Wow, Chuck...
Faststone sounds like a perfect solution. I will download it and give it a
try tomorrow.
Thank you very much!
Rick
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:
> 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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