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searchlight ![]() Groupie ![]() Joined: 14 July 2007 Country: United States Status: Offline Posts: 78 |
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Hi,
Aside from Dimage Master Lite that is included with the 5D is there any freeware image editing solution that you have found to be quite effective and easy to use for your images? Which one would you recommend? Suggestions are appreciated. |
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sdblanchet ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 26 November 2005 Country: Canada Location: Montreal Status: Offline Posts: 262 |
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Gimp is a well known editing software
Windows version http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/ Linux version http://www.gimp.org/ |
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ADub128 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 May 2007 Country: United States Location: South Bay L.A. Status: Offline Posts: 2489 |
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I like Google's Picasa for easy cataloging, simple post processing and quick printing. For heavier editing requirements, you can open up your image with Photoshop (or other comprehensive image processing program, such as Gimp listed above) from within Picasa.
Check it out at http://picasa.google.com. One bug I hate in Picasa though is that you cannot store images sharpened with Picasa -- all other image edits are kept. Hope this helps. Edited by rovhazman - 08 November 2013 at 19:11 |
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sybersitizen ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 04 August 2006 Country: United States Location: California Status: Offline Posts: 14428 |
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Hmmm - not sure what you're experiencing there. When I sharpen an image in Picasa it remains sharpened the next time I open the program, and every time thereafter until I undo the sharpening. |
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ADub128 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 May 2007 Country: United States Location: South Bay L.A. Status: Offline Posts: 2489 |
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I agree, when staying within Picasa, Picasa will display a previously sharpened image (using Picasa tools). However, to clarify my situation, when exporting an edited picture (for example, one that I want to email to a friend), the current version of Picasa (v2.7, I think) does not save sharpening edits within the newly exported file -- all other edits are kept. Hope this helps. |
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georgiaboy ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator Emeritus Joined: 01 December 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 1338 |
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I use Picasa and it keeps sharpening as well. Can't imagine why yours doesn't work. I really like the program for basic jpeg alterations. Very fast and easy.
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ADub128 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 19 May 2007 Country: United States Location: South Bay L.A. Status: Offline Posts: 2489 |
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Regarding Picasa's exported files/sharpening "bug", here is what Google posts in its Picasa help forums. Google does acknowledge that this is a problem.
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39037&query=sharpen&topic=&type= All-in-all though, Picasa is great, especially if you do not plan on exporting your edits. For me, I usually make my changes and print. |
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sybersitizen ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 04 August 2006 Country: United States Location: California Status: Offline Posts: 14428 |
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I see. I'm still using 2.6, which doesn't have that export bug. No doubt the problem with 2.7 will be fixed soon.
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georgiaboy ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator Emeritus Joined: 01 December 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 1338 |
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2.6 for me as well! Good info...thanks.
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peterw13 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 20 May 2006 Status: Offline Posts: 224 |
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Paint.NET is pretty slick...
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brettania ![]() Admin Group ![]() Dyxum factotum Joined: 17 July 2005 Country: New Zealand Location: Auckland Status: Offline Posts: 20650 |
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PhotoScape is worth a look (photoscape.org). - |
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Turerkan ![]() Emeritus group ![]() Moderator emeritus Joined: 11 February 2006 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Posts: 6252 |
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Krita, a part of the KDE project under Linux is growing to be a good photo editor and graphics program at the sametime. too bad its not available on Windows.
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wimski99 ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 29 March 2007 Country: Netherlands Location: 030 Status: Offline Posts: 618 |
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I use Photofiltre a lot. It's no PhotoShop... but i use it for the most common tasks in photo-enhancing.
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chrishurley ![]() Senior Member ![]() Joined: 08 June 2007 Country: United Kingdom Location: United States Status: Offline Posts: 366 |
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One thing worth mentioning about Picasa- It is completely non-destructive and mostly doesn't introduce jpeg recompression artifacts.
You can undo any operation and get back to your original file (great for having more than one person viewing and massaging the photo collection). Also, many of the operations are applied live on the pictures without involving a jpeg-resave and the resulting quality loss. Not all of them, but many of them. I wish Picasa would grow just a few more features- like noise reduction . I'd be happy to pay them a few bucks for it. |
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