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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / Point & Shoot Cameras / December 2005Photo software
I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. > I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly > clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for > storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. IrfanView is pretty versatile, for the price. (It's free!) Of course, it doesn't do everything that Photoshop does.  SignatureMartin S. Thames_side schreef: > I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. > Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting and > modifying digital photos. Try Picasa2. Distributed by Google (!) and its free : www.picasa.com * Beautiful user interface * It can also easily make a rather nice (but straight forward) web page of pictures you choose. * It can do several photo-enhancements, but the original file is NOT affected !! (it creates an .ini-file, where the enhancements are stored in) * you can make backups etc. etc. etc. Please give it a try ! Rob. > Thames_side schreef: > > I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly clever. [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Rob. Thanks Rob. I like this program. Brigitte Brigitte schreef: >>Thames_side schreef: >> [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Brigitte Brigitte, One important thing. I have read several reactions from new Picasa-users that they didn't like the way Picasa handles your folders on your harddisk. They all thought Picasa made a mass of it. Nothing of that kind !. Remember that all your subfolders are being seen as "stand-alone"v folders within Picasa. So when you give your photofolders a name like : "yyyy_foldername" you can find them easily in your Picasa library. One other thing : your menu-item "tools" (or is it the menu-item "extra" ?, because I have the Dutch Picasa-version !!) has an option something like "folder-watcher" or something like that. Here you can tell Picasa what folders should constantly be watched and which absolutely do NOT. Further on : read the on-line manual visit the picasa forum read the online support-page of Picasa mail me if you want to know more and hate to read manuals ;) remove the "NOSPAM" from my emailadress. Rob. > Thames_side schreef: > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Rob. Hi, I agree that Picasa2 is excellent. It sharpens nicely with one keystroke, can crop manually or to a format, can change brightness, contrast, color, etc.. Verticals can be rotated to appear vertically onscreen with no detail loss or pixel loss. Your changes are kept separately from the original image, which remains pristine and lossless. It is free. Morton Thanks for all the input. Picasa certainly seems popular. Anybody tried Adobe Photoshop Elements? Doug >> Thames_side schreef: >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > Morton ACDSee is excellent, well at least the full version is ... I use it for photo management and as a front-end to 3 different editing tools: - Adobe Photoshop CS2 - Adobe Photoshop Elements - Microsoft Digital Image .... I suggest downloading the Elements trial at http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/main.html >I have ACDSee supplied with my camera. It seems OK but not teribly >clever. Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for >storing, sorting and modifying digital photos. > ACDSee is excellent, well at least the full version is ... I use it for > photo management and as a front-end to 3 different editing tools: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >>Can anyone tell me what is the best software to get for storing, sorting >>and modifying digital photos. I use Serif PhotoPlus for serious editing and did use Irfanviewfor for quick image adjustment resizing/resampling etc. It's my default viewer. I recently downloaded FastStone. This is an excellent replacement for Irfanview and is superior except for batch resampling/renaming, for which Irfanview is still tops. After all the fuss over Picasa, I dowloaded and tried Picasa2. In the absence of those mentioned above I suppose it would be a good choice, but I much prefer FastStone. The choice of a more serious editor is more difficult. Prior to retirement, I could evaluate applications as part of my job for free. I certainly can't go out and get say elements, Photo Shop, Paint Shop Pro etc.to determine which I like best. Since I already use Serif PagePlus and have been doing so for many years, I was able to get PhotoPlus as part of a good offer. It does far more than I will ever use. I did download The Gimp, this is probably excellent, but I don't like the interface and probably will continue with what I have. I should add that I use my own scheme for storing cataloging pics, so that might be a factor in what I have said above. Dave Cohen |
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