retail.exe which was a fully functional, free download last year. I don't know if it's still available. I'd be happy to send it to any who want it but, given that it's about 112MB, uploading it to a site might be better (and take about an hour on my connection!).

[Adrian C]

Or do it online with

which I find works pretty well. Ain't no gimp or photoshop though ...

[Alan Braggins]

It looks like a number of people have done that for you, saving you the worry of whether the free offer let you redistribute it legally:

[Nightjar]

For some reason, I've never got on well with Corel products.

Colin Bignell

[Jim Backus]

Aperture?

[PeterC]

uninstalling it, I haven't used it.

There's an additional instruction that I got from somewhere:

------------------------------------- Corel Paint 10

To remove nag screen (on exit) do the following:

1. After installing, open the following file in Notepad: C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel Paint Shop Pro X\PCUUI\Container.htm
2. Erase all the text, replace it with the following code:

location="pcucmd://Cancel?confirm=no";

Save the file

--------------------------------------

[Geoff Beale]

thingy as an Xmas gift.

Yeah, search on google for one called The Gimp. (Not a wind-up). It's open source, runs on winders or linux and is FREE to download. Does everything you would pay loadsamoney for. So more Xmas beer vouchers for you.

Geoff Beale

[Tabby]

no one app does everything, but gimp is by far the most capable overall. Its hard to find software that there's any reason to pay for now.

NT

[Tim Watts]

I've been quite impressed with Inkscape of late - it is a vector editor but it can do some interesting things with photos too.

[stuart noble]

IME it's the one area where freeware just doesn't cut it