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| Thread ID: 115727 | 2011-02-01 01:24:00 | Easy, but decent Photo editing software. | goodiesguy (15316) | Press F1 |
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| 1174161 | 2011-02-01 01:24:00 | OK, so here's the story. I got my old Compaq evo n410c (10yrs old!) going after it having issues with power (found it it was the dead battery playing funny buggers). I just installed XP on it (Standalone 2001 XP, with no service packs) and i'm currently installing SP3. What i need to know is, it's going to be my younger sisters computer, who is 13. She want's something like Photoshop, but easier. I thought of GIMP, but that would go way above her head. And Windows Paint is far too simplistic. So what is a good Photo editing software which is not too simplistic, but not too hard? Also, she is a facebook-aholic. would MSE be good enough protection? (will be putting malwarebytes and spybot on it aswell). |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1174162 | 2011-02-01 01:25:00 | MSSE will be OK but you might find it cripples the old notebook. What about paint.net for an image editing program? |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1174163 | 2011-02-01 01:33:00 | I might try Paint.net. I've heard of it before. MSSE should be fine. The laptop has had it running before. It's got 383mb ram 1.2ghz cpu etc... 16mb video card. It's a buissness laptop that came out in 2001 (i think). Oh, she also wants iTunes installed, but i'm unsure if i should install it or not. |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1174164 | 2011-02-01 01:41:00 | Photofiltre | pctek (84) | ||
| 1174165 | 2011-02-01 02:25:00 | Agree- Photofiltre. Like the auto crop function, and can add plug-ins from their web site, which has tutorials. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1174166 | 2011-02-01 02:29:00 | XnView | AvonBill (11358) | ||
| 1174167 | 2011-02-01 02:43:00 | Picasa, nice simple easy editing. People laugh but I often have better results using Picasa's "I'm feeling lucky" button than with spending hours photoshopping pictures | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1174168 | 2011-02-01 03:15:00 | http://www.irfanview.com/ is another one to consider, very easy to use when it comes to cropping & re-sizing, but has more advanced stuff too like red-eye reduction and other effects It's very "light" and should run on older hardware if you're struggling with any of the other suggestions |
Halwende (3418) | ||
| 1174169 | 2011-02-01 03:50:00 | http://www.irfanview.com/ is another one to consider, very easy to use when it comes to cropping & re-sizing, but has more advanced stuff too like red-eye reduction and other effects I use Irfanview exclusively and have never needed anything else apart from an occasional use of MS Paint which lets you copy and paste parts of the image to other locations. Good for hiding blemishes and covering *cough* writing you don't want, but it is a bit basic for anything else. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1174170 | 2011-02-01 05:15:00 | http://www.irfanview.com/ is another one to consider, very easy to use when it comes to cropping & re-sizing, but has more advanced stuff too like red-eye reduction and other effects It's very "light" and should run on older hardware if you're struggling with any of the other suggestions +1 :thumbs: |
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