I’m not anywhere near into photos and photography as Tara and Smitty are, but occasionally I do post a picture or two. Since I’m not a “photo person”, I don’t have any fancy software to crop, edit, or tweak any of the pictures I might have. Two freebies I wanted to mention to you are Irfanview and Picnik.
Irfanview is something I’ve been using for probably three years or so. It’s a great tool for easily cropping, resizing, resampling, reducing red-eye, etc. Another great feature is that you can do batch processes on any folder or group of files. So anything you do on one, like changing to grayscale for example, can be done to any number of photos with just a couple clicks. Renaming can also be done with the batch tool which can be very handy when standardizing a bunch of files that have crazy names from a camera, scanner, etc.
Picnik is a tool I just learned about last week. It’s similar to Irfanview in that’s it’s free and easy to use. This one is web based and I think the interface is much more simple to use. For my “day job” I train faculty and brainy people with PhDs how to do things on computers. We’re always trying to find simple, easy-to-use tools and applications for them to use. These are two we’ve had success with, and I’m sure you’ll find easy to use as well.
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