Best and easier photo editing software??

[Sultan]

My favorite was Microsoft Photo Editor but I can't find a version of it that works. Gimp and Photoshop are way too complicated for me and paint just sucks. I want something that will ber good for using cut and paste tools, stuff like that. Can anyone help me and suggest something that's easy to use but still good?

 

[Lawnmowerman]

Try the Faststone Image Viewer. It's free and allows you to do quite a bit of editing and seems simple. I use it and have no problems, and I thought Photoshop was a bit to much to learn just to do simple things.
http://www.faststone.org/

 

[andysayshi]

Have you tried Photoshop Express online?

 

[Sultan]

Try the Faststone Image Viewer. It's free and allows you to do quite a bit of editing and seems simple. I use it and have no problems, and I thought Photoshop was a bit to much to learn just to do simple things.
http://www.faststone.org/

Downloaded it and hated it. I couldn't figure out how to cut and past. It only had simple things like removing red eye from pictures. I want something like Microsoft Photo Editor. Something to EDIT photos. What you suggested is something to view them and just do very simple things like making the pic black and white and stuff like that.

 

[Lawnmowerman]

Ah well OK. I've never used Microsoft Photo Editor before, so I don't know it's capabilities. I know the one I linked let you do basics but didn't know what you wanted to edit or how.

 

[Paws]

Photoshop Elements.

 

[trinket]

Gimp and Photoshop are way too complicated for me and paint just sucks.

You might want to give GIMP another whirl; I was doing most of the basic tasks I wanted to do with it within half an hour - it's not that complicated once you experiment a bit with it or read up on how to perform some of the features.

 

[evilest]

Paint.NET is one I use. It's free third party software that does everything I need.

 

[Sultan]

Have you checked out XnView?

You can do quite a bit with it. Some basic (not freeform) cut copy paste stuff, easily add text to a picture, and do a lot of color and brightness type adjusting as well.

You can view almost any type of file, too--such as animated .gif files.

It’s pretty powerful for a free program, and it’s not so overloaded that it’s hard to get used to.

http://www.xnview.com

I didn't see any tool for cutting and pasting on there. Just cropping and other other basic stuff like removing red eye, adjusting brightness, etc.

 

[D-Base]

I use paint.net, it's easy to use, yet powerful with a good deal of optional plug-ins.

 

[Corny]

yeah .. paint.net - although it really hurts to work with anything less powerful than PS or gimp

 

[Paws]

I think Picasa from Google can remove red-eyes and the latest version seems to have a few retouching and editing functions.

Never tried it, but from the screenshots it looks like it's fool-proof.

 

[Sultan]

Thanks to those who suggested Paint.net. So far I've gotten good results with it.